The Black Crowes---Help

rhcpjam1029
rhcpjam1029 Posts: 1,982
edited September 2010 in Other Music
So I already have Shake Your Money Maker and The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion.

Where do I go from here?
Beavis: All my friends are brown and red? What does that mean?
Butthead: It means that his friends are like turds and that they like suck.
Beavis: Heh heh. Oh yeah. Yeah! Get those spoons out of my face before I shove them up your butt!
Butthead: Huh huh.
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  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Those two are great albums, too...if you like them thoroughly, then you may have a chance of enjoying their whole catalog.

    My best suggestion: Go in order

    Amorica
    Three Snakes and One Charm
    By Your Side
    Lions
    Warpaint
    Before The Frost...

    Be sure to check out their live album "Freak N' Roll...Into The Fog" GREAT stuff. Awesome DVD of the same show too.

    My fave albums out of all those above are Amorica, Warpaint and BTF..., Amorica is just great rock, after that they begin to try new things...but all are good. Warpaint, and especially BTF... show the Crowes experimenting with some blues/country (even possibly bluegrass) roots...but they do it well.

    Also, Chris & Rich Robinson have done some solo work that is wonderful. Marc Ford too...that man can wail.

    The Robinson brothers also released a live album called "Brothers Of A Feather" that is beautiful. Chris's vocals and Rich's acoustic guitar, and that's it. Just awesome.

    Huge Crowes fan here...going to see them on the 15th of November for the second time. STOKED :)
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • bobasfeet
    bobasfeet Posts: 1,195
    AMORICA!!!
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    bobasfeet wrote:
    AMORICA!!!
    :D:D:D:D:D
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • craigb
    craigb Posts: 806
    Definitely Amorica and Warpaint. If you like those, the rest of their catalog should appeal.
    "Speak clearly if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall"

    Los Angeles 10.7.2009
  • iamrockmusic
    iamrockmusic Orlando, FL Posts: 443
    I would recommend that the next 2 you buy be Warpaint and Before the Frost...
    That way, you are starting with a 'then and now' kind of thing, and picking up 2 more of their best albums in the process. To be honest, they've never put out a 'bad' record, so you can't go wrong. Although I would recommend that you get Lions last.

    Oh, and DEFINITELY get Freak n' Roll... the cd and the dvd.
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  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    Probably nothing more to add but you HAVE to get Amorica. Brilliant album. Not a bad track on there and includes some of their best. Ballad in Urgency and Wiser Time are amazing.

    Three Snakes is really good but has a few that don't quite work for me. But it is the last album by the best line-up of the band. After that they started a revolving door line-up for By Your Side and Lions before settling on the current line-up. They took a hiatus for a few years after Lions and that was the best thing they could have done. Lions sounded tired and the band was going through the motions live. But the new line-up that debuted on Warpaint is like a breath of fresh air for them. I was sad that Marc and Eddie left, but they aren't coming back and Luther is an excellent guitarist.

    It is interesting to listen to how this band has progressed over their career. I would have never thought they would do anything like Before the Frost . . . Until the Freeze, but when you hear it, it makes perfect sense.

    I agree with dcfaithful, go in order.

    And don't miss Freak 'n' Roll.

    I've seen TBC 20 times over the last 19 years or so, in every line-up in every era. My favs are Southern Harmony, Amorica, and Warpaint.
    DAL-7/5/98,10/17/00,6/9/03,11/15/13
    BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
    MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
    PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
    CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
    HTFD-6/27/08
    ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
    KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
    Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
    PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
    OKC-11/16/13
    SEA-12/6/13
    TUL-10/8/14
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    craigb wrote:
    Definitely Amorica and Warpaint. If you like those, the rest of their catalog should appeal.

    what he said.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    You know, the Black Crowes are one of those bands I kind of took for granted I guess. The first two albums were absolutely top notch, but for some reason I never really followed them much after that. I guess because none of the songs hit me quite as much as Twice as Hard, Jealous Again, Remedy, Sting Me, etc. But I'm thinking I should go back and do what's been suggested and start off with the third album and move on from there. I think they started off as something of a Rolling Stones knockoff band but have evolved a lot since then. They've really become on of the all time great American rock bands.
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    gabers wrote:
    You know, the Black Crowes are one of those bands I kind of took for granted I guess. The first two albums were absolutely top notch, but for some reason I never really followed them much after that. I guess because none of the songs hit me quite as much as Twice as Hard, Jealous Again, Remedy, Sting Me, etc. But I'm thinking I should go back and do what's been suggested and start off with the third album and move on from there. I think they started off as something of a Rolling Stones knockoff band but have evolved a lot since then. They've really become on of the all time great American rock bands.

    They really have...and it's not too late to get into them...they're coming around again into their own thing. Their new album is fucking great. I knew something special was happening with Warpaint, and they obviously felt/saw it coming too...

    They're a great live act too...I would never pass up a chance to see them.
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Flagg wrote:
    Probably nothing more to add but you HAVE to get Amorica. Brilliant album. Not a bad track on there and includes some of their best. Ballad in Urgency and Wiser Time are amazing.

    Three Snakes is really good but has a few that don't quite work for me. But it is the last album by the best line-up of the band. After that they started a revolving door line-up for By Your Side and Lions before settling on the current line-up. They took a hiatus for a few years after Lions and that was the best thing they could have done. Lions sounded tired and the band was going through the motions live. But the new line-up that debuted on Warpaint is like a breath of fresh air for them. I was sad that Marc and Eddie left, but they aren't coming back and Luther is an excellent guitarist.

    It is interesting to listen to how this band has progressed over their career. I would have never thought they would do anything like Before the Frost . . . Until the Freeze, but when you hear it, it makes perfect sense.

    I agree with dcfaithful, go in order.

    And don't miss Freak 'n' Roll.

    I've seen TBC 20 times over the last 19 years or so, in every line-up in every era. My favs are Southern Harmony, Amorica, and Warpaint.

    Great advice from another reputable Crowes fan...
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • jr19
    jr19 Posts: 338
    the black crowes have been reborn with (before the freeze ..... until the frost.)
  • iamrockmusic
    iamrockmusic Orlando, FL Posts: 443
    dcfaithful wrote:
    gabers wrote:
    You know, the Black Crowes are one of those bands I kind of took for granted I guess. The first two albums were absolutely top notch, but for some reason I never really followed them much after that. I guess because none of the songs hit me quite as much as Twice as Hard, Jealous Again, Remedy, Sting Me, etc. But I'm thinking I should go back and do what's been suggested and start off with the third album and move on from there. I think they started off as something of a Rolling Stones knockoff band but have evolved a lot since then. They've really become on of the all time great American rock bands.

    They really have...and it's not too late to get into them...they're coming around again into their own thing. Their new album is fucking great. I knew something special was happening with Warpaint, and they obviously felt/saw it coming too...

    They're a great live act too...I would never pass up a chance to see them.

    Agreed, 1000%...
    I'm like you, Gabers, sort of lost touch with them in the mid-to-late 90s, although I still would buy their records. But I really got back into them with By Your Side and have made a promise to myself that I will never miss them again when they're playing within 100 miles or so of me. And after seeing them in Orlando a few weeks ago, I realized they're definitely worth following around a bit, similar to that band from Seattle that we all love...

    I rue the missed opportunities, but am hopeful they'll be around for years to come so I can make up for lost time....
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  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    I made that same promise. I don't travel to see them, but I promise to never miss them when they come here. And fortunately, that is very often. Dallas has a good turnout for them.
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    MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
    PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
    CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
    HTFD-6/27/08
    ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
    KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
    Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
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    OKC-11/16/13
    SEA-12/6/13
    TUL-10/8/14
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Flagg wrote:
    I made that same promise. I don't travel to see them, but I promise to never miss them when they come here. And fortunately, that is very often. Dallas has a good turnout for them.

    Dallas would be new city for me, which is what I always enjoy...perhaps the destination of a first time travel for the Crowes? ;)
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • Bushleaguer28
    Bushleaguer28 Posts: 776
    Check out the live album from the Greek Theater with Jimmy Page also. Robinson sounds awesome playing Zeppelin stuff. Great album
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  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    god yes live at the greek.

    my fav album is by your side.

    nothing beats live crowes!
    eerrr well maybe live pj
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    I have Live at the Greek on 3x lp. It's the shit. Great selection of tunes. Ten Years Gone is f'in epic.

    Steve Gorman steals the show imo.
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVIR21dp ... r_embedded

    Cabin Fever dvd trailer :thumbup:
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    DewieCox wrote:
    I have Live at the Greek on 3x lp. It's the shit. Great selection of tunes. Ten Years Gone is f'in epic.

    Steve Gorman steals the show imo.


    Gorman is the man! :mrgreen:
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    DewieCox wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVIR21dpIl8&feature=player_embedded

    Cabin Fever dvd trailer :thumbup:

    I had no idea this was coming out...how fuckin' awesome! I'm markin the 24th of November on my calendar. :D
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2

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