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Counting Crows – Big Yellow Taxi (3:46)

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“Big Yellow Taxi” is a song written and originally performed by Joni Mitchell in 1970. It was a big hit in her native Canada (#14) as well as Australia (#6) and the UK (#11). It only reached #67 in the US in 1970, but was later a bigger hit there for her in a live version released in 1975, which peaked at #24.

Charting versions have also been recorded by The Neighborhood (who had the original top US 40 hit with the track in 1970, peaking at #29), Maire Brennan, Amy Grant, and Counting Crows.

Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton (on back-up vocals) cover of the song is featured on the soundtrack to the movie Two Weeks Notice and is the most successful version to date (U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40). Originally the song was a hidden track on the band’s 2002 album Hard Candy and did not include Vanessa Carlton until it was to be featured in the movie. New releases of the album included it as a track with her added, as with her in the video, although Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton did not appear in the video together or record together. This song became the band’s only Top 20 single in the UK, peaking at #13. This version slightly changed Mitchell’s original lyrics to describe when the eponymous taxi took “my girl” away, instead of Mitchell’s “my old man”.
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  • TschanFarang

    Matthias; für dich :) *yimyim*

    15 days ago

  • lzcool

    Bom ouvir a qualquer hora. Adoro esse som.

    last month

  • Widowsboy

    Nice version but I still prefer Joni Mitchell...

    last month

  • flynnie86

    100TH listen to COUNTING CROWS!!!

    November 2011

  • goooder

    I love this song - it's just like to be back home after a year

    October 2011

  • milo-milo123

    Got to agree with Caromba, this is my Counting Crows radio! I would have like something better but hey videls_10 has a point too!

    September 2011

  • caromba

    This is my least-favourite Counting Crows single. Mostly because it's so literal and obvious compared to the rest of their stuff. (And yes, I know that's because it's a cover, not an original song.)

    September 2011

  • intenso5

    Big Yellow Taxi (feat. Vanessa Carlton)

    August 2011

  • mike762011

    I love the counting crows

    August 2011

  • TschanFarang

    *smile*

    July 2011

  • boscopud

    I love this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (And you know that my Gertski buddy!!! :-DDDDDDD You're wonderful!!!)

    June 2011

  • Pauliethedog

    Dig This Song!

    April 2011

  • Mactele52

    and now to press the skip track button

    March 2011

  • EvilAishling

    Many versions of this song, this is one of my favorites. Of course, I'm partial to Counting Crows, so that /might/ have something to do with it.

    February 2011

  • videls_10

    I remember when they played this non-stop on the radio, but this is so much better than the shit they pass for music these days. I get sick of hearing "PUH PUH PUH POKER FACE PUH PUH POKER FACE" every time I turn on the radio. Compared to Lady Gaga, this song is pure gold.

    December 2010

  • MusicLoverGirli

    I like the version with Michelle Branch in it.

    November 2010

  • cluelessincali

    Dont it always seem to go ....you dont know what youve got till its gone! SO true!

    November 2010

  • cluelessincali

    I Soooo love this song!

    November 2010

  • bojay

    Too many parking lots... not enuff paradise....

    October 2010

  • monicapinka

    This is a very comercial version!!.. better the one as a bonus track in Hard Candy's album... for this one is the perfect example of how a simple chorus can destroy a good job.

    September 2010
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