This Desert Life
This Desert Life is the third studio album from American rock band Counting Crows. The cover art is by noted comic book artist Dave McKean, best known for his work with Neil Gaiman, and was adapted from the cover art McKean did for Gaiman's picture book "The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish". The album had sold more than 2 million copies worldwide by February 2002. The song "Hanginaround" was the first of three singles released from the album, and the highest-charting single off the album, reaching number 1 on the US "Billboard  Adult Alternative Songs chart and number 28 on the Billboard" Hot 100, as well as top ten in Canada and top 50 in a number of other countries. The album contains the same personnel as the band's previous studio album, "Recovering the Satellites", being David Bryson (guitar), Adam Duritz (vocals), Charlie Gillingham (keyboards), Matt Malley (bass), Ben Mize (drums) and Dan Vickrey (guitars), with multi-instrumentalist David Immerglück, who formerly was credited as a session player on the previous two albums, promoted to full member. It received generally positive reviews from critics. Track listing. All songs written by Adam  Duritz except as indicated. The CD cover lists tracks one through five as "side one" and tracks six through ten as "side two". "Kid Things" is a hidden track as part of "St. Robinson in His Cadillac Dream". The vinyl release of this album also contains "Kid Things" as a hidden track along with another hidden track called "Baby I'm a Big Star Now", which is featured in the film "Rounders". They are both on the side D with a text asking you not to play that side. "Colorblind" was featured in the 1999 movie "Cruel Intentions" and the  2014 film "Mommy".