If you actively dislike Creedence Clearwater Revival, then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything.

this thread is making me feel patriotic

Do you feel born to wave the flag...oooohh, the red, white and blue?

(xxpost) Undoubtedly, but they were much bigger in the US. However that is not the same as saying they didn't get "much exposure" in the UK, or that hardly anyone knows who they are. We're not talking Three Dog Night here!

It seems like young people like Creedence in the US. They don't in the UK.

Most youg folks don't know 'em beyond Bad Moon Rising. They don't get radio play much or get namechecked by UK bands or have features in Mojo and Uncut and that v much. I think the comment about people who know 'em having hundreds of records is true, in my experience.

Oh who knows what young people like, not me, that's for sure!

... what I mean is, I don't know what young people like, not that they don't like me, errrrrrrrrrr, if you see what I mean

I think that if you ask a randomly selected 20-40 year old in the UK, they probably won't be able to name any of their songs -- and that's if they've even heard of them. Sure, they were known at the time, but they're just not part of the cultural canon in the same way over here.

Meaningless anecdotal evidence: most of my friends (in their 20s) are several-hundred-CDs types, but I think I'm the only one who actually owns any Creedence (apart from my brother, who got a copy of Chronicles from me for his birthday last year).

I think that if you ask a randomly selected 20-40 year old in the UK, they probably won't be able to name any of their songs -- and that's if they've even heard of them.

True. But true of most late-60s American rock bands.

Tom D. are you working around to a point or just being argumentative for the sake of it?

That Creedence Clearwater Revival are hardly an obscure band in the UK? Pretty obvious point I'd say.

I only knew Fortunate Son (via the Circle Jerks) and Bad Moon Rising until today, when (partly prompted by this thread although I already had it on mp3 anyway) I listened to Willy & the Poor Boys. I can report that I don't actively dislike CCR, but I'm not blown away by them either. I am British though, which may or may not have some bearing on the matter. I really like Effigy.

i like willy & the poor boys a lot, but i go with cosmo's factory or green river as legit "blown away" material

also, thread title otm x 1,000,000

I didn't realise Run Through The Jungle was CCR! I only know the 8 Eyed Spy & Gun Club versions. I guess I'd better download that one as well then...

Green River is the one.

THEY ARE ALL THE ONE

Yo Colonel: also go for the song 'Ramble Tamble' for brilliant uncharacteristic mesmeric psych jam! And in response to what people say upthread about lack of UK airplay etc., Wogan often rocks a bit of 'Lodi' or 'Bad Moon' in the AM! If that ain't mainstream, I dunno what is.

Every album has a song you don't notice much on the first few listenings, but which creeps up behind and sticks an ice pick in your noggin: "Sinister Purpose", "Penthouse Pauper" et al

I put Ramble Tamble (and a pre-CCR track of theirs) on my blog earlier this week: http://pentangle.net/blog/archives/156 and http://pentangle.net/blog/archives/153.

no mention of Bayou Country?? THAT one is the one that kicked my ass - i never have gotten up from that

by the way, in 1969, Bayou Country reached #41 on Billboard's "Black Albums" chart

someone just mentioned Penthouse Pauper, that's on Bayou, right? As is Keep on Chooglin'. I youtubed that Woodstock stuff this weekend, holy cow.

"Not much exposure apart from having a UK No. 1 Single, 3 other UK Top 10 singles, two further UK Top 20 singles and three more UK Top 40 singles... total unknowns really."

Yeah, but you'd never know it, would you?

They never crop up on those "Sounds of The Sixities"/"Rock'n' Roll Years" type nostalgia programmes. It might be because there's no readily available UK TV performances that are easy to dig out of the archives. Unlike, say, The Byrds, where you'll always see that TOTP "Tambourine Man" clip pop up sooner or later.

They've pretty much been erased from the collective UK memory, as far as I can see.

i just wanna pop in to say that i am more proud of this thrad than any other thread i have started on ILM ever.

They were overrated, but I don't actively dislike them.

Yo Colonel: also go for the song 'Ramble Tamble' for brilliant uncharacteristic mesmeric psych jam!

also on this tip - Pagan Baby!! total killer, that one.

I youtubed that Woodstock stuff this weekend

!!! I have never seen this footage, wasn't aware it was even available

"They've pretty much been erased from the collective UK memory"

Yes, it took a lot of work, but we did it. Skynyrd are next.

christ no wonder the uk's music scene sucks

hahaha

sad but true

Amen.

i'd got to war for CCR

CCR haters hate your freedom

HEY SHAKEY MOOOOO

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ccr+woodstock

ja watched all those last night - thx!

"christ no wonder the uk's music scene sucks"

Of course, it's stuff like this that prompts us UK'ers who like CCR in practice to hate them in principle.

Thinking about what you said about CCR not being that well known in the UK in spite of their (quite considerable) chart success, maybe that's because they were considered a sort of pop band? Therefore not deemed interesting enough for proggers? More conjecture, in the 70s, didn't Status Quo basically become a kind of UK version of CCR? Blotting out CCR in the process?

ohhhhh that's right you Britishers are obsessed with categories of music and such, i forgot. carry on.

And Americans aren't?!?! LOL

Ugh.

i said obsessed, not aware of

"didn't Status Quo basically become a kind of UK version of CCR?"

Quo, at their peak, were far heavier than CCR could dream of being.

Quo were louder. Louder ain't heavier. And fey faux-"psychedelic" vocals damn sure ain't heavier than Fogerty.

Quo's thing was brutal, unrelenting riffage. They helped create metal as we know it. Not for what they added, but for all they stripped away.

oh thank god ilx is back

i missed its brutal, unrelenting idiocy

What's wrong with brutal, unrelenting idiocy? We all love the Ramones, nicht wahr?

heads-down boogie and chooglin' are two very different things, my man.

amen!

"heads-down boogie and chooglin' are two very different things, my man"

OTM, and I hpe we can part as friends on that one,