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The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revisited: 20th Century Masters (Millennium Collection)

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Let's face it. Creedence Clearwater Revisited may very well be the greatest accident of rock music. When Stu and Doug started this project in 1995 they only intended to play at private parties. Over 10 years later, they're going strong with 100 concerts a year all over the world.

With that said, this CD is a rip off. Creedence Clearwater Revisited put out a 2-CD set of their concert, called "Recollection." This is only the first ten songs of that concert, which for some bizarre reason ended up as a separate release. Any CCR fan is better off buying the 2-CD set of the whole show. The 2-CD set has an amazing 8-minute version of "Run Through The Jungle," so it is worth the extra money for that one track alone, if you ask me.

Why pay for half the concert when, for a few dollars more, you can have the whole thing?

Creedence Clearwater Revisited is the ongoing live band conceived by Stu Cook and Doug Clifford, the original Creedence bass player and drummer respectively. While this might be okay for an evening's entertainment at a festival or similar, that's where it ends as far as I am concerned, for a CCR band without John Fogerty is kind of like nitro without the glycerin. It's just pointless. Another reviewer asked why they would do this, and the answer seems pretty clear to me: They need the money, and this is the only thing they can ply their limited musical talents toward. If you don't believe that, look at Cook's and Clifford's individual discographies and you'll see they've produced nothing of merit on their own since Creedence broke up in 1972, which is ironic because they kept protesting that they wanted to contribute, write and arrange their own original songs. What's the hold up, guys? You've had thirty years to craft your own stellar songs that you were clamoring to do all those years ago. Yeah, just as I thought: Two mediocre talents that can only keep things ($$) flowing by capitalizing on past glories. And, those glories were not even their own -- they were uniquely and categorically those of John Fogerty. Imagine if the bass player and drummer for Bruce Springsteen started touring as Bruce S. Revisited. Think about the ludicrousness of that very idea and you should be able to see why this release, while competent, is utterly ill-conceived and subtracts from the stature of the band that these gentlemen purport to love and support.

To make matters worse, this is culled from a longer, 2CD set entitled "Recollection." Another cash-in, I guess, for the ever-stagnant Cook and Clifford. Summer is coming guys -- time to hit the buffet line and casino circuit!

Get Chronicle or any other original CCR disc, not this. A pox on it. Zero stars would be too elevated a rating.

John Fogerty was Creedence Clearwater, lets face it, 20th century masters compilation, what a RIP OFF!, stay away, buy solo fogerty before this, (especially premonition!)
bloody joke.

Creedence at his best . The band is alive and well. Great band in concert.

This is Doug Clifford and Stu Cooke's attempt to recreate CCR. There's just one little problem - no John Fogerty. If I could give it 0 stars, I would.