Creedence Clearwater Revival vs the Grateful Dead vs the Band

Creedence Clearwater Revival every gd time

Creedence Clearwater Revival every gd time

― Gurdas Mane (crüt), Thursday, August 9, 2012 6:24 PM (1 minute ago

the band have meant a lot more to me for a lot longer, but I listen to the dead much more now. not voting tho because why bother voting in a creedence poll in ilm

clearly ilm's fondness for creedence is jingoism

CCR is the only one that i actually enjoy listening to as much in practice as in theory, and never think "I wish I was listening to Little Feat instead"

I listened to Cosmo's Factory and Willy and the Poor Boys today, and you know I love my metal, but no metal band in the history of Earth has ever written a song half as creepy/ominous as "Run Through the Jungle."

listen to/love The Band the most

CCR. Then the Dead. I loathe The Band except when they're backing other people.

goddamn the band vs ccr is near impossible for me.

btw where has tyler been lately?

tylerw?

yeah, just this thread obv is his deal

ccr is "better" but the last waltz has meant a lot more to me than any creedence

tough vote between ccr and the band. the dead would be #3 for me. Voting ccr. but all 3 were pretty great.

CC fuckin R. jesus

Creedence Clearwater Revival without hesitation.

Creedence Clearwater Revival every gd time

― Gurdas Mane (crüt), Thursday, August 9, 2012 6:24 PM (1 minute ago

CCR, since pretty much everything is awesome. The Band gets spotty after the first two albums.

I think CCR holds the record for most number of number two hits (five) with no number ones (seven total went top 10). Also, I mean, five albums between `1969 and 1970!

lol this thread is aero bait

Love all three bands, but, again, the Dead.

CCR is the greatest American rock n roll band

John Fogerty is the greatest American rock n roll singer

astonishing rhythm section too

The Band is the group where I like their sound and I like the individual players best.

love CCR but if this is based on singers the band wins by a large degree

And the singing.

xp

haha

CCR is the best. the band is wonderful. the dead have some epic albums and at their peak they were amazing. i wonder how the dead would be considered if they didn't have that whole image associated with them, which i think overshadows their genuine skills and talent, which is the case with virtually any jammy band with any merit.

basically: CCR >>>> the band >>>>>the dead

TS: Danko vs. Manuel vs. Levon

Omar otm

Love Creedence--not just their music, but also their story, the way they managed to be incredibly smart and of-the-moment while being perceived by many as the "Down on the Corner" band that made feel-good hit singles. I like a number of Grateful Dead songs a lot, although I'm basically a casual fan. The Band are a huge blind spot for me.

CCR - easy

i hate to do the kneejerk thing but i have to vote creedence. i never really got into the band and i don't think last waltz is that great. much respect for the band, but the pop fan in me prefers the punch ccr packs.

i meant to write the dead in that last sentence.

only one of these bands has ramble tamble

and only one has Doug Clifford

Want to vote for The Band. I never got into CCR beyond their singles/best of comps. Where does one start w/them regarding full-lenghts & deep cuts?

"Ramble Tamble" is, for me, their greatest song, which is saying a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a fair number of people who love them from the radio and/or Chronicle who don't know it. I may have heard it on the classic-rock station once or twice in my life.

(Wrote that before Darin posted--wasn't a specific response to him.)

but it is the answer
find cosmo's factory, put that shit on and boogie

Creedence Clearwater Revival every gd time

― Gurdas Mane (crüt), Thursday, August 9, 2012 9:24 PM (Yesterday)

on the real, though, the polls of 3 tenuously connected bands, this shit is terrible, i hope this is the last one.

it's called curating, i thought you were supposed to be a 90s nerd

I can't choogle to The Band or The Dead.

As crut says, Creedence Clearwater Revival every gd time

Yeah, but "Up on Cripple Creek" is like deep funk so it's not like all is lost.

it's called curating, i thought you were supposed to be a 90s nerd

― j., Friday, August 10, 2012 12:44 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

you're just, like, typing words here, they don't actually mean anything, right

the Dead in 72 sound like the Band

"Sugar Magnolia" can choogle

voted CCR of course

CCR. No brainer. Ramble Tamble & Fortunate Son vs most other bands catalogues. CCR vs Neil Young. Now there's a tough call...

most everybody in this thread otm. good work, people.

idk I have always really hated his midnight ramble speech

Everybody talks about how great a guitarist robertson is. All of his solos on Last Waltz sound exactly the same. I'm no guitarist so i may be missing something.

I haven't seen The Last Waltz in a long time, but his playing on Dylan's 1966 live stuff is fucking ferocious.

every member of the Band is a fucking dazzling musician. "Dazzling" doesn't mean they showboat it means any one of them could sit in with anybody and feel like they'd been in the band since it started after about one chorus

The problem is that he's trying to showboat in that movie and he looks like an ass.

he was high on cocaine, cut the guy a break

don't think the last waltz shows anyone in the band off to their best advantage, musically (tho' rick's performance of 'Makes No Difference' prob tops the studio versh), but you only have to listen to robertson's playing on, say, the live version of 'unfaithful servant' from Rock of Ages to hear what a great great guitarist he was

I know Neil Young was. I think his face was frozen the way he was moving his jaw.

xpost

i heard my first ccr album last week or whenever it was the hottest day while laying on a random person's bed pretty baked half listening to the bbq chatter outside 8pm terror twilight kind of time, i have no idea which one it was but it was amaaaaaaazing and much cooler than anything i've heard by the band or the dead

ward OTM

the idea that The Last Waltz is the Band at their best is really misguided....they were sputtering out by then...it's got it's moments, but honestly Van Morrison and Ronnie Hawkins are the best parts.

Their stuff on Festival Express is way way better, just performancewise

Bill: The story goes they had to Rotoscope a coke booger out of Neil Young's nose to at some expense at Neil's insistence.

I love The Band on Festival Express.

i dunno, i think the band sounds great in the last waltz.

they are still good but the whole thing is a bit bloated feeling....the set-ups are good....dixie is a bit overblown...

the thing that drives me nuts now though is by that point Robbie was SO INTO his "let me go up to the microphone and mouth the words so it looks like i can actually sing even though i'm totally mixed out because it's really important that you understand i'm the most important" thing, uggg it's like dude 3 great singers in your band stfu and play guitar

I wish I had the book handy, but Levon's autobio has some funny takedowns of Robbie's behavior during The Last Waltz, stuff like, "Wow, you sound great...singing into that switched-off mic! Haw haw haw!"

Bill: The story goes they had to Rotoscope a coke booger out of Neil Young's nose to at some expense at Neil's insistence

^that's hilarious. the guy is so obviously coked to the gills during this thing.

the sad thing is, robertson wasn't an utterly horrible singer - iirc danko in particular was always encouraging him to sing more - it's just that he was obv never going to match the other three.

robbie should have done some of this allegedly non-horrible singing on his solo albums

He sounds decent on "Ain't No More Cane," one of my all-time favorite Band songs.

he's singing lead here -- though it sounds like danko is doubling him for most of it. i like this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIC35OU33Es
but yes, he's basically terrible on his solo recs.

i mean, we could split hairs all day about whether robbie was a horrible or merely passably mediocre singer, but the point of his showboating and trying to upstage the 3 truly remarkable and wonderful singers in his own band remains.

yeah, i mean, if you knew nothing about the band while watching the last waltz, you'd assume he was one of the lead vocalists.

If i knew nothing about the Band while watching the Last Waltz, i'd assume somebody would want to pummel the guy after the concert.

I'm just not that into the vocals on the Band.

softspool otm. Stage Fright gets unfairly maligned as one of the mediocre later Band records and that's just nuts

i mean i get that it doesn't quite have the singularity of BP or the vertigo-inducing highs of s/t but damn it's a great, solid record from start to finish

btw, since i could only find one passing reference to JD McPherson via search, I'll link a vid here. Roots rock fans of John Fogerty (or The Blasters, or maybe The Iguanas) might want to check him out. Great record, super fun live show. (Or maybe you're heard him and don't care?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZGn4LncY0g

the band's s/t is one of the best albums by anyone ever

http://24.media.tumblr.com/6e2f850cf1ce6e0b82749abdf9bc1ec8/tumblr_mn9rty3qUR1rvzbdgo1_500.jpg
damn i think ccr just won this poll because of this photo of them at taco bell

A+!!!

Want to see a CCR vs. The Smiths poll, but I'm not going to start it and ILX doesn't need another Smiths poll

is this song a choogle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSFuutCPjGw

This song is absolutely a choogle.

thank you! i just wanted to make sure i understood what chooglin was and this song has the feel i thought was a choogle.

Fogarty should do a record with Jaki IMHO

Speaking of CCR and Booker T, check out who's checking out the MG's from side-stage here. I believe they're saying, "This song is absolutely a choogle."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbBcXvKvB08

booker t - CCR choogle jamz here: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=839

I wish those Booker T & CCR jams went anywhere. More noodlin' than chooglin'.

damn, is it not worth checking out?

Yeah, choogle choogles with a purpose. xp

the choogles aren't mindblowing but they're a good time!

I thought chooglin was all about the groove, not the destination.

chooglin' to damascus

boogie-woogie choogle boy

the choogle is in you

let me choogle that for you

I like my choogles to be more exclamatory than aimless.

Choogling is like good krautrock that way. It might take eight or nine minutes to get there, but you're definitely going somewhere. Probably by train if you're choogling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4twvM3mNAuU

^ original nu-metal

Dig, if you will, Rasputina's cover of "Bad Moon Rising."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4J-l8DDH78