4. Across a Wire - Live in New York City - Counting Crows

I was lucky enough to see counting crows live a few years ago on the Hard Candy tour.  This double live album is from a few years prior to that - at a guess, sometime after Recovering the Satellites.  I quite like listening to Counting Crows live when I'm in the right mood.  The songs are never go quite how you expect them too.  I've listened to a few bootlegs and they never seem to sound quite the same each time.

The track lists of the two CDs have a couple of the same songs, but otherwise cover a good portion of the two Counting Crows albums that I suppose most people know best.

Two live cds of two concerts might seem a bit strange (why not just one?) but they are very different. I think the VH1 disc is my favourite but that may be because it is late at night as I listen, so I preferred the quiet more acoustic versions of the vh1 concert. Whereas the MTV concert is, well, louder and would be better for blasting in the car on a road trip.
I think I only paid $17 second hand for this cd a couple of years back but it is worth owning or buying the MP3s if you like the Counting Crows.  If you were just going to own 1 counting crows cd I'd still recommend august and everything after (even though I think I prefer their later music).

Favourite song - Mtv - 'A Murder of One',VH1 - 'Rain King'
Skippable song - 'Chelsea' (its a but too jazz for my taste) and also 'round here' (mtv version - I like it but at 10 minutes its a bit long)

Release Date - July 14 1998

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