They're an archetypal 1970 pop band, basically.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 11 August 2012 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
"roots rock" comes pretty close to naming it. i suppose you could call it rock americana or rock-as-folk music. whatever unites bob seeger, X, green on red, etc. reminds me of that 80s beer ad with the long ryders, where one of them says, "i think rock & roll is folk music, cuz it's music for folks."
anyway, did CCR invent nostalgia for olde america in rock?
― contenderizer, Saturday, 11 August 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
The Charlatans were doing that to a degree (and very differently than CCR) in 1966 with something like Robert Johnson's "32-20," or the saloon-type music they'd play.
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 August 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
These guys, too.
http://www.jmeshel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/basementTapes.jpg
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 11 August 2012 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
The Lovin' Spoonful had a distinctly American nostalgic aspect.
― timellison, Saturday, 11 August 2012 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
Well the entire folk revival did, really.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 11 August 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
"Summer in the City" predates Fogerty's vocal style, I think.
― timellison, Saturday, 11 August 2012 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
duh, yeah, of course CCR wasn't there first. sorry. occurred to my on my evening walk that dylan is probably the single person who most deserves credit for bringing that folk- & country-derived sensibility into rock music. but more than any of the others i know of, CCR made it "rock" in the algerian goalkeeper sense. like attached it to the chuck berry --> jerry lee lewis --> early beatles --> sonics/wailers lineage.
― contenderizer, Saturday, 11 August 2012 05:29 (eleven years ago) link
never really enjoyed ccr. fogerty's voice grates. plus not a fan of that rootsy rock thing,or at least their way of doing it. go choogle somewhere else. tho fogerty is really impressive in that footage of him doing fortunate son with the dead, gotta say...
the band, eh whatever. kind of annoying
i do like a lot of grateful dead stuff
― dell (del), Saturday, 11 August 2012 06:54 (eleven years ago) link
the band minus dylan, i should emphasize
― dell (del), Saturday, 11 August 2012 06:55 (eleven years ago) link
were CCR critically neglected because they were pop, in a certain way? the way their albums are set up--cover versions, not much "concept", singles-dominated.....they seem just a little old-fashioned: they're making pre-Sgt-Pepper LPs in the post-Pepper era.
I don't think any of the roots/rock comparisons for CCR quite work, Pop Americana mythos/bullshit purveyed by Californians--the most revealing comparison, for me, would be the Beach Boys.
― theStalePrince, Saturday, 11 August 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
lol i had no idea they were from california! i honestly thought they were from louisiana. or wherever you would be from that would make one pronounce "burning" in the odd way he does in proud mary
i dunno. the beach boys at least sung about the culture in the region of the country they were from.
possibly what ruined ccr for me was seeing a tv commercial for a greatest hits of theirs which ran constantly for a year or so when i was a kid. i don't know if i had even heard them on the radio before that point, but being exposed to several seconds snippets of their most famous songs ad nauseam kinda ruined them for me. again, it's fogerty's voice. plus that centerfield song he did. yuck
― dell (del), Saturday, 11 August 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
put me in coach
― contenderizer, Saturday, 11 August 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyDT828gmFc
I remember those CCR commercials. I thought they were hilarious at the time. At some later point, I checked Chronicle out of the library and my life-long infatuation was birthed.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 11 August 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
The only other person I've ever heard say "boinin'" like Fogerty is David Lee Roth. I assume DLR lifted it wholesale from John because it sounds oddly cool.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 11 August 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
foetus too
dark gods boint my evil soul
― contenderizer, Saturday, 11 August 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
haha
oddly felt would cover the old man down the road in live settings. just seems odd to me, like learning that vini reilly is covering bad company or something
― dell (del), Saturday, 11 August 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZaU3VtMfoM
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Saturday, 11 August 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
totally forgot Foetus! The tense threw me off.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 11 August 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
I suppose because of Fogerty not owning his songs I had the plesaure of hearing "Down on the Corner," "Lookin' Out My Back Door," etc licensed in the eighties for grocery store commercials.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 August 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
I remember the day I discovered the subtle nod to Up Around the Bend in Wish You Were Here, though. See if you can find it!
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Saturday, 11 August 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
staleprince otm
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 August 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
possibly what ruined ccr for me was seeing a tv commercial for a greatest hits of theirs which ran constantly for a year or so when i was a kid.
haha this commercial is one of my earliest musical memories + is the reason why CCR was my first favorite band
― Gurdas Mane (crüt), Saturday, 11 August 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
"i dunno. the beach boys at least sung about the culture in the region of the country they were from." yeah, but--the culture of California IS fantasy, right? It's not like the Beach Boys presented themselves as realist chroniclers of quotidian California....
(btw I like both varieties of bullshit mythos in question!)
― theStalePrince, Saturday, 11 August 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
FINAL OFFER !!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgD9rg0EdcA
― Sun? Sun? It's your cousin, Marvin Ra (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 11 August 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
I think despite my dad owning the first several Creedence albums, I wouldn't have been nearly as familiar with CCR if it hadn't been for those commercials.
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Saturday, 11 August 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
I was familiar with them before the ads started, so they struck me as utterly bizarre. Imagine, say, Led Zeppelin or Neil Young being marketed like that -- that's what it felt like.
― Sun? Sun? It's your cousin, Marvin Ra (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 11 August 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, I remembered the song sequence in that commercial almost perfectly. It really left quite an impression.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 11 August 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, but that's to CCR's credit. they're not just some rock band. they actually made music people like, people who might conceivably order an album from the televison. they're operating on a zamfir-type level.
― contenderizer, Saturday, 11 August 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure CCR had nothing to do with those commercials, right? All the recordings were owned by Fantasy and Fantasy dealt them out to the highest bidder (or basically anyone who offered them a buck).
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 11 August 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
^yep a chubby, depressed introvert living with an abusive father/manager singing songs about surfing and hot rods
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 11 August 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
sure but i'm guessing no one in the fogerty family were noodling on the weekends or whatever. at least dennis surfed, etc
― dell (del), Saturday, 11 August 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
i guess that makes it authentic then
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 August 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
Who cares either way?
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 11 August 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIPlXU65NTI
― He Wasn't Even The Best Drummer In The Rutles (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 August 2012 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, that commercial. I still have that 3xLP that I bought ON THE TELEPHONE!!!
LOLLIN'Peter G.
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Sunday, 12 August 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
as a rockist, i care a lot
― dell (del), Sunday, 12 August 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
the band
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 12 August 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
surely it's more authentic if you are singing about stuff that you are first-hand observing and that your brother and cousin (who is also writing lyrics) then ccr-approach which was just more from
but i mean, "who cares?" is i guess otm. if you're complaining about mythos of place then you might as well throw in time and then all retro-leaning bands can be indicted
― dell (del), Sunday, 12 August 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
John Fogerty wrote most of the big hits when he was toiling in shitty minor league baseball shithole towns in the central valley and midwest, god bless him.
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Sunday, 12 August 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
occurred to my on my evening walk that dylan is probably the single person who most deserves credit for bringing that folk- & country-derived sensibility into rock music
Um, I think that sensibility has pretty much been there since the beginning - like Elvis Presley, for instance?
― o. nate, Sunday, 12 August 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
I think he meant aside from Elvis, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, and several thousand other singers...
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Sunday, 12 August 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
folk/country music has always dealt w/ that kinda thing -- pretty sure the carter family was marketed as "back to that ol' good time mountain music"
― tylerw, Sunday, 12 August 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
the central valley back then (and huge swathes of the east bay as well, which btw feature(d) plenty of backwoods mountains and marshes/wetlands too) was rural as fuck. Fogerty really did drink Green River etc
― the choogler and the chosen one (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 12 August 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
Um, I think that sensibility has pretty much been there since the beginning - like Elvis Presley, for instance?― o. nate, Saturday, August 11, 2012 5:32 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkfolk/country music has always dealt w/ that kinda thing -- pretty sure the carter family was marketed as "back to that ol' good time mountain music"― tylerw, Saturday, August 11, 2012 6:02 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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tylerw otm that the sensibility in question has always been a pig part of folk & country music.
― contenderizer, Sunday, 12 August 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
lol "pig part"
big part
― contenderizer, Sunday, 12 August 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
lol rockist criticisms of ccr
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 12 August 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
so wait, had fogerty actually experienced true authentic choogle or was theirs a false choogle?
― wk, Sunday, 12 August 2012 05:21 (eleven years ago) link
there is only one choogle
― contenderizer, Sunday, 12 August 2012 05:26 (eleven years ago) link