1961-1972 Creedence Clearwate: Creedence Clearwater Revival: Amazon.ca: Music

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Popular but not hip, basic but not shallow, rooted but not retro, Creedence Clearwater Revival distinguished themselves in the late 1960s and early 1970s through these contradictions. This six-disc set is the definitive Creedence collection, offering superbly remastered versions of all of their studio and live albums and adding a disc's worth of pre-Creedence material. The ultimate blue-collar rock band, John Fogerty and CCR found success by wholly giving in to their fascination with the American South (despite hailing from Northern California) and exploring the turf that connected R&B and country--the same turf that their heroes at Sun studios tilled at rock's birth. As the songs on the first disc prove, they hadn't always taken this approach though perhaps they should have: The first four songs from 1961 (by Tommy Fogerty and the Blue Velvets), original compositions in the classic '50s rock & roll style they loved, hold up better than subsequent Golliwogs tracks that attempt to replicate the British Invasion sound in vogue at the time. Still, the Golliwogs tracks offer hints of John Fogerty's menacing growl and biting guitar that would fully blossom later on.

When diving into CCR's entire body of work, many myths dissipate and a more well-rounded view comes into focus: the quintessential singles band that dominated AM radio was also quite an album band, releasing solid records from top to bottom even though half of the songs were saturating radio long before the LP would hit. Also, they weren't quite as far removed from their Bay Area brethren (who were reared on the same roots music) as is often stated, offering a number of long and loose jams that, while not overtly psychedelic, gave them and their fans a chance to stretch out. Without question, though, CCR were the kings of the three-minute rock single, and it's these now-ubiquitous gems--the consummate AM band now dominates FM radio--that will always define them. --Marc Greilsamer

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Feb 22 2004

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Taylor X "Taylor X" (Las Vegas, NV (USA)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1961-1972 Creedence Clearwate (Audio CD)

Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR for short) is recognized as one of America's greatest southern rock bands of all time, and why not? Their music rules! John Fogerty and the boys were some of the world's finest musicians, and although their days as the band were short, during those years they shelled out some of the finest songs in rock and roll history. And now the band has compiled a box set of their recordings! Read on for my review of this package.

PROS:
-There are two ways you can do a box set: The good way (a definitive collection of every recording you have ever done) and the bad way (a scattershot mixture of tracks.), and the Creedence Clearwater Revival box set does it the GOOD way! You get all of the band's studio albums in this collection: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, Green River, Willie And The Poor Boys, Cosmo's Factory, and the band's live album.
-The compilation features live material previously unreleased on compact disc.
-The first disc of the compilation is nothing but previously unreleased Pre-Creedence rarities! This stuff is the icing on the cake.
-The box includes a handy booket with a ton of useful and interesting liner notes.
-Buying this set is a better value than buying all of the band's material separately. And besides, some material in this set isn't available anywhere else!
-The band really tried to save space with this set. When they could fit more than one album onto a single compact disc, they did so. Smart thinking.

CONS:
-Although Amazon's photograph may have convinced you otherwise, this box isn't actually made out of wood. Sorry.
-There are noticable sound flaws in some of the recordings featured here. Nothing major, but still a flaw worth mentioning.
-Although this is probably common knowledge, the following material is NOT included in this set: Creedence Clearwater Revisited material, John Fogerty solo material, and any other post-Creedence stuff that members of the band may have done over the years.
-The Pre-Creedence material may disappoint some people. In other words, if you already own every Creedence album, it's not worth buying the box set just to get the rare stuff.

OVERALL:
Overall, despite minor flaws, this is an excellent compilation for one of America's greatest rock and roll bands. If you're a classic rock fan, don't bother with hits compilations - be a man and shell out the cash for this set. It's a set worthy in the collection of every fan of classic rock.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars DREADFUL Sound Quality, Jan 1 2002

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Jerry P. Danzig (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1961-1972 Creedence Clearwate (Audio CD)

A longtime CCR and John Fogerty fan, I asked my friends to give me this box set for Christmas. Its comprehensiveness is impressive, but I'm sorry to say the sound quality falls far short of what I would consider the archival recording this magnificent American band deserves. The problem is what I take to be azimuth misalignment in playing back the original tapes, or whatever the analog source they used to master these CDs. The result is the distorted "swooshing" cymbals you hear when such a problem exists, and it mars many of the tracks here, including virtually every cut on Green River. I DO NOT remember the original LPs having this problem, or even the first generation of CCR CDs of the original albums. I therefore have to say that I am very disappointed with this box set and hope that Fantasy will go back to the original tapes and try this remastering thing again, until they get it right. Otherwise [it] is a high price to pay for the nice CCR illustrated booklet included, containing essays which have already appeared in previous reissues.

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5.0 out of 5 stars FAV, Feb 25 2004

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Lotus Scrum (Phoenix, Az United States) - See all my reviews

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this is one of my ALL time favorite Boxed sets! it includes EVERY song released by CCR and the early stuff which is pretty cool! I like the way the box was even done, the box is compact and won't take up alot of space as so many boxed sets do these days. If youre a CCR fan BUY THIS! I HIGHLY recommend this set. It's not for the casual listner but for the fans that have loved this band ever since they can remember!

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