Nothing personal, Skillet38, I was simply defending my opinion. The popular band I can’t stand is The Eagles. At one party we played I was forced to put down my guitar and sing Desperado from behind the keyboard. I know they are all talented musicians and songwriters, but I will never forgive them for giving the world that song. I agree with Mojo Nixon, Don Henley Must Die!!
Most of the CCR compendium is good, but I can’t stand some songs-- Proud Mary among them.
My wife won’t let me play CCR when she’s in the room 
I saw Fogarty in concert a couple of years ago. He was the only original from CCR but he’d taught the other how to sound just like the original. We were between several Viet Nam vets and they were digging it in a big way, having listened to them throughout their tours. Good stuff.
I don’t care for “Coach,” either.
But if CCR were “pseudo-country posturing” (and they’re a loooong way from country) then what do we say to any other musician who likes music he can’t claim are in his “roots”?
For example, do we say blacks can’t sing country-western?
Whites shouldn’t even try to be rappers?
How about the Stray Cats? They played rockabilly but were from New York.
The only group I consider outright frauds was The Strangeloves. They were a bunch of Brill-building hacks in NYC who decided to fake being British when the British Invasion caught on. But their fake British accents were so bad that they then tried to claim they were Australian! They would go to an airport and pay a pilot to taxi them up to the gate just so they could claim to have flown in from oversees.
And their music really was bad, too.
(I can’t believe nobody has posted this)
“Hey I love Creedence.”
“You want to see something really scary?”
Oh and Bad Moon Rising is my fav.
Fogerty can sing – he doesn’t enunciate but that’s something different. Anyway, CCR just gets the blood pumpin’ – I love listening to their records as I drive down the highway, flyin’ ‘bout the speed a’ sound.
OK, so for those of us right-thinking individuals who dig CCR, what do we think of Mardi Gras? IMO, it’s one of their best albums – Sweet Hitchhiker is their best hard-rockin’ choogle since Travelling Band, Someday Never Comes is one of Fogerty’s best-put-together songs, and the non-Fogerty members come into their own with Need Someone to Hold, What Are You Gonna Do?, Tearing Up the Country, and even the fun Door to Door. (And Wintermute complains that Fogerty can’t sing! Ha! ;)) Plus I love Lookin’ For a Reason.
–Cliffy
I throw monkey feces at your aunties for such a hideous insult to CCR! CCR tied with the Eagles??? That’s like saying the Beatles are tied with Cliff Richard!
Anyhoo…does anyone know of a good CCR documentary out there?
my nipples explode with delight
In all my 38 years and counting, I cannot ever remember a time when I didn’t know all the lyrics and truly love singing along to “Lookin’ Out My Back Door”. Utter rock and roll joy! Thank God for CCR.
I blanche at CCR being compared to The–shudder-- Eagles. A more apt comparison would be to The Byrds. Fogarty was doing the same thing Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons were at the time, using blues and country music (in Fogarty’s case, particularly Louisiana swamp blues) to influence rock music.
To all the young 'uns, this was groundbreaking at the time, and caught the attention of that generation. CCR’s music was more easily accessible than The Byrd’s, and much more so than Gram Parson’s. He had deeper and darker complex explorations, and harder country roots, so never got the same airplay. I’d put them in the same contextual category, though.
I love CCR, and consider them less pretentious than other folk/roots bands at the time; they were a great outdoor frolic band. I think they got a lot of mileage from the Summer of Love–hopeful???–atmosphere of the 60’s. I really admire John Fogarty’s stance in the 80’s against a record company claiming they “own” his sound because of previous contract. To take that stand was quite important in the music world. Bless JF greatly for that battle!
I always sing along to “Lookin’ Out My Back Door”.
ER, ARgghhh
FTR, the admired musician in this thread is Jon FogERty. There ya go.
So you changed your mind about CCR?
Talk about a conversion.
Frauds or not, that’s a hilarious story! Did their amps go to eleven too, by the way? 
Best CCR song ever: Have you ever seen the rain?. Chills down my spine.
Like you, Coldfire, I love “Have You Ever Seen the Rain”. I used to have a long-running internal debate over which “Rain” song I liked more, that one, or “Who’ll Stop the Rain?”. I finally settled on the former.
It gets better, Coldfire, – or worse, depending on your view. They had previously released a song as “The Beach Nuts,” demonstrating that there was no trend they wouldn’t hop onto. As The Strangeloves, they tried to cover their tracks by claiming they came from Armstrong, Australia – which doesn’t exist – and that they were sheep ranchers in the Outback. Then they started dressing in zebra vests, carrying spears and pounding on tribal drums draped in zebra skin. Apparently these guys thought Australia was essentially Africa with kangaroos.
Despite all the hype and confusion, they managed to produce a body of work that, when collected all on one CD, makes a pretty good coffee coaster.
They had a hit with “I Want Candy” (which the Go-Gos covered). The song went onto the R&B charts, and people thought they were black, which gives you an idea of how well the whole “Australian” accent thing was working.
They also were on the charts with “Night Time” and “Cara-Lin.”
But they did co-write “Hang On, Sloopy” and produced the excellent version by the McCoys – redemption of a sort.
The Go-Go’s didn’t do “I Want Candy”…you’re probably thinking of Bow Wow Wow. The Strangeloves do have a Go-Go’s connection, however, as one of them was Richard Gottehrer, who produced the Go-Go’s first couple of albums.
Thanks for the correction, Biffy. I don’t know why I was thinking the Go-Gos. Bow Wow Wow isn’t even a “girl band.”
Well, there was a girl…