Counting Crows, Vanessa Carlton - Big Yellow Taxi

The first Aussie single off the 2002 album, 'Hard Candy'. The title track is a non-LP cover of the Joni Mitchell classic featuring Vanessa Carlton, it's backed with Counting Crows own version & three non-LP tracks, 'If I Could Give All My Love -or- Richard Manuel Is Dead' (Live & Acoustic), 'Hard Candy' (Live & Acoustic), & 'Big Yellow Taxi' (Enhanced Video). Geffen. 2003. Album Description

FAVE COUNTING CROWS SONG!

Big Yellow Taxi is a great Counting Crows song! It's my favorite!
Vanessa Carlton lends her lungs to the song too! It's very catchy! :-D September 12, 2004

awesome song!

Big Yellow Taxi is one of the best songs ever! one day when I heard it on the radio, I instantly fell in love with the song. this is a great song so I reccomend it to anyone who likes music! August 2, 2004

Dump Vanessa, keep the rest

Ok, first, I am a big Crow's fan. It seems to be a requirement to state your allegiance up front. Second, I am not a Vanessa Carlton fan, I am more ambivalent. Thirdly, it took many years for Joni Mitchell to realize she was an alto and not a soprano (she admitted this herself in an interview) so her version of BYT was only so-so. I really dug the Crow's version when I discovered it on the CD I bought. The first time I heard the over-dubbed version I immediately recognized Vanessa Carton as the offending vocalist. I would have liked this track much better if she actually sang, but all she did was mmmm bop-bop her way through it and annoy me royally (is she secretly one of the Hansens?) All the rest of this cd is good stuff, classic Crows. Buy it, rip it, and delete the Carlton track. March 8, 2004

Adam Duritz

If you like the Crows, check out Duritz on the I-10 Chronicles album. You can find it right here at amazon or go to backporchrecords.com. October 10, 2003

Okay okay okay. Its both fun AND bad.

Counting Crows is one of the only decent things to have happened in music, in my opinion, in the last decade.

Increasingly, the music scene has been dominated by no-talent pretty faces singing heavily produced, sugar coated bubble pop, while Counting Crows is a sorrowful, soalful folk rock act that Ive always loved. Thats what makes this so painful and unexpected.

'Hard Candy' the album from which this single comes is produced by the inimitable Steve Lillywhite, but his concept here seems to have been to turn the Crows into a shiny-happy-poppyseed band, with this remake being the most agrevious sin on the disc. Admittedly, Mitchell's version wasnt very good, much as I like her, and from a career angle this was about the best thing the struggling Crows could have done. But it makes me miss the days when Duritz and Co. got big radio hits ala Mr Jones and Long December, all by themselves like big boys. The remake is alot of fun, but in the same sort of way that a naked cheerleader is fun: a great, quick time to be had, but dont expect a discussion of Nietzche when you two finish up. Likewise, its painful for fans of the Crows' real sound and lyrical depth to see them resort to this sort of thing. Everything else on the single is worth having. October 2, 2003

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