10 Rock Albums That No One Was Asking For

Just like the Clash at the start of this list, no one was really asking for CCR to continue past the early ‘70s. The band had already been going through turmoil and John Fogerty was even writing about the struggles that comes with being in a band of conflicting egos on the song Have You Ever Seen the Rain. It should have been writing on the wall once Tom Fogerty left, but the band’s decision to soldier on as a three piece gave us one of the most wretched albums in rock and roll history.

Framed as a complete democracy this time around, this album was the first time that we heard non-Fogerty songs on a CCR project, and the album is much worse off for it. After pestering John to let go of the reins a little bit, the other guys’ songs feel like complete amateur hour, with Doug Clifford sounding like a middle aged man on Tearin Up the Country and Stu Cook playing the musical equivalent of a migraine on songs like Door to Door and Take It Like a Friend.

Even with a token Fogerty classic on Someday Never Comes, John sounds like he’s mentally checked out of the album, never really going above and beyond like he did in the old days and seeming more content to just look at his watch and collect a paycheck than making anything substantial this time around. The album didn’t necessarily soothe any of the band’s egos either, becoming one of the worst reviewed albums of the year and each of the band members going their separate ways and not even speaking to each other ever again. Every band isn’t meant to be a democracy though, and if Creedence could have understood who steered the ship here, none of this would have happened.