Bad Manors, the second album from Crowbar, and the first without King Biscuit Boy taking lead billing, was perversely subtitled, "Crowbar's Golden Hits, Volume 1," despite containing all new material (a trick the Rheostatics emulated many years later with their Greatest Hits debut). The album ranked 89th in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book, The Top 100 Canadian Albums.
Unlike most Canada-based groups of the period, Crowbar's Bad Manors was reviewed in the major American publications. Robert Christgau, in the Village Voice, graded it a B, and Rolling Stone, in the July 8, 1971 edition, called it "a real good one," "a winner" and "one of the happiest, raunchiest, freshest emanations of a piacere life-energy to pin the grid in many moons." AllMusic gives it 4.5 stars out of 5.
While the album only scraped into the lower reaches of the RPM album charts (#77 is as high as I could find), the single "Oh What a Feeling" made it into the top 10. "Too True Mama" was also released as a single.
| Home base: | Ancaster, Ontario |
| Label: | Daffodil |
| Release Date: | 1971 |
| Engineering and Button Playing: | Terry Brown |
| Style: | rock |
| Mar*Star 125: | did not rank |
| Mar*Star 150: | 84 |
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