creedence clearwater revival thread

[LoathedVermin72]

Kinda crazy you've never gone deep on CCR, wease. Better late than never! Those first five albums are so good (and there some classics on Pendulum too).

[wease]

I mean I’ve been around the classics for as long as I can remember. I guess I’ve always heard them as, I don’t know, too simple, maybe? Maybe I never expected much past their hits? Not sure.

[wease]

Bayou Country- getting into a little more familiar territory. I had heard Born On The Bayou and Proud Mary prior to the listen with Proud Mary the one that pulls from the blues the least on the album. Graveyard Train was great but so fucking long. Same with Keep On Chooglin’. I bet Cook absolutely hated playing those. Chooglin’ was literally one note the whole song. Didn’t really care for Good Golly Miss Molly although it was an interesting take. Overall, an album where the stars are enough to pull the less thans up for a great listen. You really get a sense of where Fogerty can take this from this album. The blueprints were drawn on the debut and the foundation laid with this one.

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Green River- so far, this one has resonated with me the most. I was familiar, of course, with the title track, Bad Moon Rising and Lodi, but the rest contributed to a pretty solid album. I didn’t care for Wrote A Song For Everyone but other than that, I liked the rest. Commotion and Sinister Purpose were standouts and Tombstone Shadow was a great blues that reminded me a lot of Strange Brew by Cream.

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Willy And The Poor Boys- the first real stumble for me. Well, stumble is probably too harsh. It’s the first album to have songs I disliked so much I skipped to the next track. I really didn’t like It Came Out of the Sky or Don’t Look Now. I’ve never been a big fan of Midnight Special, but I tolerated it ok. Down On The Corner is classic, of course, and my favorite CCR track has long been Fortunate Son. Nothing has changed on that count. Effigy was quite powerful.

Absolutely amazing that this was the third album to be released by them in 1969. Sure, Bayou Country was actually recorded in Oct, 1968, but this was released in Oct 1969 so that’s three albums recorded and released in 12 months. Astounding. Fogerty was in a perfect creativity whirlwind.

[i got bugs]

Fogarty and ten band are both in my area on the same night dammitt

[Teeeeeekay]

People are wild for not having Midnight Special on these lists.

[liebzz]

What blows my mind about getting into the albums with CCR is that they could really play some swampy blues jams. Listening to Chronicle, you’d think they were 2:30 and done with every song, but there’s some extended and just killer deep cuts in there.

In the studio albums thread (I am still keeping a list of my favorites), as of where I am today, I have Cosmo’s Factory at 39; Bayou Country at 93; Willy and the Poor Boys at 95; Green River at 104; CCR at 106; and Pendulum at 593 (out of 669). I have heard in the past but didn’t bother with the rest.

[knee tunes]

Fogarty and ten band are both in my area on the same night dammitt

what? where when

[i got bugs]

Fogarty and ten band are both in my area on the same night dammitt

what? where when

Nov 8
Jf Bethlehem
Tb Harrisburg

[LoathedVermin72]

Green River- so far, this one has resonated with me the most. I was familiar, of course, with the title track, Bad Moon Rising and Lodi, but the rest contributed to a pretty solid album. I didn’t care for Wrote A Song For Everyone but other than that, I liked the rest. Commotion and Sinister Purpose were standouts and Tombstone Shadow was a great blues that reminded me a lot of Strange Brew by Cream.

"Wrote a Song for Everyone" is my favorite song this album

[LoathedVermin72]

I really didn’t like It Came Out of the Sky

wtf

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I really didn’t like It Came Out of the Sky

wtf

That’s what I get for posting hours after I listened to it. It was Cotton Fields I disliked not ICOOTS. Sky was a pretty cool little rockabilly number.

[wease]

Green River- so far, this one has resonated with me the most. I was familiar, of course, with the title track, Bad Moon Rising and Lodi, but the rest contributed to a pretty solid album. I didn’t care for Wrote A Song For Everyone but other than that, I liked the rest. Commotion and Sinister Purpose were standouts and Tombstone Shadow was a great blues that reminded me a lot of Strange Brew by Cream.

"Wrote a Song for Everyone" is my favorite song this album

I tried it again. Nope. Sorry.

We’ll always have The Dan.

[wease]

Cosmo’s Factory- ok, wow. One of the most solid albums I’ve ever listened to. Not a bad song on it. Ramble Tamble opens with a funky little groove the transitions into a hard rockabilly then goes into a badass groove for the middle section. My only issue is that the middle is overly long with nothing really going on. There’s no solo, just playing the chord progression over and over. That drone guitar part doesn’t count. I kept waiting for it to go somewhere but it didn’t. By the time it got back to the rockabilly part again, I was bored with it. I’d love to hear a live version where that section just takes off because I really liked the song. A different version of Before You Accuse Me which is much more faithful to the original Bo Diddly arrangement. I did like this one better. I’d never heard either of these before. Ooby Dooby was new to me as well. Just a straight-up rockabilly tune that could’ve been done by Carl Perkins or Roy Orbison or Elvis. A fun tune. The other two I was unfamiliar with was Long As I Can See The Light and My Baby Left Me. Light is in the running for my favorite off the album. A Fender Rhodes and horns with a sax solo? Almost something out of Stax and quite unlike anything else I’ve heard up to this point. Just a great R&B tune. As I was listening to Baby, I thought “good lord this sounds like it could be an Arthur Crudup tune.” I guess there was a good reason for that… Nothing really new to add for the classics I was already aware of other than there are a LOT of them on this album with my favorite being Run Through The Jungle. I typically don’t listen to I Heard It Through The Grapevine when it comes on the radio or whatever because of its length, but I did the complete listen today and really liked it. That doesn’t mean next time I won’t skip it, but today, it hit me just right.

I saw some posts from earlier in the thread trying to determine what genre of rock CCR is and for me no description I have seen truly defines them. Southern rock? No. Swamp rock? WTF even is that? No. To me they’re just playing the same rock ‘n’ roll they grew up on. Almost all of it is just mid-1950s rock ‘n’ roll. Rock music was everything from Elvis to Little Richard to Johnny Cash to Bo Diddly to later with Marvin Gaye and Motown and Stax. And these guys have translated all of it and made it contemporary in the late 60s- early 70s. There’s not a category for them. They’re just rock ‘n’ roll. And I like it.

[LoathedVermin72]

I mean...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_rock

Swamp rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the mid-1960s as a fusion of rockabilly and soul music with swamp blues, country music and funk.[1] The genre originated in Louisiana by artists such as Tony Joe White, but was subsequently popularized by California band Creedence Clearwater Revival.[2]

[wease]

Why does it have to be labeled?

[LoathedVermin72]

Just saying Swamp Rock is their generally accepted genre. I think it fits.

[toomy]

Can we all agree that Centerfield is an annoying song?

[Birds in Hell]

My only issue is that the middle is overly long with nothing really going on. There’s no solo, just playing the chord progression over and over.

Those are the best bits of CCR.