Across a Wire: Live in New York City

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Across a Wire: Live in New York City
Live album by Counting Crows
Released July 13, 1998 (1998-07-13)
Recorded Chelsea Studios, New York City, August 12, 1997 and Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, November 6, 1997
Genre Alternative rock
Length 121:54
Label Geffen
Producer Sean Murphy and Mike Simon, Jennifer Carr
Professional reviews
Counting Crows chronology
Recovering the Satellites
(1996)
Across a Wire: Live in New York City
(1998)
This Desert Life
(1999)

Across a Wire: Live in New York City is the third album released by Counting Crows, released on July 14, 1998. It is a double-live album, featuring songs from their first two albums, August and Everything After (1993) and Recovering the Satellites (1996).

The first disc, recorded for VH1 Storytellers, is acoustic and intimate; it also contains a previously unreleased hidden track, "Chelsea." The second disc, recorded for MTV's Live from the 10 Spot show, is rocky and direct.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated.

Disc one
  1. "Round Here" (Duritz, Dan Janusko, Dan Jewett, Chris Roldan, David Bryson) – 6:16
  2. "Have You Seen Me Lately?" – 3:57
  3. "Angels of the Silences" (Duritz, Charles Gillingham, Matt Malley, Ben Mize, Bryson, Dan Vickrey) – 3:57
  4. "Catapult" (Duritz, Malley, Vickrey, Mize, Bryson, Gillingham) – 3:57
  5. "Mr. Jones" (Duritz, Bryson) – 5:17
  6. "Rain King" (Duritz, Bryson) – 5:51
  7. "Mercury" – 3:45
  8. "Ghost Train" – 5:27
  9. "Anna Begins" (Duritz, Bryson, Marty Jones, Toby Hawkins, Lydia Holly) – 13:54
  10. "Chelsea" (Duritz, Bryson, Gillingham, Malley) – 6:15
Disc two
  1. "Recovering the Satellites" – 5:49
  2. "Angels of the Silences" (Duritz, Gillingham, Malley, Mize, Bryson, Vickrey) – 3:34
  3. "Rain King" (Duritz, Bryson) – 5:48
  4. "Sullivan Street" (Duritz, Bryson) – 4:37
  5. "Children in Bloom" – 5:19
  6. "Have You Seen Me Lately?" – 4:10
  7. "Raining in Baltimore" – 5:34
  8. "Round Here" (Duritz, Janusko, Jewett, Roldan, Bryson) – 10:00
  9. "I'm Not Sleeping" – 4:58
  10. "A Murder of One" (Duritz, Vickrey) –– 5:35
  11. "A Long December" – 6:06
  12. "Walkaways" – 1:50

[edit] Chart performance

Year Chart Position
1998 UK Album Charts 27
Year Chart Position
1998 The Billboard 200 19

[edit] Certifications

Organization Level Date
RIAA – U.S. Gold September 22, 1998
Platinum October 25, 2005