Ranking the Albums: The Black Crowes
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Join Pete Pardo, Jamie Laszlo, Rick La Bonte', and Jim Bacchi as they rank the albums of Southern Rock legends The Black Crowes. #theblackcrowes #blackcrowes
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Marc Ford was the biggest difference. He is so much better, more mature, groovy, badass player than Jeff.
I remember seeing a performance on MTV after the first album came out, and Jeff's limitations were badly on display.
I knew it, and so did the Robinson's. And when TSHAMC came out in 1992, the upgrade was clear and so evident.
Marc Ford is the best guitarist The Black Crowes ever had. And he matched up with Rich so well too.
1. Amorica
2. The Southern Harmony...
3. Three Snakes and One Charm
4. By Your Side
5. Warpaint
6. Shake Your Moneymaker
7. Before The Frost
8. LIONS (I do 'not' dislike this one, I dig it just fine. And I love the cover art too!)
*Also, the "Live at The Greek with Jimmy Page" is bloody fantastic, so if it were allowed here, it would be way up there!
The "1972" ep is cool. And any record that features a BOWIE track wins points! ✨
**And now, in April of 2024, we have an 'excellent' new Black Crowes album (albeit with a total shite album cover), "HAPPINESS BASTARDS"
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Jim definitely reignited the love for The Black Crowes! They definitely have some great stuff, just a great rock band, I dig them
Eric. Congrats to your daughter at 900 am / graduation from high school. Wish her the very best future ! Enjoy this new milestone! 👍💯
@@garyjoyce2160 Thanks Gary, congrats to your daughter as well! Enjoy the day….
@@ericporter344 / thx Eric. 696 kids here in Clifton. NJ. Long day, 300 pm start , but I’m glad I’m here to see it. Enjoy day/ weekend 👍🍤
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Have loved the Crowes since their first album. My favourites are:
1. Amorica (A Top 10 Desert Island album for me)
2. Southern Harmony (One of the best albums of the 90's)
3. Lions (Got a soft spot for this album - brings me back to 2001 like a time machine)
4. Shake Your Money Maker
5. Three Snakes
6. By Your Side
7. Warpaint
8. Before the Frost...
At last the amazing Black Crowes at SOT! Great guests for a great band. I saw them opening for ZZ Top in 1991. One of the best concerts of my life. The Crowes rules.
If you read Steve Gormans book, that whole deal of them getting kicked off was planned by their manager Pete Angelos . Yes, Chris got taken out of context when he said to a journalist that he didn’t like light beer and they reported that Chris said he didn’t like LITE beer which was the sponsor of the tour. Angelos saw an opportunity to get more publicity which is why Chris held off saying anything from the stage until they hit Atlanta their home town.
Great show! I've missed the boat with The Black Crowes. Bought the first album, heard songs off the second album, moved on. Enjoying a deep dive into their music thanks to your album ranking show. Thanks Pete and guests!!
Great show. I love these last few ranking the album shows. I aggregated everyone’s rankings and here are the results (lower is better):
1. By Your Side (1.75 avg ranking)
2. Southern Harmony and the Musical Companion (2)
3. Amorica (3.5)
4. Three Snakes and One Charm (4.5)
5. Shake Your Money Maker (5.25)
6. Lions (5.75)
7. Warpaint (6)
8. Before the Frost… (7.25)
Thanks for this. Like many hard rock fans from the 80s I bought shake your money maker and stopped there but this later stuff is brilliant
Another great SoT ranking show for one my all time fav bands. Fine job ranking guys! Here’s mine:
1. Southern Harmony
2. Amorica
3. Shake Your Money Maker
4. Happiness Bastards
5. Three Snakes
6. By Your Side
7. Warpaint
8. Lions
9. Before the Frost
MY FAVORITE BAND OF ALL TIME!
my list:
1- _The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion_ (1992)
2- _Amorica_ (1994)
3- _Shake Your Money Maker_ (1990)
4- _Three Snakes And One Charm_ (1996)
5- _Lions_ (2001)
6- _Warpaint_ (2008)
7- _By Your Side_ (1999)
8- _Before The Frost..._ (2009)
Woo- hop!!!! The band I switched to after Jerry died, but has been a fan since first seeing Jealous Again on MTV.. .. Have hit about 70 shows and it goes well into the triple digits if you add the brothers and their side/solo projects.. BTW- I’m the guy with the red solo cup drinking and sticking his tongue out waiting on line in the Cabin Fever Dvd just before Appaloosa....
Love the Crowes:
1. Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
2. Shake Your Money Maker
3. Amorica
4. By Your Side
5. WarPaint
6. Three Snakes and One Charm
7. Before the Frost After the Freeze
8. Lions
Not a bad album in the bunch…
Very good list. Did you also by the double album Lost Crowes. One of them is full of songs that didn't appear on any other record.
Quite agree though my number 2 and 3 are interchangeable
Pretty darn close 4 is 6, 5 is 4, 6 is 5. For now.
@@stephanea5364 The Lost Crowes is a fine album, right near the top of the pile for me actually...
Nice. This very close to my list.
great to see the Crowes getting some love. one of my favourite albums is the live double set with Jimmy Page. It's all great but In My Time Of Dying is a favourite off that, and there's a video on RUclips showing Steve Gorman doing the best Bonham impersonation ever. one of my favourite bands
In My Time Of Dying, Live At The Greek (audio from the album synched to amateur footage)
m.ruclips.net/video/pSTkaIGNDMw/видео.html
That album is killa 🤘
Black crowes = PIZZA 🍕. New SOT shirt ! 👍💯
Chris Robinson is a huge Dead Head. So much so one of his outside BC bands "Brotherhood" is very Grateful Dead-ESC.
Chris' first outside BC bands/album "New Earth Mud" is excellent IMO.
I liked New Earth Mud a lot too, 5 excellent tracks
The Magnificent Distance I prefer especially Train Robbers
1: Shake your money maker
2: By your Side
3: The southern Harmony and Musical Companion
4: Amorica
5: Three snakes one charm
6: Happiness Bastards
7: Lions
8: Warpaint
9: Before the frost
I bought the 3 first albums back in the days and I was a big fan back in the days. Then I bought the Page/Crowes live album that I listened to to death ... and then I quit following the band, god knows why. And this video brings back the flame : gotta listened to the rest of the catalogue.
Above all other shows that you've done, Pete, I'm most grateful for this Black Crowes and the Deep Cuts Thin Lizzy you did because both of them made me realize that these 2 bands that I liked deserved MUCH MORE ATTENTION from me. So today, Thin Lizzy is one of my favorite bands and since I already love both By Your Side and Three Snakes and One Charm - which I had never heard before seeing this show - I"m sure that the BCs will be one of my top bands shortly. THANK YOU ALL! I think I'll save this video because I know eventually, I'll probably want to get one of the DVDs or live shows that Rick mentioned.
1 By Your Side
2 Amorica
3 Southern Harmony
4 Shake your Money Maker
5 Three Snakes One Charm
Are the only albums that I have listened entirely, all great, need to catch up with the rest of their albums for sure, thanks for this 👌🏻💯
Three snakes one charm is great
@@liamheuser6197 I was actually listening to it this morning and yes pretty good album indeed, and revisting some of their albums like By Your Side and Armonica also, and I must say I think By Your Side is my favourite now😅
I love By Your Side. Chris and Rich really knock this album in the iTunes interview. Even so...love it.
@@rcsurfingful i like by your side too, I feel like it was more what the label wanted and less what the crowes wanted
I just started getting into this band's discography and loving it!
I'm with Pete, Southern Harmony's my favorite too
1:Amorica
2:Southern Harmony
3:3 Snakes
4:Warpaint
5:Before The Frost
6:Shake
7:By your side
8:Lions
Croweology is magnificent, and The Band Sessions from the lost crowes contains some amazing cuts (Paint an 8, Roadside Tragedy, Never Forget This Song, Livefest). There's also a track on the B-side of the Kicking My Heart Around single called You Don't Have to Go which is a beautiful hidden cut.
I love their covers too, they can really bring something fresh and distinctive to other band's work.
The Marc Ford era was the best IMO. Amorica and Southern Harmony are my favorites though.
1. The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
2. Warpaint
3. Three Snakes and One Charm
4. Shake Your Money Maker
5. By Your Side
6. Lions
7. Amorica
8. Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
Just saw them Sunday in Atlanta
I’m with you Jamie, Lions never sat well with me. A few decent songs, but the others just didn’t grab me.
My list:
1. Southern Harmony
2. Amorica
3. By Your Side
4. Shake Your Money Maker
5. Three Snakes
6. Warpiant
7. Before the Frost
8. Lions
I agree, Mike. I've studied the songs of all of the albums to learn how to play the songs that stand out to me. Soul Singing is the only thing I wanted to learn.
This was WELL overdue!
Feb 24th, 1999 at the Orpheum in Boston. It was the second concert I ever attended, and the first time I ever went to a big city on my own. I almost didn't go - a huge blizzard was barreling up the east coast that night and I had just gotten my license the year before. But my teenage self decided to throw caution to the wind and risk it. So a friend and I piled into my 86' Oldsmobile and drove the 85 miles to Boston. Fortunately the encore finished just in time for us to get out of the city before we got stranded - the snow started to fall as we were literally getting into the car. Anyway, I remember they played "Nebakanezer" but not much else form Three Snakes and One Charm, which was a bit disappointing since that album was my favorite by the Crowes at the time. But overall a fantastic performance, especially considering that they overhauled the band for that tour. Would love to see them again on the tour they're doing this summer.
I saw them for the very 1st time the next night at The Beacon in NYC. A Friend talked me into going. Drove up from outside Philly. Great time. Always loved seeing Eddie on piano. Would steal the show for me on Descending.
Jamie complaining about weak last songs on albums. Virtue and Vice ain't a weak one.
I can not believe I missed this show premiere. I like TBC studio albums but in my humble opinion many live shows were memorable and the best. Thank you Pete and all the hosts. Cheers!
Great show guys . Digging the love for By Your Side and Lions. The BC' s have very passionate fan base . Some are pretty hardcore in many ways .
Southern Harmony followed by Amorica are my two favourites. Southern Harmony was recorded in 13 days. Amazing
The best band ever I waited 2 years on this I was hoping one day I be on the show talking the crowes but hey I have worshiped them from day one and live times 10 here’s my ranking why I no on this show god I love this band ok
8. Lions
7. beffore the frost
6. Warpaint
5.three snakes
4. Money maker
3. By your side
2. Amorica
1. Southern harmony
Such a hard choosing where and when no one mentioned descending that song chainged it all for me that gets me through the dark and Pete by your side title track stupendous moves me
Cool show 9/10 would been 10 but I no on it lol I wanted it so bad lol sad huh this and cult show and heart show your genius 🏴🏴🏴👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🍾 cheers guys
My cents:
1: Amorica
2: Southern harmony
3 Warpaint
4: Lions
5: By your side
6: Live at the Greek
7: Three snakes
8: 1972
9: Shake your moneymaker
10:Before the frost
I was 15 when I heard jealous again and that Christmas I got shake your money maker and johny van Zant brickyard rd. Great memories
I had to come on here to say thanks to Jim for introducing me to By Your Side and for sending me back down the Black Crowes rabbit hole that I left after the first two albums. You also recommended the Steve Gorman book Jim, and I've read it now and really enjoyed it, but some of it was almost heartbreaking, especially the Jimmy Page stuff. I kind of admire the Robinson brothers arrogance/self assurance? in not wanting to be a backing band but it's Jimmy Page and they sounded so good together 😭. I managed to get a ticket for their UK tour in a few months. I had to buy a VIP ticket as the general admission tickets were sold out, and it cost me £170 but I have to see them. For £250 I could have got a meet and greet ticket but I couldn't guarantee that I could bite my tongue and not call them dickheads over the treatment of Jimmy Page 🤭. Many thanks for sending me back down the rabbit hole Jim, you're a star🤩. (but crazy for not placing Shake Your Money Maker as number 1🤭).
You are most welcome, and yes the Jimmy Page story was heartbreaking and infuriating knowing what actually happened.
"By Your Side" will always be my number 1....sorry, not sorry :-)
We should all bow down to @rick Labonte who is the Crowes Jedi master,....so much to learn from him.
@@jamesbacchi5353 I totally understand your love for By Your Side cos I was amazed at how good it was after you recommended it on SOT a few weeks ago, but the first two albums were what drew me to the band and I just have more history with them. Even though I've read Steve's book I'm going to have to buy the audio version of it as you've sold me on it. You're costing me a lot of money Jim🤭
@@terrywalker8446 LOL....Money well spent, trust me...cos I spent it too :-)
bonus points if you own Amorica with pubic hair
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I have it😊
I have It.
I've got it, gatefold cd
@@mikep9377 same
For me:
1. Shake Your Money Maker
2. The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion (#1 and #2 are always the same.)
3. Warpaint
4. Before the First....Until the Freeze
5. Amorica
6. Three Snakes and One Charm
7. By Your Side
8. Lions
1. SHMC (One of the greatest Rock records of all time imho)
2. SYMM
3. AMORICA
4. 3 SNAKES
5. WARPAINT
6. BY YOUR SIDE
7. LIONS
8. BEFORE THE FROST
...not a bad album really. Always something to dig.
Your list is almost identical to mine. Shocked at how low they had SYMM! It's the album that got me into the band and is fantatsic from start to finish!
1) Shake Your Money Maker
2) The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
3) By Your Side
4) Amorica
5) Lions
6) Three Snakes and One Charm
7) Warpaint
8) Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
So many good ones. It’s near impossible to rank. Today I’d say:
Southern Harmony
Amorica
Three Snakes
Happiness Bastards
Shake Moneymaker
Warpaint
Before The Frost
Lions
By Your Side
Not sure what's so wrong with Counting Crows but each to their own.
8 Lions
7 Warpaint
6 Before The Frost
5 Shake Your Moneymaker
4 Three Snakes & One Charm
3 Amorica
2 By Your Side
1 Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
Remember the first time i saw the Crowes in Glasgow's Barrowlands. Knew 2 singles that was all, spent the night just laughing at how great they were. 2nd time was an absolute stonerfest, to the degree it got mentioned in a Kerrang review. Absolute magical evening.
This is a great listen. I'll post another comment later about why the Black Crowes are special to me, in particular, even though I haven't heard five of these eight albums (!) yet (I think I will, though, after watching this video!)
But I'd like to make a humble request to the Sea of Tranquility panel. Pete's been doing this for years and most of the old ones are on his own (I think), and perhaps he's just gotten so used to this that he knows -- but could everyone please make sure to clearly mention the name of the album you are going to (passionately) talk about before you start doing so. Not all of us are familiar with the whole discography of these bands and part of the reason to listen is to learn more about that whole discography, and some of us either can't see them or are just listening to the video as we do other stuff, so even though the rest of the panelists (whom you are rightly addressing and it's this group communication that makes these videos so good to watch, so keep it up) may know instantly waht album you are talking about and may be able to see you hold it up, but not all of us audience can.
i was a bit doubtful when I saw the length of this video but I honestly thought it was one of the best I have seen on the channel. Some great comments : 'It's all pizza' (Jim), ' It's just a pubic hair between these two albums' (Rick) and 'You just reached into that vagina! (Jamie).
It also made me spend time with each album and I was forced to resort to scoring each song to decide on an order, but I got there:
1. Southern Harmony and Musical Companion ( I knew this would be my number 1)
2. Shake your Money Maker (No bad songs)
3. Amorica (Some absolute classics on this album)
4. Three Snakes and One Charm
5. By your Side and Warpaint -(Average song score was exactly the same)
7. Lions (As Jamie and Pete say, not really memorable songs)
8. Before the Frost
Nice work gentleman.
I got the Crowes' 1st album when it came out and it was a breath of fresh air ...
But when Southern Harmony came out, they really became a top-favorite band for me - and they still are in my top-10 of all time (maybe even top-5?). "Remedy" can very well be my favorite song of all time ...
I'm a genuine TBC fanatic, following them ever since the start, collecting all their outtakes, non-album tracks, live albums, bootlegs etc etc.
I was fortunate to see them once, in July 1993, when they were on the Rock Werchter bill.
I love everything they have released, though I have to point out that, if I make a top-20 of my favorite TBC songs, about 1/4 would be non-album tracks (like Title Song, Smile, Feathers etc). In fact, if you assemble their non-album tracks, you would have another excellent discography by itself ! For anyone who likes TBC and wants to dive into their catalogue a bit more, I would strongly suggest the "Lost Crowes" official release.
I absolutely adore and utterly RESPECT the fact that throughout their career (until their recent "reunion") their concert setlists were ALWAYS varied, they always played obscure tracks (non-album or covers) and, if you realise it, they were ALWAYS ready to play a huge amount of songs - only a handful of bands did that !!
Anyway, if I had to rank their official studio albums, my top 2 would be dead certain, as well as my bottom pick, but the rest could be interchangeable :
1. Southern Harmony And Musical Companion (UNDENIABLE!)
2. Amorica
3. Shake Your Moneymaker
4. Three Snakes And One Charm
5. By Your Side
6. Lions
7. Before The Frost/ Until The Freeze
8. Warpaint
P.S. Great show by everyone on the panel ! Thank you all very much !
Before the Frost After the Freeze is a criminally underrated album, Warpaint was really good as well, both with Luther Dickinson who is awesome!
Great episode , always loved the group,, but now in a big Crows loop.. brilliant
If you love the crowes try out THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD and THE MAGPIE SALUTE. Great stuff all round . 🍻
...and Trigger Hippy. You won't be sorry!
Enjoyed everyone's picks. Here's my two cents:
1. Southern Harmony - the production, the songs, the performances... untouchable! Especially jumping from SYMM and hearing what Marc and Eddie added.
2. Amorica - love the 70s funk and psych textures, and the range and quality of material.
*If I could include the album Band, it would be here after Amorica. Criminal it wasn't released at the time. I love the minimal production and maturing Americana flourishes. The band sounds cohesive, and the songs have an emotional depth. I don't really count Tall as an album in the same way because it basically turned into Amorica. Band was totally scrapped after the record company rejected it.
3. Three Snakes - a more down, druggy atmosphere pervades, but still a great collection of songs.
4. Warpaint - the first album that was "new" when I loved the band and was waiting for it, and also my first Black Crowes concert on this tour. Luther is a perfect fit. The band "ages gracefully" into a more rootsy, mature entity, though still clouded in weed smoke.
5. By Your Side - I love the energy and spirit of this album, but it feels like their heart wasn't in it at times and it's a little too glittery, polished, and perfect for my tastes.
6. Before the Frost (single CD version) - I love the sound of the band here, it just grooves, and all the more impressive that it's live.
7. Shake Your Money Maker - As legendary as this album is... not only is it overplayed, but there's a stiffness and over-simplicity to the drums and lead guitar (with the exception of "Hard to Handle" played by producer Brendan O'Brien) that shows their inexperience. Understandable of course, but it's why I seldom put this one on.
8. Lions - You guys made me reconsider this one, and I dig it more than I thought, but I only put it on when I want to hear something weird and I'm tired of the others. Some of it is just plain awkward, but I dig a lot of it too.
Great show, inspired me to listen to Lions - what a great, rawkus album! 🦁 Before the frost is great too!
now yet another EXCITING episode, and a what a tie in with Pardo's top 30 southern rock album countdown too in a way 🙂 now first off Black Crowes are one of my all time favorite rock n' roll bands of all time, and it started off with their debut, and then went KA-BOOM when their 2nd album dropped, well, when Remedy first aired on MTV and i just fell in love with everything, it ALL clicked the music, the looks, hell i even't went up to my parents loft to dig out some of their old bellbottom pants which i started wearing for a while, and even went all the way hippie and started walking barefoot in the summertime, from then on i was HOOKED, now as i mentioned in many comments before, i come from the music world, born i into it, and i have a brrroooad tast in music, so i was into my thrash, DM, classic metal, early "hair" metal, glam rock (proper glam, not Poison etc), 70's hard rock, punk and H/C, grindcore, early BM (as in 80's), goth, synth-pop and classic 80's pop (usually of the more melancholic stuff, the deeper pop songs, which were possible in the '80 to become hits, imagine that today haha) at this stage, since then i have expanded immensely as in 93ish i felt the need to listen anyhting BUT conventional music, ie verse/chorus music or even music played with traditional instruments and so forth, and i can probably list without including too many sub sub genres of music i don't like, ok, ALTHOUGH i am a purist admist my openmindedness, ok, a couple of examples of music i can't stand is yacht rock (makes me sick and is souless music) and any studio musician music, y'know where the musicians involved are perfect at their instruments, but that's all, throw them a good riff and something with nerve, and they wouldn't know what to do with it, other than perform ot whilst sucking the living shit out of it, not ok, and nu-metal or anything modern in terms of metal, with it's terrible sterile production, and i could go on, and A.O.R (though i did have a period when i tried that genre too) and adult oriented rock and the likes, SO, enough of that, just so you know where i'm coming from, an well experinced music enthusiast AND somebody, thanx to my dad, understands music, like a musician would, and even more so production inc arrangements and so forth, now that's all fine cause music is mostly subjective although not only and i have the ability to judge music objectively too, so without further a due, oh and btw i must confess after '98 i lost interest, so i can only give you my top 5, sorry, i don't have time to listen to and judge their 3 last studio albums now, and why would i, cause i got soooo much music to listen that's being released now, yesterday and beyond, that i don't feel the need right now, but maybe someday, and you all had a intersting ranks, though some very surprising ones too, so, my nr 5 is; By Your Side (clean production and a new line up, and lackluster songwriting, but still an ok album, has a couple of good tunes) 4. Three Snakes & One Charm ( their difficult no more hits albums, as mentioned, and a grower, although i really gre to like it, it seemed like they were kinda loosing steam too, sorry i have to be brief due to my long ass introduction, which i feel is valid to give a point about where i'm coming from etc) 3. Amorica ( how to follow up a perfect album, well they managed to do so, and that say alot, and i dug this from the get go, as they where still growing with this and the next one, and this album is all swagger, dirty, yet sassy, and groovy, brilliant) 2. Shake Your Money Maker ( i think James said some correct observations cencering this, to write such an album with this much soul and maturity at that age,WOW, and they where the OPPOSITE of all the hair bands of the '80's, pure 60's rock n roll n' soul n' blues, only thing is the production could've been a bit more authentic, but otherwise, CLASSIC, i regret soo much for not having that OG shirt with those classic crows on the front anymore 😕) 1, The Southern Harmony.....( PERFECT, this is oen of thee most timeless rock n' roll albums made in the 90's, though like all timeless music it could have been, in this case have been made in the 70's, it's evrything you need from this band
Got into this band heavily this passed year
1. Southern harmony
2. Three snakes and one charm
3. Amorica
4. Shake
5. Lions
6. Warpaint
7. Before the frost
8. By your side
Love the Crowes, I have from the very beginning. Seen them numerous times, always a good show. Watched the rankings show in two parts, but good show.
Here's how I would have ranked them with a couple of stand out songs for me . As what was said, there's not a bad album in the bunch. Pizza was a great reference.
8. Lions ( Soul Singing, Miracle to me)
7. Three Snakes & One Charm (Under a Mountain, Good Friday, Bring on, Bring on)
The next six, I absolutely love.
6. Before the Frost... (Been a long time waiting on love, Appaloosa, I Ain't Hiding, Kept my Soul)
Really gets tuff here.
5. Warpaint (Oh Josephine, Evergreen, Locust Street)
4.By Your Side (Go Faster, Kickin' My Heart Around, By Your Side, Only a Fool, Diamond Ring, Virtue & Vice)
3.The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion (Sting Me, Remedy, Thorn in my Pride, Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye, Sometimes Salvation)
2. Shake Your Money Maker ( Jealous Again, Sister Luck, Could I've been so Blind, Seeing Things, Hard to Handle, She Talks to Angels)
I've never got tired of these songs.
My number one always has been since they put it out.
1. Amorica ( Gone, Cursed Diamond, Nonfiction, She Gave Good Sunflower, Ballad in Urgency, Wiser Time, Descending)
I absolutely love Descending.
That's my picks, loved the show.
1. Southern Harmony
2. Amorica
3. Three Snakes and One Charm
4. Before the Frost
5. By Your Side
6. Shake Your Money Maker
7. Warpaint
8. Lions
Love them all.
I never did put up my actual picks. Here goes:
1. The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
2. Amorica
3. Three Snakes and One Charm
4. Shake Your Moneymaker
5. By Your Side
6. Warpaint
7. Lions
8. Before the Frost/Until The Freeze
I'm reading Steve Gorman's book right now and it makes me want to check out The Black Crowes catalog so bad! After watching this show, I definitely will
Love Chris Robinson other bands as well
The Black Crowes are definitely in my Top 10 favourite bands, possibly about 5th or 6th. They really came along when I needed it in my life, funny how music can get you out of a rut or funk.
Putting these albums in fav order wasn't easy but I got there, fav track included.
1. Southern Harmony Sting Me
2. Warpaint Evergreen
3. Amorica A Conspiracy
4. Shake Your $$$ Maker Twice As Hard
5. Before The Freeze I Ain't Hiding
6. 3 🐍s & One Charm Nebakanezer
7. Lions Soul Singing
8. Live with Jimmy Page Heartbreaker
9. By Your Side Go Faster
Slowly collecting the Robinson's solo stuff they're so good. Great video guys.
#8- Money Maker
#7- By Your Side
#6- Warpaint
#5- Lions
#4- Frosty Freeze
#3- 3 Snakes
#2- Southern Harmony
#1- Amorica
Jamie's crazy, Lions is amazing, probably my number 2 after Amorica
That's what I said almost exactly! Lions is amazing!!!
Great episode 👏
1-Amorica / 2-Southern... / 3- Shake Your... / 4-Lions / 5-By Your Side / 6-Three Snakes... / 7-Warpaint / 8-Before the Frost
Jamie, Lions is awesome and it could be even better if "Young Man, Old Man" and "Cosmic Friend" were left out (just 11 tracks instead of 13) and if they've put "Cypress Tree" on the "A side" (the rockier one) and left "No Use Lying" and "Losing My Mind" on the "B side" (the mellow one) along with "Soul Singing", "Miracle to Me", "Lay It All On Me". Try it this way.
A couple of things stand out to me from these selections:
1. SHOCKED at how low Shake Your Money Maker was ranked.
2. Surprised that By Your side was ranked number 1 by two. Very good record, but I prefer the first three.
Caught the Lions tour,
Space Hog opened on a small stage set up at the front of the Pavillion.
Oasis had a good crowd and were damn good.
The Black Crowes did a co-headliner comeback set list. Did three from the new one. The extended piano section of Descending, and other extended jams were magic.
Best tour I caught for a B-, to C+ Lp at best.
By Your Side has similar issues..
Eddie was a staple around here. If the Crowes were on a break and the D.C. Vipers were playing.....he might just be there. Thanks for all the shout outs. He was amazing.
I tell ya! Picking #1 and #2 was not easy. What it came down to was 1 album I like every song the other album had 1 or 2 that are just ok to me. Although that particular album has a couple songs on it that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE. Here it goes.
#8- Before the Frost
#7- Warpaint
#6- Lions
#5- 3 Snakes 1 Charm
#4- Amorica
#3- Shake Your Moneymaker
#2- Southern Harmony ( Remedy and Thorn In My Pride I absolutely love)
#1- By Your Side
My favorite Rock & Roll band is from my hometown ATL. We saw the Crowes last week, it was my 25th show.. outstanding! Chris is still the best front man in the biz. I own all the live stuff and hundreds of CD bootlegs, so my Canadian brother, hit me up!
Here are my 8 to 1 studio:
By your side
Before the Frost
3 Snakes
Shake $ maker
Warpaint
Lions
Southern Harmony
Amorica
*The Lost Crowes
* Crowesology
* Live at the Greek
* Freak and Roll
Black Crowes - awesome - I've really learned to love them through this channel. In a different direction, I don't recall hearing too much or anything about Jane's Addiction on this channel - another band I love a lot.
Nice tee-shirt Jamie.I Saw the Social Distortion concert at the Hellfest in France last week-end...Excellent.😄👍👍
You guys are some serious audiophiles!! I am heavy into music too, but I have no avenues to share my love of music with people like these guys do. Bummer.
Anyway, I agree. Southern Harmony … is my pick for their best album.
Loved the Crowes from day 1. Looking forward to seeing them soon in London again.
Ranking:
1) Shake Your Money Maker
2) Southern Harmony
3) Amorica
4) By Your Side
5) Three Snakes
6) Warpaint
7) Lions
8) Before The Frost
Would also like to mention 2 great songs not mentioned in your great show:
Descending from Amorica and Oh Josephine from Warpaint.
Keep up the good work chaps.
Steve
saw them under a false name at a small club in Boston. Maybe 250 people...they also played 2 shows on the HORDE tour in MA. One at Great Woods which was very much a hits set and them the next night in Western Mass which was a blues set. My girlfriend at the time loved the hits show and hated the blues show. I thought that they were both fantastic
1. SHMC
2. Amorica
3. Three Snakes
4. By Your Side
5. Before the Frost
6. Warpaint
7. Lions
8. SYMM Could I have been so blind is the best song on this album
My favorite band of all time, then Steve left, have seen them more times than I can remember from 92 -2013, but unfortunately they are no longer The Black Crowes, they have become the Chris and Rich show, my 4-8 changes depending on my mood, the Marc Ford and Luther eras where the best, Audley Freed was very good live with them also
The Cult @ 1:42:00 on Jamie 's TV! So coooooooooool!🥳
Great show about a great band. Jamie is sporting a Social Distortion tshirt. Another great band that never gets a mention on the channel. Would love to see a ranking of their albums.
Salut.I'm with you Thomas.👍
I'd be alone on that one. Maybe if I had my own active channel.
1.Somewhere
2. White Light
3. Self titled
4. Sex, Love
5. Mommy’s
6. Hard Times
7. Prison
Good ranking on these
Finally someone talking TBC. Underrated and forgotten through the years.
Amorica
Southern Harmony
Before the Frost…Until The Freeze
Shake Your Money Maker
Three Snakes
Warpaint
By Your Side
Lions
With the exception of Midnight, Miracle to Me, Soul Singing, and Lay It All On Me. Lions is a dud
My ranking of The Black Crowes goes:
#1 Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
#2 Shake Your Moneymaker
#3 Amorica
#4 By Your Side
#5 Before The Frost/After The Freeze
#6 Warpaint
#7 Three Snakes and One Charm
#8 Lions
Ranking the Top Five was easy, that stayed consistent, however, I switched the last three around several times before settling on the order.
The fact of the matter is there isn't a bad album in their catalog.
8. By Your Side
7. Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
6. Lions
5. Amorica
4. Warpaint
3. Three Snakes & One Charm
2. Shake Your Money Maker
1. Southern Harmony & Musical
Companion
Alright, so here's the deal with me and the Black Crowes.
I was ten years old when Shake your Money maker came out, I think. Until the following year or so, I didn't listen to any rock music made after 1972 or so, and even then, nothing very heavy (Hendrix for example was out of my purview, as he was a bit too raunchy for the local "oldies" station and my dad's record collection leaned more into jazz and classical). I had this friend growing up -- we did a lot of stuff together until we kind of started going our separate ways toward the end of highschool. Anyway, he was way more into the rock music of the time, and he played me that tape. To my surprise, I found that i really liked it -- and the reason, of course, is that it reminded me of some of the rock and soul kind of music from the 60s and early 70s I was already listening to. For my eleventh or twelfth birthday, he bought me The Southern harmony, and of course I liked that one a lot too. I got Amorica when it came out. But then, i started discovering all kinds of heavy rock and metal music, and sort of forgot about the Crowes, until quite recently. So I have a lot of catching up to do. Funny thing: this buddy of mine introduced me to the Crowes, Pearl jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, and even metallica and Black Sabbath. By 1997 I was trying to get him to listen to Venom and Entombed albums. He probably regretted whatever the hell that was he had started. Quite a journey for a guy who as a kid wouldn't listen to anything heavier than Chuck Berry.
Dude on bottom right hates two of my all time favorite Black Crowes songs. Only Halfway To Everywhere and P.25 London. Fun video.
Hey anyone that has Croweology I think it's such a gem and some songs are better on that album then their original tracks like Soul Singing and Share The Ride, anyone listen to that recently?
Any review on the latest black crowes album,Pete? I think its great myself.
love the crowes since the 1st album. thankfully my boss at the time worked with steve gorman for many years so i got to see the band many times. got backstage, been to secret shows, watched the show from the stage at the greek in 99 (too see jimmy page work the theremin 8ft away from me was insane) even have a old bc road case. i'm hoping for a rock n roll hall of fame induction.
I owned a few of their albums. 3 snakes...and Southern Harmony. I rather enjoy a ton of their songs though. They seem like really cool guys. We'd have some beers!
Cheers 🍻
I’m a big BC fan but I wasn’t initially. I remember seeing the video for Hard to Handle and thinking “ just another band trying to be retro cool” . The lp grew on me over time as I delved into it but it wasn’t a great lp imo. Some great tracks but the lp as a whole was just ok .
Now, when Southern Harmony came out, I bought it the week it came out thanks to the video for Remedy and it blew me away and I became a huge fan. Amorica was a bit underwhelming for me but a good lp. The 2 that I think are very very underrated are Lions and By Your Side. They got back to being a great rock band imo .
Not a studio album but Brothers of a Feather is a must for any Crowes fan. It's not just another live concert album. I learned how the play in open G from that concert video.
my ranking would have to be:
1. By Your Side
2. Lions
3. Amorica
4. Shake Your Moneymaker
5. Three Snakes and One Charm
6. Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
7. Before The Frost...After The Freeze
8. Warpaint
Yes, Jim. They had to do a disco song!! And they did it very well!!
I know...I struggle with the disco thing :-)
Great show, very interesting analysis of the albums of The Crows. I love Shake Your Money Maker and Southern Harmony, the rest are good albums.
I don't know if it is possible, but I would appreciate ranking the albums of Cheap Trick, Spirit and Quicksilver Messenger Sevice. Thanks in advance Pete.
One of those bands I know absolutely nothing about other than the title of their debut. Dunno if they were big here or not but I can safely say ive never heard their material but one ive been meaning to give a go.
I saw them in 2008 and was sort of disappointed. I was very familiar with the first 3 or so albums and mildly familiar with the rest but it seemed like I only recognized 2 or 3 songs the whole night.
I'm one of those weirdos who like when bands don't only play their radio-friendly songs and change up their setlist every night.
Both crowes on the cover of their debut remind me of cool nephews of the doo wopping crows in Disney's Dumbo (stoned enough to see an elephant fly).
Cool trio of guests! A popular band on SoT lately. Figured AIC's Dirt would be my #1 on SoT Albums that are 30 Years Old in 2022 but turned out Southern Harmony was. Thanks for discography education guys!
My black Crowes album ranking love this band
1. Southern Harmony & Music Companion
2. Shake your Money Maker
3. Amorica
4. By your Side
5. Three Snakes and one charm
6. WarPaint
7. Before The Frost Until the freeze
8. Lions
They are a great band. I've always said they were the best pure Rock N Roll band of the '90s. And they continued to make great music for the last 30 years.
I saw the band in 1990 supporting Gary Moore on his 1st blues tour. No Marc Ford yet. They were excellent. Sadly I can't say I've ever seen them again to be honest
Otherwise ... nice t-shirt @Jamie Laszlo : never heard about Social Distortion until I saw a livestream of their set at the french HellFest Festival 15 days ago and it was amazing. A video on SOT about this band is highly expected .. as far as I'm concerned. Thanks.
Where is Martin? Sad to see hecould not make it…
I always loved By Your Side. I used to play it all the time in the Lawng Eyelind, Noo Yawk record store l worked at for years after it came put. Sadly, as Jim put it, their label totally dropped the ball in promoting it. Damn shame.
From 1996-2008 there was no better live band. Especially when Marc Ford was playing with them, with Luther Dickinson a close second. I've seen them live over 40 times and sadly without Gorman, I likely won't be seeing them live again.
Southern Harmony
Amorica
Live at the Greek
The Lost Crowes
Shake Your Moneymaker
By Your Side
These are all tied bc I'm lazy:
Warpaint
Three Snakes
Lions
Before the Frost
Always liked them, own a couple of album but never the biggest fan. Two of my best friend were huge fans and went to all the concerts When i first heard Remedy i thougt it was a cover of a '60 classic. Fantastic song. Don't make those anymore.
Also own the live concert with Page. And now they tour with the guitar player from Earthless. Interesting.
Jamie, be prepared to pay one arm and one leg for the Lost Crowes CD unless you get a digital version. Also, it was funny when Pete said to rick to talk about one album and he named and showed 20-30. Uh... not quite one😀
Warpaint is #1 for me