The Black Crowes - By Your Side
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Free Music Review: By Your Side Review
Hit: 5 Stars
I know I could get punched for saying this, but I like this CD even better than their first one- Shake Your Money Maker (but yes, I love that one also). Being a guitarist, I love the guitar work on By Your Side. The guitar riffs by Rich Robinson are catchy and heavy throughout the CD. Chris sounds fantastic and enthusiastic. There's scarcely a dud on the entire CD. The feel of the CD is very upbeat and optimistic. There are radio-friendly songs such as Kicking My Heart Around, Go Faster and a couple others, but there are also great songs that you'd probably never hear on the radio. Some hot spots for me include Go Tell the Congregation, By Your Side, Then She Said My Name, Virtue & Vice, Heavy. If you like rock & roll, I don't see what you wouldn't like about this CD. Great music for a party or for when you just feel good and want to jam. I think this is their most underrated CD. Buy it.Free Music Review: Worst Album by the Crowes
Hit: 1 Stars
I bought this album that day it came out, listened to it twice and put it on my cd rack severely disappointed. Every two years since, I grab the CD thinking, "Hey, it's the Crowes, it can't be -that- bad". And every time, I put it back on the shelf.
It come down to this, if you like the Black Crowes and don't have this album, don't buy it. I read all the press when this came out. The album was supposed to be a return to their early days (ala Shake Your Moneymaker). In my opinion, Moneymaker is good, but not nearly as good as Southern Harmony and Amorica. Although By Your Side has the Shake vibe, it is at best secondhand rehash of that album.
In reading the positive reviews about this album, I have to think the authors aren't normally Crowes fans. This album sounded like a hollow attempt to reclaim radio glory. If you like radio rock, it might be for you. If you think the Crowes are best when they are experimenting and grooving (ala Amorica) stay away from this one.
Free Music Review: Just a great album. One of my favorites.
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the Crowes' best albums, along with SH&MC. It has been a long time since I heard Amorica, so I cannot really compare. It is one of the best albums out there. Listen to some bland nu-metal (e.g., Godsmack, Korn) and you'll hear how refreshing an album such as this is. This is rock n' roll. They've been compared with the Stones and Humble Pie, only I perceive they are an improvement on these bands and have a style unique. Soul is the word. Great soul. Good songs. I like their new effort, Warpaint, but I like the Crowes a bit more rockin,' overall, like in this album. But I love all the Crowes I've heard.
With "By your side" you cannot help but move and groove if you have an ounce of soul left in your body after years of grunge and nu-metal. I love these guys; there is no one else like them today, or any past day.
But if you do like other styles of rock, put this album in sometime. You'll find a very nice, refreshing change.
And THESE GUYS ARE DEFINATELY NOT SELL-OUTS! You can easily tell that they love the music. They are greater than Aerosmith, in my opinion. Much more funk and soul.
Free Music Review: A half-hearted rehash
Hit: 2 Stars
As with many artists, the Black Crowes album "Shake Your Money Maker" is good, but not their best. Working with a caveman on a rock album doesn't sound like a good idea. Producing an album aint easy, and here's proof. Somewhere along the way the caveman figured a return to their roots was in order. This confuses me, as this band had evolved way beyond what they were doing in the beginning. This comes off as a collection of slightly above average tunes, that try lamely to capture the spirit of the first album. This one seemed to lack it's own vibe, or story. On other Crowes albums, like Amorica or Thre Snakes... they seemed to catch a feeling and really go for a ride. This one doesn't gel, and the really good songs don't stand out until the Live album. I highly recommend the god stuff on here, but only in their live digs. "Welcome to the Good Times" "Go tell the Congregation" & "Horsehead" are very good. "By Your Side" is a very weak attempt at a hit single, which the Crowes didn't really need. With a better producer, I feel the Robinson boys would've come up with more material, and created a better vibe than this sleepy tripe. The closest you'll come to a 'bad' Crowes album(although the jury's still out on 'Warpaint' LOL)...just a bump in the road, as Lions was a VAST improvement on a stale vibe.Free Music Review: Great guitar work...lazy lyrics
Hit: 3 Stars
There arent many albums that are more fun than this for turning up the volume and testing your eardrums. But the "youre the girl for me...i hope we stay together forever" lyrics get tired really fast. Not all the songs have connect the dot lyrics. "Virtue and Vice" and "Horsehead" are bonafide Crowe's classics. But what about "Heavy"? Perhaps they were intending to be funny with this, but it doesnt work. With lyrics like "The way you put on your clothes, the way you wiggle your toes, the way you scratch your nose" this song , after the cool guitar riff wears off, becomes a skipper and perhaps the most embarrassing song in the Crowes catalogue. But its forgivable because on their next release, they got back to the tortured soul search for enlightenment type lyrics on Lions and again on Warpaint. I guess one trip down the cheeseball highway in a bands career wont taint their legacy.