Across a Wire: Live in New York City

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Across a Wire: Live in New York City
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Live album by
Counting Crows
ReleasedJuly 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
Length121:54
Label Geffen
Producer Sean Murphy and Mike Simon, Nancy McDonald
Counting Crows chronology
Recovering the Satellites
(1996)		Across a Wire: Live in New York City
(1998)		 This Desert Life
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Entertainment Weekly C+ [2]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Across a Wire: Live in New York City (also known as Across a Wire: Live in New York for short) is the third album released by American rock band 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). Because the album contained two discs, the release was certified platinum by the RIAA for shipments of over 500,000 copies.

Contents

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.

The cover art for the album, featuring electrical poles with the Statue of Liberty in the background, is taken from a 1967 photograph by David Plowden entitled "Statue of Liberty from Caven Point Road, Jersey City, New Jersey."

Track listing

All tracks written by Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated.

Disc one
  1. "Round Here" (Duritz, Dave 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) – 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) – 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, Bryson, Malley) –– 5:35
  11. "A Long December" – 6:06
  12. "Walkaways" (Duritz, Dan Vickrey) – 1:50

Chart performance

Chart (1998)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [4] 34
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [5] 16
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [6] 14
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [7] 74
Irish Albums (IRMA) [8] 63
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [9] 34
Scottish Albums (OCC) [10] 46
UK Albums (OCC) [11] 27
US Billboard 200 [12] 19

Certifications

OrganizationLevelDate
RIAA  – U.S.GoldSeptember 22, 1998 [13]
PlatinumOctober 25, 2005 [13]

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  2. ↑ Entertainment Weekly review
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