Does Anyone Under 30 Know Who CCR Are, Or, For That Fact, Listen To Them?

My 17 year old son really likes them but my 21 year old son could care less.

 

Another question to answer the OP would be: who listens to the radio anymore?

 

I'm 20 and have all their studio albums besides mardi gras, but will pick it up when I see it for a good price. The CCR studio albums are an essential part of my collection of '66-'72 rock.

 

Exposure to bands like these is highly influenced by the region. What plays in one and the frequency of that will be different from another region. In my neck of the woods, very few if any CCR plays. AC/DC, yes. CCR, no.

Most people under 30 I know don't even know who bigger bands than CCR are.

I'll highly disagree with you. Fortunate Son, Suzie-Q, Proud Mary, Have You Ever Seen The Rain, and I Put A Spell On You, just to name a random 4, don't sound at all the same!

 

My 25 year old son recently asked my opinion of the ultimate American band and said his choice would be CCR.

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yes.

 

I was about to say yes, then I remembered my age.....

 

I do, there are several shows on one of the local public stations here that are quite good, one is focused on 60s deep cuts and is done by a fellow forum member. There's also a Bob Dylan show I sometimes listen to.

 

NPR is still really popular, but for music there are tons of Sirius XM subscribers. That's where the good radio is now.

 

To me, Fortunate Son, Bad Moon Rising, and Proud Mary have a very similar driving beat and similar vocal delivery style.

However, given how much Beatles music I listen to, I'm probably spoiled when it comes to expecting diversity of output from a band.

 

Hard to listen to that on my old Kenwood . Plus, it ain't free to listen to.

 

A couple of youngsters down at my local pub singaround bonded over a mutual love of Creedence & The Band and have now formed a duo together.

Which is in strong contrast to me - a couple of decades older - who has never heard anything by them outside of what gets played in the pub. I mean, I still regard Have You Ever Seen The Rain as a Bonnie Tyler song!

Have no fear though. The young pups are slowly educating me.

 

I'd like to think young people have their own music they like, just as us Boomers had CCR when we were that age.

 

In fact, we like music from our generation AND from others! And that's how I think it should be.

 

I work with this guy in his 20s who doesn't even know who Chuck Berry is.. and he's not aware of most of the classic movies I bring up.
It's weird.
If it's not on social media, they don't know about it.. and the lack of curiosity is troubling.

 

I think that they're a still-popular classic/oldies act. My daughter is turning 30 this summer. When she was home for the summer from college eight or ten years ago, she asked me to play CCR when we were driving. Her friends had turned her on to the group.

 

Whenever we had a party and the 'kids' are there, CCR is one of the few old bands I can get away with playing. They're late teens, early twenties. Sly & The Family Stone, Zeppelin, Jimi, Tom Petty being others.

 

That's what I'd like to know.

 

You don't play an instrument, do you?

 

I play 4 instruments (piano, guitar, ukulele, and cello) and have done so since I was 5.

I'm not arguing they are identical songs, but they absolutely have a similar sound.

 

Sound and rhythmic structure are two very different things. I agree 100% CCR songs *sound* pretty much the same regardless of album with very few exceptions. Maybe they recorded in the same studio all the time. I think John Fogarty played a major role in the production so that might have something to do with it.

However, they absolutely have different rhythmic structures so the differences are huge. Proud Mary has "chunk-chunk-chuuuuunk, ta-cha-ta, chunk-chunk, chuuuunk" whereas Fortunate Son has a constant pulse with the bass going on every beat and the rhythm guitar going "chuuuunk, chunk-chunk... chuuuunk, chunk-chunk". They couldn't be any more different!

 

Young gun here and I don't really know too much about them. Another band for me to discover sometime in the future.
I am familiar with "Born on the Bayou" because The Bangles used to cover it from time to time.

 

Alright, but rhythmic variation aside, the arrangements, driving beat, vocal delivery style, etc. are very similar. It's like how Chuck Berry's early songs had rhythmic variation, but they mostly all had a similar sound.

 

Yes I do, and many of my friends love them too. It’s really more the 70’s hard rock that’s been forgotten here where I live. Bands like Rainbow, or UFO are not well known. Also progressive rock, but then I don’t think they were ever super popular.

 

My son just turned 30 so I guess he doesn't count but we used to sing along to "You don't need a pinhead, just to hang around" by CCR. Also "You and me and euphony" by The Turtles.