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

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Just got home from Illinois & got the poll floor, oh boy! There's an ILX ballot poll on the rise!

Part One: Tracks ballot, ranked or unranked, minimum of 5 & maximum of 25. If you are submitting a ranked ballot, format them such that #1 is your top pick. Any song by CCR / The Golliwogs / John Fogerty / Tom Fogerty / Stu Cook / Doug "Cosmo" Clifford is eligible. If anyone wants to vote for the Don Harrison Band that's okay too, I guess. Votes for Southern Pacific would be stretching it though. Just be sure you vote from the heart!

Part Two (optional): Albums ballot, ranked or unranked, up to 5 albums by any of the previously mentioned acts.

Send all ballots to choogledocs AT gmail DOT com. Voting ends Friday June 12 2015 at midnight.

Though I imagine I will be submitting the most boring, Greatest Hits-y ballot imaginable, I am looking forward to participating in this one!

required reading:

If you actively dislike Creedence Clearwater Revival, then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything.

top of my wishlist for the last few years : CCR boxset with all the remastered albums + disc with extras.

is that really too much to ask ..

are there any extras to speak of? they cranked out so much in such a short time and don't seem like the kind of band that would have outtakes, or at least not many

also I hope that taco bell pic upthread is from Lodi

Could not have picked a better start date: John Fogerty's 70th today.

(Played "Fortunate Son" for my class today, talked about George W. Bush.)

Somewhat related to Οὖτις's question, did they have any non-album singles? I have the albums all d/l'd, and I don't wanna be slapping my forehead later when I realize that I missed something obvious.

I don't think so...?

have no idea what will win this tbh

Fortunate Son maybe

My favorite CCR song changes weekly (or daily) and has for years. Fortunate Son is probably a good guess at a consensus pick, but who knows.

never heard this wtf (extras on Pendulum):
"45 Revolutions Per Minute (Part 1)" – 3:17
"45 Revolutions Per Minute (Part 2)" – 7:19
"(Tracks 11 and 12 are musique concrète tracks (in the vein of Revolution 9), including tongue-in-cheek interviews with band members)"

I'd be happy with about seven or eight winning--"Fortunate Son," "Up Around the Bend," "Bad Moon Rising," others. The only thing I really wouldn't want--and I don't think it would--is "Proud Mary." Never been a fan.

just heard this fogarty song in the cvs and it's now my jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwL79r09l5E

WHO IS BURNING

this looks like the only non-album CCR b-side? Never heard it before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk95whbAqbA

"Call It Pretending" is fantastic.

^^Their first single as CCR.

I have that woodgrain box--all of the studio and live albums, plus a disc of pre-Creedence stuff, some of which was unreleased. The subsequent remastered albums have some further actual unreleased CCR stuff as bonus tracks--some sketches and backing tracks, but I think mostly the long bootlegged Booker T jam sessions cut up and spread out over the albums.

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.

My fave discovery, so far, from my trek through CCR's album catalogue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuPtOtGF4TY

^^ very very high on my ballot, so fuckin good

It made my ballot; I probably should've put it higher.

crüt, are you sending confirmations?

that one squeaked in at the bottom of my ballot - it's good, like a country novelty song

still working on my ballot but "It Came Out of the Sky" will definitely make the cut

going through the albums, I was surprised to enjoy Pendulum so much ... Fogerty's performances on Hammond and horns are mostly just passable but somehow they sound great

Pendulum is v underrated!

the last hurrah

I didn't like it very much, will try again at some point but I know for sure there's no more room in my 25

Coverage of the 2008 expanded reissues, and the way Fogerty's sensibility comes across; kinda ties in with Mark Sinker's '03 post, pasted onto this here thread earlier:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-01/music/revisiting-the-curt-cosmic-populism-of-creedence-clearwater-revival/full/

I haven't sent out any confirmations yet, but I will try to remember to do that tonight.

Voted!

I've never heard "Sailor's Lament." Love the groovy bass, the organ, the horns.

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

25 is tough.

Finally sent confirmations to the people who have sent in their ballots so far. Remember, the deadline is tomorrow night! (+ however long it takes me to tally up the ballots)

will send one today

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

can't believe I left Don't Look Now off my ballot

you can resubmit!

Yeah, putting together my ballot for submission right now. I still expect mine to be very Greatest Hits-y, with only a very few songs that people who only know CCR from Chronicle or classic rock radio won't know. Will say, though, that for someone who has only ever heard Green River among their studio records that Willy and the Poor Boys was a minor revelation.

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