Counting on Counting Crowes

Hey!

So, while doodling around YouTube, I came across this great song from way back when:





So after enjoying the song, I wander over to Wikipedia and check out the Counting Crows article. Learned some interesting things about the band there:

The band took its name from a divination rhyme about the crow, heard by Duritz in the film Signs of Life.^[8] The rhyme begins the third verse (around the 2:07 mark) of the song "A Murder of One" on the album August and Everything After : "Well I dreamt I saw you walking up a hillside in the snow / Casting shadows on the winter sky as you stood there, counting crows / One for sorrow, two for joy / Three for girls and four for boys / Five for silver, six for gold / Seven for a secret never to be told."

I did not know that.

This too:

Counting Crows, and Adam Duritz in particular, have become renowned for the energetic, passionate nature of their live performances. Duritz frequently extends and rewrites songs live, adding extra verses or alternate middle sections and/or endings, sometimes fitting most of another of the band's other songs into the middle of the first. On a live performance on Howard Stern's SIRIUS broadcast radio show, he delivered an altered version of "'Round Here" that Stern said was one of the best performances in his studio he had ever heard, with anchor Robin Quivers agreeing.

Well, then I just had to check out this performance. Sure enough, here it is from YouTube. They start off slow, with joking and talk and Adam Duritz has some bunny outfit on. But then they get going and it just takes off. I'd agree with Howard and Robin, it's very powerful. What do you think?