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

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"and anyone seen the ccr woodstock footage? they're like fuckin' merzbow up there."

where can this be seen? (Youtube it...?) its not in the movie.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 June 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

i've always liked creedence! they fucking bring it, man.

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 June 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

< / delong >

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 June 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

okay, i'll raise my hand. ban me from the noize board now

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 2 June 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

anyone who hates CCR has no choogle in their blood and therefore suxx (not really, but c'mon, get with the program!)

― I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog (teenagequiet), Friday, 2 June 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Whatever.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Friday, 2 June 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Thomas has choogle but no voodoo.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 2 June 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

we will ramble tamble over the bones of our enemies.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who hates CCR should be raped until they die.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

2.5. lacks subtlety.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

ian...

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

If ILM has taught me anything it's that you can't write off people on acid tests like this. Pretty much every person on this board who I think has great taste has taken the opportunity at least once to violently bash an artist I really like.

But yeah, I agree for the most part. CCR totally rule.

― Keith C (lync0), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

The long album cuts might be more open to criticism. But unless you have something against perfect singles, I can't see how someone could write the group off completely. That said, their biggest hits are played to death on radio so I would perfectly understand if someone actively disliked them due to overexposure. If the title of the thread was 'If you cannot appreciate CCR's artistic merit, then...' I'd be more with that.

― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

CCR and Al Green may be the only artists discussed on ILM enjoyed by everyone.

While I don't actively hate either of these, I really have no interest in either one.

― Dr. Rodney's Original Savannah Band (R. J. Greene), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Thomas, I did not know this about you! Otherwise, we would've quit speaking long long ago.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

I do actively hate them. Dr. C OTM.

One song I will allow: The one about Lodi is at least moderately tolerable. That's the highest compliment I can pay, sorry.

― Fryin' Berry and Lon Jennon (Bimble...), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

I like CCR but some of Fogerty's vocal affectations make me shudder. I can't listen to their otherwise great cover of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" because of his pronunciation of the titular "heard" as hoid.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

stop hating america you jerks

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

"If you actively dislike the band from Fraggle Rock, then I can never respect etc. ..."

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

~~Merzbow live at Woodstock~~

Creedence Clearwater Revival live at Woodstock.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

I respect Creedence for the way they unashamedly pilfer from old-school R&B in a way that doesn't make me feel embarrassed for everyone involved. I've never been a hardcore fan, but "Fortunate Son" is awesome. I imagine it would have been a very ballsy song to release at the time.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

a) I'm bummed for anyone who doesn't see a difference between "jamming aimlessly" and chooglin.

b) All members of CCR are guaranteed to go to heaven when they die, thanks to their version of Good Golly Miss Molly.

c) Cosmo is seriously ripped in that Woodstock footage!

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Saturday, 3 June 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

tendency to jam aimlessly

Creedence were about the only late-'60s Bay Area band who didn't jam aimlessly. they barely "jammed" at all! two long songs on Cosmo's Factory /= "a tendency"

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 3 June 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

there's like 20 minute versions of "keep on chooglin'" tho. but yeah, they ain't "aimless jams"

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 3 June 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

live versions, i mean. most of the sf bay jam bands were obv. much different live than on record, since, like lps = 20 minutes or so (or less) a side. quicksilver and moby grape are pretty succinct on record!

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 3 June 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

john fogerty 'eye of the zombie' vs jimmy pursey 'alien orphan'

― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 3 June 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

I like CCR but some of Fogerty's vocal affectations make me shudder.

That's how I feel about Bowie on a bad day.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 3 June 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Did you start this thread just to gloat about me being banned from the noise board? I don't hate CCR so much, just Fogerty's face. He looks like the bassist from the Strokes.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 3 June 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

britishes people don't "get" ccr

no, they "get" that ccr sucks

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 3 June 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

i don't actively hate exactly, more like extremely indifferent

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 3 June 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

I am fairly much indifferent towards CCR.

"Have You Ever Seen The Rain" and "Who'll Stop The Rain" are great songs tho.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

growing up in the rural midwest it was natural for me to hate them due to overexposure of Classic Rock Culture.. but then i realized they're the fucking greatest

― ghost dong (Sonny A.), Sunday, 4 June 2006 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Also for consideration: they couldn't really play that well!

― ghost dong (Sonny A.), Sunday, 4 June 2006 05:03 (twenty years ago)

wait, were you banned for hating on ccr?

now you are unbanned. i don't pay enough attention.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Sunday, 4 June 2006 06:33 (twenty years ago)

Woah cool thx. I'll keep my feelings about CCR to myself on the noize board.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 4 June 2006 06:44 (twenty years ago)

"hstencil's got an itchy trigger finger"

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Sunday, 4 June 2006 06:50 (twenty years ago)

I love the heavenly heck out of CCR but allow me to speak from experience and mention that their hits were freaking ubiquitous on the radio throughout the very early 70s and as durable/classic as they still are (pace all the affection here) it was very possible to BURN OUT on all that choogling boogie and earnest lyricism when you heard it involunatarily like five times a day. Same with Steely Dan a few years later. Oh I still listen to CCR and SD...just sayin.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 4 June 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

i didn't ban him!

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

what about people who hate thin lizzy? can we eat them?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Make sure they are well sauteed, Scott.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

and what about people who hate ac/dc? what's their story? surely, we can tear them limb from limb without giving it much thought.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:13 (twenty years ago)

The Viking in you is becoming more direct with time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

"The Viking In You"

an ac/dc song title: "my little erik is liking/the viking in you"

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

That would definitely have to be a Bon era song.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:20 (twenty years ago)

The Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame is built with lumber harvested exclusively from John Fogerty's sideburns.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Sunday, 4 June 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

'fortunate son' is one of those songs that cannot be overstated. if only because nowadays we don't seem to have any otm political anthems from anyone other than the legendary k.o.

― gear (gear), Sunday, 4 June 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

if not for fortunate son, all vietnam war movie helicopter landings would be done to hendrix's all along the watchtower

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 5 June 2006 00:09 (twenty years ago)

I can accept this. It took years for me to buy Chronicles.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 5 June 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4892759232

There you go. Knock yerselves out!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 June 2006 07:24 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

So true.

― caek, Sunday, 7 October 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

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This is the one song from those first two albums that I saved on the hard drive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU6BIKveg7c

― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 June 2025 02:42 (one year ago)

How well it would fit onto a CCR album, I don't know--doesn't much sound like any version of them.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 June 2025 02:43 (one year ago)

Somewhere I read John defending his dominance in the studio as a reaction to Fantasy Records' crazy production demands (which I mention above), that there was no time to ask everybody if they loved the mix when a new album was due every few months; though bbviously, based on his solo career as well, he likes to have the final say.

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 4 June 2025 15:46 (one year ago)

one month passes...

The rhythmic fakeout in Midnight Special is sooo sick. When the first chorus starts with just bass and guitar you think "alright this is gonna be a shuffle" but then the drums come in and nope ACTUALLY it's just the grooviest straight-time choogle you've ever heard

― J. Sam, Wednesday, 9 July 2025 04:16 (eleven months ago)

otm

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 July 2025 05:36 (eleven months ago)

i love the idea of an ILM poll for "you could work/play for musician X, but it probably won't be fun." fogerty, mascis, wilson, etc.

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 9 July 2025 06:55 (eleven months ago)

James Brown. Mark E Smith. Captain Beefheart. Chris Squire. Frank Zappa. Although I have the impression Frank Zappa auditioned his players thoroughly and generally treated them well, perhaps because some of them were relatively high-profile.

The "Midnight Special" trick is clever. At the start of the chorus it's "chunk, a-chunka, a-chunka" and then suddenly, as if a switch had been flipped, it's "chunk-a-chunk-a-chunk". There is no astronaut Frank Douglas, no mystery to be solved.

It still beggars my mind-beef that they released three albums in 1969. Their whole career was over in three years. Plus Mardi Gras at the end but no-one wants to talk about that. And yet people do want to talk about it.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 10 July 2025 20:14 (eleven months ago)

six months pass...

what's up john

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4uzympZPx0

― budo jeru, Friday, 16 January 2026 15:57 (four months ago)

Change in the Weather's such a great song

I got three separate ads on that Tiny Desk video before the second song had started, one in the middle of Proud Mary and two during John's little story

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 January 2026 16:11 (four months ago)

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