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Round 1 (60's Groups) - #8 Creedence Clearwater Revival vs #9 Cream
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This was a really difficult choice for me personally. Ginger Baker is a top 3 rock drummer of all time for me and I love Cream's body of work. They, along with Hendrix, the Who, and Jeff Beck laid the foundation for the first wave of Metal- i.e., Sabbath and LZ. But god damnit, the John Foggerty was a one man hit machine between 1969 and 1970 the likes of rich the rock world has hardly seen. Seriously, all of CCR's great songs were recorded over about 18 months. That's fucking nuts.
Dennis_DeYoung
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Cream doesn't have many good songs, but CCR doesn't have any.
BS. They are in the Try Hard White Rock Groups HOF.
This was a tough choice. IMO, Cream was way more talented, but CCR had more "good" songs. Besides the Brits will probably win this tourney in the end, gotta go with an underdog.
Dennis_DeYoung
New Fish
CCR has always annoyed me. That 'we are from SF, but we act like we are swampies from Nola' bullshit never went for me.
They are definitely not SF. They are East Bay- i.e., Fast Strategy.
Dennis_DeYoung
New Fish
Too much Lars.
IPukeOregonGrellow
New Fish
If for no other reason, the Ginger Baker documentary on Netflix.
Chinned for the fuck you, but Naptser hating Metallica?
Disagree. The rhythm section and groove of Born on the Bayou is better than anything Cream could have dreamed of.
People forget that by the end of Cream's tenure, Clapton, was sick of the heavy stuff and wanted to go all in with roots rocks. Delaney and Bonney anyone? JJ Cale?
Try Hard White People roots rocks is the shit.
WTF'd on two counts. First, CCR was not a southern band. They were from California attempting to emulate a Southern Rock sound. And second, some of the best music of the late 60's and early 70's rolled out of Florida and Georgia as well as from recording studios in Alabama. The Stones, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Eric Clapton, the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Seger, Cat Stevens, and a whole lot more.
Chinned for the fuck you, but Naptser hating Metallica?
I could care less about Lars and his personal quest against Napster. Metallica not only created an entire style of music, even though they were first, nobody, out of hundreds of bands that have tried, have ever done it better. You would be hard pressed to find a band with more bona fide legendary songs in almost any genre - Mandatory Metallica routinely plays two dozen songs through the loop and every single one of them is bad ass. Handful of bands ever in any genre have that many "hits." Most well known bands have one or two great albums. Three if they are lucky. Less than a half dozen have 5 like Metallica, and 6 if you count Garage Days. All in an un-radio friendly format (8 minute songs?!?!?!), with no support from MTV or radio until One.
I get that I am a fanboy, but I was in a packed stadium listening to them in 1985, and then again last year - 32 years in between shows and they have only gotten louder, harder, and better. Best live shows ever. Ever. And I have seen a TON of bands live. They are just the GOAT.