Posted: 2/10/2009 5:16:41 PM EDT
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I know there are some Clutch fans here and was looking for some help. When I first heard Clutch back in the mid '90s, I didn't care for them. I was really into music at the time and played in a band for a few years. Back then they just sounded like another mediocre metal band to me. I was listening to everything from SRV to Korn to Three Six Mafia to Tom Petty to Faith No More to CCR, but Clutch just didn't do it for me.
I have just recently heard some of their newer material and they have really changed for the better. I love their dark heavy blues style would like to check out some more of that stuff. The songs I really like are "Electric Worry," "Devil and Me," "Ghost," and "Regulator." Since they have so many albums I would like some advice on what specific songs fall into that style. The funny thing is that the band I was playing in 12 years ago played a very similar style to what Clutch has evolved into. We used slides on heavy downtuned guitars over a shuffle beat. A fan once described our sound as ZZ Top meets White Zombie. 
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They really started gravitating more towards that heavy, bluesy style with Blast Tyrant. You've already heard The Regulator and Ghost off that album. Check out Gravel Road and Who's Been Talking on the Robot Hive/Exodus album. They get a lot of influences from folks like Howlin' Wolf and Mississippi Fred McDowell.
The funny thing with Clutch, if you listen to Transnational Speedway League, then follow it up with Beale Street to Oblivion, you'd swear that you're listening to two totally different bands. |
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They really started gravitating more towards that heavy, bluesy style with Blast Tyrant. You've already heard The Regulator and Ghost off that album. Check out Gravel Road and Who's Been Talking on the Robot Hive/Exodus album. They get a lot of influences from folks like Howlin' Wolf and Mississippi Fred McDowell. The funny thing with Clutch, if you listen to Transnational Speedway League, then follow it up with Beale Street to Oblivion, you'd swear that you're listening to two totally different bands. That's for sure. They are one of the few bands that seem to get better with each album. Most bands start off good and get worse.
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Update:
I bought the"From Beale Street to Oblivion" CD and purchased several of the tracks from their other albums on iTunes. Almost the entire "Beale St." album is good but I made a ten song mix of my favorites from the whole bunch and it could easily be one of my favorite discs. 
Gravel Road Electric Worry Regulator Devil and Me Who's Been Talking Cypress Grove Rapture of Ridley Walker When Vegans Attack Opossum Minister Ghost |
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Update: I bought the"From Beale Street to Oblivion" CD and purchased several of the tracks from their other albums on iTunes. Almost the entire "Beale St." album is good but I made a ten song mix of my favorites from the whole bunch and it could easily be one of my favorite discs.
Gravel Road Electric Worry Regulator Devil and Me Who's Been Talking Cypress Grove Rapture of Ridley Walker When Vegans Attack Opossum Minister Ghost All excellent tracks. 
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I would highly recommend "Heard It All Before: Live at HIFI Bar" for fans of their newer stuff.
Pick it up Here. Track listing for this release can be found on Wikipedia. It's dirt cheap too, like $10 for a double-live album, and a really good sounding one at that. Clutch does some great stuff in the studio, but they are really in their element live. As far as the studio stuff goes, try pretty much anything off of the last few albums. "Blast Tyrant," "Robot Hive/Exodus," and "From Beale Street to Oblivion." Some of the songs on "Slow Hole to China" might be to your liking as well, if you can find a copy of it. |
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Clutch is composed of WIN. Win cast in solid gold, plated with tungsten carbide, and with a depleted uranium penetrator core. I've seen them 4 times now - each time was fantastic. They also manage to get some neat opening acts along with them most of the time, too. Whoever hasn't seen them live needs to in a big way. |