Round 1 (60's Groups) - #8 Creedence Clearwater Revival vs #9 Cream

YellowSnow

Put me in corch, I'm ready to play!!

YellowSnow

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

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.

Swaye

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Tough one here to....but "747 coming outta the sky...." is tough to beat.

chuck

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Good matchup of two of my favorites. CCR pretty easy win when it's all said and done though.

Dennis_DeYoung

#9 Cream

Cream doesn't have many good songs, but CCR doesn't have any.

YellowSnow

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Cream doesn't have many good songs, but CCR doesn't have any.

BS. They are in the Try Hard White Rock Groups HOF.

Southerndawg

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Cream doesn't have many good songs, but CCR doesn't have any.

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

#9 Cream

CCR has always annoyed me. That 'we are from SF, but we act like we are swampies from Nola' bullshit never went for me.

YellowSnow

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Dennis_DeYoung said:

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.

Swaye

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Southerndawg said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Cream doesn't have many good songs, but CCR doesn't have any.

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

#9 Cream

Swaye said:

Southerndawg said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Cream doesn't have many good songs, but CCR doesn't have any.

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.

Too much Lars.

Swaye

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Swaye said:

Southerndawg said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Cream doesn't have many good songs, but CCR doesn't have any.

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.

Too much Lars.

It's really too bad Cliff Burton died. Not only was he a prodigy bass player, but he was also the spiritual leader of the band and would have kept Lars more in the background. RIP Cliff

Tequilla

#9 Cream

White Room and Sunshine of Your Love better than anything CCR could ever dream of

IPukeOregonGrellow

#9 Cream

If for no other reason, the Ginger Baker documentary on Netflix.

Southerndawg

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Swaye said:

Southerndawg said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Cream doesn't have many good songs, but CCR doesn't have any.

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.

Chinned for the fuck you, but Naptser hating Metallica?

YellowSnow

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Tequilla said:

White Room and Sunshine of Your Love better than anything CCR could ever dream of

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.

Southerndawg

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

YellowSnow said:

Tequilla said:

White Room and Sunshine of Your Love better than anything CCR could ever dream of

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVGTGW0cCw8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKAYGVIkbok&list=RDBKAYGVIkbok&t=48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4tR9RaEPCc

Tequilla

#9 Cream

YellowSnow said:

Tequilla said:

White Room and Sunshine of Your Love better than anything CCR could ever dream of

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.

Southern Rockers that don’t rock deserve to be lapping the sweat off of @WilburHooksHands taint

Southerndawg

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Tequilla said:

YellowSnow said:

Tequilla said:

White Room and Sunshine of Your Love better than anything CCR could ever dream of

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.

Southern Rockers that don’t rock deserve to be lapping the sweat off of @WilburHooksHands taint

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.

Swaye

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Southerndawg said:

Swaye said:

Southerndawg said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Cream doesn't have many good songs, but CCR doesn't have any.

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.

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.

YellowSnow

#8 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Swaye said:

Southerndawg said:

Swaye said:

Southerndawg said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Cream doesn't have many good songs, but CCR doesn't have any.

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.

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.

#2 Metallica tips off tomorrow against cream puff #15 Black Keys. It's gonna get ugly in a hurry.