This Desert Life
1999 studio album by Counting Crows / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This Desert Life is the third studio album from American rock band Counting Crows. The cover art is by noted comic book artist Dave McKean, best known for his work with Neil Gaiman, and was adapted from the cover art McKean did for Gaiman's picture book The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish. The album had sold more than 2 million copies worldwide by February 2002.[8] The song "Hanginaround" was the first of three singles released from the album, and the highest-charting single off the album, reaching number 1 on the US Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart and number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as top ten in Canada and top 50 in a number of other countries.
This Desert Life | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | November 2, 1999 (1999-11-02) | |||
Recorded | 1998 in a house in California | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 59:46 | |||
Label | Geffen | |||
Producer | David Lowery, Dennis Herring | |||
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Singles from This Desert Life | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
Entertainment Weekly | C+[3] |
Los Angeles Times | [4] |
Q | [5] |
Rolling Stone | [6] |
Spin | 6/10[5] |
The Village Voice | [7] |
The album contains the same personnel as the band's previous studio album, Recovering the Satellites, being David Bryson (guitar), Adam Duritz (vocals), Charlie Gillingham (keyboards), Matt Malley (bass), Ben Mize (drums) and Dan Vickrey (guitars), with multi-instrumentalist David Immerglück, who formerly was credited as a session player on the previous two albums, promoted to full member. It received generally positive reviews from critics.