Recovering the Satellites

Recovering the Satellites
Studio album by Counting Crows
Released	October 14, 1996 (1996-10-14)
Recorded	January-March 1996, Hollywood, San Francisco and The Sound Factory, Hollywood
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	59:22
Label	Geffen
Producer	Gil Norton
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Counting Crows chronology
August and Everything After (1993) Recovering The Satellites (1996) Across a Wire: Live in New York City (1998)

Recovering the Satellites is the second album by Counting Crows, released on October 14, 1996 in the United Kingdom and two days later in the United States. Released three years (and two years of relentless worldwide touring) after their debut album, it reached #1 in the United States and was a top seller in Australia, Canada, and the UK as well.

For this album, the quintet became a sextet, with fellow San Franciscan Dan Vickrey added, contributing a second guitar as well as sharing in songwriting credits on four of the fourteen tracks. Steve Bowman was replaced as drummer by Ben Mize.

On Recovering the Satellites, Counting Crows brought in famed producer Gil Norton.

Track listing

All tracks written by Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated.

1. "Catapult" (Duritz, David Bryson, Charlie Gillingham, Matt Malley, Dan Vickrey,Ben Mize)– 3:34
2. "Angels of the Silences" (Duritz, Gillingham) – 3:39
3. "Daylight Fading" (Duritz, Vickrey, Gillingham) – 3:50
4. "I'm Not Sleeping" – 4:57
5. "Goodnight Elisabeth" – 5:20
6. "Children in Bloom" – 5:23
7. "Have You Seen Me Lately?" – 4:11
8. "Miller's Angels" (Duritz, Vickrey) – 6:33
9. "Another Horsedreamer's Blues" – 4:32
10. "Recovering the Satellites" – 5:24
11. "Monkey" – 3:02
12. "Mercury" – 2:48
13. "A Long December" – 4:57
14. "Walkaways" (Duritz, Vickrey) - 1:12

Personnel

Counting Crows

• David Bryson – guitars, Dobro, tambourine, vocals
• Adam Duritz – piano, tambourine, Wurlitzer, vocals
• Charlie Gillingham – Hammond B-3, piano, Mellotron, Wurlitzer, accordion, harmonica, vocals, string arrangements on 3, 4, 9
• Matt Malley – electric bass guitar, double bass, vocals
• Ben Mize – drums, tambourine, light bulbs, Zippo lighter, vocals
• Dan Vickrey – guitars, vocals

Additional musicians

• Paul Buckmaster – Orchestra conductor on 3, 4, 9
• David Immerglück – pedal steel guitar on 8, octave mandolin on 8
• Marvin Etzione – mandolin on 12

Charts

Album

Singles

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Covers

The song Goodnight Elisabeth has been covered by the Dutch duo 'Acda & de Munnik' to 'Slaap zacht, Elisabeth' for their 1998 album.