Premium Only Content
Pop Song 563 of 1000 'Hanginaround' Counting Crows 1999
Pop Song 563 of 1000 'Hanginaround' Counting Crows 1999
Watch the MV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARiiO_41Id8&t=142s
As with on much of the This Desert Life album, Hanginaround saw the band experimenting with different recording techniques - in this case, utilizing looping. The song consists of eight different piano loops arranged in various configurations in setup inspired by Brian Wilson's Smile project.[3] According to Counting Crows fansite anna-begins.com, Duritz says:
So I was sort of ... semi-celebratory about that but also [thinking] 'Where am I going?' It's about a wild time when I was growing' up. Living a bit of a wild life, celebrating that. It's also about being scared that you don't have a future, but I don't think that's a waste. In the end, the guy just decides to continue having fun and to worry about it later.[4]
In an interview with Songfacts, Adam Duritz summed up his thought process behind the lyrics by stating "The idea of a song created with loops made me think of being on a loop myself. I wrote that song about when I was younger and the latter years in Berkeley and how I loved it there, but I was kind of going nowhere
-
3:41
Cyrus Saladin Ming
8 months agoPop Song 580 of 1000 'Unwell' Matchbox Twenty 2003
1041 -
58:10
Kimberly Guilfoyle
21 hours agoAmerica is Back & The Future is Bright: A Year in Review | Ep. 183
140K65 -
3:03:27
vivafrei
1 day agoEp. 242: Barnes is BACK AGAIN! Trump, Fani, J6, RFK, Chip Roy, USS Liberty AND MORE! Viva & Barnes
224K226 -
LIVE
2 MIKES LIVE
2 hours agoTHE MIKE SCHWARTZ SHOW with DR. MICHAEL J SCHWARTZ 12-24-2024
139 watching -
1:14:17
MTNTOUGH Fitness Lab
23 hours agoNavy SEAL Dom Raso: The Cold, Hard Truth About Modern Brotherhood | MTNPOD #96
6.57K1 -
43:42
Dad Dojo Podcast
18 hours agoEP14: Every Girl Dad's Biggest Fear and How To Prevent It
4.26K -
55:06
Bek Lover Podcast
12 hours agoWill Trump Pull Off A Miracle? Other Strange News Podcast...
3.69K1 -
55:53
PMG
1 day ago $0.01 earned"Hannah Faulkner and Courtney Reed | BEHIND THE LENS OF A TRUMP PHOTOGRAPHER"
3.13K -
8:09:50
Dr Disrespect
1 day ago🔴LIVE - DR DISRESPECT - MARVEL RIVALS - GOLD VANGUARD
223K37 -
1:15:00
Awaken With JP
23 hours agoMerry Christmas NOT Happy Holidays! Special - LIES Ep 71
307K248