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

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

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

When we got to CCR on the "bands everyone likes" thread it was going well for a bit but alas there were finally some dissenters.

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I dissent. I can stand some of the big hits - Up Around The Bend and Bad Moon Rising are fine, but the rest just sounds like a third rate bar band fronted by a singing goat.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I love CCR but I can certainly understand why people wouldn't like them: Fogerty's voice, samey arragements, tendency to jam aimlessly

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

britishes people don't "get" ccr

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Balls

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

be happy to be an exception.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Um, I think they had about 10 top 40 hits in Britain.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i had a friend who only knew about ccr through an ad constantly running on tv for a compilation. it was one of those "sessions presents!" kinda things, selling ccr the same way they'd sell a k-tel comp. my friend wrote them off as a joke based on that. years later she realized the error of her ways.

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

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

CCR rules. My dad like CCR and brought me up right. No dissent should be tolerated. Martial choogle law will be enforced by the Natl Guard if necessary.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

CCR rules. My dad liked CCR and brought me up right. No dissent should be tolerated. Martial choogle law will be enforced by the Natl Guard if necessary.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I think my girlfriend doesn't like CCR :(

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Parents listened to a lot of CCR and, well, classic rock in general. Listening to CCR greatest hits now and can definitely say I dislike this and never want to hear it again. Aside from a few hits it's really intolerable.

― larssen (larssen), Friday, 2 June 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Please report to your local re-education center.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 2 June 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

CCR and Al Green may be the only artists discussed on ILM enjoyed by everyone.
-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (soto.alfre...), June 2nd, 2006 10:55 AM.

WRONG. I would be perfectly happy to never hear another note performed by John Fogerty ever, ever again.

I love CCR but I can certainly understand why people wouldn't like them: Fogerty's voice, samey arrangements, tendency to jam aimlessly
-- Oh No, It's Dadaismus (dadaismu...), June 2nd, 2006 11:12 AM.

You got it.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Friday, 2 June 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

< / delong >

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Whatever.

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

Thomas has choogle but no voodoo.

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

we will ramble tamble over the bones of our enemies.

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

Anyone who hates CCR should be raped until they die.

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

2.5. lacks subtlety.

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

ian...

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

stop hating america you jerks

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

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

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

~~Merzbow live at Woodstock~~

Creedence Clearwater Revival live at Woodstock.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

britishes people don't "get" ccr

no, they "get" that ccr sucks

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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^^^ so he probably did OK, but had to watch a lot of $ go to his hated nemesis

― sleeve, Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link

Yeah, they were sufficiently high that he didn't have to release records or tour for 10 years!

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link

Thanks!

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link

We should have a poll of biggest record executive assholes: Zaentz, Allen Klein, the Bert Berns, who else?

― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Friday, 13 January 2023 00:02 (one year ago) link

~~the~~

― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Friday, 13 January 2023 00:03 (one year ago) link

Plenty of small label owners to add to such a list! Most of them in fact.

― the billy sherwood of trad jazz (Matt #2), Friday, 13 January 2023 00:04 (one year ago) link

Greg Ginn belongs on that list for sure, and Tony whatsisname from Victory Records.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 13 January 2023 00:21 (one year ago) link

Armen Boladian for sure

Matthew Katz should count

― birdistheword, Friday, 13 January 2023 00:46 (one year ago) link

Ginn is really bad

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 January 2023 00:56 (one year ago) link

The Homestead guys

― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Friday, 13 January 2023 00:58 (one year ago) link

Don Robey
Morris Levy

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 January 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link

“John’s songs are some of the chooglinest compositions of the 20th century,” Valentine said.

― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 13 January 2023 01:22 (one year ago) link

Robey, definitely. A complete sack of shit, and until recently, I didn't realize that some believe he coerced Big Mama Thornton into loading the bullet that killed Johnny Ace into his gun.

― birdistheword, Friday, 13 January 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link

(I doubt the theory myself, but that's only a small part of an article detailing how terrible Robey was.)

― birdistheword, Friday, 13 January 2023 01:37 (one year ago) link

Was driving around this morning and "Commotion" came on, so you know what I did?

I turned that shit *up*.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link

I think someone was intentionally making a statement, playing that song on the sound-system one day in Walmart just before Christmas.

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link

We should have a poll of biggest record executive assholes: Zaentz, Allen Klein, the Bert Berns, who else?

A manager rather than a record company guy but hard to beat this guy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Polley

― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Monday, 16 January 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link

If you include managers, Peter Grant has to be near the top of the list.

― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Monday, 16 January 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link

Grant didn’t steal from, or otherwise rip off, his bands. But he got in way over his head thinking that surrounding Zeppelin with his gangster buddies, and using brute force bullying tactics, was a good idea. Zep got their money, and control over their work, but Grant did tremendous damage (physical and emotional) along the way. Not for nothing did Plant and Page take on Who/Judas Priest manager Bill Curbishley for the UnLeded records/tours.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 January 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

Sweet hitchakikah

― calstars, Saturday, 4 February 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

The red 15 means "not allowed." I tried.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/choogled.jpg

― clemenza, Friday, 3 March 2023 02:55 (one year ago) link

"Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" has recently crossed the Billion spins threshold on Spotify, with "Fortunate Son" coming up next with almost 924 Million plays.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 March 2023 03:09 (one year ago) link

How much $ does that translate to

― calstars, Friday, 3 March 2023 03:50 (one year ago) link

around 3 million dollars?

― corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 March 2023 07:06 (one year ago) link

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