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The Creedence Clearwater Revival Revival
- asveikau 4y agoCollege freshman roommate had a CCR box set on CD and I ripped it and played it constantly. Just my small personal story to say: not underappreciated by me. Even some of the more obscure tracks get me to sing along.
- porknubbins 4y agoAlso reminds me of my friend’s freshman roomate was a pothead hillbilly who blasted Cripple Creek every single day when he got back from class. My friend can’t listen to CCR to this day.
- neverartful 4y agoThe song is "Up on Cripple Creek" by The Band. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_on_Cripple_Creek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_on_Cripple_Creek
- AutumnCurtain 4y agoThat's The Band, not CCR, if I recall correctly. Great song
- porknubbins 4y agoYes I misremembered the story. Probably because the title has so many C’s and R’s in it.
- onionisafruit 4y agoTo be fair, it’s probably the most CCR-like song The Band recorded.
- saghm 4y agoI thought Cripple Creek was The Band? Or did CCR cover it?
- spanktheuser 4y agoPlus you gotta factor in Gen Z's love of all things boomer. Legendary take.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoThe late 60s (and especially 1969) was just a very great time for music, perhaps because the boomers were coming of age, but anyone of any gen can enjoy it. The only time in my life that competes, and even then not anywhere near as much, is the early 90s (incidentally, inspired a lot by the late 60s).
- AlbertCory 4y agoThere's a series on Apple TV "1971" which was also a great year. The movie gives just way too much airtime to Sly and the Family Stone and Gil Scott-Heron, though. Not that they weren't important, but there are a whole lot of other groups they don't mention at all.
- 00s_enthusiast 4y ago>Plus you gotta factor in Gen Z's love of all things boomer. it's called musical stockholm syndrome.
- torpid 4y agoIt still blows my mind that these guys weren't Southern boys but from California. Ramble Tamble remains one of my most earliest memories listening to my dad play CCR's Cosmos Factory from a cassette tape as a kid, and still one of my favorite rock songs and albums.
- silisili 4y agoSame. I always picture them as some band playing out of Alabama/Georgia. I guess it's not unheard of. Dwight Yoakam is from Kentucky but made all his money doing Honky Tonk in Los Angeles of all places...
- flint 4y agoThe scene in Die Hard 4 with the computer nerd and McClane did a lot to establish CCR for milenials https://youtu.be/BefcIPHuoRI https://youtu.be/BefcIPHuoRI
- eweise 4y agoPendulum was the first album I ever owned. My mom bought it for my birthday when it was first released. Turns out it was one of their weaker albums but its still my favorite since it brings back such great memories.
- xattt 4y agoYour experience brings up an interesting concept: the general idea that certain songs/pieces of music will only sound amazing under certain circumstances. That is, a piece of music won’t “hit you” if the conditions aren’t right (you can’t hear the words, you’re not doing something that matches the song, you’re just not in the mood).
- JohnBooty 4y agoMusic is how I know that I'm in the doldrums, or depressed -- it stops sounding good to me.
- tsimionescu 4y agoThis is exactly why I never thought stuff like "concert violinist plays his Stradivarius in the subway and barely anyone listens, even though it would cost hundreds to attend a concert" is surprising, or says anything other than "you can only appreciate music if in the right context".
- snshn 4y agoWhat if this world is a simulation created for the purpose of generating puns?
- CoolestBeans 4y agoCreedence Clearwater Revival may never be endlessly talked about like Hendrix or the Beatles or the Stones but their music will probably outlive most of their 60s contemporaries. First, everyone loves Creedence and their music crosses the political spectrum big time. Fogerty might be a liberal Democrat but his music hits big with conservatives. This is where the more conservative approach in lyric writing the article points out works in their favor. CCR never really wrote a drug song except for maybe "Lookin Out My Back Door" and that is hardly explicit. "Fortunate Son" isn't anti-war by being against the war, its anti-war by pointing out the injustice of the elite, the powerful, and the decision makers of America not having to put their own children on the line and deal with the consequences of their decision to go to war with Vietnam. The love for CCR is so widespread that Donald Trump used "Fortunate Son" in a campaign rally, unaware of the irony considering he got out of the draft. Second, most of their songs are pretty easy to pick up and play. And because of the first point, they're all crowd pleasers. I'm in my mid-20s and when I picked up the guitar some of the first songs I learned once I got my chords down were "Have You Ever Seen The Rain" and "Bad Moon Rising". Why? Because everyone knows those songs and my dad get a kick out of it. Maybe Creedence Clearwater Revival will never hit the philosophical or virtuoso depths of some of its contemporaries, but there is enough substance there to not just be a generic commercial pop song. Yet they are simple and universal enough to enmesh themselves into our American culture.
- dehrmann 4y ago> except for maybe "Lookin Out My Back Door" According to Wikipedia, > Fogerty, however, has stated in interviews that the song was actually written for his then three-year-old son, Josh.
- reaperducer 4y agoI can't hear that song without thinking of the alternate lyrics: Here comes Peter Cottontail Hopping' down the bunny trail Hippity-hop, Easter's on the way Bringing every girl and boy Baskets full of Easter joy Do do do lookin' out my back door
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- olivermarks 4y agoSounds as though Fogerty is finally getting the rights to his songs back from Fantasy records and the publicity is now ramping up. https://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-fogerty-creedence-clearwater-revival-songs/ https://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-fogerty-creedence-clear... Interesting Fantasy Records' head Saul Zaentz isn't mentioned anywhere in the New Yorker article.
- acheron 4y agoHe’s been dead for 10 years.
- woofyman 4y agoJohn Fogerty is alive.
- olivermarks 4y ago@acheron means Saul Zaentz of Fantasy records.
- petesergeant 4y agoI think the subject of the sentence was probably Saul Zaentz
- havblue 4y agoSo he definitely can't dance, then?
- dehrmann 4y agoThere's an argument that because he lost the rights, the songs saw wider licensing than he ever would have signed off on, cementing their popularity.
- justin66 4y agoWould any human other than the late Saul Zaentz make that argument?
- elteto 4y agoFortunate Son is an incredible political song that feels eternal in message and yet it also feels deeply localized to the social environment of the US in the late 60s and early 70s. I think that duality is what makes it such a great song. Plus that opening… could recognize it in an instant.
- _fat_santa 4y agoThat song really started my love for the classic rock from the 60s and 70s. Heard it on Instagram and looked it up on Spotify, Spotify's recommendations did the rest and now my playlist for that genre is ~200 songs. The music from that era seems timeless like almost nothing else after it. I love early 2000's Pop and Hip Hop but that's soley because I grew up during that time and it's very nostalgic. With CCR, Hendrix and others, the music is just really damn good and truly timeless IMO.
- DavidSharff 4y agoLove it. I feel similarly about the quality (don't know what else to call it) of the many songs I listen to from that time, compared to similarly popular songs over the past decades. Though for me they're also nostalgic in a way which clouds my judgement: I was introduced to vast amounts by my dad in the 90s. I do think there's some selection bias when we sample tunes that already ran through the filter of their time and 50 to 60 more years of collective filtering. One group I still didn't know much about and I think many people still don't (paradoxically so) was the Beatles. When I was 18, a friend lent me every album from Revolver through Abbey Road. If you haven't listed to those all the way through, you may be in for a treat. Also, if you want to hear an incredible modern artist's own version of a protest song, check out Sturgill Simpson's Sea Stories. Dude was in the navy and wrote it as part of a concept album dedicated to giving his first child life advice.
- spfzero 4y agoRe: selection bias. I remember FM radio in LA in the early 70s, there weren't really a lot of mediocre songs in the playlists. It wasn't just Classic Rock as we refer to it now, but a bunch of BB King and other blues artists, along with some of what you'd today call Country Rock. But the "Country" Rock was Allman Brothers, CCR, The Band, and later ZZ Top, etc. The Blues were BB King, John Mayall, Hendricks, etc. The rock was Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, on and on. There was just so much that you didn't really need to fill out the playlists. And all of these bands were cranking out an Album a year in that 5-6 year period.
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- AlbertCory 4y agoBoomer here. They were, and are, great songs and fully deserve to have a revival. Hot take: One gets tired of them, in a way that you don't of John Mellencamp songs (came along slightly later, I know). In fact, if I ask which 70s male megastars still hold up (Tom Petty? Bruce Springsteen? Bob Seger?), Mellencamp is the only one. There aren't too many songs that, after you've heard them a bazillion times, you're still up for one more. CCR hits are not those.
- sswaner 4y agoReading this comment makes me want to say “OK Boomer” for the first time (I am an old Gen X person). I can’t think of a single time since the 80’s that a Mellencamp song has had any value or impact. CCR songs keep surfacing in interesting places.
- AlbertCory 4y ago"OK Boomer" is only relevant when the person doesn't disclose it. Pretty meaningless here.
- galangalalgol 4y agoSeriously? I've never even been able to enjoy a Mellencamp song once all the way through, much less on the daily. I get tired as you say, less than halfway through most of them. All the others you mention also would trigger fatigue as well, but I could at least funish the album then enjoy it again a month or two later. 70s music that doesn't ever get old for me: First two sabbath albums Floyd until they went all experimental. Folksy john denver (as opposed to country)
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- sizzzzlerz 4y agoGrew up listening to CCR, had all their LPs, bought all the CDs, and have those all ripped onto my iPhone. Out of all the great bands from those years, the Beatles, the Stones, CSNY, only they give me a strong wayback feeling to those years and the great times we had whenever I hear one of their songs.
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- vlunkr 4y agoWhat kind of revival are they really looking for? They were super popular, and are still in heavy rotation on classic stations. Sure some critics could write some glowing retrospectives, but no one cares about that.
- ankaAr 4y agoI think that for a band with that short lifespan and that success.., it cannot be underppreciate, it only talks about how great it is that someone thinks that must to have more recognition than they have. They deserve more?, could be. But we are talking about them almost 60 years after the dissolution and that was almost 20 times more than the band life. And almost everyone can recognize one or two tracks of them, even if they were born years after the dissolution.
- browningstreet 4y agoI don’t know CCR all that well but I just realized who John Fogerty is and he’s touring right now. He’s coming to my town soon.
- benzible 4y agoIf you're a fan, check out their recently rereleased and remastered recordings under their original name, The Golliwogs [1]. They hadn't found their distinctive swampy sound yet but there are some great songs. [1] https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wXS9h753O6M5oOvdbPMQr https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wXS9h753O6M5oOvdbPMQr
- denton-scratch 4y agohttps://archive.ph/RD58W https://archive.ph/RD58W
- denton-scratch 4y agoIn my teens, I did a student exchange; I went to school in Germany for two weeks. My fellow students were cool, but objected to my taste in music; they said that CCR were "primitive", and "derivative". They favoured what they called "progressive" music. I was hurt, and questioned my tastes. I still love CCR. The bandleader seems to have been a dick though.