Joyce Hotel [Explicit Lyrics]

Crack City Rockers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 12, 2002)
• Original Release Date: January 4, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Paisley Pop
• ASIN: B00005YY96
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #711,885 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Do Alright

2. Zombitime

3. Yr Rotten Luck

4. Hey World

5. Born Nervous

6. I'm Too Easy on Myself

7. Hunger

8. Now I Know

9. Beggar & a Chooser

10. Rolling Yr Eyes Blues

Editorial Reviews

Joyce Hotel is the smashing debut from Portland, Oregon’s Crack City Rockers, a band that steeps itself in the greatest sounds of the early punk explosion. Co-produced and engineered by Larry Crane (Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, The Go-Betweens) at Portland's Jackpot Studios, it inhales deeply from the music of bands like the New York Dolls, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, the Saints, Patti Smith Group, Television, and early Rolling Stones and exhales the sound of the great lost album of '78 with the vision of a post apocalyptic Raymond Carver.

An electric exciting album, energetic and smart enough to appeal to the younger generation, but with enough of a sense of musical history to convince anyone over thirty that the second coming is at hand. On Joyce Hotel, the rock n’ roll flame isn’t just carried on, it explodes super nova.

A lethal combination on tightly interlocked guitars, a powerful rhythm section and Eric Gregory’s driving vocals which matches the soulful firepower of the musicians note for note. Even on the relatively subdued numbers (such as the blues workout "yr rotten luck"), the band sounds like they're locked in tight and cooking with gas, while the full-blown rockers are as gloriously thunderous as anything ever committed to tape.

Crack City Rockers’ Joyce Hotel takes you on a journey through the heart of the city. The beauty and pain of the night life where desire is indulged, vice and sin go hand in hand with the hope for redemption. It’s Joseph Conrad channeled through the libido of Prince and the fury of the MC5.

Here is an album that taps into the adrenaline rush of one’s first reckless joyride. This is the album you crave as the anthem for your night out.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Well, my son is the bass player..., July 5, 2002

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John M Flora "olioscourge.blogspot.com" (Brookland, AR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Joyce Hotel (Audio CD)

I knew something good would come of all those guitar lessons. I'd like this CD even if my son Sean Flora weren't the bass player. This is good, elemental rock & roll, played the way it should be. The perfect antidote to the junk we get on the radio and MTV these days.
Buy it. Tell your friends to buy it. Make my kid rich so he can support me in my old age.

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than...., March 28, 2002

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HungryJack (West Coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joyce Hotel (Audio CD)

The Crack City Rockers drink from the same late 70s NYC, CBGB's, ...[mixing]Television, the Heartbreakers, Richard Hell, Lou & the VU, and some secret ingredients into a special sauce, CCR rule the proto-punk universe!!!