The Golden Age

Cracker

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 2, 1996)
• Original Release Date: April 2, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B000000WB3
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #72,514 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Cracker's best, February 21, 2002

By	Shroom (Ohio) - See all my reviews

It's been a while since Cracker put out a "complete" CD, and Golden Age is one of those along with "Cracker Brand" and "Kerosene Hat." There are no throw-away songs, such as the case with "Gentleman's Blues" and their newest CD "Forever," which contain a few unlikeable and obviously wasted songs just to fill up space apparently. But to each his/her own.

The Golden Age contains classics and Cracker-fan favorites such as "Big Dipper," "How Can I Live Without You," "Sweet Thistle Pie," and "100 Flower Power Maxium," to name a few.

Every single tune on this one is likeable to me, and I will always consider it, possibly my favorite Cracker recording to date.

Beware songs like "Dipper, "Dixie Babylon," and "Bicycle Spaniard" are incredibly mellow, easy-going songs, but they just roll over you like a breezy summer day and stick in your head like only Cracker can do.

If you own one modern Cracker CD, make it "The Golden Age," one of the best, most under-rated CD's of the 90's.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most underrated band in America, September 8, 2003

By	Matthew Levy (Boca Raton, FL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

What can I say about Cracker's "The Golden Age"? I have had this tremendous album for years and it is still fresh to me to this day. It is easily one of my favorite albums, and I have a lot of music. The album is awesome, consistent yet not generic. It hits you hard with bone-crunching guitar powered anthems (Sweet Thistle Pie, Nothing to Believe In, 100 Flower Power Maximum), then loosens up with catchy Crackeresque sarcastic songs (How Can I Live Without You, Useless Stuff) and then blows your mind with blissfully mellow thought-provoking tunes that sound out of a western ghost town (Bicycle Spaniard, Big Dipper). The core of Cracker was and always will be David Lowery and Jon Hickman - other members have come and gone - yet not missed that much. The Golden Age saw Cracker at an all time high when coming off their stupendous predecessor album, the platinum "Kerosene Hat," which featured the hits "Low" and "Eurotrash Girl." Some may feel that this album does not live up to Kerosene's greatness, yet others like myself, find this album even better and more consistent. This is a true great American band that has never quite gotten their due, and they should be recognized for bringing back fond memories of classic-rock bands like the Heartbreakers, the Byrds, the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, and even the great Neil Young with their tunes. If you have not heard The Golden Age, or Cracker for that matter, you are missing out - so what are you waiting for?. There have been so many flash in the pan bands as well as the other drek that fills our radio airwaves lately. A band like Cracker is truly a breath of fresh air and originality to the true "music" fan, not just some sampled, generic, over-the-hill, bubble gum, or boy band shlock that makes me want to puke. The opening track, I Hate My Generation, speaks volumes to me about what is going on in the music industry these days: corporate greed. This album, The Golden Age, in the words of Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel, truly goes to 11. Five stars out of five - a classic.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Most Overlooked Album of 1996, May 4, 1999

By A Customer

The Golden Age is Cracker's most completely satisfying album thus far. It demonstrates a wide range of styles and moods not found on their other three albums. It is also much more of a "studio" experience than the others, meaning that the songs on this album are a bit more difficult to perform live with the same affect as the album has on the listener at home (By the way, a live Cracker performance is routinely one of the best live experiences around and is probably their strongest selling point for me still). From the opening fury of "I Hate My Generation" to the concluding beauty of "Bicycle Spaniard," this album never loses steam even through the slowest of songs. The album is held together, alternately and sometimes simultaneously, by David Lowery's wry, cynical lyrics and the rest of the band's outstanding musicianship.