This is the first song I really got into on the album. Everybody I shared it with thought I was mental or depressed, or whatever. This song is BEAUTIFULLY HONEST.
The 'new' verse at the end is phenomenal! "Sometimes it snows in April. Sometimes the skies are grey. Sometimes it all looks so familiar to me, and sometimes it's just so fucking strange. So can't you hear me cause I'm screaming, and I did not go outside yesterday. Don't wake me; please don't wake me cause I was dreaming, and I might just stay inside again today. I don't go out much these days. Sometimes I stay inside all day."
@@owenco2273 even being aware of that, the way he belts it in Perfect Blue Buildings chokes me up every single time. Can't help it. And actually, "Sometimes it snows in April" is the title of a Prince song, whereas everything between that and "Can't you hear me" I think is original to the live cut. I *think.* Also, Recovering the Satellites is one of their best albums.
This song got me through my first stint in rehab in 97..... the best 12 years of my life followed shortly thereafter. It’s been an up and down rollercoaster ride since Jan 09. This song just sums it all up....
This song (and album) were central to the lowest point of my life. Between August and Everything After and Peter Gabriel’s Secret World Live lie almost every bad memory I’d love to erase. Anna Begins brings me so much pain but I have a sadistic obsession with listening to it.
@@frankphillips7436 the whole album. Front to back. Left to right. All great tracks. When I put this album on I listen to the whole thing. Keep pushing forward!
This song has always represented depression to me. I have read comments on other videos of this song that says it's about addiction. My depression is like"a dead man trying to get out" and often "I wanna get me a little oblivion" and the best thing for me to do is "keep myself away from myself and me". I'm starting to self-isolate again and I don't go outside all day when I have days off. My depression is a struggle between one part of me trying to give up and one part struggling to survive. Adam Duritz describes it perfectly in this song.
I understand depression too. It creeps into my dark soul on unexpected times. Adam Duritz is emotionally naked and very in touch with his deep insecurities. I value music that makes me cry as well as smile. August & Everything After represented a strange, familiar place in time. I've seen Counting Crows once live but it wasn't what I wished for. This '90s album captures the innocence as well as the moodiness of being in relationships that falter. 😘 .
I was gonna do myself after my ol lady and I split... This song and album helped me cope the six years afterwards.. sometimes if you see someone smiling and happy, don't think they aren't hurting deep inside... That was 28 years ago... Life got better as it went on...
This song and the song Miami are incredibly underrated. They regularly appear in my head out of nowhere if there is ever an absence of listening to CC.
omg this song has so much deep meaning for me, am typing like crazy of all the little lyrics Adam writes & sings happen to be the story of my life. anyone else? I stay at home with my disease" my dis-ease
Reminds me of being young and hitch hiking across the country ,living in a tent trying to find myself ,and working at the canyon and ending up in Alaska with just a backpack !
Totally understand the song as I'm feeling low lost my eldest son this year and so have lost a part of me. I think the songs great regardless of changes every now and then , those who criticized obviously haven't been through the worst
I feel very lucky to have been able to tell Adam a few years ago when I happen to run into him, that this song was a favorite of mine, at the time this album came out I was only 13.. And I played this song on repeat.. It soothed me:) he looked stunned when I told him this. I love seeing them perform this song
from the moment i first heard blue buildings i grew on me just by the way it should be heard, later i had the lyrics and it stays contemplating my inner.....
Counting crows, August and everything after is in the very top 10 Albums Of My Life. Just randomly I needed to hear "Perfect Blue Buildings" and this hit the spot. Thank you.
This song is fucking deeeeeeeeep. Isolation, depression, self loathing, severe insomnia.... pure mental anguish. Imagine being able to pour your heart out, and this is what comes out on the other end.
I woke up with this song in my head. I have been in love with your music ever since I found your CD on the parking lot in Golden Colorado. A long December! Now I own 8 Cd's.
4got How Great Counting Crows Were Mayb still R They Rock even in 2022 !! saw them 5nights when they opened 4 The Rolling STones .. Amazing Concert CC's n The STONES.......
I actually went down to Virginia and La Loma about 2 weeks ago when I was staying in Berkeley for work. Pretty chill out of the way area. A little one lane L turn off the campus a bit. There were students there who probably didn't know and wouldn't care why I was there taking pictures.
Just down the street from your hotel, baby I stay at home with my disease And ain't this position familiar, darling Well, all monkeys do what they see Help me stay awake, I'm falling... Down on Virginia and La Loma Where I got friends who'll care for me You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted I got an attitude of need Help me stay awake, I'm falling... [CHORUS:] Asleep in perfect blue buildings Beside the green apple sea Gonna get me a little oblivion, baby Try to keep myself away from me (myself and) me It's 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday It doesn't get much worse than this In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle of these lives which are completely meaningless Help me stay awake, I'm falling... [CHORUS] I got bones beneath my skin, and mister... There's a skeleton in every man's house Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody There's a dead man trying to get out Please help me stay awake, I'm falling...
Perfect blue buildings = the 5th chakra opened and spinning flawlessly The Green Apple sea is the opened heart 4th chakra full of the peace that he and we all are seeking
I love when artists sing different from the recording when live. Some may hate it but fuck them. This is theirs. They can manipulate it to whatever. It is their song, not ours.
2020 you're a crows fan and you're here... you win. What a f**king song
Only on every last Tuesday.
Love this song remindse of my lost love
Sometimes it snows in April...
Sometimes the skies are gray...
Man it's true... This is the most perfect version of their best song.
This song always gives me chills
. it's such a beautiful song and Adam's voice is so real and strong.
With out the mandolin... it's just some plain old blue building...
This is the first song I really got into on the album. Everybody I shared it with thought I was mental or depressed, or whatever. This song is BEAUTIFULLY HONEST.
Definitely the best off the album.. especially this live version!
I knew a chimpanzee named Arthur...
He saved me . I'm falling
The 'new' verse at the end is phenomenal!
"Sometimes it snows in April. Sometimes the skies are grey.
Sometimes it all looks so familiar to me, and sometimes it's just so fucking strange.
So can't you hear me cause I'm screaming, and I did not go outside yesterday.
Don't wake me; please don't wake me cause I was dreaming, and I might just stay inside again today.
I don't go out much these days.
Sometimes I stay inside all day."
Mojo Damm i think he also used this lyrics in a live version of mr jones
Mojo Damm just from “so cant you hear me...”
Mojo Damm it’s from another counting crows song called millers angels
@@owenco2273 even being aware of that, the way he belts it in Perfect Blue Buildings chokes me up every single time. Can't help it. And actually, "Sometimes it snows in April" is the title of a Prince song, whereas everything between that and "Can't you hear me" I think is original to the live cut. I *think.*
Also, Recovering the Satellites is one of their best albums.
Snows in April is a Prince reference
This song got me through my first stint in rehab in 97..... the best 12 years of my life followed shortly thereafter. It’s been an up and down rollercoaster ride since Jan 09. This song just sums it all up....
This song (and album) were central to the lowest point of my life.
Between August and Everything After and Peter Gabriel’s Secret World Live lie almost every bad memory I’d love to erase.
Anna Begins brings me so much pain but I have a sadistic obsession with listening to it.
@@frankphillips7436 the whole album. Front to back. Left to right. All great tracks. When I put this album on I listen to the whole thing. Keep pushing forward!
Good luck brother. I get it too
I’ve had plenty of miserable 4:30 am’s myself. We’ll be okay bro 🙏🏼
One of the greatest albums ever
This song has always represented depression to me. I have read comments on other videos of this song that says it's about addiction. My depression is like"a dead man trying to get out" and often "I wanna get me a little oblivion" and the best thing for me to do is "keep myself away from myself and me". I'm starting to self-isolate again and I don't go outside all day when I have days off. My depression is a struggle between one part of me trying to give up and one part struggling to survive. Adam Duritz describes it perfectly in this song.
I understand depression too. It creeps into my dark soul on unexpected times. Adam Duritz is emotionally naked and very in touch with his deep insecurities. I value music that makes me cry as well as smile. August & Everything After represented a strange, familiar place in time. I've seen Counting Crows once live but it wasn't what I wished for. This '90s album captures the innocence as well as the moodiness of being in relationships that falter. 😘 .
Beautifully said ❤
Try to keep myself, away, from me
I was gonna do myself after my ol lady and I split... This song and album helped me cope the six years afterwards.. sometimes if you see someone smiling and happy, don't think they aren't hurting deep inside... That was 28 years ago... Life got better as it went on...
Miss the days of good music, depth and lyrics. Such a great song.
Its hard to duplicate the album single but if this album is not on your favorites then u have no soul. Almost 27 years now and it's still awesome!!
This album still comforts me after all these years
Its 2023! Who's watching?!
2024 - ME!
ME !
Just baby's little monkeys...
I cry every time. Every.single.time. Thank you!
Me too!
This song and the song Miami are incredibly underrated. They regularly appear in my head out of nowhere if there is ever an absence of listening to CC.
The Potter's lullaby for me
One of the best live performance bands.
Knowing the struggles that Adam has experienced with Dissociative Identity Disorder really puts this song's lyrics into perspective.
How do you know?? Lol, dude is just a song writer/singer
we know now that DID is not a real diagnosis .
@@jarrodanderson2124 it is tho
@@jarrodanderson2124 Bro I'm a mental health therapist and DID is definitely a real diagnosis, and he did at some point mention having it
Huh weird
This song is timeless and beautiful. Best song counting crows spilled .
Man this hits the soul...... Hits the soul HARD.....
My man 💪
I thought I was the only person that loves❤this song
What a beautiful man ... I can look at his face all day... Love nikkie novellino.
Well let me tell you, you did an absolute marvelous job. All-time favorite
omg this song has so much deep meaning for me, am typing like crazy of all the little lyrics Adam writes & sings happen to be the story of my life. anyone else? I stay at home with my disease" my dis-ease
Adam is perfect. He takes us on an incredibly journey with his words. Best song ever. Love you Adam ❤❤❤❤❤
HE CRIES ... ME TOO! ❤️
man I love this song still play the album lots .my favourite album ever period
Best Counting Crows song, and my 10 tops ever.
Reminds me of being young and hitch hiking across the country ,living in a tent trying to find myself ,and working at the canyon and ending up in Alaska with just a backpack !
Love you you guys”s !! Love your music and lyrics Got me through rough times in life !!
Totally understand the song as I'm feeling low lost my eldest son this year and so have lost a part of me. I think the songs great regardless of changes every now and then , those who criticized obviously haven't been through the worst
Perfect Song for this Quarantine... I don´t go out much these days, Sometimes I stay inside all day. #covid19 #quarantine
I have a therapy cat. Now I have a therapy disk. Thank you adam springs to mind back in all other good things fall
I feel very lucky to have been able to tell Adam a few years ago when I happen to run into him, that this song was a favorite of mine, at the time this album came out I was only 13.. And I played this song on repeat.. It soothed me:) he looked stunned when I told him this. I love seeing them perform this song
Best song❤️
Not sure why this wasn’t on the best of. It’s the best song on that album imo.
Best CC song, I simply love this song, I can hear it again and again
I've listened to this every day for the past five years...and it gets better every day...as previously said...it hits the soul hard!!
I've been listening to it several times a day, since I found it. I know how he feels... 😔
Same❤x
My favorite performance of my favorite song. Perfect indeed.
One of the best songs of 90's.
from the moment i first heard blue buildings i grew on me just by the way it should be heard, later i had the lyrics and it stays contemplating my inner.....
Counting crows, August and everything after is in the very top 10 Albums Of My Life.
Just randomly I needed to hear "Perfect Blue Buildings" and this hit the spot. Thank you.
Ditto Tony- peace
Watch Video. Cry. Identity With. Watch Video Again, Join in Singing. Breakdown. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
So, basically what I'm doing right now hahaha very nice.
Keep holdin' on, my friend...
Some times I stay inside all day. says a lot
It's hard to make music this good
This song is fucking deeeeeeeeep. Isolation, depression, self loathing, severe insomnia.... pure mental anguish.
Imagine being able to pour your heart out, and this is what comes out on the other end.
This is so quiet and beautifull what my heart will never can't explain. Much more when you see the WTC in the background! God bless this Gold Age!
Duritz' favorite song to make from that great album. Thats interesting. Its always been my favorite song by the band.
genius on display.
Beautiful Beautiful BLUE
i lov4e hgow you can hear him smack his head..........top tier band....top tier mix....loving this
Brilliant song I live it and love it
I feel like I live it, too... it's a struggle sometimes. 🙏
One of the Best song about manic depression that ive heard yet
I'm surprised they haven't played it more often live...great performance by The Counts...
Soo good...
I woke up with this song in my head. I have been in love with your music ever since I found your CD on the parking lot in Golden Colorado. A long December! Now I own 8 Cd's.
4got How Great Counting Crows Were Mayb still R They Rock even in 2022 !! saw them 5nights when they opened 4 The Rolling STones .. Amazing Concert CC's n The STONES.......
Adam Duritz and band ...... getting better ..... love you very much !!!
I love this song
Man... If I could sing like Adam duritz... Never would be single ever again 🤣🤣
I actually went down to Virginia and La Loma about 2 weeks ago when I was staying in Berkeley for work. Pretty chill out of the way area. A little one lane L turn off the campus a bit. There were students there who probably didn't know and wouldn't care why I was there taking pictures.
So damm good So damm real. Thanks
Love you long time Adam, from cyndi~ love this song
Still my favorite song ever written.fucking love you guys
Same!❤
Sooooooo good
My favorite version ever.
Lovely poetry.
Love never goes away
My favorite CC song❤️
The album version hits so much harder.
I saw them in the 90's and Adam was always too lit to deliver.
Lit on what? Thanks👍
Brazil ❤❤
Just down the street from your hotel, baby
I stay at home with my disease
And ain't this position familiar, darling
Well, all monkeys do what they see
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...
Down on Virginia and La Loma
Where I got friends who'll care for me
You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted
I got an attitude of need
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...
[CHORUS:]
Asleep in perfect blue buildings
Beside the green apple sea
Gonna get me a little oblivion, baby
Try to keep myself away from me (myself and) me
It's 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday
It doesn't get much worse than this
In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle
of these lives which are completely meaningless
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...
[CHORUS]
I got bones beneath my skin, and mister...
There's a skeleton in every man's house
Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody
There's a dead man trying to get out
Please help me stay awake, I'm falling...
ADAM DURITZ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ nad GENIUSZAMI KOSMOS KOCHANI na zawsze dziękuję BARDZO
❤. Every time.
Good song. Love it.
Perfection
Adam Duritz and Justin Furstenfeld from Blue October would make the best duo ever. ☮️
I'm with. You
My favorite 💘
We love. U
I love You Adam Duritz ❤️💕💕
you got my there...
'Thank You' 'Am' 'Enjoying' 'All' the 'Music' 'Lyrics' and 'I Love' 'You' 'My' 'Adam' 'Your' 'Darling' and 'Queen' XXXX
he make changes for every song every concert ...
Great band!!!
Perfect blue buildings = the 5th chakra opened and spinning flawlessly
The Green Apple sea is the opened heart 4th chakra full of the peace that he and we all are seeking
THE CC's is hilarious! So wrong and yet so funny!! Bravo.
Im unsure how closer to how feels you could of expressed.
Maria,she's cryin
I'm falling...
Cool
Absolutley fucking incredible
She's good to go
Sometimes its just so fucking strange
I love when artists sing different from the recording when live. Some may hate it but fuck them. This is theirs. They can manipulate it to whatever. It is their song, not ours.
I'm...falling
I woke in...pieces
Somewhere in middle of America
Why has this full show disappeared everywhere???
By the green apple sea..
Well around here
I wanna..
430 on Tuesday usually does...