Ranking the Albums: Savoy Brown
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- Join Pete Pardo & Rick La Bonte' as they rank the albums of British blues-rock legends Savoy Brown. #savoybrown #kimsimmonds
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1. Looking In
2. Hellbound Train
3. Streetcorner Talkin'
I been listening to Savoy Brown since 1997. I believe it deserves a complete studio recording box set from the Decca years of 1967 to 1978 ,now that’s is something I would definitely buy!!!
RAW SIENNA is my #1, and has been for a long time.
Not only for the quality of the songs, but for the magical voice of Chris Youlden.
I do enjoy the albums with the other guys singing (SCT, Looking In, etc., they're all good, and the music itself is always strong), but with Chris Youlden up front, you're in for something truly "special"... Something that draws you inside the grooves in a really genuine way.
Basically, for me, Youlden is a "true blues man"....Mr. Downchild.
And so is Kim on guitar.
Anyway, "Raw Sienna" is the best LP w/Youlden. -- "Blue Matter" features a few gems as well (esp "Ring in Her Nose.."), but overall, and as a whole, it's "RAW SIENNA"
Marc
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The first time I saw them was when they were touring Raw Sienna. Awesome. Unforgettable. Also on the bill that night: The Nice and Family. Both killer as well.
@@zabadakxanadu Wow, that's awesome that you got to see them on the Raw Sienna tour! Sweet privilege. I would've loved that.
I'm too young though. I was born in '66, and started with ROCK very early, getting into David Bowie, Zeppelin, Sabbath, T-Rex and Zappa when I was 7-8. But I did have all of my older sister's 45s, so I loved all of the 60s stuff, plus the glorious 1970s. Anyway, my first concert wasn't until 1978, when I was 12. But I was a rock n roll veteran since '73!
That was some show you were able to go to! And yes, Family and The Nice are great as well!
Marc
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Looking forward to this! RIP Kim Simmons and Lonesome Dave...
1. Raw Sienna
2. Blue Matter
3. A Step Further
4. Lions Share
5. Looking In
6. Street Corner Talking
7. Getting To The Point
8. Hellbound Train
9. Jack The Toad
10. Shake Down
All Savoy Brown albums are pretty great. I'll keep it to top 10 but all the rest have their charms from Boogie Brothers to Kings Of Boogie. One of the truly greatest bands ever held together by the great Kim Simmonds.
Thanks you guys for honoring a truly great band.
Been following Savoy Brown right after their first. I also love some of the more recent stuff. Tough for me to say which is my favorite. Love’em all.
Chris Youlden possibly the most over looked blues/rock vocalist from the 60s/70s so any with him on!
And their version of John Lee Hookers ' Don't Turn Me From Your Door' is one of the scariest/'heavy' songs of the genre!
Youlden had a natural Blues voice that no one came close to equaling.
Easy for me: Looking In. I can listen to this any time, any day.
Savoy Brown/Wet Willie/War first concert my parents let me go to alone. Early 70s. Awesome show.
Yay for SoT! finally music I really love! Early 1981 got a record London Collector's Edition "Best of Savoy Brown" Louisiana Blues and Hellbound Train! Wow! Then I luckily got to see Kim Simmonds at the Chicago BluesFest in the early 00s! His guitar was cranked up to the max!
I'm a little late watching this, but thanks for talking about a great band that Pete introduced me to a few years ago. When Rick and Pete get together to rank a band, it's always great.
Leaving Again!!!! Lookin' In!!!
As you said, ranking these is difficult because there is always a mix of material on every one. But I've tried to keep an "overview" perspective and not get lost on favorite songs, many of which are not included on the albums listed on my ten picks below. Here they are in reverse order, and lest I forget -- Thank you for helping to keep Kim Simmonds' memory alive. #10 - Blue Matter; #9 - Bring It Home; #8 - Voodoo Moon; #7 - Lion's Share; #6 - The Blues Keep Me Holding On; #5 - City Night; #4 - Witchy Feelin'; #3 - Street Corner Talking; #2 - Savage Return; #1 - Jack The Toad.
Savoy Brown...................................... Rules
We saw them in 1970 . Chris Youlden had just left. L. Dave sang lead . Then we saw Foghat on their 1st tour in 1972 ( Foghat/ Flash/ Dr. Hook + Medicine Show/ Kinks $ 6 Aragon Ballroom). Saw S. Brown maybe 5 or 6 times with F. Mac , as they had the same tour management. The headliner was whoever had a new album out at the time. Last time we saw them was the Jack the Toad tour in 1973. They were the last show at Chicago's Kinetic Playground.
1) Street Corner Talking
2) Raw Sienna
3) Blue Matter
4) Looking In
5) Boogie Brothers
6) Hellbound Train
7) A Step Further
8) Lion’s Share
9) Jack the Toad
10) Getting to the Point
11) The Blues Keep Me Holding On
12) Shake Down
13) Skin ‘n’ Bone
14) Wire Fire
15) Goin’ to the Delta
16) Bring It Home
17) Make Me Sweat
18) Savage Return
19) Voodoo Moon
20) Kings of Boogie
21) Strange Dreams
22) Let It Ride
23) Steel
24) Rock ‘n’ Roll Warriors
25) City Night
26) The Devil to Pay
27) Witchy Feelin’
28) Ain’t Done Yet
29) Blues All Around
30) Slow Train
First rock show I attended in 1969 featured Jethro Tull, Savoy Brown and Terry Reid. Savoy Brown had just released “A Step Further” and Chris Youlden was the lead singer. I like the Chris Youlden era Savoy Brown best as his voice and songs really lifted the band.
Nice ranking. Blues-rock supreme! 🎸
1). Blue Matter 2). Raw Sienna 3). Lookin In 4). Street Corner Talking 5). Lions Share 6). Hellbound Train 7). Voodoo Moon 8). Witchy Feelin' 9). Shake Down 10). Getting To The Point
Top Ten (i think you're doing):
1. Shake Down
2. Raw Sienna
3. Bring It Home
4. Boogie Brothers
5. The Blues Keep Me Holding On
6. Make Me Sweat
7. Street Corner Talking
8. Kings of Boogie
9. A Step Further
10. Looking In
The boogie brothers was supposed to be the name of the band but the management decided on releasing it as a Savoy Brown album, a bit like what happened with jethro Tull and the A album.
I’m still in the Lonesome Dave fan club big time! Great show guys thank you so much! There is a few more I NEED now lol! Great story Rick about seeing them in Ontario I’m jealous lol!
Thanks for the ranking and discussion. I didn't realize not having "Boogie Brothers" was leaving a hole in my collection. That will soon be corrected. 👍
Great clip, thanks. Agree on the instrumentals. I have a single of Master Hare in my jukebox. It's the B-side of Poor Girl. There's a clip that recently surfaced on youtube of them from Midnight Special. It's the Jack The Toad lineup which admittedly is several years into their career but still, the earliest footage of Savoy Brown that I'm aware of.
1. Getting to the Point
2. Hellbound Train
3. Street Corner Talking
4. Witchy Feelin'
5. Voodoo Man
6. Shakedown
7. Skin 'n' Bone
8. Blue Matter
9. A Step Further
10. The Devil to Pay
For me
1 - Raw Sienna
2 - Street Corner Talking
3 - Blue Matter
4 - A Step Further
5 - Looking In
6 - Getting To The Point
7 - Hellbound Train
8 - Jack The Toad
9 - Lion's Share
10 - Shake Down
Plus: Live At The Record Plant (1975/1998)
I was thinking I can’t believe neither of you is going to have Blue Matter! How can you not have Blue Matter! Than Pete had it as his no. 2, which made me happy. Blue Matter would be my favourite from the band. Love the atmosphere on side 1. Then side 2 is so different. I love both sides.
Miller Anderson plays an awesome version of "Boogie Brothers" on a live concert video you can find on You tube. He was on the original album in 1974
Composite ranking:
9. Shake Down
9. Hellbound Train
9. A Step Further
9. Getting to the Point
9. Savage Return
8. Rock n Roll Warriors
7. Make Me Sweat
6. Blue Matter
5. Kings of Boogie
4. Boogie Brothers
3. Raw Sienna
1. Street Corner Talking
1. Looking In
In the early 2000s, I had a fellow forum member of Heart of Metal recommend "Raw Sienna" and "Looking In". Dug those albums and picked up the rest of the early stuff.
I agree Pete Lookin In is my favorite cd and Poor Girl is a great song.
1. Blue Matter (easily).
2. Getting To The Point.
3. Shake Down - Savoy Brown Blues Band.
4. Raw Sienna.
5. A Step Further.
I think the 1968-1970 incarnation is the real band. Chris Youlden was fabulous. After Chris left, I think the band lost the plot. The first album with the original members is obviously great, too.
Really enjoyed the episode. Cool to see a discussion of this great band. "Street Corner Talkin" is probably my favorite, but I can`t really point to a bad one.
1. Looking In
2. Blue Matter
3. Raw Sienna
4. StreetCorner Talkin'
5. A Step Further
6. Hellbound Train
7. Shake Down
8. Getting to the Point
9. Lions Share
10. Jack the Toad.
My favs are Street Corner Talking and Looking In...great show guys. Not many folks talk about this band at all.
Battersea's finest. (sorry So Solid Crew - well some of them) It's where I lived in my younger days in London.
Some really good albums on here.
Not sure any of them were from Battersea though, I know Kim wasn't!
Cool. The roots of Foghat.
Boogie Brothers was Hemlock with Simmonds and Webb added, and was meant to be called The Boogie Brothers, but the label wanted Savoy Brown instead. All three bands were managed by Kim's brother. If you guys liked this album you need to check out the Dog Soldier & Broken Glass albums that followed.
I loved Dave and Chris both as vocalist but only saw Dave live around the same time as Rick did. No time to rank but do go to Boogie Brothers and Street Corner alot . Plus digging through my collection I've got 4 Chris Youlden solo's and found my missing Groundhog albums !😂
Also...love a few of their album covers...did you guys touch on that? SCT scene on cover is so cool, Looking In is creepy cool...Raw Sienna kinda psychedelic cool
Hey Pete! Always enjoy your content. Another excellent ranking. Btw, you should check out a fantastic band that's still going today called Crack the sky. Rolling Stone voted their first album debut album best debut album of 1975. Frontman/songwriter John Palumbo is an unheralded genius.
I have their live album…it’s ok. I haven’t fully connected with them yet.
Great video.Great band. And a video with Rick is always good.😃👍
You could do no wrong than listen to the 67-77 albums
I found the band by buying an album at a used record store. Street corner Talking is a good album. Looking in is a great album cover. I have only heard the 70's albums. We all hear music differently, I did not like Boogie Brother, I got rid of my vinyl copy.
I was a couple of blocks The Barclay Center and there this gut with ten creates of albums siting on a stoop. I starting looking through them and found Street Corner Talking, I hand never heard it before but I just had to have. I took it home and played two or three times. I said to myself I like it. So I bought on CD, I had to the double BGO because the single CD was way to expensive. The cover is awesome.
As always greetings from Wales.I think I am pretty informed when it comes to music. If I've not heard a band, I at least have heard of the name.
I have never heard of this band.
As much as SoT is my go-to music channel, now I hate them, too. The Curse is real.
I suppose I should thank you SoT😂
Looking in… was all that needed to be… a Perfect Musical album! (IMO)
Hellbound train is my favorite followed by Jack the Toad
Any chance of a Stackridge ranking in the future please Pete? 🙏 Great band that rarely gets a mention on RUclips.
Nice band, I've got 8 of their records. Active until fairly recently (after taking a 20+ year break). The debut was just OK but with 1972's Friendliness really hit their stride (I have the extended version with bonus live BBC tracks added). The Man In the Bowler Hat and Sex & Flags are also very good, as well as 2009's A Victory For Common Sense. Extravaganza, The Forbidden City & Mr Mick have a couple good tracks each
@@wolf1977 I'm relatively new to them, but loving what I've purchased so far. Surprised they're not talked about more. Only heard of them through reading an old Rosalie Cunningham interview.
Interesting that Savage Return was produced by "Mutt" Lange. Their bassist in the late '60s was Rivers Jobe. He played in a band called Anon. That band had Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford, who later helped co-found Genesis. I wish that someone like Esoteric would do a box set. Their albums are hard to come by. I did buy two of their albums on cd. The cds were from the early '90s. So, the sound wasn't great.
Great show! I'm a fan of Chicken Shack, so Boogie Brothers is now on my list.
#1 Street Corner Talking
#2 Raw Sienna
#3 Blue Matter
#4 Hellbound Train
#5 The Blues Keep Me Holding On
Always liked Kim Symonds, have you thought about a John Mayall tribute
One of the reasons for the revolving door band members was somewhat the doing of Kim's brother Harry who managed the band, he continuously held back paying the guys among other problems , one of the reasons Youlden left and then Lonesome Dave and Tony& Roger moved on as well with creative differences with Kim, When I saw Savoy in Columbus early 2000's that was a great lineup but then Kim went 3 piece and pardon the pun took a step backwards and never recovered, I recently constructed an archives playlist but it's showing 1 view, very disappointing
Hearing the name Kim Simmons makes me wonder if you will do a ranking of Kim Mitchell solo albums. Not as good as max Webster but really good
Street Corner Talking
Hellbound Train
Raw Sienna at 1 of course
They do one of the better versions of “Wang Dang Doodle “.
Real nice show, guys.....
Share you didn't get to see Savoy Brown live, Pete. You would have enjoyed it.
I got to see Kim and company twice before the pandemic. The first time was them headlining a Cleveland club of a couple hundred people.
Then, a bit later, they were opening for Wishbone Ash (ironically given your one comment, Pete) at a nice supper club in Akron.
Sounds like I need to rebuild my Savoy Brown buy-list, especially for those eighties albums.
To be honest I only got into this band fairly recently (probably from following some SoT suggestions)...I've now got something like 20 albums (including collections & live - I know I don't have a couple of their 70's releases which might be good). Actually for me it's mostly about cherry-picking individual good tracks rather than end-to-end great albums...I'll rank the studio/non-best-of ones that I have:
1. Raw Sienna - my clear #1
2. Let It Ride, Jack The Toad
3. Kings Of Boogie, Street Corner Talking
4. Looking In
5. Savage Return, Boogie Brothers, Wire Fire, Getting To The Point, A Step Further
6. Strange Dreams, Steel, Voodoo Moon, The Blues Keep Me Holding On, Lion's Share, Hellbound Train, Shake Down
7. Blue Matter (I suspect many will rank this pretty high) -haven't listened to it in a while - "Louisiana Blues" is good
Took me years of digging to get my collection it's hilarious you could get your so fast ! Hooray internet huh!😅
@@sljulio I download music a la carte - no more physical media for me. So it's pretty easy to find/buy music online (and that way I can also afford it as I only download what I like)
My top 10 is as follows. 1) Looking In 2) Raw Sienna 3) A Step Further 4) Boogie Brothers 5) Getting To The Point 6) Blue Matter 7) Street Corner Talking 8) Hellbound Train 9) Jack The Toad 10) Kings Of Boogie
Great Pete, you both share this episode. Many pretty good cover art too:
1. Hellbound Train
2. Lions Share
3. Jack the toad
Great show! I definitely recommend the 2020 release Ain't Done Yet.....dynamite album, some sreious heavy riffing
Pete always knows I participate in these rankings. However, with Savoy BROWN huge disography, no way in like a weeks time, I could properly digest and rank. I will 💯% start with. Rick and Pete’s no one. I will start my Steve HILLAGE(9 studio albums) today Rick. L. Your great enthusiasm is so infectious my friend. Love it. Thx to Pete once again. And Rick L as well 👍💯
Steve Hillage was always a 'mixed bag' for me - sometimes a little too "out there"/spacey (I tend to skip his most Canterbury stuff/aka Gong but then again I'm not real big on 'experimental' music). I do own something like 16 Hillage records (counting collections & live), for me his best are: Fish Rising, Motivation Radio, L, Green, Open For To Next & And Not Or. The live Dusseldorf is good, Live At The Gong Family Unconvention & The Glastonbury Experience (Live 1979) as well. The collection Searching For The Spark is a pretty good place to start for the newbie (if you're flush with $'s - it's a 22 disk box set, even includes some early stuff from Khan & Uriel/late 60's-early 70's)
@@wolf1977/ ok 👍💯
Gary, FYI, the Hillage will be delayed as Anthony can't make next weekend. I'll be subbing Steve Vai next week.
@@seaoftranquilityprog /. Ok. I’m actually listening to. GREEN. As we speak. Lmao. Dead serious . Thank you/ I will switch gears . It was also a day of four fusion & 3 spins of. Looking in. Savoy brown. Big day lol. Thanks again: Pete for keeping me updated Enjoy night 👍💯
@@seaoftranquilityprog / i do own and know some Steve Vai. But definitely not all. Thx again 👍💯
Love your videos❤️ Would love to see a ranking on George Harrison’s discography!
Another great overview and ranking: one of your best. Great to hear Rick being so enthusiastic about a (currently) out-of-favour genre, though I agree with yokerecords below that Raw Sienna is #1 . To me it is reminiscent of where "Then Play On" fits into early Fleetwood Mac's discography; blues based but with that extra something - a "je ne sais pas" - added. The first album is my #2 and Blue Matter #3.
Any opinion on why the subsequent solo albums by Chris Youlden - Nowhere Child (1973) and Cityroad (1974) - are so bad ? They are especially disappointing after the peak of Raw Sienna. Unless he imploded as a result of personal demons, then it must have something to do with how Kim and the others enhanced and augmented him.
P.S. wrt the Boogie Brothers album, doesn't Miller Anderson deserve a dedicated show ?
Hope we get ranking the albums of WASP with Rich Catino and BryceTalksMetal