Black Crowes Greatest Hits poll

consistently shit

i can only remember hard to handle off the top of my head, but i'd rather listen to two princes three times in a row than ever hear that again

they were playing the first album in a bar I was in yesterday. And it sounded pretty good! Though I was a big fan of that album in like 8th grade or whatever. "Hard to Handle" is, to me, irresistible, so I'm voting that.

twice as hard!

where is the black crowes v counting crows v sheryl crow - 1994 poll?

shake your money maker was 90 dawg, 2nd album was 92

Weird they put "Remedy" -> "Sting Me" on this record when it was originally "Sting Me" -> "Remedy" on Companion.

really all the singles from the first album are winners (especially "Jealous Again") but I'm gonna go with one of the minor later ones, "Wiser Time," which has some gorgeous slide guitar.

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unless you meant the pubes-and-stripes bikini album

Sting Me, easy

consistently shit

i wouldn't go that far, but what's decent that they left behind isn't close to enough to make them worth going back to

Weird they put "Remedy" -> "Sting Me" on this record when it was originally "Sting Me" -> "Remedy" on Companion.

why? maybe the flow's better.

interesting things about that video
- hippies on headbanger's ball
- no pot censorship
- background singers nowhere to be seen

"impeach george bush"

FLow's better the original way, gabby.

i'm not sure what the exact order of the single releases was but the GH seems to be chronological

i like most of the first two albums, but i'm not sure they were ever better than "jealous again."

it's the order of single releases afaik

"Hard to Handle" is the only one I ever really cared about. (That it's a cover is somehow significant, probably.)

yeah i only give them 3/4 credit for "hard to handle." it's a good version, but that song is hard to screw up.

ok since we're doing youtubes, here's "Wiser Time":

tremendous chorus imo

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i like most of the first two albums, but i'm not sure they were ever better than "jealous again."

I endorse this post, with a few of notes.

Sister Luck would have my vote if it had been a single.

Hard To Handle has always bugged the shit out of me. Feels like a novelty.

Jealous Again > Remedy > Wiser Time

The front half of the first record is ace, Jealous Again is insanely fun and easy to play in Open G, and gukbe is a fool.

haha this is my brain on no sleep

It's Could I've Been So Blind that's insanely easy to play and I'll take both that and Sister Luck over the singles so wtf I'm voting Remedy, But gukbe's still a fool. For an album and a half these guys were golden.

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8. Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye
9. A Conspiracy
10. Wiser Time
11. Good Friday
12. Blackberry
13. Kickin' My Heart Around
14. Go Faster
15. Only A Fool
16. By Your Side

No idea what this shit is...

the second half of a chronological Greatest Hits by a band whose profile took a nosedive after the first two albums, duh.

Amorica was great but they sucked afterwards

I'll take both that and Sister Luck over the singles

this

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jealous again got robbed here wtf.

yeah no shit! she talks to angels?GTFO

twice as hard rules too

lol old school ilx had such consistently dumb classic rock takes

Gukbe at 10:02 18 Dec 08

i can only remember hard to handle off the top of my head, but i'd rather listen to two princes three times in a row than ever hear that again

Gotta admit I was fearful at first when I saw two Crowes threads bumped at the same time. Glad to see it was just this.

lol sorry. just jammed the greatest hits this morning and i saw the other thread first

yeah no shit! she talks to angels?GTFO

twice as hard rules too

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twice as hard is so damn good. gotta say tho the tiny desk version of she talks to angels kinda hit me for whatever reason.

hard to handle never gets old for me. just a perfectly constructed song. every sound in it is memorable.

Never revive threads unless someone actually died

i love reviving old threads :(

Did they steal the “remedy” riff from “touch of grey”?

These guys are a great bar band

“Twice as Hard!” Get it? lol

calstars at 8:35 31 Mar 20

These guys are a great bar band

exactly

Good Friday is underrated. kind of a nothing song nobody remembers but I dig it.

youtube threw me chris robinson's "40 days" after it finished "exile on main street" (monday morning baby), is there a collection of songs on that level anyone likes?

Listened to "Hard to Handle" for the first time since 1996 or so (loved it when I was a kid) - it really has no groove for an Otis cover. Zero ass shaking occurred.

great song, goofy as hell and low-key racist video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYyRLTveFJQ

Do you think it’s racist because the backing vocalists are in the video but the aux percussion players are not?

the premise of the video is that here are the black crowes (awkwardly as hell) playing their song just for you as if they were live in your living room

the backing vocalists -- who have a considerably more vital role in the song than auxiliary percussionists -- only appear when they are actually singing

i mean do i wish the backing vocalists had to stand in the background and gyrate when they weren't singing? no. but maybe also they should simply be there in the background during solos or whatever

possibly they simply opted out due to the awkwardness!

If you think that's bad, don't dare look at the clip for "Sting Me" (a song where the backing singers are even more crucial) where we learn the dudes didn't even take them on tour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaH9wIQDUwE

no. but maybe also they should simply be there in the background during solos or whatever

I did learn recently that in the "Sledgehammer" video, the chairs come walking in near the end so that the background singers could rest their feet instead of just standing there while Peter Gabriel grooved and grivved or whatever.

If I was a Black Crowes background singer, I'd be happy to take five during the solos or while Chris was slinging himself around.

I was just listening to the Black Crowes after getting on my biannual Led Zeppelin kick.

Was not interested at all in the Jimmy Page tour with them 25 years ago. The Crowes looked like they had peaked. Jimmy had definitely peaked. Seemed like it was one step away from those strange Chicago/Earth Wind & Fire shows that come around. (How big are those stages anyway?)

But watching them play "The Wanton Song" from 25 years in the future — that actually might have been something to see.

Jesus, that "Sting Me" video — I know you're not supposed to hold a band's fan base against them, but that's the most repellent crowd I've ever seen. I could smell them through my laptop. And the song itself being just half-assed Humble Pie karaoke doesn't help, either.

It's just early 90s white people ... ... holding up Confederate flag bandannas.

Stink Me