Crazy Eyes
by Poco
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Crazy Eyes is ranked as the best album by Poco.
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Crazy Eyes track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Crazy Eyes rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 4 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1973 | 92/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 95/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 100 Music Albums of 1973 | 83/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | borninhockeytown | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 60/100 | 39 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1973 | 99/100 | - |
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 5/100 | 19 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top albums of 1973 (101 - 200) | 61/62 | - |
| 2023 | henrygreen0203 | Top 34 Music Albums of 1973 | 1/34 | 5 |
| 2021 | Johnnyo | Most listened to albums in November 2021 | 44/100 | - |
| 2019 | borninhockeytown | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 59/100 | 8 |
| 2018 | Johnnyo | The music of the LA Canyons | 79/90 | - |
| 2017 | henrygreen0203 | Favorites: No Rules | 81/100 | - |
| 2016 | henrygreen0203 | 2 Kool 2 B 4-Gotten | 1/100 | - |
| 2016 | henrygreen0203 | Top Country Rock Albums | 2/42 | - |
| 1973 | OOR | Jaarlijst Oor 1973 | 55/98 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 15 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 81 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/27/2026 18:00 | Deckard | 267 | 80/100 |
| ! | 08/03/2025 10:02 | cicadelic | 13,364 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/26/2023 21:16 | fabm0 | 7,010 | 58/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2023 03:35 | henrygreen0203 | 871 | 74/100 |
| ! | 06/22/2023 22:18 | TonySayers61 | 25,039 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 21% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 72.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.
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A dark cloud hangs over Poco's fifth studio album.
First is the theme of Ingram "Gram" Parsons, the monumental figure who inspired the West Coast country-rock scene. His song Brass Buttons is covered here, sung by original Poco member Richie Furay. Furay also sings his original song Crazy Eyes, written about Parsons, who curiously died suddenly days after this album was released. Furay had private plans to leave the group during the recording of the album and performed his last show with the band days before the album was released. Furay would join the band briefly for the hit album Legacy in 1989.
So this Poco LP gets plenty of recognition and understandably so.After the false start of Blue Water and the bluegrass instrumental Fools Gold, the band gets right down to business with Tim Schmit's excellent single Here We Go Again, then an interesting cover of Brass Buttons, written by Gram Parsons and a slide guitar rocker that borders on southern rock from Paul Cotten.
Side 2 is sublime and probably the finest side ever cut on a Poco album. First is the epic title track, followed by the excellent cover of J.J. Cale's Magnolia, sung by Cotten, with a beautiful saxophone solo to boot, and a sentimental wrap-up with Furay's Let's Dance Tonight.
This LP has nice compositions from every member of the band, minus drummer and background vocalist George Grantham. Furay contributes Let's Dance Tonight and the title track, Paul Cotten wrote Blue Water and A Right Along, Tim Schmit wrote the excellent Here We Go Again and instrumentalist-not-yet-songwriter Rusty Young composes the instrumental Fool's Gold.
Certainly, Crazy Eyes is one of Poco's most rewarding LPs.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
RICHIE FURAY: Crazy Eyes
PAUL COTTON: A Right Along
TIM SCHMIT: Here We Go Again
Also Check Out Magnolia (JJ Cale, sung by Paul Cotten)
I've not heard this however I'm going to try and track it down they also did an album in 1971 . I have a bit of a thing for that year
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