The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
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Artist: The Black CrowesEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Import, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Music Label: American Rec. Import
Soundtracks:
- Twice As Hard
- Jealous Again
- Sister Luck
- Could I've Been So Blind
- Seeing Things
- Hard To Handle
- Thick N' Thin
- She Talks To Angels
- Struttin' Blues
- Stare It Cold
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Free Music Review: So mediocre it hurts
Hit: 1 Stars
The Black Crowes impressed people because in the 90s they looked like a 70s rock band, and sounded like a 70s rock band, and they had the attitude of a 70s rock band. The boogied, they had anthemic choruses, they were a little bit country and a little bit blues and a lotta bit rock `n' roll, and when you listened to their music you could sorta see them drinking beer and playing some dingy bar and doing the whole sex drugs and rock `n' roll thing. It was all cool, but here's the problem- not all 70s rock bands were good. In fact, some of them, despite all of their country and blues and suds and heroin, were terrible. The Crowes ain't immune from that fact. Sounding like the Small Faces in the 90s can be cool, but that's only the case if you have good songs to justify the sound. Otherwise, it's just a gimmick. And that's exactly what Shake Your Money Maker is.
In fact, this album tends to remind me why 70s rock isn't that fondly remembered a genre in the first place. This is an album full of macho posturing, instantly forgettable riffs, boring ballads, go-nowhere guitar riffs, and so on. It wallows in bar rock's clich?s without contributing anything new, and frankly, if I wanted that I'd listen to Bad Company. "Could I've Been So Blind" and "Jealous Again" are bland, joyless rockers with lame riffs and cheesy choruses, while "Seeing Things" and "Sister Luck" are equally uninspiring ballads that amble their way past the five minute mark in almost pitiful fashion. "Twice As Hard" is a badly misguided stab at a hard rock anthem, and "Thick n' Thin" is a joyless boogie with old-hat guitars and a quiet/loud dynamic that's only sort of cool. Even the big hit, a cover of Otis Redding's "Hard To Handle," has little more to recommend it than some funky rhythms. "She Talks To Angels" is another flat-on-its face country ballad.
Maybe I should just pass this off as mediocre, give it three stars because it isn't exactly offensively bad, but that would be too generous. These guys don't even get points for originality. Don't waste your time.
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Few young bands have embraced classic rock as fully as the Black Crowes. Their debut album features a bar-band stomp rooted in the back catalogs of the Rolling Stones, Free, the Faces, any number of early-'70s hard rockers. The secret of their success has been singer Chris Robinson's lanky rock-star poses matched with a voice as raw as whisky and as inviting as velvet. Add a healthy rhythm section accentuated by producer (and Rick Rubin prot?g?) George Drakoulias and you've got the dynamic shuffle of their hits ("Jealous Again" and the title track). While the band clearly likes to party, they're even more convincing as the Sunday-morning comedown of "She Talks to Angels." --Rob O'ConnorFew young bands have embraced classic rock as fully as the Black Crowes. Their debut album features a bar-band stomp rooted in the back catalogs of the Rolling Stones, Free, the Faces, and any number of early '70s hard rockers. The secret of their success has been singer Chris Robinson's lanky rock-star poses matched with a voice as raw as whisky and as inviting as velvet. Add a healthy rhythm section accentuated by producer (and Rick Rubin prot?g?) George Drakoulias and you've got the dynamic shuffle of their hits ("Jealous Again" and the title track). While the band clearly likes to party, they're even more convincing with their Sunday-morning comedown, "She Talks to Angels." --Rob O'Connor
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