Released: 1969
Some bands you navigate the legitimate way, some you get to by other means. In the cases of those other means, for Creedence Clearwater Revival the route was via their music being licensed to the soundtracks of lots of different movies. There was a less than straight reason for it’s celluloid omnipresence, namely that of the dispute between the band’s singer and songwriter John Fogerty and the people who owned it. His loss however was our gain.
In this mode you’d identify with Suzie Q for it’s use in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, with Fortunate Son as part of the backdrop to Forrest Gump, or if you were of a younger generation, Run Through the Jungle’s turn in The Big Lebowski.
Despite CCR’s blues and country twang, they were actually schoolmates from California who found all of their major success after a name change in 1967 from unfortunate even for then The Golliwogs. According to Fogerty he wrote, arranged, sang, played and produced all the band’s material, and Bad Moon Rising despite it’s air of foreboding was at it’s root a simple truckstop recital laid out in barely two minutes. If you liked your movies you knew it later became synonymous with American Werewolf in London, but for once you didn’t need popcorn to enjoy a good old fashioned prophecy.
The Voice Of Unreason 