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: 1,394th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 332 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1990 (21st)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (246th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,394th)

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

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Overall rank: 1,394th | 1990s rank: 246th | 1990 rank: 21st  Overall chart history
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77/100 (from 332 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 13.9.


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“Hard To Handle written by Allen Jones, Al Bell & Otis Redding From the album The first hit for The Black Crowes was this 1990 cover of a song originally released shortly after the death of Otis Redding in 1968. It remains one of their most popular songs, and has been played consistently live by the…”
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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! (Edited)
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85/100
Nothing innovative or surprising here, but that's not always a bad thing. This is just some straightforward blues rock with some catchy tracks using hooks recycled from classics acts two decades prior. With that said, if the Stones made this album in the early 70's it would probably be considered a classic Stones record.
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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. (Edited)
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This album is gods gift to macho FM Radio testosterone rock and that’s a compliment
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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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