Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)

Infobox Single
Name = Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)


Artist = Counting Crows
from Album = DGC Rarities Volume 1
Released = 1993
Format = CD single
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Geffen
Writer = Adam Duritz, David Bryson
Producer = T-Bone Burnett
Last single = "Round Here"
(1993)
This single = "Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)"
(1993)
Next single = "Rain King"
(1994)

"Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)" is a song recorded by Counting Crows from the album "DGC Rarities Volume 1". It was included on the band's best-of compilation, "Films About Ghosts (The Best Of...)". The title of the song was inspired by the Philip Glass opera "Einstein on the Beach."

Release

Despite never being a studio album track, the song made the track-listing of "DGC Rarities Volume 1" and achieved mass cult airplay upon its leaking to radio, becoming the band's sole #1 hit on the Modern Rock chart to date.

The same version of the song from DGC Rarities Volume 1 was later found on a European pressed bootleg CD called 'Flying Demos'. The recording was part of the original Counting Crows demo that led to their signing with Geffen records. Copies of the Flying Demos CD are readily available from Counting Crows bootleg collectors.

Frontman Adam Duritz has explained the track was a demo from the first week the band was together, which he had not considered for the debut record, and has characterized as "a song that was to me more clever than meaningful."

Live performances

There is only one known live performance of the song from 1992, however, the song was most likely a setlist staple for the band in their early days. The band has not played the song in concert since the release of their debut album "August and Everything After".

Charts