Counting Crows - Mr. Jones (HD Remaster) [AM 1080p AVC | PCM 24-bit 48 kHz | DD+ Dolby Atmos]

Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock
Year: 1993
Video Source: Apple Music
Audio Source: SACD, Apple Music

"Mr. Jones" is a song by American rock band Counting Crows. It was released as their debut single in December 1993 by Geffen Records, serving as the lead single from their debut album, August and Everything After (1993). The song was written by band members David Bryson and Adam Duritz, and produced by T-Bone Burnett. It became the band's first radio hit and has been described as their breakout single.

"Mr. Jones" reached number five on the US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart. Internationally, the song peaked at number one in Canada and number seven in France. American Songwriter ranked the song at number four on their list of "The Top 10 Counting Crows Songs" in 2022.

The band's surprise success happened to coincide with Kurt Cobain's death. These events took a significant toll on Adam Duritz, the lead vocalist and principal songwriter. Duritz said in an interview, "We heard that, that [Cobain] had shot himself. And it really scared the hell out of me because I thought, these things in my life are getting so out of control." These events and feelings were the basis for "Catapult", the first track of Recovering the Satellites.

The song is about struggling musicians (Duritz and bassist Marty Jones of the Himalayans) who "want to be big stars", believing that "when everybody loves me, I will never be lonely". Duritz would later recant these values; and in some later concert appearances, "Mr. Jones" was played in a subdued acoustic style, if at all. On the live CD Across a Wire, Duritz changes the lyrics "We all wanna be big, big stars, but we got different reasons for that" to "We all wanna be big, big stars, but then we get second thoughts about that"; he also changed the lyrics "when everybody loves you, sometimes that's just about as funky as you can be" to "when everybody loves you, sometimes that's just about as fucked up as you can be."

Some believe the song is a veiled reference to the protagonist of Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man", based on the lyric "I wanna be Bob Dylan, Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky." According to Adam Duritz on VH1 Storytellers, "It's really a song about my friend Marty and I. We went out one night to watch his dad play, his dad was a Flamenco guitar player who lived in Spain (David Serva), and he was in San Francisco in the mission playing with his old Flamenco troupe. And after the gig we all went to this bar called the New Amsterdam in San Francisco on Columbus."

In a 2013 interview, Duritz explained that even though the song is named for his friend Marty Jones, it is actually about Duritz himself. "I wrote a song about me, I just happened to be out with him that night", Duritz said. The inspiration for the song came as Duritz and Jones were drunk at a bar after watching Jones' father perform, when they saw Kenney Dale Johnson, longtime drummer for the musician Chris Isaak, sitting with three women. "It just seemed like, you know, we couldn't even manage to talk to girls, ... we were just thinking if we were rock stars, it'd be easier. I went home and wrote the song", Duritz said.

The music video for "Mr. Jones" was directed by Charles Wittenmeier, produced by Phyllis Koenig and filmed in New Amsterdam, New York City. It won the band an award for Best New Artist at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards. At the 1994 Billboard Music Video Awards, it won an award for Best New Artist Clip of the Year in the category for Rock and was nominated for Maximum Impact Clip of the Year. The video was later made available remastered in HD on Counting Crows' official YouTube channel in 2009, having generated more than 412 million views as of October 2026.

Release Info
The videotrack is the HD Remaster, downloaded from Apple Music, mux'd to 24 fps
The PCM track (SACD, 24-bit 48 kHz) is synced to the video with Adobe Audition
The Atmos track is lossy and synced by muxing (modified delay, no quality loss)
The timed lyrics are synced and edited. Enable the subtitles to see the lyrics

Spoiler: Media Info

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