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

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

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

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

There you go. Knock yerselves out!

So true.

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"

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."

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.

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.

<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

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.

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.

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.

Creedence Clearwater Revival: C or D?

Best Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) Single

I think "not liking CCR" is a condition listed in the DSM-IV

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That's kinda pointless

seriously, you guys need to relax with the CCR. it's getting culty up in here.

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

Eh? I'm from Sheffield.

You should know better then!

Um, or meet the people you know who like Creedence, because I don't know any.

You should get out more. Admittedly I don't know too many 50-60 year olds either.

It seems like young people like Creedence in the US. They don't in the UK.

this thread is making me feel patriotic

Do you feel born to wave the flag...oooohh, the red, white and blue?

(xxpost) Undoubtedly, but they were much bigger in the US. However that is not the same as saying they didn't get "much exposure" in the UK, or that hardly anyone knows who they are. We're not talking Three Dog Night here!

It seems like young people like Creedence in the US. They don't in the UK.

Most youg folks don't know 'em beyond Bad Moon Rising. They don't get radio play much or get namechecked by UK bands or have features in Mojo and Uncut and that v much. I think the comment about people who know 'em having hundreds of records is true, in my experience.

Oh who knows what young people like, not me, that's for sure!

... what I mean is, I don't know what young people like, not that they don't like me, errrrrrrrrrr, if you see what I mean

I think that if you ask a randomly selected 20-40 year old in the UK, they probably won't be able to name any of their songs -- and that's if they've even heard of them. Sure, they were known at the time, but they're just not part of the cultural canon in the same way over here.

Meaningless anecdotal evidence: most of my friends (in their 20s) are several-hundred-CDs types, but I think I'm the only one who actually owns any Creedence (apart from my brother, who got a copy of Chronicles from me for his birthday last year).

I think that if you ask a randomly selected 20-40 year old in the UK, they probably won't be able to name any of their songs -- and that's if they've even heard of them.

True. But true of most late-60s American rock bands.

Tom D. are you working around to a point or just being argumentative for the sake of it?

That Creedence Clearwater Revival are hardly an obscure band in the UK? Pretty obvious point I'd say.

I only knew Fortunate Son (via the Circle Jerks) and Bad Moon Rising until today, when (partly prompted by this thread although I already had it on mp3 anyway) I listened to Willy & the Poor Boys. I can report that I don't actively dislike CCR, but I'm not blown away by them either. I am British though, which may or may not have some bearing on the matter. I really like Effigy.

i like willy & the poor boys a lot, but i go with cosmo's factory or green river as legit "blown away" material

also, thread title otm x 1,000,000

I didn't realise Run Through The Jungle was CCR! I only know the 8 Eyed Spy & Gun Club versions. I guess I'd better download that one as well then...