Shake Your Money Maker
by The Black Crowes

Shake Your Money Maker by The Black Crowes
Year: 1990
Release date: 1990-02-13
Overall rank: 1,340th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 323 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1990 (21st)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (242nd)
Award Best albums of all time (1,340th)

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Shake Your Money Maker is ranked as the best album by The Black Crowes.

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Overall rank: 1,340th | 1990s rank: 242nd | 1990 rank: 21st

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 323 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.1/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.

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80/100
From 07/07/2025 18:40 | #309958
I like the keyboardist they hired for these sessions - apparently he worked with the Allman Brothers and Rolling Stones - the organ and piano help make this a pretty good album instrumentally. I also liked the bluesy guitar and vocal performance.
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85/100
From 12/20/2022 18:56 | #292098
Que álbum bom!! Como é bom ser tiozão!
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From 02/06/2022 17:24 | #280878
Thank god for an honest hard-rocking band amidst new wave punkers.
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70/100
From 10/27/2021 04:07 | #275431
Holds up and sounds fresh even today. Heavy Stones and Faces influence with just a little bit of Skynyrd and Guns and Roses. It's good beyond the singles.
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From 10/06/2021 18:24 | #274749
One of the best albums of 1990. One of the best southern rock albums ever. After much of the music released in the New Wave 80s, this was a breath of fresh air. We were exposed to real rock music again!
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From 06/18/2021 10:56 | #270783
This album is gods gift to macho FM Radio testosterone rock and that’s a compliment
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85/100
From 06/22/2020 18:23 | #254214
Average Track Rating = 86.50
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From 06/05/2020 20:09 | #252900
This is such an amazing debut record!
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From 07/20/2019 18:09 | #240052
Favorite Tracks:Could I've Been So Blind, Struttin' Blues
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From 05/29/2019 04:42 | #236866
great debut and a kick in the ass rock music needed going into the 1990's twice as hard jealous again seeing things is a slow burner she talks to angels is a fantastic ballad and hard to handle is good boogie rock
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