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| Across A Wire: Live In New York City | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Counting Crows
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  144 reviews
Sales Rank: 4090
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 25222
UPC: 720642522226
EAN: 0720642522226
ASIN: B000008USI
Publication Date: 1998
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| Customer Reviews:
 Solid Live Performances from the Crows October 19, 2000
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
The eternal debate with this crows live double disc will be whether it is a good thing that the crows have changed the songs around, including the rythym and the melodies. The problem for old crows fans will be hearing their favorite songs "butchered". If you are familiar with the songs this can be quite a problem. However, the songs on the electric disc stay more faitfully with the originals, and the songs on storytellers while erratic, are sporadically beautiful and more effective than the album versions. Not every rearrangement works, but it is still a solid piece of work and a testament to the crows not sticking to the same thing over and over again. This CD is certainly not for everyone, but for people who are open to hearing altered versions of the songs, certainly worthwhile.
 Your cd player NEEDS this cd! July 29, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is by far the best CD that the Counting Crows have delivered. Two live cds, one acoustic and somber, the other uplifting energetic. I love to hear live music because the amount of the emotion that the artist puts into makes it more special... the Counting Crows have captured this incredibly. I definatly listen to the acoustic cd at least every other day. If you like, love, or want to discover the Counting Crows, this is the best cd to get!
Grows on You, Becomes Your Favorite February 3, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
At first, you're gonna be like, "Man, they're screwin around with the lyrics, it doesn't sounds right, blah blah blah." Like those exact words. But give this cd time, and hoenstly, it grows on you like no other cd ever has. The more of a Counting Crows fan you are, the more you appreciate this cd. Songs like "Chelsea" and the live, acoustic version of "Angels of the Silences" are worth the whatever you're going to pay for this. Best band out there. Arguable the best lyrics ever written for music, I personally believe so.
 details about Across A Wire April 3, 2003
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought this CD a while after I went to their concert last. I thought I really wanted it. There are some bad things that I don't like about how the album was set up. This album is the only source available for Mtv Live From The 10 Spot Counting Crows audio. It isn't fair to leave out anything for either disc, but I really don't appreciate that five songs were left off disc 2 - Live From The Ten Spot. There is no reason for that nonsense. I noticed that Counting Crows still sing some of their live songs similarly to this album's versions. It would have been so much more considerate if the complete recording of the Mtv concert was left available on disc 2. It doesn't make sense to me that the Mtv concert in this album has been pressed without everything that was originally in the concert. I think it was a dumb decision to set up disc 2 that way and I think all the songs played that night should have been included.
There is too much content missing on this album.
I enjoyed having the "Across A Wire" album playing, but it is lacking its completeness. I don't know what to say about the songs that were put on "Across A Wire".
I would be pleased with this album if disc 2 had all seventeen songs on it. Disc 2 could have easily been respectable.
 Across a very long, tedious and boring wire June 8, 2003
2 out of 16 found this review helpful
It is said that the Counting Crows are mainly a 'live' band, and that their studio albums do not do homage to their genious. I firmly belive that whether live or rehersed, these guys just have way to many limitations to really blow anyone away, and no amount of 'homage' should be placed upon them. Although the live rendition of have you seen me lately on the first disc is leaps and bounds above the studio version, most of the other selections are just way to random and boring to keep me interested. Don't get me wrong, this collection has it's highlights, as does any CC albums, but also, as with most of their stuff, you'll be sick of it within a week.
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