1001 Albums Summary

My first album on this journey. Hoping for something I liked to kick it off. Got this instead. Blah. The Black Crowes were popular in my late teens and early 20s. Plus, I had just moved to Atlanta when they hit it big - so they were everywhere all the time. Besides a couple of good tunes, I am not a fan. Never have been. As for the album, 2 out of 5. I am not a fan of honky tonk in my rock and roll, and that is all this album is... music you would hear from a band on stage behind some chicken wire at the Double Deuce. "Twice as Hard" and "Jealous Again" - songs I have heard a million times. I can see the draw - especially at the time (early 90s), but both songs grate on my nerves... just not as much as they did 30 years ago. "Sister Luck" - an actual song I could re-listen to. This song is one that I remember liking back in the day, because it wasn't crammed down your ear canals 3 times an hour by friends or on the radio. Listening to it reminds me of my early days after I moved to Atlanta. Good times. "Could I've Ever Been So Blind" - similar sound to other tracks "Seeing Things" is a shameless rip-off of Joe Cocker's version of "With a Little Help From My Friends" but cleaner and more hi-fidelity. Reminds me of the "Wonder Years". Cocker did it better. "Hard to Handle" - thirty years later I still have heard this song about 1000 times too many. Fine song I'm sure, but I am still sick of it. "Thick N' Thin" - ugh, good thing this song is less than 3 minutes long. "She Talks to Angels" - for me, this and "Hard to Handle" (among others) suffer because I was in Atlanta when the band hit it big - so you simply could not escape their music. You just couldn't. This made it difficult to like the Crowes after a very short while. Same with Drivin' n' Cryin' - GEEZ I hope "Fly Me Courageous" isn't on this list! "Struttin Blues" - whoa boy, we get it - your head is spinnin' round! WE GET IT. I'm really fighting the urge to give up on this album now and skip the last song. But I didn't! "Stare it Cold" - sounds like the rest of the deep tracks. But at this point, I am tired of the voice, the twangy guitars. Couldn't finish the last song. Pretty proud of myself for getting this far.

Besides being the hated rival of my Atlanta Falcons - I have no experience with "The Saints". Didn't have time for the entire album, but the tracks I listened to, I enjoyed. Punk with horns - I love the idea. This is not an album I would return to, but I enjoyed my time with it. I would choose this over the Ramones or anything Green Day has churned out.

I am not a huge Gabriel fan outside of his hits and charters. That is also the reason why I prefer post-Gabriel Genesis over Gabriel-led Genesis.

Good album in my opinion. I love their hits, but never bothered to dig any deeper. So, I wasn't enthused about listening to this album with a bunch of songs I have never heard of before. But I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it.

Words cannot adequately be put into a sequence to describe this album. I had never heard of Thundercat before - so I went into this not knowing what I was about to experience. Weird. Funky. Odd. Offbeat. Unique. There are some words. These songs are good, some great. Some leave you scratching your head wondering who paid this man money to record what you just listened to. Overall, a very good album. I will listen to it again, and give it some more time to enjoy and savor. This also makes me want to review his full catalogue. I am cautiously looking forward to that.