Posted On: Saturday - December 20th 2025 10:58PM MST
In Topics: Music
Well, I got mostly done with the 1st post of a couple on (FINALLY!) the Strauss & Howe books and their Generational Theory, but it's getting late, and I am not ready to mash [Submit].
We'll therefore go back to an old Peak Stupidity practice of putting random great Rock or Pop songs up. Creedence Clearwater Revival, from El Cerrito, California (across the bay from San Francisco) was one of the best of the best rock bands of the best era in Rock. Under this name*, CCR made 5 great albums in the 2 years, 1969 and 1970, and 7 albums during the years '68 - '72. They were short-lived but made much music that was the soundtrack to a generation. (We'll get to that "muh generation" stuff next week.)
(Goin') Up Around the Bend is my all-time favorite from this band. It's 2 minutes and 45 seconds of great guitars and vocals by, IMO, the guy with the best voice ever in Rock history, John Fogerty
CCR was:
John Fogerty - lead vocals and lead guitar
Tom Fogerty - rhythm guitar
Stu Cook - bass guitar
Doug Clifford - drums
The other band members sang back-up vocals and occasionally lead vocals too.
No, we haven't been as productive as CCR this week, but we'll have the Strauss & Howe posts and various and sundry stupidity posts next one. Thanks so much for reading and writing in, Peakers. Happy Sunday.
* They played since the end of the 1950s as first The Blue Velvets and then The Golliwogs before becoming CCR.
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Moderator
Tuesday - December 23rd 2025 6:45PM MST
PS: Wait, which side is that, Alarmist? There's a sane side? I want in!
Merry Christmas back, sir. I'm gonna put up the Generational Theory post in a bit here.
Merry Christmas back, sir. I'm gonna put up the Generational Theory post in a bit here.
The Alarmist
Tuesday - December 23rd 2025 5:39PM MST
PS
But for a chance encounter and the song “Susie Q,” they might have been lost to history as The Golliwogs.
Merry Christmas from the saner side of the Atlantic this week.
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But for a chance encounter and the song “Susie Q,” they might have been lost to history as The Golliwogs.
Merry Christmas from the saner side of the Atlantic this week.
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I didn’t say the sane side, I said the saner side. That would be the US … at least nowadays.