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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Geffen Records
Salesrank: 12741
Released: October 15, 1996 |
| Our Price: $4.23 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Recovering the Satellites Track Listing:
1. Catapult
2. Angels of the Silences
3. Daylight Fading
4. I'm Not Sleeping
5. Goodnight Elisabeth
6. Children in Bloom
7. Have You Seen Me Lately?
8. Miller's Angels
9. Another Horsedreamer's Blues
10. Recovering the Satellites
11. Monkey
12. Mercury
13. Long December
14. Walkaways
Editorial Review:
Recovering the Satellites may not be quite the tower of song that the Crows' debut August and Everything After was, but it could hardly be called a sophomore slump. Vocalist Adam Duritz and crew mine similar territory on the more densely produced Satellites, couching tales of dreamers, lovers, and losers in music that's part classic rock redux and part heartfelt folk jangle. As able as the band is though, it remains Duritz's show, and his plaintive voice and serpentine lyrics are what drive this record home, particularly on "Daylight Fading," "Miller's Angels" and the aching hit "A Long December." --Michael Ruby
Recovering the Satellites Reviews:
Before slaving for singles 
2009-04-17 - RTS was a nice follow up to their critical and popular smash debut, effectively contrasted by more rural and rowdier work than a highly-polished, middleground-minded, and wonderful nonetheless AAEA. Besides for a few less-than-inspiring numbers, the move pays off just as well, with these crows counting great rock song after great rock song. Sadly, material after this album sounded too weak for me to even check out...and it is a disaster to see what kind of music this influence has spawned.
Good sophmore effort
2009-03-21 - The Counting Crows second album takes some getting used to if you've started with their excellent 1993 debut. If you aren't particularly too thrilled with it at first, just keep listening. Keep it spinning in your car, or wherever, as it should most likely grow on you as it did with me. I have to admit it's a decent balance of hit and miss; it starts out solid, falters a bit in the middle, then returns for the better.
My favorite tracks are "Daylight Fading", "Goodnight Elizabeth", "Miller's Angels", "Monkey", and "A Long December" (my favorite)
All in all, a generally louder and more intense sophmore record from the Crows that should grow on you if you are initially disappointed. I recommend it.
It's Not AUGUST, But It Is Good
2008-05-12 - Not the masterpiece that the Crows presented with AUGUST, but SATELLITES is a quality album from a band that is still going strong. Moodier and darker than AUGUST without the endearing lyrics and "story" feel. Still a high recommendation for this effort.
Brilliant 
2008-04-08 -
Counting Crows second effort is just as brilliant as their debut, "August and Eveyrthing After." Here, the band shows a totally different sound than their previous effort and what turns out is nothing short of brilliant.
Undervalued masterpiece
2008-03-29 - In hindsight, the title track of this album might be my favorite Crows song altogether. There's something about the lines, "You're everybody's satellite/I wish that you were mine" and the brief pause between them that you can actually FEEL the resigned shrug of longing and hopelessness.
And, yeah, so, there's a (gasp) 4-letter word in the song...it makes the song hit home that much harder and I've never felt has had anything to do with trying to 'harden' the group's image.
This album has a few dry spots. "Monkey" and "Another Horsedreamer's Blues" stand as really the lone losers to me on here. Other than that it's one great song after another. The reason this one wasn't as heralded as "August and Everything After" is because it didn't fit the mold that the record-review and media industry had shoved the Crows into immediately after the debut gained some success.
Remember, they were critcal darlings until about 10 seconds after Mr. Jones became a hit, then everyone thought it was cool to hack on them and they have ever since.
"Goodnight Elisabeth", "Have You Seen Me Lately?", "Mercury", "Catapult", "Miller's Angels" ... they're all masterpiece songs.
Let alone that I didn't mention any of the album's three hits, "A Long December", "Angels of the Silences" (better in its acoustic form on the live double album Across A Wire) and "Daylight Fading".
This album doesn't have the romantic aura about it that "August" still carries, but it surely isn't less of a record because of that fact.
