Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Artist: Creedence Clearwater RevivalEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Extra tracks, Import
CD Release Date: 1996-01-04
Music Label: POLYTEL
Soundtracks:
- Proud Mary
- Bad Moon Rising
- Susie Q
- Up Around The Bend
- Run Through The Jungle
- Good Golly Miss Molly
- Someday Never Comes
- Commotion
- Who'll Stop The Rain
- Green River
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine
- Lodi
- Lookin' Out My Back Door
- Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
- Travelin' Band
- Down On The Corner
- Born On The Bayou
- Cotton Fields
- Hello Mary Lou
- The Midnight Special
- Walk On The Water
- Bootleg
- Hey Tonight
- Fortunate Son
- I Put A Spell On You
- Sweet Hitch-Hiker
- The Night Is The Right Time
- Long As I Can See The Light
Free Music Notes for The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival
Free Music Review: A Look Back at the Revival
Hit: 5 Stars
No matter what kind of music you like, you can trace it back to the roots. Creedence Clearwater Revival, or CCR, was the roots for rock and country. Their best music was compiled on a two-disc set entitled, “The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival” and was released on May 16, 1998. I can almost guarantee that everyone has heard a CCR song, even if it wasn’t sung by them. “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” was first heard in Motown by Marvin Gaye. When CCR revised it and put in on their 1970 album, you can but that it sounded nothing like Motown. John Forgerty put a perfect spin on it, jazzed it up just a little, and made it a hit. “Hello Mary Lou” was written by Gene Pitney and later made into a hit by CCR. This goes both ways. Not only did CCR take other’s songs and transform them into their own, but their songs were taken by others and transformed once again. In the 1980’s, the popular country band, The Statler Brothers, redid “Hello Mary Lou” once again, adding a country twang to it. It’s all the signs of an amazingly written song. It can be sung in all different styles and still be made a hit. It was also in the 1980’s that Tina Turner took a CCR song, one that was actually written by Fogerty. This time, it was “Proud Mary”, which at the time that it was released by CCR, was a somewhat catchy tune. No one knew, however, how catchy it could really sound until Tina Turner sunk her teeth into the tune, and made it a huge hit of her own.Not all CCR songs were borrowed or remade though. Although I’m not going to go through all twenty-eight songs in depth, I would like to touch on a few that I found essential to the CD. I have to start with me personal favourite, “Down on the Corner”. Now, I’m not sure why this has always been my favourite, but it has been since I was little. Maybe it’s because it was the very first CCR song that I had ever heard. Maybe it was all the fights my family and I had over whether it was ‘stamp you feet’ or ‘tap your feet’ featured in the song. We all heard ‘tamp your feet’! The bass in this song is amazing. Even for a fairly old song, it sounds pretty good on the new stereo systems, which is a lot more than I can say about my other old CDs. This is just a feel-good song. Speaking of good bass, “Fortunate Son” definitely does not lack bass. This song is also featured on the soundtrack to “Forrest Gump”, which is also and awesome CD, but we won’t get into that right now. If you want a good old repetitious song that’s easy to learn the words to, “Cotton Fields” is for you. Normally, I don’t care for repetition. It gets boring. This song is different. It has a great beat and wonderful harmonies. It takes you home, thinking about ‘them old cotton fields back home’. If you remember a Telus commercial from awhile back, you might remember hearing “Run Through the Jungle” advertising high speed internet service. I never really saw the point of this song until that commercial. It just fit is so well. It still does have a good beat and it’s great to listen to, I just haven’t found the meaning behind it yet. There are a couple of motivational songs on this CD also; at least, they are motivational to me. “Up Around the Bend” also has an awesome beat and it’s a great song to dance to. The guitar rips at the beginning and close to the end are amazing. “Travelling Band” always makes me smile. I can just imaging this band flying all the way around the world in fast-forward, running everywhere just to get things done. It’s a very short song, and does not have too many words to it, but I think that it has huge meaning, if you use a little imagination while listening to it. “Midnight Special” is a little different. While most CCR songs, in my opinion, have a feel good dancing beat, “Midnight Special” slows it down a bit. It has a swing-feel to it. You can’t help putting your hands together and clapping out a beat of your own, swaying back and forth in the meantime. CCR shows their soft side on “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?”. At first listen, it may sound like a sort of depressing song; however, upon listening carefully to the lyrics, one will notice that it fully satisfies CCR’s reputation of fun-loving music. The symbolism, metaphors, and ironies in this song are incredible. It almost sounds like once of those poems that you had to analyze in high school, you know those ones that you had no idea what was going on in. ‘Have you ever seen the rain, coming down on a sunny day?’ is only an example of one line that makes you really think. There is only one downfall, only one CCR song that I have never been able to develop an appreciation for. “Suzie Q” has an evil background beat that doesn’t seem to fit in with CCR’s normally happy music. I haven’t been able to find the meaning behind it. Maybe this is just my fault, because I know that this song is a favourite for some. It just doesn’t let CCR shine the way that they can.
Just because I didn’t mention every song doesn’t mean that they are not important. Aside from “Suzie Q”, I love every song on this CD. I would recommend it to anyone, whether your music taste is country, rock, or classical. CCR is a band, like The Beatles or Rolling Stones, whose name and legacy will live on through generations, with their music being appreciated for years.
The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival Poster
1993 compilation on Polygram in a double jewel case featuringthe original versions of 28 of their classics, including all17 of their U.S. top 40 hits, plus their versions of 'Good Golly Miss Molly' & 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine'.Classic Rock Music CDs
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