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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club A: Love Burns B: At My Door: Virgin America UK: VUS 234: 21 Jan 2002: 7' 0: 10.0: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club A: Spread Your Love B: Tonight's With You: Virgin America UK: VUS 245: 20 May 2002: 7' 0: 7.0: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club A: Whatever Happened To My Rock 'N' Roll (Punk Song) B: Rifles (Live At Glastonbury. Aug 11, 2015 The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is one of the few gems that gives insight into the monochrome world of black leather and chain smoking romanticism. Born out of the prismatic state if California, the band have been branded many genre titles including neo-psychedelia, garage punk, folk revival, and shoe-gaze.
This is discography of the American rock band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Albums[edit]
Year | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||||||||||||||
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US [1] | AUS [2] | AUT [3] | BEL [4] | DEN [5] | GER [6] | FRA [7] | IRE [8] | ITA [9] | NLD [10] | NZL [11] | NOR [12] | SWE [13] | SWI [14] | UK [15] | |||
2001 | B.R.M.C.
| -- | 76 | -- | -- | -- | 49 | 122 | 28 | -- | -- | 39 | -- | 53 | -- | 25 |
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2003 | Take Them On, On Your Own
| 47 | 34 | 33 | -- | 24 | 27 | 43 | 21 | 8 | 63 | 17 | 15 | 13 | 46 | 3 |
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2005 | Howl
| 90 | 34 | 45 | 42 | 35 | 33 | 83 | 29 | 57 | 47 | -- | -- | 27 | 50 | 14 |
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2007 | Baby 81
| 46 | 36 | 71 | 59 | -- | 58 | 98 | 27 | 99 | -- | -- | -- | 53 | 50 | 15 | |
2008 | The Effects of 333
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
2010 | Beat the Devil's Tattoo
| 58 | 50 | 49 | 59 | -- | 60 | 76 | 66 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 44 | 58 | |
2013 | Specter at the Feast
| 35 | 53 | 39 | 54 | 27 | 67 | 89 | 67 | -- | 55 | -- | -- | -- | 32 | 31 | |
2018 | Wrong Creatures
| -- | 45 [17] | 17 | 31 | -- | 22 | 60 | -- | -- | 115 | -- | -- | -- | 8 | 35 | |
'—' denotes releases that did not chart. |
EPs[edit]
- Screaming Gun EP (October 2001)
- Spread Your Love EP (2002) (Japan)
- Howl Sessions EP (2005)
- Napster Live Session (2007)
- American X: Baby 81 Sessions EP (2007)
- Kings of Leon/Black Rebel Motorcycle Club split EP (2008)
Live albums[edit]
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Live (2009)
- LIVE in London (2010)
- LIVE in Paris (2015)[18]
Singles[edit]
Date | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | |||
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EU [19] | IRE [8] | UK [15] | UK Indie | |||
2001 | 'Red Eyes and Tears' | -- | -- | -- | -- | B.R.M.C. |
'Rifles' | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
'Whatever Happened to My Rock and Roll (Punk Song)' | -- | -- | -- | 7 | ||
2002 | 'Love Burns' | -- | -- | 37 | -- | |
'Spread Your Love' | -- | -- | 27 | -- | ||
'Whatever Happened to My Rock and Roll (Punk Song)' | -- | -- | 46 | -- | ||
2003 | 'Stop' | -- | 42 | 19 | -- | Take Them On, On Your Own |
'We're All in Love' | -- | -- | 45 | -- | ||
2005 | 'Shuffle Your Feet' | -- | -- | -- | -- | Howl |
'Ain't No Easy Way' | 69 | 50 | 21 | -- | ||
2007 | 'Weapon of Choice' | -- | -- | 35 | -- | Baby 81 |
'Berlin' | -- | -- | 89 | -- | ||
2010 | 'Beat the Devil's Tattoo' | -- | -- | -- | -- | Beat the Devil's Tattoo |
2013 | 'Let the Day Begin' | -- | -- | -- | -- | Specter at the Feast |
2017 | 'Little Thing Gone Wild' | -- | -- | -- | -- | Wrong Creatures |
'Haunt' | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Other contributions[edit]
- NME Awards 2004: Rare and Unreleased (2004, NME) - 'The Hardest Button to Button' (live), White Stripes cover
- Southland Tales: Music from the Motion Picture (2007, Milan Entertainment) – 'Howl' (extended version)
- The Twilight Saga: New Moon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2009, Atlantic Records) – 'Done All Wrong'
- Batman: Arkham City – The Album (2011, WaterTower Music) – 'Shadow on the Run'
References[edit]
- ^'US album chart positions'. allmusic.com. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^'Australian album chart positions'. australian-charts.com. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^'Austrian album chart positions'. austriancharts.com. Archived from the original on 2009-03-27. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^'Belgian album chart positions'. ultratop.be. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^'Danish album chart positions'. danishcharts.com. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^'German album chart positions'. musicline.de. Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^'French album chart positions'. lescharts.com. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^ ab'Irish chart positions'. irish-charts.com. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
- ^'Italian album chart positions'. italiancharts.com. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^'Dutch album chart positions'. dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^'New Zealand album chart positions'. charts.nz. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^'Norwegian album chart positions'. norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^'Swedish album chart positions'. swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^'Swiss album chart positions'. hitparade.ch. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^ ab'Black Rebel Motorcycle - Full Official Chart History'. Official Charts Company. Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ^ abc'UK Certificates: Searchable database'. Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2009-12-01.
- ^'ARIA Australian Top 50 Albums'. Australian Recording Industry Association. January 22, 2018. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
- ^'Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in the studio mixing audio for the new Live Paris Album & DVD'. facebook.com. October 2, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2014.
- ^'Eurochart positions'. billboard.com. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
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Since the release of in 2003, things were tumultuous for. They were unceremoniously dropped by Virgin in a cloud of bad feeling. They lost their drummer. They bounced back and signed with RCA. They welcomed back their drummer. Somewhere in the middle of all this they completely revamped their sound.
In fact, their first record for RCA, 2005's, sounds like the work of an entirely different group. Gone are the insistent tempos, the snarling vocals, and the sheets of guitar noise.
Gone is the hostile and often belligerent pose of the first two albums. Gone is the influence of noise rock bands like. The band has embraced classic American music, namely country, blues, and gospel. It's dramatically expanded its sound to the point where you wonder if the albums that preceded this were some kind of reductionist prank.
The band has a light touch and sense of drama and arrangement here that seems to have come out of the blue. (Check the credit to for 'additional recording assistance' for a clue, though.) In fact, the first thing you hear on the album is enough to have you checking to make sure the disc isn't defective: the multi-tracked vocals of and emulating a gospel choir at the beginning of 'Shuffle Your Feet,' a rollicking slice of front-porch country complete with strumming acoustic guitars, harmonica, handclaps, and slide. It's no fluke because for the most part the album that follows is built on similarly relaxed, acoustic, and loose underpinnings. Tracks like 'Still Suspicion Holds You Tight,' 'Devil's Waiting' (which features the return of the multi-tracked choir), and 'Complicated Situation' have a lightness and ease that they previously could never have achieved.
Other songs benefit from the expansion of sound too: 'Weight of the World' has an epic, reaching-for-the-stars feel not a million miles from and their followers (though it has more gritty soul than that), while 'Howl's fuzz chamber sound is the closest thing to their previous work, but the circus organ, sleigh bells, and dynamics give the song color where it would have been shades of gray. On these songs and elsewhere the vocals are much more a part of the sound now as they are more upfront and impassioned.
Both and have fine voices that are well suited to their new direction, sincere and gritty but never strained. Along with a new sound seem to have found religion too, as nearly half the songs revolve around God, the Devil, sin, and salvation. 'Restless Sinner' and 'Gospel Song' (which shows that the band hasn't completely abandoned its old influences, as the song is filtered closely through 's interpretation of gospel) are the most obvious manifestation of this new focus, but much of the record has the exuberance and weight of a band wrestling with heavy emotions. Well, that but without being quite as boring as it sounds. Of course, boredom is relative and by the end of the record you may find yourself wondering whatever happened to your rock & roll.
You may feel betrayed by their sudden shift away from noise and danger, confused by the sudden change from a band of sulky post-teens with sex and danger on their minds to questioning (though still young) adults looking for salvation. Understandable, no question. If you want your rock dirty, loud, and dangerous (though were only halfway believable when that was their image), you had better look somewhere else.
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If you want it thoughtful and passionate but still alive and realistic, then give a chance. Have grown up and grown interesting.
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