SIDE 1.
SUZIE Q.
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU
PROUD MARY
BAD MOON RISING
LODI
SIDE 2.
GREEN RIVER
COMMOTION
DOWN ON THE CORNER
FORTUNATE SON
TRAVELIN' BAND
SIDE 3.
WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN
UP AROUND THE BEND
RUN THROUGH THE JUNGLE
LOOKIN' OUT MY BACK DOOR
LONG AS I CAN SEE THE LIGHT
SIDE 4.
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPE VINE
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN
HEY TONIGHT
SWEET HITCH-HIKER
SOMEDAY NEVER COMES
This album contains a number of songs that seem as if they always existed. Have you ever heard a song and thought about what the writing process for those types of songs is like? Is it just like the writing of another song, or is it possible that the band thinks at the time 'this is going to be a song that will become eternal'? I suppose that's a bit arrogant, though it's not as if arrogance is something forever absent of popular rock bands.
Still, though, some songs feel like they have always existed and it's amazing to think that at one point they didn't. This album contains some original material like that (Bad Moon Rising and Down on The Corner to name a couple) as well as covers of other songs like that (Heard it Through the Grapevine and Suzie Q).
I grew up in a time when rock was a little bit more 'in your face' than this, but this album certainly contains a number of great classic rock songs.
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