Best Creedence Clearwater Revival Album?

[samjjones]

I think the volume and quality of music they put out in such a short period of time is pretty staggering.

[MonkeeMan]

They're all damn good, so I didn't vote.

As far as songs go, my favs are Suzie Q (album cut of course) and Fortunate Son.

[Slow Play Ray]

FWIW, Fortunate Son is my favorite CCR song, as well as one of the most bad-ass, balls-out songs in rock history.

[istewart]

Probably Cosmo's Factory, but let's be realistic. Call Chronicle what you want, it's the only real staple in CCR's collection.

[imported_The Vibesman]

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Probably Cosmo's Factory, but let's be realistic. Call Chronicle what you want, it's the only real staple in CCR's collection.

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Whatever. It's fine if you just like the radio songs of any particular band, but to just say that like it's fact or something is insane. Excepting the last two Creedence albums, I think they're all staples, and some of the best albums of their time.

And Chronicle doesn't have "Wrote A Song For Everyone," "Midnight Special" or "Cotton Fields" on it, so clearly more Creedence is needed than that.

[Slow Play Ray]

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And Chronicle doesn't have "Wrote A Song For Everyone," "Midnight Special" or "Cotton Fields" on it, so clearly more Creedence is needed than that.

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Chronicle Vol. 2 does though...

[imported_The Vibesman]

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And Chronicle doesn't have "Wrote A Song For Everyone," "Midnight Special" or "Cotton Fields" on it, so clearly more Creedence is needed than that.

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Chronicle Vol. 2 does though...

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Another point. CCR had so many good tunes on their album that there are two Chronicle volumes each with 20 songs, but there's only 65 songs on the albums listed here. So about 2 out of every 3 Creedence songs are on their greatest hits collection. Very few artists have that high of a percentage of solid work.

[samjjones]

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And Chronicle doesn't have "Wrote A Song For Everyone," "Midnight Special" or "Cotton Fields" on it, so clearly more Creedence is needed than that.

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Chronicle Vol. 2 does though...

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Another point. CCR had so many good tunes on their album that there are two Chronicle volumes each with 20 songs, but there's only 65 songs on the albums listed here. So about 2 out of every 3 Creedence songs are on their greatest hits collection. Very few artists have that high of a percentage of solid work.

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I was just about to make this same point as well.

[Slow Play Ray]

For clarification, Chronicle Vol. 1 is their only "Greatest Hits" album. Vol. 2 is labeled as "Classics" and is really only a companion to Vol. 1. I bring this point up only because the songs on Vol. 1 are waaay better than those on Vol. 2.

Sorry, I will stop being a nit now.