There's a place up ahead and I'm pollin' — CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL (ILM artist poll #62) Voting open until Friday June 12, 2015

xp ooh thanks, never heard that

none of the boxsets are available easily i.e. within a budget, uk-side.

Urgent & Key: New (Old) Warehouse Decree: EVERY FRIDAY is CREEDENCE FRIDAY

Lonesome Cowboy John:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEj3OilpsIs

i always liked ccr but when i heard this song the first time, it totally blew me away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGEENWVlu0c

underrated album tracks dept:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_y-CHghv3w

smokin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYBm0mOXH74

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRU8fEsq6nk

and I've always loved this, their token "psychedelic opus" moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AusxenG8uno

yeah Penthouse Pauper is smokin hot

"Effigy" and "Feelin' Blue" are real standouts on that record.

Also, holy crap, they put out THREE albums -- all stone classics -- in 1969.

hope to see votes for "Wrote a Song For Everyone"

for true!

Another one that should be high on your ballot: Don't Look Now

If you're only familiar wtih the Minutemen version, treat yourself to the original, it's up there with their best.

Will definitely vote for "Wrote a Song For Everyone." Was legit surprised to see that it wasn't on Chronicle.

It's on Chronicle 2

Pagan

Baby

I was just looking at wiki and... I knew that there was tight timeline on these records, but "Green River", "Bayou Country" and "Willy & the Poor Boys" all came out during the SAME FUCKING YEAR?

Here's my ballot:

1. Every song that isn't "Ooby Dooby"
2. "Ooby Dooby"

Also, weird for such an awesome band that their tunes are surprisingly great fodder for covers, Minutemen, 8 Eyed Spy, Uncle Tupelo, Richard Hell...

Jesus, Ike & Tina, duh

Sleater-Kinney!: https://youtu.be/k5v_m5JAuBY

Santana with Scott Stapp! I ain't linking it but its out there

Silkworm!

The CCR song I hold closest for an odd reason is "Long As I Can See the Light," because I had a dream one night as I was drifting off to sleep that it was written/sung from the perspective of a man who had just died and wasn't sure yet what this death thing was all about. I don't know if that was Fogerty's intention (probably not), but I love that halfway lucid reading of the song.

Send all ballots to choogledocs AT gmail DOT com.

lmao

perfect

This song to me is like all of 1970 in a hand grenade with a three-minute fuse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbI0cMyyw_M

^^Used to fantastic effect in The Big Lebowski.

Any chance people could preface their YT embeds with the song's name? PRC, eh.

I still think about this mark s post (& maybe conflate it w/something he or dave q said about Roxy Music?):

above all that they cared abt singles rather than LPs, and were definitely counter the big-art-statement faux adult sensibility of the times — the songs were tight and sort of just there, rather than constructed and worked over and part of some brave new post-beatles counterculture world
also i think that the music they minded about was music that ROCK AS IT BECAME AWARE OF ITSELF was trying to put behind it, or get beyond, or something

like in the late 60s, a LOT of music — pop and non-pop — from the 50s and early 60s was widely considered a bit of a primitive yokel joke: and i think they clung to it in quite a lonely, dogged way...

this later (80s etc) became for others a revivalist shtick which played super-well in music mags etc — grrr the clash haha — and part of the general dad-rock cd-rerelease spasm, but these were the years when rock was in its prime and needed no memory, or anyway a sense of its own HISTORY was not yet at all important to its essential identity

(sorry this probably isn't very clear: i think what i'm saying is that the content of "revival" in their name and aesthetic — partly bcz it wz half ironic, in a bitter sort of way — was that it refused to place faith in these huge PLACEMARKER WORKS, dylan/beatles/stones blah blah, which stood in the way of understanding where they themselves as works came from, and provided the glue of the music community all round, the values it shared...)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:14 (12 years ago)

Holy crap, i'm listening to disc one of the box and the Golliwogs O.G. version of "Walking On The Water" (laid down in August 1966) sounds like it was recorded in 1975! Dig how the fuzz/compressed bass sounds like an Arp! And how that clanking fuzz solo at the end is straight outta the Pere Ubu playbook!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkhCifAgLY4

I'm off ILX now but am making a one-off return for this.

They're famous now for hitting #2 on Billboard five times but never having a #1 (singles--still a record). I was looking at their discography, and they actually had four consecutive #1 singles in Canada, the first three two-sided: "Up Around the Bend"/"Run Through the Jungle," "Lookin' Out My Back Door"/"Long as I Can See the Light," "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"/"Hey Tonight," "Sweet Hitch-hiker" (love that clip posted above--almost looks like an actual video).

Proud to say I owned Cosmo's Factory on 8-track.

haha I always forget about the randomly punched in backing vocals on Suzie Q

Another great clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmrwAW5-5rU

I think there's a running joke--maybe it started with Christgau--about avoiding any CCR song about rain. I think "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" is okay; truly love "Who'll Stop the Rain," musically and metaphorically.

Wow you're right, he calls Who'll Stop The Rain "borderline-sappy." That's always been one of my very favorites and will be very high on my ballot.

huh the main riff in "Graveyard Train" bears an uncanny resemblance to Tom Waits' "Gin Soaked Boy"

starting an album with "Ramble Tamble" was pretty amazing, wasn't it? kinda like starting with "Gimme Shelter" maybe?

listened to Green River last night, title track and "Commotion" are both worthy of consideration imo

Green River is incredible, I consider that tune some kind of turning point in their discography tbh

I sang it the one time I ever did karaoke, it's got some kind of dark woods magic to it

i think up to that point there are glimmers of what they were capable of, you can hear them teasing out their ideal synthesis of country, R&B and swamp blues or whatever you want to call it - and there are some really good songs - but Green River is the moment it all comes together

the moment it all comes together

I believe this is known as "chooglin'".

Man, Fogerty has written some incredible stuff. Was just listening to the #1 fans the Minutemen, and their "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" is, along with Bruce's, such a great underscoring of that song as an amazing part of the protest canon.

Actually, Bruce does "Who'll Stop the Rain," doesn't he. Eh, same dif, both great.

The Minutemen also do Don't Look Now, a song whose lyrics are probably more relevant today than when it first came out.

Weirdly, the Minutemen's vers of "Fortunate Son" isn't as awesome as it should be

tbf IMO none of the main Minutemen covers are as good as the original - Steely, Creedence, Halen etc

What I love about the Minutemen's covers is they really turn them into Minutemen songs, esp Halen and the Dan, the covers that hew too close to originals I don't love as much.

"Don't Look Know" is so much about Boon's vocal that it carries the song for me

Did any Scottish punk bands cover "Keep on Chooglin"

Someday Never Comes is a really good song too. It reminds me of the Yo La Tengo poll.

"Who'll Stop the Rain" has probably gotten the most repeat listens from me. I love the build-up to the refrain. I love the three-note guitar hook like a raindrop splashing off the ground. A classic, tremendous tune centered around harrowing tension & poignant release.

This is probably my favorite cover version of a Creedence song. Richard Hell doing Walking On The Water.

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

xp thanks, I'll leave it as is, it was hard to get down to 25 tracks ... maybe some late voters will pick up my slack

def hard to narrow it down. listening through all the songs on my ballot, I keep thinking every single song should be my #1.

My list is basically Chronicles Vol. 2.

OK, sent. Don't even want to think about the stuff I've left off.

btw I'm counting Chronicle as an album b/c why not

aw c'mon man this is like voting for the Immaculate Collection or something

Nothing wrong with voting for either (and TIC is worse than Chronicle). Some comps transcend their ephemerality: Al Green's, Sly Stone's, Singles Going Steady.

Voted!

Will vote tonight.

Sent.

me too

just voted

when do ballots need to be sent by? midnight?

ostensibly yes, but I'm actually not going to get a chance to tally things up till tomorrow, so i'll extend the deadline till noon tomorrow

Voted

http://polkmuseumofart.org/wp-content/uploads/I-Voted-Sticker.jpg

sent in my ballot, hope I made it in time

I've only got 21 ballots including my own, which seems a little low. I'm inclined to extend the voting period. Is anyone else interested in voting?

Wow, I thought this might end up being one of the polls with big participation, but ilm is finicky.

21 is about average i think

I didn't submit a ballot, but would vote if an extension was made.

But I don't want to be that guy everyone's waiting on either.

I think 20+ is enough to get reasonable results. ILM def has poll fatigue and extending deadlines isn't going to change that.

all right, i'll go ahead and tally these up, then. voting is closed!

i know everyone likes these brief voting periods but i always thought 2 weeks was too short, both as a voter as an organizer. i always pushed back the deadline for polls i ran to encourage more ballots. and w/ this one i just barely had the time to work on my ballot before the 2 weeks were up.

that said, 21 is definitely a decent number, maybe even above average. i've definitely done artist polls w/ fewer voters.

I promise I won't say "'Ramble Tamble' only at No. 16? It would've at least been No. 15 had my ballot gone through."

Don't worry, I've got "Ramble Tamble"'s back.

Me too!

"Actuhs in tha White House"

Oh yeah, I've def got "Ramble" in my top five somewhere

No worries on the "Ramble Tamble" front.

"Ramble Tamble" is probably very moved by this outpouring of support.

POLLIN' on the river — CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL (ILM artist poll #62) RESULTS THREAD