ccr album poll

oh man so hard to choose. today feeling bayou country but srsly any of the first five.

yea for real

right now i'm feeling green river, tho i don't know

COSMO'S FACTORY

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Willy and the Poor Boys, because after years of knowing just the radio singles / Chronicle it had the most astonishing deep cuts, esp. "Effigy", but "Don't Look Now" is an underrated pop moment.

first 5 is probably the greatest run in pop music?

thinking green river, it's the "spooky" one.

Cosmo's for me

Self-titled was the first album I ever bought. It's got Walking on the Water, a psych epic. So that wins.

I have been crazy about Pendulum lately. I didn't like it that much when I first picked it up, but now it's my favorite. I considered starting this poll a few times.

Cosmo's has the highest concentration of hits/singles, which is great...but I hate the sequencing, and "Grapevine" meanders. (When I wanna hear CCR stretch out, I'll take their first two albums, thanks.) So I'll go with the unstoppable Green River, even though it's playing time is ridiculously short. I've got no problem with albums of less than a half-hour, but they should damn well offer at least a full ten tracks, really.

Never heard "Mardi Gras", but the rest are all great. "Cosmo's" gets my vote.

Green River forevah

Mardi Gras is a bit of a mess, but Fogerty's songs are great. The other guys' material is passable to poor.

Willy, and otm about the album cuts ("It Came Out of the Sky," "Cotton Fields," "Don't Look Now").

Willie and the Poor Boys deserves some love. I think I voted for "Effigy" in the epics poll. No, I voted for "Ramble Tamble." But Effigy is HEAVY.
CCR are one of those bands that everyone owns a greatest singles collection, but you're missing a huge chunk of what made them so great by not having all the album tracks, too. woah xpost.

lolz has there been a CCR deep cuts poll (ie, everything but the singles?)

I wish i'd voted for "Bayou COuntry" now

there was an album-track poll:

CCR - Best Non-Single/Album-only Track

Ha, shakey even started it. Not too many votes, huh? I didn't vote in it.

Neither did I! What a disgracefully low turnout!!

lolz @ me

Woah, looks like I voted. I posted on it, anyhow.

that is a weird result and boo low turnout

It's like a black hole thread, no one remembers it.

i didn't vote on that one ... would've been either "sinister purpose" or "ramble tamble" ... voted "Green River" in this one. A cliche but can we marvel at the fact that "Green River" was their third album of 1969!?

yeah I think they put out four albums in a 12 month period between and '69 and '70

wtf, that poll closed the day after you created it! Nobody had the chance to vote.

An explanation at last!!!!!!!!!

i voted for bayou country but i dunno....this is still an almost-impossible poll.

it really is one of those cases where whatever album i'm listening to at the time is kinda my fave at that moment. (ha! except for poor mardi gras which i don't even own a copy of.) also see: led zep, steely dan, byrds. and others.

yeah, that is true of CCR -- I mean, I've gotten to the point where hearing them on the radio is not exciting at all, but whenever I put on any of their records, I'm instantly deep into a "CCR is best band ever" thing.

I don't own and have never heard the first album or the last two - of the others it's between Green River and Cosmo's Factory. It's odd, I'd never really heard them before I started buying the albums ('Bad Moon Rising' apart) so I never differentiated between the hits (though they clearly had a few over here) and the rest, it was all new to me.

Probably Green River for me - though Willy and Bayou come close.

I don't own and have never heard the first album or the last two
The s/t and Pendulum are both amazing and worth your time.

s/t has the best version of "I Put A Spell On You" imo.

The s/t and Pendulum are both amazing and worth your time.

Just after I made that post last night I checked and the whole lot is on Spotify - gave the debut a listen and I'm actually tempted to vote for it now! It's even spookier than Green River! Such a great band. I'll give Pendulum a go as well, why not.

Pendulum's great - love the wacky backmasking/psych effects track

Pendulum was the album that made me a big fan. i liked the hits and i had 45s when i was a kid, but i got a copy of pendulum when i was a teenager and i thought it was great. so, that's what made me buy everything else eventually. pagan baby was my jam.

Willy and the Poor Boys, because after years of knowing just the radio singles / Chronicle it had the most astonishing deep cuts, esp. "Effigy", but "Don't Look Now" is an underrated pop moment.

― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Sunday, August 2, 2009 1:21 AM

Interesting. Chronicle's all I know, but this thread makes me want to delve into the albums.

GREEN RIVER

oh man yeah Pagan Baby is the jam

oh man, WmC, you can get all the LPs for like $5 apiece or less probably, you should do it man. So great.

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man i GOTTA play some creedence on my radio show tonight.

think i might play a solid hour of creence & neil tbqh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DksGi7B5BdM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4-yugdZUt0&feature=related

I voted for Willy And The Poor Boys. Man, what a tough poll! I love CCR.

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