The Black Crowes - Amorica -- What's your favorite song?

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  1. mick_sh

    mick_sh Hackney diamond Thread Starter

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    It's been almost 20 years since The Black Crowes released "Amorica". In my opinion, "Amorica" is their best record and one of the great american albums of all time. The guys (Chris, Rich, Marc, Johnny, Steve and Eddie) were absolutely sublime from the beginning to the end of this recording.

    "Amorica" could well look like an almost-conceptual oeuvre, but each song is special in its own way.

    What's your personal favorite?
     
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  2. Strummergas

    Strummergas Senior Member

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    Wiser Time. Easily.
     
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  3. macdaddysinfo

    macdaddysinfo Forum Resident

    Nonfiction
     
  4. DrBeatle

    DrBeatle The Rock and Roll Chemist

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    Goddamn, tough choice! I love this album, it's so good. I went with She Gave Good Sunflower because that's the one that always pops straight into my head when I think of the album. But not a duff track on it...great album.
     
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  5. SizzleVonSizzleton

    SizzleVonSizzleton The Last Yeti

    Have mercy baby, I'm Descending again!!!!!!!

    LOVE that song.

    Southern Harmony is their best record though!
     
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  6. cosmicdancer

    cosmicdancer Doin' it to you in 3D! So Groovy that I dig me.

    Such a fantastic album!! You could answer this question with any of the songs on it and I wouldn't argue. For me today, it comes down to A Conspiracy or Descending. I'll go with Descending. Eddie Harsch's piano in that song gives me goosebumps every single time.
     
  7. xTraPlaylists

    xTraPlaylists I bring order to chaos.

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    Ballad In Urgency into Wiser Time. Too me, it's one big song, not two separate ones. Since I have to vote, I'll do Wiser Time.

    However, the whole damn album is amazing with the only crap song being Downtown Money Waster. One of the few albums I can listen to beginning to end.
     
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  8. Complier

    Complier Senior Member

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    Nonfiction
     
  9. cublowell

    cublowell Forum Resident

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    I'll go with Nonfiction, but I love everything on this album. It's nice to hear the album version of Nonfiction because it lacks the jam they always tag on the end, which is one of my least favorite of their structured "jams."
     
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  10. PageLesPaul

    PageLesPaul To be a rock and not to roll...

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    Wiser Time. Pretty much my favorite Black Crowes song period.
     
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  11. spewey

    spewey Senior Member

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    Even though I've heard it a kajillion times....Wiser
     
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  12. jenglund72

    jenglund72 Forum Resident

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    Great album...always loved Descending the most.

    20 years?! Lord.
     
  13. Graham

    Graham Senior Member

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    Impossible to choose but today I'm going for Wiser Time. Got this album signed by the whole band on day of release in London (now I'm just showing off).
     
  14. KeninDC

    KeninDC Hazy Cosmic Jive

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    This one was a "grower" for me. I have the censored CD cover version.

    "Descending" starts out so beautiful, man.
     
  15. xTraPlaylists

    xTraPlaylists I bring order to chaos.

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    And is a perfect album closer.
     
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  16. mick_sh

    mick_sh Hackney diamond Thread Starter

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    Such a great album. I never get tired of it, even if I play it ten times in a row!
     
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  17. Graham

    Graham Senior Member

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    And ends even more so...

    The last song on the album for me has always been Tied Up & Swallowed though, as the UK CD had that on the end.
     
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  18. Matze S.

    Matze S. Forum Resident

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    This.
     
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  19. agaraffa

    agaraffa Senior Member

    Cursed Diamond!
     
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  20. Rhett

    Rhett Forum Resident

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    Yeah - Descending is great - but really the whole album is so good it is unfair to pick a favorite off of amorica.

    And isn't it a shame the Crowes catalog doesn't get the deluxe treatment in this day and age? There are a lot of unreleased/early versions sitting around on DAT's in TBC archivist boa's collection in which we will never hear.

    it took 20 years to the day for The Crowes/boa/Crowes mgt? to release the entire Foamfoot show from 1994. For ages the fadeout version of Foamfoot circulated but now 20 years later fans get to hear the final couple of minutes that were faded out! It took 20 years to hear 2-3 minutes! WOW! What's up with that?

    It's a shame the band's catalog can't be handled better/differently and get those unreleased songs out there so we the fans can buy it. Seriously!
     
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  21. cosmicdancer

    cosmicdancer Doin' it to you in 3D! So Groovy that I dig me.

    Tied Up and Swallowed is also a fantastic track!!
     
  22. Graham

    Graham Senior Member

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    What's this about Foamfoot? Has it had an official release? I've got an old boot CD-R of it.
     
  23. Further

    Further Forum Resident

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    It's impossible to pick just one great track from this album. I love it all except for P.25 London, the one blemish on an otherwise perfect album.

    Oh, and thanks for spelling High Head Blues the right way. It drives me crazy when I see it listed as Hi-Head Blues!
     
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  24. Rhett

    Rhett Forum Resident

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    It doesn't have an 'official' release as in purchased at the store on CD.

    Previously I (as well as others) purchased this Foamfoot show in 1995 -96 as a real pressed CD. Then it circulated in collector circles in FLAC, MP3 etc. If you listen to Presence Of The Lord - the last track - you will notice that the show fades out as Marc is rocking a solo. Why is that? Well because the CD format in the mid 90's didn't use CD's longer than 74 minutes - that's why the final 2 -3 minutes were chopped.

    Now as of January 2014 - the band's archivist (boa) torrented the non-fade out version of Foamfoot (@ The Roadhouse) finally putting an end to much speculation and rumor of the full version existing and the location of such a master.

    Well - we know now - boa had a SBD copy and it sounds stellar.

    It was nice of him/Crowes mgt/Crowes to finally release it but at the end of the day it's rather frustrating not knowing if the unreleased material from the band's hey day (1992 - 1997) will see the light of day. The material is documented on crowesbase.com but it's like looking at CD's behind a glass case and not being able to hear them or purchase them for your own collection. It seems there's money to be made but then I suppose they don't need money. Who does- right?
     
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  25. Rhett

    Rhett Forum Resident

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    It was originally spelled that way 'Hi- Head Blues' - before that - 'Hi - Hat Blues'.

    Hi - Hat --->>> http://crowesbase.com/tapelisting.cfm?TapeID=1964

    Hi-Head --->>>> http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Crowes-B...=1398799275&sr=1-1&keywords=black+crowes+tall
     
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