There's something about your reactions that makes us feel good. It's not an innocence really, but more a genuine appreciation you have for songs that we might take for granted. Or at least, we get to hear songs again thru your eyes. So thanks for that.
Check out the whole album this song is from - "August and Everything After" from 1993. Its got some great songs like Round Here, Perfect Blue Buildings, Anna Begins, Raining In Baltimore, A Murder of One, etc. I've seen Counting Crows in concert 4 or 5 times and they've always been great. I was in high school when this song came out and it was on the radio Constantly! Keep up the good work. Great videos!
The song is about him and his friend, Mr Jones, checking out beautiful women and talking/ joking about how they could get women and have a happy life if the were famous and good looking rock stars.
"Round Here" along with this song are their most well known songs. However, their debut album "August and Everything After" is pretty much perfect as every song great.
There's something about your reaction videos that is just separate from any other reaction videos here on RU-vid. It's genuine and not rehearsed and we can tell you're actually watching them for the first time and experiencing it for the first time.. and as viewers we get to enjoy watching it all in return. That's the whole reason behind these reaction videos and you deliver each time!. You expertise yourself in the certain way that keeps me coming back for more. Don't ever stop making these videos! there are literally millions and millions of songs from the past that you can react to. Endless enjoyable content!!!. You the man JBLETHAL!. Seriously, THANK YOU!. Keep'em coming!. Now as a fan I feel it's about time I ask for a song for you to react to. *Foo Fighters - Everlong* it's quite possibly one of the best rock songs of all time. Easily top Rock 100 list of ALL TIME.
Talking about The Counting Crows was the ice breaker that started the first real conversation I ever had with my wife. We celebrate 20 years together next week. Check out Mrs. Potter's Lullaby.
Yeah, always liked this song. I was almost 30 when this came out ('93) and I remember jumping around dancing to the beat of this great song. So glad you reacted to it!
I remember when this came out...I made my friends sick with this song...it would be on repeat in my car's CD player. By the way this whole album is fantastic. Adam D. wrote this with Davy Jones from the group The Monkees in mind. Adam really struggled with depression and his music reflects alot of his emotional issues. He's another genius songwriter.
That whole album is great, I used to listen to it over and over in my car. Perfect Blue Buildings, Raining in Baltimore, I loved those songs, basically the whole album was stellar.
I saw this band open for The Cranberries in 1993 in Portland Oregon. For a $3 ticket at the door. It was one of the best shows I saw in the 90's. Smaller venue called LaLuna. After playing (they were great) Counting Crows were loading off the stage and The Cranberries were loading on, Adam Duritz the lead singer of Counting Crows stood and talked with my group of friends for 10 minutes at the side of the stage. It was before this album dropped, and he was telling us how excited was for the new album, and how much fun they'd had touring. 6 months later he was on the cover of RollingStone.
They’re one of the most solid bands of all time! Definitely check out their catalog! A recent fave of mine is “1492” from their 2008 album “Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings”.
Adam Duritz; the lead singer, wrote Mr. Jones.Released 1993. Great reaction! Your smile says it all! When Adam begins to dance he is so lost in the music, and he takes you along.
Brother, I appreciate your reaction. To me this song/ singer tells us we all want to be loved, and without love we are sad, and lonely. I thank God for his love for me. Thanks
This song recounts a night where “Mr Jones” & Adam Duritz (the singer) were hanging out at a bar (New Amsterdam) where Mr Jones’ father was playing flamenco & that Spanish dancer Maria was performing with him. Adam & Mr Jones noticed that the drummer in Chris Isaak’s band was in another part of the room surrounded by women, & they began to fantasize about how cool it would be to break into the rock scene & be popular & surrounded by groupies…it’s basically a recounting of that night, of the dreams of hitting it big….very ironic that a song about making the big time actually became the Counting Crows big breakout hit.
This song is one of my very favorite songs to play in the car and sing along real loud o my songs It’s part of so many really good memories My third daughter and I love to go on long drives and this is always on our playlist thanks fir checking it out 🌹
Great reaction. That album by Counting Crows is one of a very few albums in the last 30 years in which the entire album is worth listening to. Not just one or two songs. You really should check out the rest of it.
Dude I love how much you loved this song! I had the privilege of meeting the band a at a show a couple years ago. Genuine guys. I'm off to see them again this week in Chicago.
Adam Duritz is Legend, he writes all of the songs!!! Check out "Round Here", "Hanging Around", "Long December", and "Colorblind". They're all Awesome!!
The Counting Crows is one of those bands you need to listen to their studio albums to get to know the songs and lyrics first. Then, listen to them them live. Adam Durtiz, lead singer and songwriter, changes the lyrics, and sometimes the mood, as he ages and gains new experiences. This song in particular, Mr. Jones, is a song that is transformed in its live version. Give a listen to their live version of this from Across A Wire. On a final note, Mr. Jones is a nod to Bob Dylan's song Ballad Of A Thin Man, which features a character named Mr. Jones. If you haven't listened to Bob Dylan yet, I hope you do some day. Dylan is, in my opinion, the greatest lyricist. Loved your reaction.
This song was written by the lead singer about his best friend who had been his musical partner and previously in the band. He quit before the band hit it with this song. You should check out "Round Here" from the same album. It's a slower song, but the lyrics will really get you thinking.
Counting Crows came around in the earlyish 90s. It's a great great song off a great great album, August and Everything After. Round Here, Sullivan Street, A Murder of One, Rain King, Omaha, so many great songs on one abum. The singer is Adam Duritz and he's pretty awesome.
The reference to Bob Dylan goes back to a lyric from an early Dylan song " Because there's something happening here but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones"?. I haven't heard this song in years - Thanks for the reaction!!
Counting Crows are my favorite band. Mr. Jones is probably their second most well known song, after Accidentally in love. (From Shrek) oh, and the composer is the lead singer Adam Duritz.
this was an amazing video lol i love how much you were getting into the song. You should check out "A long December" by them, its a lot more slow but equally as amazing.
I saw the Counting Crows perform this in Berkeley, where they had first formed as a band. The lyric, "we all wanna be big big stars, but we got different reasons for that," was changed to "we all wanna be big big stars, but we got second thoughts about that." They were big stars by this point and were obviously looking at things a little differently.
"I want to be Bob Dylan!" Check out Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man" to meet Mr Jones " ' Round Here" by them is a perfect description of life in L. A. in the 90's
1993? 'August and Everything' ... I'm older, but it's still one of the best albums ever!! Great writing very unique.... I dance at Mr. JONES whenever I hear it.... 20 years later!!
Ya know, I have to leave a comment here. I love watching these types of videos. Personally, there are few things that feel better than introducing someone to music that they have never heard before. To watch their faces as they take in the experience, and to see the moment when they "Get It". There's a connection that's made, instantaneously, from nothing, there is something. In real life, those experiences are few and far between. But in a vicarious way, I get to see videos like this, and although you literally have zero connections to me, we now show one, even if you don't know it. But why am I commenting on this video? I don't typically comment on these sorts of videos, I just consume them. But you mentioned the guy who wrote the song. There's an interesting story here. In my 20's when this song came out, (The whole album is pure gold BTW), this song carried a lot of personal meaning for me. I found the lyrics to be powerful. I didn't understand then, but at some point, I realized that many of the best songs carry very different meanings for different people. I was surprised in my 20's to discover that this song touched people in many different ways. From profoundly to not at all. And then, I saw an interview with Adam Duritz on how this song came to be. In that interview, he pretty much said the following (which I have lifted from another site that I will also link). "This was written by lead singer Adam Duritz and guitarist David Bryson (the other three band members also got composer credits). On an episode of VH1's Storytellers, Adam explained: "It's really a song about my friend Marty and I. We went out one night to watch his dad play, his dad was a Flamenco guitar player who lived in Spain (David Serva), and he was in San Francisco in the mission playing with his old Flamenco troupe. And after the gig we all went to this bar called the New Amsterdam in San Francisco on Columbus and we got completely drunk. And Marty and I sat at the bar staring at these two girls, wishing there was some way we could go talk to them, but we were too shy. We kept joking with each other that if we were big rock stars instead of such loser, low-budget musicians, this would be easy. I went home that night and I wrote a song about it." When I saw that interview, it sort of blew me away at the time, because the song was speaking to me on a completely different level. Needless to say, the song meant something to me that the Song Writer hadn't necessarily intended, or had even considered for that matter. But I came to understand that in reality, this is the mark of a truly good song. And in fact, many bands have said in the years since I first discovered this for myself, that the best songs or the songs that they are most proud of, are the ones that can be taken up by the fans be made their own. To the extent that any truth is conveyed in such songs, one may find their own truths. And those truths are no less worthy then what the writer was thinking when they first put pen to paper. And that has been my perspective on music for a long time now. This, however, doesn't make the story from the horse's mouth any less intriguing. In fact, I will leave a link here so you can go get some insight for yourself on what Adam was thinking. And although it has nothing at all to do with how I internalized the song, Adams take on it is all the more poignant. If anything, it somehow elevated this song to even higher places for me. It surely is a great song. But then, The Counting Crows have turned out dozens of truly excellent songs. Their back catalog is immense. But for me, the "August and Everything After" was one of the best albums CC ever put out in the sense that I can play every song on the album straight through. There are no filler songs. Anyhow, check out the link. You may enjoy it. www.songfacts.com/facts/counting-crows/mr-jones
I think your ability to soak in music quickly is genius. I have not a clue when it comes to evaluating music. You are a talent and you need to stay in the field of music because if you do you will succeed and live a great life. Cheers
The singer, Adam Duritz, wrote this song...I luuuv this song as it makes you wanna Be a Big Star too and you'd luv so many others like... Around Here, Colorblind, Big Yellow Taxi, and countless more....
With all of the truly AWESOME music we had from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s and to be honest well before then, I never really appreciated this song. Hearing it again after so long I really can appreciate it now.. To be honest I find myself to be very superficial though and I tend to go the way of "If I don't like the look of the singer then I don't like the band". Kind of an injustice to both the music and myself, so I find myself having to re-visit songs like this to get a better view of what's going on.. Love your heart man.. God Bless....
his interpretation is so truly....we dont see this anymore, its all planed, pop artist have their 'topics' , ''this music is to shock people'', ''the other music is to empower some topic'', etc...mr jones just sang his song, if you like or dont like, fuck it...today is all market
J this is my daughters favorite band she loves this song. From your birthday video the other day I found out she’s a year younger than you. I think you’re really like some of the other music.
Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton did a great remake of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" on the 2002 Hard Candy album. The song is about taking things for granted and then missing them when they're gone.
Hi Love watching ur reactions. Just the other day, I saw ur reaction to "We are the World", and saw ur face when Bruce Springsteen sang his part. He was such a part of my teenage yrs, loved him! Just thought u might enjoy " My Hometown ", released in 1984 and "Hungry Heart" released in 1980. He has such a collection of songs , those r just a couple that come to my mind! Hope u enjoy!
Knew you would like that one. Try "Runaround" by Blues Traveler. You will like that as well. Also "One Headlight" by the Wallflowers. Three very different songs, yet something hauntingly similar about them that I just can't put my finger upon. Also, note the role that colors play in this video and see a similar technique in "One Headlight".
