Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle, Vol. 1: The 20 Greatest Hits
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Free Music Notes for Chronicle, Vol. 1: The 20 Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: Best Single Compilation Disc for any Artist
Hit: 5 Stars
I got my first copy of this when I was in high school and 14 years later I still listen to it fairly regularly. Apparently Fogerty was a California boy and not the bayou brat he comes across as in many of his songs. No matter, his imagination was pretty extraordinary at that time and you will believe in his storytelling regardless of the facts. Nobody did the fierce young man rockabilly blues like John Fogerty in his prime. If you don't have this disc you need to get it and that's no lie. All it's really missing is the midnight special though they had other decent songs. Driving around late at night in the hills of southern Indiana as a teenager listening to this music was a transformative experience that I wish everyone would have. Okay I'll stop now.
Favorite tracks, Lookin' out my Backdoor, Bad Moon Rising, Fortunate Son, Have you Ever Seen the Rain, Someday Never Comes!, Okay I'll stop again :)
Free Music Review: Now these hippies could rock!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Sure they looked shaggy and had facial hair that was a little ragged, but don't forget, it was the 70's, man!! Everyone was doing it!! As for the actual music, this band couldn't be beat. I wish these guys would sit down with some of today's tone deaf artists and teach them how to write a genuine melody. Or maybe that can't be taught. Well, if not, then at least show them a good guitar hook or two.
CCR just had everything: a bear of a singer, catchy tunes that are in no way too poppish, and a sort of folksy electric guitar that seemed to go with the flow. Just listen to the album and see how many fun rock songs you recognize.
Hey, they may have been hippies, but you shouldn't hold that against them!!! Like I said, it was the 70's - everyone acted that way!!
Long live CCR, a band that makes Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young look like total stoners!!
HAVE A GOOD ONE!!
Free Music Review: one of my favorite CD's and a must have
Hit: 5 Stars
I just recently started listening to Classic Rock and I have to say that this CD is some of the best I have heard yet. Their lyrics are original and i think that you will be suprised of how many of the songs you have already heard on this CD. I never even heard of CCR when I listened to this CD and I was blown away by how many of the songs i already knew. Some of my favorites are: have you ever seen the rain, who'll stop the rain, Lodi, and Proud Mary but I think that every song is great. one of the songs that i found interesting that i had never heard of was: Someday Never Comes, Which is starting to become my favorite song by them. The song is about how his parents are getting divorced and how he deals with it, then he grows up, has a baby and then divorces his wife. It ends with him telling his son that someday he'll understand and I think that it is just a great song.Free Music Review: :D
Hit: 5 Stars
CCR's music certainly deserves 5 stars and leaves me all smiles, but I'm hesitant to give this album itself 5 stars. I realize it's a greatest hits collection, but, being a real fan, I feel that it barely scrapes the barrel. CCR is one of those groups where you MUST have the albums to really get it. I'm basing this review on the music though, which is what it's all about. My personal favorites are "Green River" and "Who'll Stop The Rain." "Sweet Hitch-Hiker" and "Someday Never Comes", the 2 closing tracks, are excellent as well. Though I don't count it in my top 5, the 11 minute, 4 second rendition of "Heard It Through The Grapevine" is just plain awesome. "Fortunate Son," with its plain spoken lash at American government and society, remains a classic today. I could be here a while rambling on about the high points of each song, but I won't. I'll leave it you to discover.Free Music Review: Yes it's a Greatest Hits, but from this band.....
Hit: 5 Stars
I like to listen to this album because even it has some bad songs, but to get a full history of a band, you can't listen to just one of their albums. This, as far as Best Ofs go, is top of the line. Plus it's great cause it's full of their catchiest and most fun tunes, so you can play it at get togethers or whatever (not to dance to, though). Anyway, these guys could play the electric guitar like nobody's business. Stellar tracks include Fortunate Son, Proud Mary, and the unbelievable jam version of I Heard It Through the Grapevine. (or "Ah Hooeeed ut thoo tha Graypevahn!") Actually pretty much every track is good (except for the incredibly annoying long as i can see the light) Good starter, it was for me, and now I want to get all their full albums, if that says anything. Good catchy country rock and roll, way better than Lynyrd Skynyrd. "A"