A friend of mine once told me that the first time he heard “Accidentally in Love” on the radio, he thought it was the intro to a McDonald’s commercial. I laughed and laughed, and when I was done, I sighed a little because when I was 12 years old, Counting Crows really meant something to me. Alas, our affair was not meant to be. But I will still go to bat for all of
August and Everything After, most of
Recovering the Satellites, and a couple of songs off
This Desert Life — but unless you were born between 1981 and 1985, I wouldn't really expect you to understand why.
— David Hudnall