Hard Candy Album by Counting Crows

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Hard Candy is the fourth studio album by Counting Crows, released in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2002 and the following day in the United States.

The album features the hidden track "Big Yellow Taxi", a Joni Mitchell cover. This was one of their biggest radio hits from the album, however, re-releases of the album were revised to mention the song. Originally the song did not include Vanessa Carlton and the standard version caught the ear of a producer who added it to the movie Two Weeks Notice adding Carlton's voice to the track. This version topped the VH-1 charts and American Top 40 for a while.[citation needed] A new version of the song "Holiday in Spain", recorded as a duet in two languages, turning into a "round" before the final choruses with the Dutch band BLØF, became a #1 hit in the Netherlands.

Track listing

All tracks written by Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated. The song "Big Yellow Taxi" was written by Joni Mitchell, who is credited in the liner notes with the passage "May contain trace amounts of Joni Mitchell"

"Hard Candy" (Duritz, Dan Vickrey, Charles Gillingham) – 4:20





"American Girls" – 4:32





"Good Time"– 4:24





"If I Could Give All My Love -or- Richard Manuel Is Dead" (Duritz, Vickrey, David Immerglück, Gillingham, Matt Malley) – 3:52





"Goodnight L.A." – 4:17





"Butterfly in Reverse" (Duritz, Ryan Adams, Gillingham) – 2:48





"Miami" (Duritz, Gillingham, Immerglück) – 5:01





"New Frontier" – 3:51





"Carriage" – 4:04





"Black and Blue" – 3:53





"Why Should You Come When I Call?" (Duritz, Gillingham) – 4:38





"Up All Night (Frankie Miller Goes to Hollywood)" – 5:07





"Holiday in Spain" – 3:50





"4 White Stallions" (Jeff Trott, Vickery, Patrick Winningham) – 4:21





"Big Yellow Taxi" (Single Version, featuring Vanessa Carlton) (Mitchell)


Personnel

Counting Crows

Dave Bryson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Adam Duritz – piano, vocals, horn arrangements, string arrangements, string samples
Charlie Gillingham – synthesizer, piano, oboe, Hammond organ, Mellotron, Omnichord, Fender Rhodes, horn arrangements, string arrangements, Wurlitzer, tack piano, vocals
David Immerglück – acoustic guitar, bass, mandolin, electric guitar, vocals, slide guitar, electric sitar
Matt Malley – bass, vocals, upright bass
Ben Mize – drums, percussion, vocals, drum loops
Dan Vickrey – acoustic guitar, banjo, electric guitar, vocals