Creedence Clearwater Revival vs the Grateful Dead vs the Band

i'm looking for the "half chub" option

Mississippi Half-Chub Uptown Toodeloo

haw!

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that royal festival hall concert is indeed sick, and they got my vote. i've tried a thousand times to appreciate the dead, but the trustafarians at my high school made it impossible.

^^^ Har, A+ knob! (xpost)

CCR, great as they were, should really come in dead last here. They only did one thing, and they only did it well, like, a third of the time. The rest of the time was spent playing shitty covers.

Like the Dead never played covers, and some of them (cough*Chuck Berry* cough) horrendously. I actually really like all CCR covers, even the ones dissed upthread.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

That's a smackdown.

creedence vs. band vs. allmans anyone?

okay, phew, i was worried i'd have to adjust the model

oh yeah, that feels good

VINDICATION

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Creedence - Reagan
Dead - Mondale
Band - Ferraro

guys...

"It's Just a Thought"

lol, so wrong

Moby Grape - Gary Hart

must be time for ccr vs. aerosmith

ccr vs. Husker Du

(Minnesota, obvs)

(and maybe Fugazi from DC)

CCR steely dan hall & oates

but maybe that's too obviously the marital aid

idk man that's seriously tough

I knew CCR would win, but I'm surprised it was so lopsidedly in their favor. Now that I think about it, the Band didn't enter the conversation as much as I'd have imagined. Could it be that a lot of us just aren't familiar with them?

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Yeah ive never listened to The Band. I have that live movie though, one of these days i'll watch it...

that live movie's maybe the worst way to experience 'em - check out their second LP, the self-titled one. it's sublime.

I didn't vote - couldn't choose between CCR & the Dead. The Band have a handful of nice songs (and I love the Basement Tapes), but I don't know... I have "Music from Big Pink", but I've only listened to it a couple of times and it hasn't really clicked with me yet. Maybe I need to give it another try.

Results are ridic

Results are awesome. CCR heads above these other pretenders

creedence vs. band vs. allmans anyone?

― how's life, Wednesday, August 15, 2012 8:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this would be interesting

or simply allmans v. dead

CCR vs Jesus Christ, the Son of Man

CCR vs. Thor, God of Thunder

surprised by how CCR destroyed in this poll. voted for the band fwiw.

didn't vote, but wrote letter to Obama telling him to listen to Pembroke Pines 77

guys let's take all the "random band vs. vaguely contemporaneous band" poll ideas, write them down on pieces of paper, put them in a big bowl, and then set the bowl on fire

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think CCR would beat anybody in a poll except Mount Rushmore-type people--Beatles, Dylan, Velvet Underground, etc. Draw that line wherever you want to, and they're at the lower end. I think they'd beat the Allman Brothers handily.

well this poll came into existence because CCR finished 3rd in Dead vs. Yes vs. CCR and CCR fans were like "you can't treat my grampa like that, grampa is the best"

grampa v. CCR

that was Rush that lost the poll w/ the Dead and Yes

guys let's take all the "random band vs. vaguely contemporaneous band" poll ideas, write them down on pieces of paper, put them in a big bowl, and then set the bowl on fire

I wonder if there's some way you could just not click on the polls that offend you?

there's really not!

that was Rush that lost the poll w/ the Dead and Yes

Rush is the Canadian CCR though

You're both tiresome.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think CCR would beat anybody in a poll except Mount Rushmore-type people--Beatles, Dylan, Velvet Underground, etc.

Well, they did lose to the combined forces of The Velvet Underground + The Stooges + Big Star, though they still finished respectably:

CCR vs. The Velvet Underground + The Stooges + Big Star Poll

im surprised that Algerian Goalkeeper hasnt started a CCR v. Ulver v. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum v. the top 100 bands of the 80s (not hair metal, not punk, not country) poll

these threads are some of the best talk on canonical rock band stuff on ilx in years imo

some dude's antipathy to these threads is weird to me - I think the worst of these three bands won by a landslide in this poll but it's still a good time, chill out some dude

Don't remember that one, but 25 votes is pretty good in that context. (Confusing calculation on the one side...)

somehow, some dude and thomp are both otm

did I mention that Creedence was playing at the u-mail-it place when I went in yesterday? several songs, too, not just the radio. it reminded me that if I ever get access to the master tapes of these records I must wipe all Fogerty's vocals without pausing to consider the historical effects of my actions