Recovering The Satellites
by Counting Crows
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Counting Crows bestography
Recovering The Satellites is ranked 2nd best out of 15 albums by Counting Crows on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Counting Crows is August And Everything After which is ranked number 687 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,502.
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Recovering The Satellites track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Recovering The Satellites rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 47/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1996 | 51/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Milhaud | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 42/100 | 57 |
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 25/100 | 15 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 97 Music Albums of 1996 | 88/97 | 1 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1996 | 55/100 | - |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top 65r albums (61), #0101-0200* | 50/95 | - |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 14/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | FelipeBoorkes | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 100/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 69/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 88 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 462 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/20/2026 15:47 | soulplastic9 | 737 | 77/100 |
| ! | 06/29/2026 16:16 | Milhaud | 2,171 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/19/2026 10:03 | RemainInLight | 3,836 | 36/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.7/100, a mean average of 71.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.
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Recovering the Satellite's is their debut but a little darker and louder. This album also has more filler and less classics.
A Long December is the best known and would have fit perfectly on the debut.
Children in Bloom is and underrated excellent rocker and relatively heavy for Counting Crows.
Goodnight Elizabeth and Daylight Fading are other stand out tracks.
But too much of this sounds like the debut but done worse with less melody or like retreads. I have heard Miller's Angels before in many Crow's songs.
And Duritz gets whiny in his vocal delivery on his sad sap, poor me ballads that are written well but delivered annoyingly.
Poetry to music is a good way to describe Counting Crows and for the niche group of fans that love it, they deliver.
This band lacks creative diversity here and in the future.
covecove TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/24/2014 02:38 | #104277 | TOP COMMENT
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It was a bit Meh when it came out but as I've grown older it has stayed close enogh for me to apreciate it in a different light. Another Horsedreamer's Blues is one of the most beautiful songs of the 90s...
A rather average follow up to the rather awesome August album...a long december the only song worth buying this for...this desert life is a far better effort
lightmyway TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/18/2012 01:49 | #42620 | TOP COMMENT
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A very good follow up to August and Everything After, songs are nearly as good and production is a lot clearer.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/29/2015 03:20 | #132892 | TOP COMMENT
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It's nice. It doesn't grab me like August, but that album is fading in my conciousness as well.
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