If you could have only two Creedence songs

[Duncan Gardner]

Fussbudget wrote: As far as the major credible white male musicians are concerned (that's the game we're playing, right?)

Bien sur, Madame. And they don't come more credible than the Revival, n'est-ce pas?

Cross-tie Walker
Don't look now

[Cal Alamein]

If you could have only two Creedence songs

A band that produced only quality and got out at the top of their game. Somewhat like The Jam.

Up Around the Bend
&
Fortunate Son

[Amor de Cosmos]

If you could have only two Creedence songs

Fortunate Son

Lookin' Out My Backdoor

And a serious nod to Lodi.

[multipleman78]

If you could have only two Creedence songs

Fortunate Son

Bad Moon Rising

[Freestyling buck wilding Stijn Stijnen]

If you could have only two Creedence songs

'Bad moon rising' and my fave 'Green River'.

But none of us compare to this guys parents when it comes to the CCR love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Couto

[Hobgoblin]

If you could have only two Creedence songs

Someday Never Comes and Lodi.

I would have said Suzie Q but decided to stick to their own songs.

[Jah Womble]

If you could have only two Creedence songs

Up Around the Bend
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?

[Sundeporino]

If you could have only two Creedence songs

Fortunate Son
Have You Ever Seen the Rain

[Sits]

If you could have only two Creedence songs

Good band to add to this game. This became a lot harder than I expected but great fun deciding.


Edit: just realised I voted twice, so I’ve removed the old one.

[matt j]

If you could have only two Creedence songs

Someday Never Comes
Have You Ever Seen the Rain

[diabloinglés]

If you could have only two Creedence songs

Pagan Baby
Born To Move

[jason voorhees]

If you could have only two Creedence songs

The one with the Playboy Bunnies in Apocalypse Now

Born on the Bayou

[Come along, Min]

If you could have only two Creedence songs

jasoñ voorhees wrote: The one with the Playboy Bunnies in Apocalypse Now

That version isn't CCR.

[Duncan Gardner]

Costa County, particularly the northern and eastern parts, is a little funky. Creedence Clearwater Revival are from El Sobrante (as is Primus, actually) and the idea nowadays of a band from a town with a BART station portraying themselves as rednecks would seem ludicrous, or an ironic put-on. Arguably that’s what Primus was. But anybody who has spent time in El Sob can see that it probably *was* a hick town 50 years ago. Those people weren’t like people in Berkeley or Alameda who probably visited San Francisco pretty regularly or even worked there, these people rarely if ever went into the City. It was foreign territory to them

I thought it was El Cerrito?

Some songs have settings that are clearly redneck, like Born on the Bayou. Cross Tie Walker is about Montana. Others are in Northern California further out- where neon turns to wood as they said. Up around the bend, Green River and of course Lodi

[Flynnie]

Ah yes, although it doesn’t change the point really. El Sob and El Cerrito are only a few miles apart from each other.

[Duncan Gardner]

Cheers. So any excuse for a top 10

Porterville
Penthouse Pauper
Cross Tie Walker
Don't Look Now
Ramble Tamble
Pagan Baby
Sail Away (Stu Cook)
Tearing up the Country (Doug Clifford)
Joyful Resurrection (Tom Fogerty)
Long Cool Woman in a black dress (the Hollies tribute)

[Duncan Gardner]

....

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Too tough to choose!

[1974ddr]

Up Around The Bend
Run Through The Jungle

[Sits]

Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Up Around The Bend

Although Looking Out My Back Door holds a special place:

[Incandenza]

Commotion
Lodi

[scratchmonkey]

Fortunate Son just resonates with me to not be selected, even now it's still got that powerful anger and the system it's aimed at is, if anything crookeder.
Have You Ever Seen the Rain is just pure class.

[1974ddr]

Fortunate Son just resonates with me to not be selected, even now it's still got that powerful anger and the system it's aimed at is, if anything crookeder.
Have You Ever Seen the Rain is just pure class.

Hmm, yes, I didn't think of Fortunate Son.

[Duncan Gardner]

Fortunate Son is about David Eisenhower (Ike's grandson, Nixon's son in law. Camp David is named after him)

[Hot Pepsi]

I recently noticed that CCR only lasted about five years and the break-up was not cordial, apparently. They created a lot of memorable songs for such a short, unpleasant time together.


Anyway.

Fortunate Son and Have You Ever Seen the Rain