Creedence Clearwater Revival vs the Grateful Dead vs the Band

like you could include the Burritos in here, but why the fuck would you? and the New Riders, and America for that matter, but contrast is best when there's just a few flavors.

xp what's "out there" about AB? p straight country rock album imo

unless you wanted to throw Neil Young in here (he would've won btw)

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Stay out of the damn threads if you don't like them

Polls are just arbitrary conversation starters anyway, the results are meaningless

Neil Young vs. New Order vs. Public Enemy

No one gives a FUCK about the results.

I call that poll "NYNOP"

Steely Dan vs. tacos

Neil was the kind of Mount-Rushmore type I had in mind; positive he would beat CCR, though not resoundingly (65/35?).

Neil Young vs. Biggie

poll the potential polls

not sure i could trust a man who would vote CCR over Neil Young. and I love CCR.

American Beauty is not real representative of the Dead qua Dead. It has no guitar solos, for one thing.

I think the best CCR poll would be one where somebody like Sabbath was up against them so the CCR people could be like "I like Sabbath fine but come on, they don't have classic tunes like" etc and the Sabbath people could be like "have you EVEN HEARD Volume IV"

poll should have no end-date

there's a guitar solo on box of rain but it's not played by garcia!

13th Floor Elevators vs Little Feat vs Crosby, Stills & Nash

bitching about polls vs. bitching about hipsters

The Supremes vs CCR

it might be "fun" to design a poll whose results on ILM are guaranteed to disgust

like the Supremes vs the Pixies

earnest CCR vs. Beatles poll

Something I've been meaning to ask everyone: do you say "Creedence Clearwater Revival" or "Creedence Clearwater Revivals"?

Hollies vs CCR

you just say "CCR"

poll should have no end-date

this is a great idea tbrr

poll should have no end-date

lol, YES. Make them last five years at least. xpost!

Credeence Clearwater Revival in the morning, Credeence Clearwater Revival in the evening? What's the worst part of Credeence Clearwater Revival? How has Credeence Clearwater Revival changed over time?

another interesting thing would be polling bands whose aesthetics are clearly different - like, this poll is an attempt to frame three visions of what are seen as the same impulse. I don't see it that way (I don't think the Dead are really trying to do anything like what either CCR and the Band are doing, and I think the Band only in the same turf as CCR about half the time), but I think (say) CCR vs. Sabbath would be a "two different approaches to cathartic release" poll. Also it'd be fun to know just who is a big enough chump to vote CCR over Black Sabbath

I would probably have to go with Sabbath in that contest, seeing as how they basically invented a genre

Sabbath have really had next to no impact on my life. Liked "Iron Man" as a kid, that's about it. If you factor in inventing a genre, they're obviously heavyweights, but I don't like their music.

well they invented a good genre, i would still vote for CCR over the douche that invented 'moombahton' or whatever (xpost)

pitting anyone against sabbath is pretty unfair imo.

lol remember this

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

Sabbath

did I mention that Creedence was playing at the u-mail-it place when I went in yesterday?

Man, those guys need a new manager.

creedence clearwater revisited vs. robertson-less band vs. furthur

Man, those guys need a new manager

it's two guys, neither of whom are named Fogerty. so they're probably about where they deserve to be imho

good ol shakey, never fails to let the joke fly over his head

skipped joke, moved on to tyler's post

But I lolled at both Tarfumes' joke AND Shakey's rejoinder!

The Dead had so much more range than the other two. To me it would have made more sense to do Dead vs. Byrds. And CCR vs. I dunno, Three Dog Night or somebody. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

i.e. shit that my truck driving uncle listened to in livermore in the '70s

The Dead did more things badly, I'll give you that

and none of them well imho

you listen to music badly

This thread is chooglin

American Beauty is not real representative of the Dead qua Dead. It has no guitar solos, for one thing.

― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:37 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the question was the best dead album for a NON dead fan, american beauty is their best conventional album, so i think that's a better starting point that OMG dude def start with the 15 minutes of dicking around with feedback on dark star at the cleveland speedway april 16 72

OTM. Although I would break it out more. If you like nuggets style garage rock you should like Cream Puff War, the early Warlocks stuff, Birth of the Dead, Mindbender, Can't Come Down, etc. If you like SF style psych like the Airplane, Fish, Quicksilver, Charlatans, etc. then I can't see why you wouldn't be into Anthem of the Sun and Aoxomoxoa. And if you like country rock go to American Beauty and Workingman's Dead. If you don't like any of those things then what are you doing trying to get into the Grateful Dead?

the question was the best dead album for a NON dead fan, american beauty is their best conventional album

This album that sounds like nothing else they ever did is the perfect gateway!

but if you do like those things and still claim that the Dead did them badly then you're either trolling, haven't actually listened to those records, or you can't get past some stupid idea of gross '80s-'90s deadheads.
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how does AB sound like nothing else they ever did!? it sounds like a logical continuation of other stuff they were doing around that same time.

Golliwogs > Warlocks

"Fight Fire" kinda sucks. I skip it every time.