Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings by Counting Crows

Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, Counting Crows' fifth studio album, arrived on Geffen on March 25, 2008, and it's split right down the middle like a hangover. The Saturday Nights side rocks hard with Gil Norton, who had produced Recovering the Satellites, behind the desk; the Sunday Mornings side turns toward country, produced by Brian Deck, the man behind Modest Mouse's The Moon and Antarctica.

Adam Duritz, who writes the words, pitched it as a record about trying to matter and falling short, and that's the ache running through it, the band at his back including Dan Vickrey on lead guitar, David Bryson on rhythm guitar, David Immerglück on whatever needs playing, Millard Powers on bass and Jim Bogios on drums. "You Can't Count On Me" carries the swagger. It came out of the gate strong, 106,000 copies in its first week and a number 3 debut on the Billboard 200, their best showing since Recovering the Satellites. The Empire State Building stares out from the cover.

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