Pop Song 563 of 1000 'Hanginaround' Counting Crows 1999
Pop Song 563 of 1000 'Hanginaround' Counting Crows 1999
Watch the MV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARiiO_41Id8&t=142s
As with on much of the This Desert Life album, Hanginaround saw the band experimenting with different recording techniques - in this case, utilizing looping. The song consists of eight different piano loops arranged in various configurations in setup inspired by Brian Wilson's Smile project.[3] According to Counting Crows fansite anna-begins.com, Duritz says:
So I was sort of ... semi-celebratory about that but also [thinking] 'Where am I going?' It's about a wild time when I was growing' up. Living a bit of a wild life, celebrating that. It's also about being scared that you don't have a future, but I don't think that's a waste. In the end, the guy just decides to continue having fun and to worry about it later.[4]
In an interview with Songfacts, Adam Duritz summed up his thought process behind the lyrics by stating "The idea of a song created with loops made me think of being on a loop myself. I wrote that song about when I was younger and the latter years in Berkeley and how I loved it there, but I was kind of going nowhere
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