Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
| Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings | ||||
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| Released | March 25, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | June 2006 – February 2007 (Saturday Nights) March–April 2007 (Sunday Mornings) | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, folk rock | |||
| Length | 59:54 | |||
| Label | Geffen | |||
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| Singles from Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (63/100) |
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| Source | Rating |
| AbsolutePunk.net | 76% |
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| Daily Mirror | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
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| Paste | (4/10) |
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Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is the fifth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released in the United States on March 25, 2008. It is thematically divided into two sides: the rock music of Saturday Nights and the more country-influenced Sunday Mornings. Vocalist and lyricist Adam Duritz states that the album "is about really wanting to mean something and failing to do it. You want your life to mean something. You want to be somebody and then what you turn out to be is so much less than what you thought you were going to be."
The Saturday Nights portion was produced by Gil Norton (who also produced the band's second album, Recovering the Satellites), while Sunday Mornings was produced by Brian Deck, perhaps best known for his production work on Modest Mouse's album The Moon and Antarctica.
The album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200, the band's highest peak since Recovering the Satellites and it sold 106,000 copies in first week. The cover depicts the Empire State Building in New York City.