The Finest Flock (TFF) is a bracket that myself and the wonderful moderator of this subreddit -u/qunix- have developed in hopes that it may facilitate some new found engagement, discussion, and listening within the Counting Crows fanbase.

Our intention is to stagger each matchup of the many dozens of counting crows songs that we have selected over the next few weeks/months to come. In this way, individuals who favor some of the bands lesser appreciated or well known acts have the opportunity to vote for and potentially send forth those very same songs to further rounds within this bracket.

In total, we’ve selected 104 unique songs for this event and arranged them amongst each other by utilizing a bracketing website and it’s randomization function. Hopefully these songs -in their arbitrary selection- will give all of those who are willing to express their idea of what constitutes a great song, and more significantly, an even greater counting crows song the chance to do so in a way that involves all views on all things good music. And for those who are simply here for the hits, may the odds be ever in your favor (cause they probably will be).

Feel free to contact me or u/qunix for any further details concerning this bracket that you may currently have. Pursue conversation with one another, talk about the results of each round to your hearts content, and make this shit real fun. I’ll also be voting on this poll, however, as to avoid any effect of my biases on others’ instinctive choices, I won’t try and skew the results of this event in any way, shape, or form; I’ll be suspending my personal judgement on CC music -for the time being- on all related polls.

Also it goes without saying that there is no partiality to big hitters like mr. jones, a long december, or accidentally in love in this event; only the voice of this community at large, myself, and u/qunix to determine the answer to a question I’m sure we’ve all been dying to know…

That is: why the fuck does adam say “And man its a really good place to find yourself a taco” at the end of “Los Angeles”.

—or “what’s the best counting crows song ever?” I guess (if you want to be really lame).

This community is fucking awesome so I already know that, together, we’ll make this a more than memorable experience within the CC sub’s history, and one that I am certain we can all thoroughly enjoy.

-Here’s the link to the actual polling website we have used to organize the rankings/matchups deriving from this bracket:

https://challonge.com/myshplbi

-The polling for this individual matchup will close sometime tomorrow just as/before the next bout of the bracket comes out; this applies to every TFF post. Thus, in the event that a poll is allotted more than 1 days worth of polling time by our mistake, any votes casted outside of the match’s initial 24hr release period —or until the next post under this event is created— will not be of influence to its final results.

An update on my event “Memories of Candy-Coated Sunshine”:

—With the first round of this bracket coming swiftly to a close, and my recent illness now being mostly dealt with, I wanted to let the community know that this project —as a subunit of “The Finest Flock”— is going to be scrapped and repurposed for later use within the second round. With the nature of this bracket lending itself to more and more competitive matchups as we advance further through new rounds, I believe that organizing a similar event to this one sometime within the second round —where there still remains a high quantity of matchups and yet an even higher quality of music vying for placement— will prove to be a decision that ultimately garners more interest from and appeal to the community and myself personally whilst not weighing down on the length of the first round and time it will take us to wholly get through it. I hope you are all understanding of this decision as it was made on behalf of you guys as much as it was in interest of my many other priorities; things like this can be both time constraining and challenging to accommodate for when unforeseen circumstances (like a painfully infected knee) befall someone like myself. If anyone has any questions concerning the redevelopment of this project as something similar to MoCCS to be had on a later date, then please let me know and I will gladly answer! With that being said, here is the antepenultimate matchup for round #1 of “The Finest Flock”:

—Today’s TFF Matchup:—

—Hard Candy (HC): https://youtu.be/RlNIr8EYACk

—Jumping Jesus (UWS): https://youtu.be/LIMYM1zcC2A

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