HMV named the song Single of the Week in the last week of April 1994. Mark Tremblay from Calgary Herald felt that "they’re best uptempo, especially when they parade their youthful naivete" as in "Mr. In the live version of the song, as on the album Across a Wire: Live in New York City, the first couplet of the song is a quotation of the 1967 song " So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" by The Byrds. I went home and wrote the song", Duritz said. we were just thinking if we were rock stars, it'd be easier. "It just seemed like, you know, we couldn't even manage to talk to girls. The inspiration for the song came as Duritz and Jones were drunk at a bar after watching Jones' father perform, when they saw Kenney Dale Johnson, longtime drummer for the musician Chris Isaak, sitting with three women. "I wrote a song about me, I just happened to be out with him that night", Duritz said. In a 2013 interview, Duritz explained that even though the song is named for his friend Marty Jones, it is actually about Duritz himself. And after the gig we all went to this bar called the New Amsterdam in San Francisco on Columbus." 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. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky." According to Adam Duritz on VH1 Storytellers, "It's really a song about my friend Marty and I. Some believe the song is a veiled reference to the protagonist of Bob Dylan's " Ballad of a Thin Man", based on the lyric "I wanna be Bob Dylan, Mr. On the live CD Across a Wire Duritz changes the lyrics "We all wanna be big, big stars, but we got different reasons for that" to "We all wanna be big, big stars, but then we get second thoughts about that" he also changed the lyrics "when everybody loves you, sometimes that's just about as funky as you can be" to "when everybody loves you, sometimes that's just about as fucked up as you can be." Jones" was played in a subdued acoustic style, if at all. Duritz would later recant these values and in some later concert appearances, "Mr. The song is about struggling musicians (Duritz and bassist Marty Jones of The Himalayans) who "want to be big stars", believing that "when everybody loves me, I will never be lonely". Jones" is written in 4Ĥ time and is performed at 142 beats per minute. The song incorporates two different keys, as demonstrated by verses being written in A minor with a chord structure of Am-F-Dm-G-Am-F-G before transitioning into C major in the chorus and a new chord sequence of C-F-G. Jones was part of the inspiration for the name 'Generation Jones'." And it really scared the hell out of me because I thought, these things in my life are getting so out of control." These events and feelings were the basis for " Catapult", the first track of Recovering the Satellites.Īccording to Duritz (who was born in 1964), the song title had a hand in the naming by Jonathan Pontell of " Generation Jones", the group of people born between 19. Duritz said in an interview, "We heard that, that had shot himself. These events took a significant toll on Adam Duritz, the lead vocalist and principal songwriter. The band's surprise success happened to coincide with Kurt Cobain's death. On May 14, 1994, the song reached its peak US chart position at number five. Jones" debuted on the US Billboard Radio Songs chart on January 22, 1994, and entered the top 10 five weeks later. In April 2022, American Songwriter ranked the song at number four on their list of "The Top 10 Counting Crows Songs". Internationally, the song peaked at number one in Canada and number seven in France. Jones" reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay charts. The song was the band's first radio hit and has been described as their breakout single. It was released in December 1993 by Geffen as the lead single from the band's debut album, August and Everything After (1993). Jones" is the debut single of American rock band Counting Crows.
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