Crucial Track for 27 May 2025

"Round Here" by Counting Crows

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What’s your favorite track one on a debut album?

This requires me to have some awareness of which were debut albums... But I think I'll go with "Round Here".

Counting Crows have been a regular feature of my listening since I was a teenager, and I think they're still the band I've seen live more than any other. "Round Here" as a song has grown into something more over the years in its various live versions, including two very different - but both wonderful - takes on their late '90s live album Across A Wire. When I listen to the original album version I hear it through the filter of those two in particular, but it's still a stunner.

For a bonus, have Noah Gunderson's live cover.