― gbx (skowly), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Creedence Clearwater Revival live at Woodstock.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 3 June 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 3 June 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 3 June 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
That's how I feel about Bowie on a bad day.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 3 June 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 3 June 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link
no, they "get" that ccr sucks
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 3 June 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 3 June 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link
"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 (seventeen years ago) link
― ghost dong (Sonny A.), Sunday, 4 June 2006 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― ghost dong (Sonny A.), Sunday, 4 June 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link
now you are unbanned. i don't pay enough attention.
― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Sunday, 4 June 2006 06:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 4 June 2006 06:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Sunday, 4 June 2006 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 4 June 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link
an ac/dc song title: "my little erik is liking/the viking in you"
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Sunday, 4 June 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 4 June 2006 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 5 June 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link
I can accept this. It took years for me to buy Chronicles.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 5 June 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link
There you go. Knock yerselves out!
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 June 2006 07:24 (seventeen years ago) link
So true.
― caek, Sunday, 7 October 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
otm. i always heard their longer stuff ("grapevine," "ramble tamble," "keep on chooglin'") as a response to the dreary ineptness of groups like the dead: "hi. yeah, just wanted to let you know that we can do everything you can do, plus everything you can't do. sometimes simultaneously."
― Lawrence the Looter, Sunday, 7 October 2007 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Truly, if you don't thrill to "Born On The Bayou" or the riff to "Up Around The Bend" then you should probably defenestrate your stereo, as you clearly have no appreciation for decent `choons.
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 7 October 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I've stated before that Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of my favorite bands. They have one of the best singles runs of any band in the last 50 years. Every Creedence single was a double A-side. "What's your favorite Creedence song?" you might ask. And I would say "Whichever one is currently playing or is about to play next, depending on the physical proximity I have to one or the other." However, their long songs are nowhere near the might and caliber of late-60s Dead explorations.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 8 October 2007 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>They have one of the best singles runs of any band in the last 50 years.</i>
i.e. The entire history of rock and roll
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 8 October 2007 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
The thread title is hyperbole, but there's a kernel of truth. There are bands I like way more than Creedence, but they're a universal litmus test. If you actively dislike them (rather than just don't know that much about them beyond Lebowski, which is true of pretty much the entire population of the UK) then we're coming at music and culture from such different directions that we're never going to get along and we better stick to topics we know won't bug us.
― caek, Monday, 8 October 2007 11:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm from the UK, and I like them a lot. They just never got much popular exposure over here, and yet at the same time weren't sufficiently "underground" to be picked up as a hip reference.
They're generally ignored as one of those worthy, "authentic" groups beloved of a certain type of sentimental US baby-boomer.
What most people over here are missing is that they were actually a great pop band.
― PhilK, Monday, 8 October 2007 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, there are great swathes of "classic rock" that are pretty much unknown outside the music nerd community in the UK. E.g. I have never met a British Steely Dan or Rush fan who didn't have several hundred other records. I gather these people are pretty common in the US. Even Fleetwood Mac don't seem as universal in the UK.
― caek, Monday, 8 October 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Creedence Clearwater Revival: C or D?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 8 October 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Best Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) Single
― Mark Rich@rdson, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I think "not liking CCR" is a condition listed in the DSM-IV
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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That's kinda pointless
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:20 (sixteen years ago) link
seriously, you guys need to relax with the CCR. it's getting culty up in here.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm from the UK, and I like them a lot. They just never got much popular exposure over here
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.
rather than just don't know that much about them beyond Lebowski, which is true of pretty much the entire population of the UK
LOL @ Americans not knowing anything about the UK
― Tom D., Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Eh? I'm from Sheffield.
― caek, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
You should know better then!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Um, or meet the people you know who like Creedence, because I don't know any.
― caek, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:51 (sixteen years ago) link
You should get out more. Admittedly I don't know too many 50-60 year olds either.
― Tom D., Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:54 (sixteen years ago) link