Recovering the Satellites is the second album by Counting Crows. Darker and with a harder rock sound than their debut August and Everything After (1993), it was recorded after frontman Adam Duritz suffered a long period of depression due to his inability to deal with the pressures of sudden skyrocketing fame and fortune, so several of the album's songs tend to deal with these issues.

Track listing

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All tracks written by Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated.

1. "Catapult" (David Bryson, Adam Duritz, Charlie Gillingham, Matt Malley, Ben Mize, Dan Vickrey) — 3:34
2. "Angels of the Silences" (Duritz, Gillingham) — 3:39
3. "Daylight Fading" (Duritz, Vickrey, Gillingham) — 3:50
4. "I'm Not Sleeping" — 4:57
5. "Goodnight Elisabeth" — 5:20
6. "Children in Bloom" — 5:23
7. "Have You Seen Me Lately?" — 4:11
8. "Miller's Angels" (Duritz, Vickrey) — 6:33
9. "Another Horsedreamer's Blues" — 4:32
10. "Recovering the Satellites" — 5:24
11. "Monkey" — 3:02
12. "Mercury" — 2:48
13. "A Long December" — 4:57
14. "Walkaways" (Duritz, Vickrey) — 1:12

Personnel

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• Matt Malley — bass, double bass, vocals
• Ben Mize — drums, tambourine, percussion, vocals
• David Bryson — guitar, dobro, tambourine, vocals
• Adam Duritz — vocals, piano, electronic organ
• Dan Vickrey — guitar, vocals
• Charlie Gillingham — organ, accordion, mellotron, piano, harmonica, vocals

Additional personnel

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• Paul Buckmaster — conductor
• Marvin Etzioni — mandolin
• David Immerglück — mandolin, pedal steel guitar

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1996	The Billboard 200	1
1997	Billboard Top Canadian Albums	19

Single

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1996	"Angels of the Silences"	Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	4
1996	"Angels of the Silences"	Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	3
1996	"A Long December"	Billboard Adult Top 40	6
1996	"A Long December"	Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	9
1996	"A Long December"	Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	5
1996	"A Long December"	Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	7
1997	"Daylight Fading"	Billboard Adult Top 40	20
1997	"Daylight Fading"	Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	24
1997	"Daylight Fading"	Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	26
1997	"Daylight Fading"	Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	26
1997	"Have You Seen Me Lately?"	Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	34
1997	"Have You Seen Me Lately?"	Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	34
1997	"Daylight Fading"	Billboard Top 40 Adult Recurrents	2

===Certifications

Organization	Level	Date
RIAA — USA	Gold	December 19 1996
RIAA — USA	Platinum	December 19 1996
RIAA — USA	Double Platinum	June 6 1997
BPI — UK	Gold	March 1 1997

Counting Crows albums | 1996 albums