Amorica [Original recording remastered]

Black Crowes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 11, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: American Recordings
• ASIN: B000068FY2
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,872 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gone

2. A Conspiracy

3. High Head Blues

4. Cursed Diamond

5. Nonfiction

6. She Gave Good Sunflower

7. P.25 London

8. Ballad In Urgency

9. Wiser Time

10. Downtown Money Waster

11. Descender

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the greatest of all time. (Really.), November 25, 2003

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Aron Hsiao (New York, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amorica (Audio CD)

I became a Black Crowes fan with Shake Your Moneymaker. I bought The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion and loved it. When I first bought Amorica, however, I couldn't really "get through" it for a long time... To put it bluntly, I thought it was a dud.

Years later, however, things are different. Time has a way of changing the musical landscape in order to reveal something about quality and emotion. Something, if you will, about the soul of a recording. As the years have passed, I have begun to find that the tracks on Amorica are the sountrack to my life. It was subtle at first... a vague idea that there was a track on Amorica that would suit a young man's road-trip somewhere in the urban plains... and so I skipped around until I found Wiser Time... later, the notion one night, walking home slightly inebriated, that there was some track that would really speak for my "heightened" mental state... and so I found Ballad in Urgency... then I fell in love and realized that Cursed Diamond was the soundtrack to my smile... Descending... A Conspiracy... She Gave Good Sunflower... every damn track on this disc is a classic. Not just great, like the tracks on The Southern Harmony... but a sleeping *classic*, like Gimme Shelter, like Hey Jude. Every damn Amorica track is a classic of Rock and Roll, destined to be listened to for generations, like others before them.

And so, years later, every last damn track on Amorica is one of my favorite musical tracks of all time. I can't live without this disc. Yes, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion is tight and probably more "lively"... but Amorica is more real, more beautiful, more deep, more in tune with (as Chris once said in an interview), "The Song."

I place Amorica alongside the likes of Led Zeppelin IV, Beggars Banquet, Abbey Road, Back in Black, Mellen Collie, Daydream Nation, Blowout Comb, Exile on Main Street, Brilliant Corners, Naive, Never Mind the Bollocks, Ziggy Stardust, & Nico, The Joshua Tree, Halber Mensch, Angel Dust, Disraeli Gears, Electric Ladyland, OK Computer... and on and on. In short, once you have had the Amorica high, you can't satisfy that particular Jones any other way. It's quality. Hit the road, crank it, and live your life. Thank you, bros. Robinson and the Black Crowes, for a classic.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD after 11 Years...., December 13, 2005

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Dean Buffoni "Stones Fan" (Mesa,AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amorica (Audio CD)

I havent listened to this CD in years, pulled it out today and it still sounds great. The songs "Non Fiction & "Wiser Time" are the best tunes on it, they are slow melodic ballads that just take you away. Strange lyrics though but I guess these guys are a little ecentric, drugs definitly influenced these lyrics. Conspiracy is a catchy riff, typical Crowes, love the cover, I got it before they changed it. Anyways, great songs and a great band, good to hear they are reforming for another CD and tour, go see them there worth the money.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clasico! Clasicamente!!!, September 16, 2006

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The PROjectors (Oslo, Norge) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Amorica (Audio CD)

Now that the 'Lost Crowes' compilation is being released at the end of the month (find it now torrentially,) I find myself revisiting this glorious recording. Although some of the versions contained on these new 'demos' are revelatory (check the chorus on 'Descending' as well as the french horn ending a la 'You Can't Always Get What You Want') most are what you would expect. Anyway, those were the seeds of THIS superb album. When I first listened to Amorica on the day it was released, 'London P.25' (better on the 'Lost Crowes') and 'Downtown Moneywaster' were my least favorite tracks. This did not matter in the least, as the rest had surpassed anything I had expected in rock music at the time. At a time when techno was peaking, this album was out of place with most of the young people at the time (in Ft. Lauderdale, at least) but it is a landmark!!! If you are considering the Crowes, get this one. DO IT!!! The Southern Harmony was really a favorite of mine (and also a classic,) but this SOB is the shiznit.