SONG #20: Counting Crows - A Long December

Inducted on May 8, 2014

I'll be honest.. "Mr. Jones" really didn't do much for me. It was a smash hit with constant airplay on the local radio stations, but I was pretty ambivalent to the song and the band. Then they released their next album with this song on it, and I was instantly hooked.

This fits the profile of the type of song I liked in high school and college.. melancholy with a twist of hope:
                        "A long december and there's reason to believe,
                          maybe this year will be better than the last"

Like I've mentioned with previous songs, high school was not my favorite stretch of time. I was still figuring out who I was, and I didn't really connect with a whole lot of the people around me. So many of my hours were spent in front of the television. I can't count the number of times I heard the song / watched the video.

Obviously I love the use of the piano, as well as Adam Duritz lazy vocal style, and the "Na, Na, Na, Na, yeeeeaah" parts.