Bad Manors: Golden Hits, Vol. 1 [IMPORT]

Crowbar (70's)

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 24, 1996)
• Original Release Date: January 30, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Stony Plain
• ASIN: B00002DD61
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #120,010 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Frenchman's Filler 1

2. Too True Mama

3. Let the Four Winds Blow

4. House of Blue Lights

5. Frenchman's Cherokee Boogie Incident

6. Train Keep Rolling

7. Baby Let's Play House

8. Oh What a Feeling

9. Frenchman's Filler 2

10. Frenchman's Filler 3

11. Murder in the First Degree

12. In the Dancing Hold

13. Mountain Fire

14. Prince of Peace

15. Frenchman's Filler 1

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars On cd at last, July 23, 2000

By	alastair mcleod (England) - See all my reviews

This over due release on cd of bad manors Crowbars 1970 vinyl album is a minor classic. Not much known outside Canada the original vinyl album sides opened and closed with the sort snip the Frenchmans filler also on the cd but not used in the same way.Tracks included are Fats Domino's classic Let the four winds blow and Arthur Gunters Baby lets play House,and Crowbars outstanding Prince of Peace.GET IT NOW.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Boogie done right, November 27, 2006

By	James D. Morrow "Hey Now!" (Omaha,NE USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

These guys played occasional backup for King Biscuit Boy (Richard Newell)which is way more blues oriented than this little gem. One of those great albums that make you wonder how they got missed. Could be because they were from Canada and recorded for Paramount, a label not exactly known for creative promotion back in the 70s. If it's boogie with the woogie beat you're looking for, you found the right address. This baby just steams. Guitarists Rheal Lanthier and John Gibbard goose each other all the way through the first five tunes but best on the "Let the Four Winds Blow-House of Blue Lights-Train Kept a Rollin-Baby, Let's Play House" hippie smackdown freakout. It really flies. Unfortunately, depending on your position on such things, the only thing that anybody might recognize from these guys is "Oh What a Feeling"(What a Rush) that was purloined by Mr. Tactful himself, Rush Limbaugh. Don't judge them from that (either good or bad) because it has nothing to do with the musical vibe throughout this splendid little disc. Oh yeah, at the end is a version of the John Rutter song "The Prince of Peace." These guys obviously got around a bit. Did I mention that this is a party record? This is a party record. Now go buy it and have a party. You needed an excuse so I gave you one.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Timeless Classic, May 21, 2009

By	Music maven (Amherst, MA) - See all my reviews

I actually own two copies of this record on LP, because I literally wore the first one out playing it so often. I just listened to it again now, and unlike most records of the period, this one sounds as fresh and frantic now as it did then. Part of that is the party atmosphere that pervades the recording, and part of it red-hot playing on everybody's part, but mostly it's the delightful fact that they don't take themselves seriously at all. Like NRBQ, they throw in every American musical style, mix liberally with laughing gas, and go nuts. Even when they play it sort of straight, like in Oh, What a Feeling, there's still this sense that they just don't care what anybody thinks. The fact that everybody in the band is a phenomenal musician (again, like NRBQ) only makes that devil-may-care attitude even more glorious. Their second album didn't quite capture the same manic energy, unfortunately, but this one is, in my opinion, one of the best records ever produced. It's a real shame that they never got the attention they deserved. Thank god the record is still in print.