A whole barrel and not one bad apple, 18. September 2005

Creedence Clearwater Revival produces sounds that permeated the many movies since their time. It is almost a game to figure out how many movies used their music. You know the image for Suzy Q. But do your remember Bad Moon Rising from "Werewolf in London?" I leave the others for you to discover. For me thought each song brings up actual places I have been. If you are new to Creedence you have a treat coming to you, as they are as unique now as when they recorded the music. Start your own revival.

       All the big UK and USA hits are here, 18. Juni 2004

This group combined elements of pop, rock, blues and R+B in their music and you can hear all the different influences here. For example, I put a spell on you is a great piece of blues-rock, but Proud Mary is raw rock'n'roll.

As far as hits are concerned, the group were more consistently successful in America than in Britain. In America, they had many big hits including several that peaked at number two without ever achieving a number one hit. In Britain, their overall record was more modest although they clocked up four top ten hits - and Bad moon rising went all the way to number one. Their other UK top ten hits were Proud Mary, Travelling band and Up around the bend (which made the top three).

Among the other classic songs here are Green river, Down on the corner, Fortunate son, Who'll stop the rain, Looking out the back door, Long as I can see the light and Have you ever seen the rain. All of these were either huge American hits, or were B-sides of those hits.

A companion to this collection, Chronicles volume 2, explores their album tracks in greater depth but this collection contains all the essentials.

In the UK, another compilation was released in 2003 titled Bad moon rising. It contains all the tracks plus two others and it is also cheaper.

       Sehr gut!, 4. Dezember 2001

Ich habe mir diese CD eigentlich nur wegen "Proud Mary" gekauft, der gute alte "Lenkrad-Klopfer"-
Song zum mitsummen, den es ja von Ike&Tina Turner auch noch mal in einer schnelleren Version gibt. Und als ich die CD zum ersten mal durchgehört habe, hatte ich dieses "Moment mal, das kennste doch irgendwoher"-Gefühl die ganze Zeit.
Leider kann ich hier keine Samples reinbauen oder etwas vorsummen, aber diese CD kann ich auf jeden Fall empfehlen, weil sie vor allem eine gute Mischung aus klassischen Oldies und dem guten alten '70er Jahre Rock' ist. Die Mega-11 Minuten-
Version von "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" hat einen unbeschreiblich tollen "Groove" und, (wer kennt es nicht?) "Down On The Corner"? Wenn man es hört, dann, "na klar, das isses". Und neben den rockigeren Songs sind auch ein paar
schöne ruhigere dabei, die einen -morgends gehört- den ganzen Tag nicht mehr aus dem Kopf gehen.
Also, hört mal rein, es wird bestimmt kein Fehlkauf sein!