Album of the day (#2901): Chronicle - The 20 Greatest Hits

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baystateoftheart
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sethmadsen wrote:
That's true, they did put out a lot in a little amount of time. It was like the South's answer to the British Invasion.


They weren't southern; they were from California. It was all an act.
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Ahh. I've always wanted to get more into Creedence but this is all i've had from them
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baystateoftheart wrote:
They weren't southern; they were from California. It was all an act.


Huh, didn't know that. It appears from El Cerrito to be exact.

EDIT: I should stop sharing my stream of consciousness.
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Romanelli wrote:
Do yourself one better...just sit down and dig their first six albums. All recorded in a three year period. Just play 'em one after the other and enjoy how very good and prolific they were for that short little window.

Don't include the seventh album, Mardi Gras...one of the worst albums ever made by a major artist.


Mardi Gras still has two great Creedence songs on it even so. Considering that 90% of all albums don't have any good songs on them, that ain't bad at all.
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Far more complexing than Legend or Queen's Greatest Hits.
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baystateoftheart wrote:
They weren't southern; they were from California. It was all an act.


Of course it was an act. It was during a Time when musicians understood that they were in Show Business and didn't try to pretend otherwise. Unlike today, when even though music is more show biz-y than ever, musicians would like for us to believe that they are actually creators of high art, and that their phoniness is actually authenticity.
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When i play ccr, i just cant believe how great they sound.
This greatest hits album is unbelieveable.
They seem to get better with age.
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bobbyb5 wrote:
Romanelli wrote:
Do yourself one better...just sit down and dig their first six albums. All recorded in a three year period. Just play 'em one after the other and enjoy how very good and prolific they were for that short little window.

Don't include the seventh album, Mardi Gras...one of the worst albums ever made by a major artist.


Mardi Gras still has two great Creedence songs on it even so. Considering that 90% of all albums don't have any good songs on them, that ain't bad at all.


Mardi Gras has 2 decent songs on it because Fogerty wrote 3 songs on the album. There was also one cover (Gene Pitney's "Hello Mary Lou". But that doesn't make the rest of Mardi Gras worth hearing, and it doesn't forgive Fogerty's crazed egotistical destruction of the band and the album. Stu Cook and Doug Clifford had wanted to contribute songs to the album, so Fogerty let them...but he refused to sing or play any lead guitar on them. Thus, Mardi Gras is 2 decent (not great) Fogerty tracks, a cover and 6 positively horrible Clifford and Cook tracks without Fogerty playing or singing on them.
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baystateoftheart wrote:
d'oh!

The fact that this is higher than both Bayou Country and self-titled is a crying shame. Listen to the albums people!

It's wrong to assume people who have Chronicle on their lists haven't listened to their albums. This is an outstanding greatest hits album, so I don't think it's a shame that it outranks some of their albums. Their albums are good but they have filler. Nevertheless I have Cosmo's Factory and Willy and the Poor Boys on my list.
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This is a great compilation and I enjoy their albums too.
I love what John Landis did with Bad Moon Rising in the movie American Werewolf In London. I think it was the scene where he first changes into a werewolf. Classic.
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