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Let's begin by clearing up any doubts: this is a classic among classics. In this album, released in the distant and exceptional (musically) 1970, you can find everything, namely, incredible guitar riffs, a sound with a sweet aftertaste, and songs that are like shining stars in the sky of rock.
I'll mention some at random. "Who'll Stop The Rain?", a song that you can listen to a thousand times and enjoy more and more. This song is so beautiful, airy, and sweet that it "opens" the heart.
"Run Through The Jungle" you've heard in a movie while pounds of napalm set the tropical forests of Vietnam on fire. The song refers to this, soldiers running through the jungle. This too is a masterpiece of a song, angry, dirty, and mean. Obsessive riffs and John Fogerty's howl pushing the soldiers. Monumental.
And again "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye, here presented with an almost hypnotic mood. Intoxicating like a glass of Bourbon.
Here's "Lookin' Out My Back Door", a fresh stream that descends, enchanting us with a contagious chorus that doesn't leave us. To conclude, the initial "Ramble Tamble," a real jumbo jet that falls on us with all its roar and the final "Long As I Can See The Light" warm like a blanket in autumn complete an album that must be considered the foundation of American rock. John Fogerty and his mates used to wear plaid flannel shirts, had unkempt beards, but they were and will always be a bright beacon in today's dark and foggy sea of rock 'n' roll.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Ramble Tamble (07:12)
CHORUS:
Move,
Down the road
I go.
CHORUS
There's mud in the water,
Roach in the cellar,
Bugs in the sugar,
Mortgage on the home,
Mortgage on the home.
There's garbage on the sidewalk,
Highways in the back yard,
Police on the corner,
Mortgage on the car,
Mortgage on the car.
CHORUS
They're selling independence,
Actors in the White House,
Acid in digestion,
Mortgage on my life,
Mortgage on my life.
CHORUS
Ramble tamble tamble
Ramble tamble tamble
Ramble tamble tamble
02 Before You Accuse Me (03:27)
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
You say I've been buyin' another woman clothes,
But you've been talkin' to someone else.
I called your mama 'bout three or four nights ago.
I called your mama 'bout three or four nights ago.
Your mama said, "Son,
Don't call my daughter no more."
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
You say I've been buyin' another woman clothes,
But you've been takin' money from someone else.
Come on back home, baby; try my love one more time.
Come on back home, baby; try my love one more time.
You've been gone away so long,
I'm just about to lose my mind.
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
You say I've been buyin' another woman clothes,
But you've been talkin' to someone else.
04 Ooby Dooby (02:08)
Hey Baby, jump over here;
When you do the Ooby Dooby I gotta be there;
CHORUS:
Ooby Dooby, Ooby Dooby, Ooby Dooby, Ooby Dooby,
Ooby Dooby Ooby Dooby Ooby Dooby
Ooby doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah.
Well, you wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right;
You do the Ooby Dooby with all your might;
CHORUS
Well, you wiggle an' you shake like a big rattlesnake;
You do the Ooby Dooby till you think you're gonna break.
CHORUS
I'm movin' and struttin' 'cause now I know
How to do the Ooby Dooby, baby, let's go.
CHORUS
06 Run Through the Jungle (03:08)
Whoa, thought it was a nightmare
Lo, it's all so true
They told me "Don't go walkin' slow"
'Cause Devil's on the loose
CHORUS:
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Whoa don't look back to see
Thought I heard a rumblin'
Callin' to my name
Two hundred million guns are loaded
Satan cries "Take aim!"
CHORUS
Over on the mountain
Thunder magic spoke
Let the people know my wisdom
Fill the land with smoke
CHORUS
07 Up Around the Bend (02:43)
There's a place up ahead and I'm goin' just as fast as my feet can fly
Come away, come away if you're goin', leave the sinkin' ship behind.
CHORUS:
Come on the risin' wind, we're goin' up around the bend.
Ooh!
Bring a song and a smile for the banjo, better get while the gettin's good,
Hitch a ride to the end of the highway where the neons turn to wood.
CHORUS
Oooh!
You can ponder perpetual motion, fix your mind on a crystal day,
Always time for a good conversation, there's an ear for what you say.
CHORUS
Yeah!
Oooh!
Catch a ride to the end of the highway and we'll meet by the big red tree,
There's a place up ahead and I'm goin', come along, come along with me.
CHORUS
Yeah!
Do do doo do...
10 I Heard It Through the Grapevine (11:09)
Oo Bet you're wond'ring how I knew
'Bout your plans to make me blue
With some other guy that you knew before?
Between the two of us guys you know I love you more.
It took me by surprise I must say
When I found out yesterday.
Oo, I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine.
Oo I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah.
You know that a man ain't supposed to cry,
But these tears I can't hold inside.
Losin' you would end my life you see,
'Cause you mean that much to me.
You could have told me yourself
That you found someone else.
Instead I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine.
Oo I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah.
People say "Believe half of what you see, son,
and none of what you hear."
I can't help bein' confused;
If it's true, won't you tell me dear?
Do you plan to let me go
For the other guy that you knew before?
Oo, I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine.
Oo I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah.
I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine.
Oo I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah.
11 Long as I Can See the Light (03:34)
Put a candle in the window, 'cause I feel I've got to move.
Though I'm going, going, I'll be coming home soon,
'Long as I can see the light.
Pack my bag and let's get movin', 'cause I'm bound to drift a while.
When I'm gone, gone, you don't have to worry long,
'Long as I can see the light.
Guess I've got that old trav'lin' bone, 'cause this feelin' won't leave me alone.
But I won't, won't be losin' my way, no, no
'Long as I can see the light.
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
Put a candle in the window, 'cause I feel I've got to move.
Though I'm going, going, I'll be coming home soon,
Long as I can see the light.
Long as I can see the light.
Long as I can see the light.
Long as I can see the light.
Long as I can see the light.
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