If you could have only two Creedence songs

[Sits]

Call of the card. I’ll be making this into a playlist:

1= Fortunate Son 6
1= Have You Seen the Rain? 6

3. Up Around the Bend 4

4= Bad Moon Rising 2
4= Lodi 2
4= Someday Never Comes 2

7= Born On the Bayou 1
7= Born To Move 1
7= Commotion 1
7= Cross-tie Walker 1
7= Don’t Look Now 1
7= Green River 1
7= Lookin’ Out My Backdoor 1 (feel bad for not giving this a vote now)
7= Pagan Baby 1
7= Run Through the Jungle 1

[Amor de Cosmos]

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.

They were together for quite some time before they started having hits, about ten years I think (didn't check.) They paid their dues as a bar band in small towns up and down I5. That's what Lodi's about.

[ad hoc]

CCR are a band that completely escaped my attention throughout my youth. I first heard of them when I lived in Thailand as an adult and there was a female Thai singer who did a cover of "Have you ever seen the rain?" (I think I had probably heard "Bad Moon Rising" before that, but never associated it with anyone, or paid any attention to it). It's not like the genre was alien to me. As a stoner i listened to a fair amount of the brothers Allman and Doobie, as well as various other hippy stuff like Jefferson Airplane, CSNY, Country Joe, etc I even had a friend who was into the Grateful Dead - though there was no amount of hash I could smoke - and I did get through epic quantities - to make the Dead sound anything other than tedious bollocks. But CCR never crossed my consciousness. I guess they must have been a slightly different genre, or time period or something.

I still really have no idea of much of their canon

[Duncan Gardner]

They were together for quite some time before they started having hits, about ten years I think (didn't check.) They paid their dues as a bar band in small towns up and down I5. That's what Lodi's about.

Don't forget the half-hearted pretence at being English (see also Doug Sahm and his Quintet)

Timeline

1959-1965 Blue Velvets
1965-1967 Golliwogs
1967-1972 CCR
...
1996-date Revisited (Clifford and Cook only)

[Duncan Gardner]

Ps I think AH Would enjoy the Dead's American Beauty. Melodically folksy, limited noodling

[Amor de Cosmos]

CCR are a band that completely escaped my attention throughout my youth. I first heard of them when I lived in Thailand as an adult and there was a female Thai singer who did a cover of "Have you ever seen the rain?" (I think I had probably heard "Bad Moon Rising" before that, but never associated it with anyone, or paid any attention to it). It's not like the genre was alien to me. As a stoner i listened to a fair amount of the brothers Allman and Doobie, as well as various other hippy stuff like Jefferson Airplane, CSNY, Country Joe, etc I even had a friend who was into the Grateful Dead - though there was no amount of hash I could smoke - and I did get through epic quantities - to make the Dead sound anything other than tedious bollocks. But CCR never crossed my consciousness. I guess they must have been a slightly different genre, or time period or something.

I still really have no idea of much of their canon

At the time they were part of what was rather pathetically and inaccurately termed the Second Wave of San Francisco bands. In fact they weren't a Berkeley/Hashbury band at all and had no cred with that audience until the parade of hits began with Proud Mary in 1969. They were a bunch of blue-collar rockers who the hippies would probably have booed off-stage two years earlier.

[Hot Pepsi]

They were together for quite some time before they started having hits, about ten years I think (didn't check.) They paid their dues as a bar band in small towns up and down I5. That's what Lodi's about.

I see. But still, that's a lot of albums and a lot of hits for just five years.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Absolutely. The singles scored one after the other. Between 69 and 72 they were rarely out of the charts. They were a reaction to the extended psychedelic noodling of the late sixties, a flash-back to 50s two-minute rockabilly, and a precursor of US punk/new wave in the late 70s.

[1974ddr]

That was the way they ran the music business at the time: work them hard while they're hot, and don't worry about longevity. The Lovin' Spoonful had a similarly 'productive' career, something like seven albums and a dozen or so singles in not much more than three years.

[Sits]

Those with Netflix, don’t miss the Creedence film if you’ve not already seen it. Full title: Travelling Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival At The Royal Albert Hall. It’s actually more than that, a potted history finishing with the 1970 Albert Hall show. If any of you caught them live you’re very fortunate.

[G-Man]

How did it miss this thread?

Someday Never Comes
Up Around The Bend

Clearly I prefer my CCR when they were in Southern Rock mode.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

1.Bad Moon Rising
2. Up Around the Bend (but that one probably just out of personal nostalgia as it was on a reel-to-reel tape which my big bro got my Dad to record for him back in 1970 from some end of the year radio hits rundown)

Have to confess that I know Green River mainly as the song with the YouTube video of scantily clad Pan's People dancing on TOTP.

Edit: I've just seen that a few years ago I posted "too tough to choose". I must be getting more quickfire opinionated as I age.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Those with Netflix, don’t miss the Creedence film if you’ve not already seen it. Full title: Travelling Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival At The Royal Albert Hall. It’s actually more than that, a potted history finishing with the 1970 Albert Hall show. If any of you caught them live you’re very fortunate.

As previously mentioned I was at that show.

[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)

Will stick with the above

[Sits]

As previously mentioned I was at that show.

I missed your original mention. That must have been quite something.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Yeah, it was excellent. Though pretty much greatest hits as per the 45s. Which was unusual at a time when most bands went into extended, and often tedious, versions of their catalog. It was also striking that they were positioned in a tight group in the middle of an enormous stage, which made them look a little lost. I'd seen Cream's last concert a couple of years earlier on the same stage and, though there were only three of them, they seemed to fill the same area.

[Duncan Gardner]

Just rereading Bad Moon Rising by Hank Bordowitz

[danielmak]

Call of the card. I’ll be making this into a playlist:

1= Fortunate Son 7
1= Have You Seen the Rain? 6

3. Up Around the Bend 4

4= Bad Moon Rising 2
4= Lodi 2
4= Someday Never Comes 2

7= Born On the Bayou 1
7= Born To Move 1
7= Commotion 1
7= Cross-tie Walker 1
7= Don’t Look Now 1
7= Green River 1
7= Lookin’ Out My Backdoor 1 (feel bad for not giving this a vote now)
7= Pagan Baby 1
7= Run Through the Jungle 2

I missed this thread when it was started.

1.Fortunate Son for the poignant lyrics.

2. Run Through the Jungle as a precursor to some mashup between grunge and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion version of 90s alternative rock

Poll votes updated above but not poll positions.