Craveman

Ted Nugent | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Spitfire
• ASIN: B00006EXJF
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,396 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #86 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Rock Guitarists

Track Listings

1. Klstrphnky

2. Crave

3. Rawdogs & Warhogs

4. Damned If Ya Do

5. At Home There

6. Cum N Gitya Sum-O-This

7. Change My Sex

8. I Won't Go Away

9. Pussywhipped

10. Goin Down Hard

11. Wang Dang Doodle

12. My Baby Likes My Butter On Her Gritz

13. Sexpot

14. Earthtones

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Album!, November 20, 2002

By 

James Choma - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Craveman (Audio CD)

I'm not a big fan of Ted Nugent's output from the last 10 years, but I love this album. Sure, Ted Nugent can be overbearing and downright itrritating, but if you can set that aside and listen to the music, there's some real quality material here.

"Craveman" starts of with the blistering, vocal chord straining "KLSTRPHNKY" and never lets go. While Ted hasn't updated his lyrics, he has done a good job updating his sound. My favorite track has to be "At Home There". Great vocals, a trance sound mingled with guitar -- a great "road" song!

While it seems that the vocals are set just a notch below the guitar work in terms of volume, it doesn't really affect my enjoyment of the album.

If you can get through some of the contrived songtitles ("Pussywhipped", "Sexpot", "Cum N Gitya", and "My Baby Likes My Butter on Her Gritz") and you're a fan of hard rock -- I think you'll enjoy this album.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This ain't your father's Ted Nugent album!!, October 1, 2002

By 

Shawn Branchcomb (Pensacola, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Craveman (Audio CD)

Like Alice Cooper, another legendary rocker who signed with metal indie Spitfire Records and returned with a new earth-shaking sound, Ted Nugent comes back after many years of semi-retirement and brings a rawer, heavier, new sound. With Cravemen, The Nuge strips his band down to a power trio and handles all guitars and vocals himself. This seems to give the album a more live, raw feel. But what has left my jaw hanging open about this album is just how heavy it is. Overall, it has a thick, modern sound that many times sounds very aggro. The only thing that is slick and polished about this disk is the album cover art. When I first started listening to this, I wondered if this wasn't Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society, also on Spitfire Records, for a second. Nugent's voice, however, is easily recognizable.
The opener, "KLSTRPHNKY" (pronounced cluster-funky) fires up the disk with jackhammer guitar riffs and Ted wildly screeching out the lyrics. Next is the anthem "Crave," and I love the feedback driven instrumental coda at the end of the song. "Rawdogs and Warthogs" sounds like vintage Nugent with its main pedal point guitar riff (He's known for these type of riffs!). The album just keeps going from there: just lots of loud in-your-face hard rock n roll, with no filler and plenty of tongue-in-cheek lyrics to go with the more serious lyrics about patriotism and being in the wild. The album closes with "Earthtones," an excellent instrumental. In conclusion, I must salute Ted Nugent for not only returning to his hard rocking roots, but for turning up the heat with an album that sounds both fresh and classic. This mutha was worth the wait, and my speakers have been cursing the day that this CD was unleashed!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars FULL BLUNTAL NUGITY!!! CRAVEMAN GETS IT ON!, October 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Craveman (Audio CD)

This is a long awaited release for Nugent fans, and I am not disapointed. A fan since the 70's, I have never lost my appetite for the screaming gibson byrdland of the motor city madman. Klustrfnky and Crave are bursting with the hardcore metal riffs Ted is famous for, and the new band sounds great. Nugent had help on this album from old bandmates Jack Blades and Tommy Shaw, those damn yankees!! The album is worth a buy for the two songs I mentioned alone. There are a few sleepers on the album, but overall I'd say its a keeper. Remember, "You cant grill it, till you kill it"!!