Hard Candy
Album by Counting Crows
Released	July 9, 2002
Recorded
Genre	Alternative
Length	59:30 (U.S. Version) 67:47 (U.K. version)
Label	Geffen
Producer(s)	Steve Lillywhite
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Counting Crows chronology
This Desert Life (1999)	Hard Candy (2002)	Films About Ghosts (2003)

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Track listing

1. "Hard Candy" (Duritz/Vickrey/Gillingham) – 4:20
2. "American Girls" (background vocals by Sheryl Crow) (Duritz) – 4:32
3. "Good Time" (Duritz) – 4:24
4. "If I Could Give All My Love -or- Richard Manuel Is Dead" (Duritz/Vickrey/Immergluck/Gillingham/Malley) – 3:52
5. "Goodnight L.A." (Duritz) – 4:17
6. "Butterfly in Reverse" (Duritz/Adams/Gillingham) – 2:48
7. "Miami" (Duritz/Gillingham/Immergluck) – 5:01
8. "New Frontier" (Duritz) – 3:51
9. "Carriage" (Duritz) – 4:04
10. "Black and Blue" (Duritz) – 3:53
11. "Why Should You Come When I Call?" (Duritz/Gillingham) – 4:38
12. "Up All Night (Frankie Miller Goes to Hollywood)" (Duritz) – 5:07
13. "Holiday in Spain" (Duritz) – 3:50

    Bonus tracks on U.K. release:

14. "White Stallions"
15. "You Ain't Going Nowhere"

    "Hidden" track:

• "Big Yellow Taxi" – 3:47

On the last track (13 or 15, depending on the album version), after a period of silence the hidden track "Big Yellow Taxi" plays. This Joni Mitchell cover was one of their biggest radio hits from the album, although it is unlisted (except for the note "May contain trace amounts of Joni Mitchell"). Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is a nine-time Grammy winning American blues rock singer, guitarist, bassist and songwriter. ... In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music which has been deliberately placed on a compact disc, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener. ... Big Yellow Taxi is a song originally written and performed by Joni Mitchell but covered by many other artists such as Amy Grant, Counting Crows, Pinhead Gunpowder, and Bob Dylan, who slightly rewrote the lyrics on the album Dylan, released in 1973. ... Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada), is a musician and painter. ...