Black Crowes Recommendations

Oh why not, My 11-20:

Welcome To The Goodtimes

If It Ever Stops Raining

Cypress Tree

Locust Street

Girl From A Pawnshop

She Talks To Angels

Thunder Storm 6:54 PM

Words You Throw Away

The Fear Years

Exit

 

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Without thinking about it too much...

Evil Eye
Gone
Descending
Halfway to Everywhere
Tied up & Swallowed
Feathers
Josephine
Horsehead
Cursed Diamond
Sometimes Salvation

 

10 Classics:

1. My Morning Song
2. Remedy
3. Jealous Again
4. Stare It Cold
5. High Head Blues
6. Wiser Time
7. One Mirror Too Many
8. Under A Mountain
9. Virtue and Vice
10. Cosmic Friend

10 Obscure Classics:

1. Exit
2. Lifevest
3. Nothing, Love, Everything
4. Another Roadside Tragedy
5. Thunderstorm 6:54
6. Darling of the Underground Press
7. Bitter Bitter You
8. Lowdown
9. Last Time Again
10. Evil Eye(Tall version)

 

Not exactly. One Cop Story and Bitter Bitter You were two separate songs that were mashed together to make Never Forget This Song. Love all three.

 

Ten? No particular order.

Descending
Tied Up and Swallowed
Girl From A Pawnshop
One Mirror Too Many
Peace Anyway
Sister Luck
Miserable
Gone
No Speak No Slave
Sometimes Salvation

 

So far, not much love for Three Snakes & One Charm in this thread. The first 3 albums get all the attention, and though TSAOC is lumped in with the "classic lineup" with Ford, I'd say it was as much a dividing line for fans at that time as By Your Side appears to be now.
I remember fans saying there wasn't enough rock & roll on it, it was unfocused, it wasn't catchy, they couldn't write songs anymore. Granted, these songs were definitely improved in their live versions, but any album with Under a Mountain, Good Friday, Halfway to Everywhere, Bring On Bring On, and Better When You're Not Alone is a pretty great album to me! Can't understand how people can skip over it.

 

Broad brush coming:

All of it. I like every album.

The first one will always be my favorite. Couldn’t believe the Stones & Faces had a baby to usher in the 90’s....just for me.

 

My favorites are Good Friday and Let Me Share The Ride.

 

I like Three Snakes a little better than Amorica. But Southern Harmony is top of the mountain.

 

Another vote for By Your Side.
I think it is their best album but because the front cover doesn't convey rock 'n' roll cool, it tends to get ignored.

 

3 Snakes is my favorite.

 

My top 10 TODAY :

1. Exit
2. Under A Mountain
3. Evil Eye
4. Descending
5. Wyoming & Me
6. High Head Blues
7. Pastoral
8. My Morning Song
9. No Speak No Slave
10. She Gave Good Sunflower

Tomorrow will have a different list.

 

By Your Side is my favorite.
The producer told them to stop all this hippy jamming and watered rhythms and go heavy into r'n'r.
The result is their most powerful work. The music rankles out from the loudspeakers. The attack with "Go Faster" is astonishing. The closure with "Virtue and Vice" is tremendous, with magnificent shouts form Chris, a song Pete Townshend would pay millions.
Rich is the only guitarist in that occasion and, being a mediocre lead player but a marvellous rhythm player, the music on this album is extremely groovish, essential, not indulgent.
My personal album preferences:
_By Your Side
_Amorica
_Southern Harmony
_Before the Frost
_Three Snakes
_Lions
_Shake Your Money Maker
_Warpaint

 

I'll play too ...

1. Descending
2. Ballad In Urgency
3. Bewildered
4. Feathers
5. Better When You're Not Alone
6. High Head Blues
7. Tied Up And Swallowed
8. No Speak No Slave
9. Another Roadside Tragedy
10. Song Of The Flesh

 

That's called 'clipping'.

BEYOND crushed.

Songs and performance notwithstanding, BYS is a sonic disaster on every single level.

 

What! BYS is their worst album, (I'll re-phrase that, my least favourite) even worse than "Lions". BYS sounds like a contractual obligation album to me, the songs are too short, it's almost pop music and the cover, good grief it's terrible..

 

It was better in the original sequence, with "Grows A Rose" before "V&V", though I love "Go Tell the Congregation" as well...

A missed opportunity, Kevin Shirley's production techniques did them no favors.

The whole thing was a disaster, really.

 

I'll say it again, not enough memorable songs on Amorica and Three Snakes and One Charm for me. Just as another example, I like Another Roadside Tragedy from the Lost Crowes better than any song on either Amorica or Three Snakes and One Charm. The Crowes were never better than the first 2 albums for me. The songs were tighter and more memorable.

 

OK then.

 

Remedy
Sting Me
Thorn in My Pride
No Speak No Slave
A Conspiracy
Good Friday
Go Faster
By Your Side
Cypress Tree
Midnight from the Inside Out

 

**Today's List**


1. The Fear Years
2. Girl From A Pawnshop
3. Bewildered
4. Feathers
5. Better When You're Not Alone
6. Name Like Music
7. Tied Up And Swallowed
8. No Speak No Slave
9. Another Roadside Tragedy
10. The Nowhere Stairs

 

Warpaint and Before The Frost seem like sister albums, all those songs could intermingle,

Goodbye / Captain, Mule / Garden, Locust / Love…

Can someone explain to me how they can like one album and not the other?

 

No - that's not why. Well - maybe a small part. But I kinda like the cover - I like the colors.
The music is not as The Crowes were - The Crowes went in a different direction and long timers called the Crowes out on it.

 

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