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Title: Lyrical and Musical Perfection
Review: I have read other reviews on Amazon.com for years, but this is the first album that has inspired me to actually write one myself. I have taken several opera classes in the past, and I have learned that one should be able to understand an entire opera from the music alone--all lyrics aside. The Counting Crows perfect this art in August and Everything After. If you really listen to the music, you can see that every song defines itself, even without the amazing lyrics (which are pure genius in themselves). I was disappointed in reading other reviews that no one really raved about Anna Begins, by far what I consider to be the best song on the album. It is such a powerful statement about love and falling in love that it sometimes can make me cry. Listen to it again and again, and then get the lyrics out and really look at what they're saying. So intense and so beautiful. This definitely makes it onto my list of one of the best albums of the 90s.
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