Greatest Hits & All-Time Classics

There have been countless Creedence Clearwater Revival hits collections released over the years, all of them good. Fantasy's 2012 triple-disc Ultimate Creedence Clearwater Revival: Greatest Hits & All Time Classics is also good, although it teeters on the edge of being too much of a good thing, largely because its third disc of live recordings is extraneous; enjoyable enough but nothing to return to frequently. That's not the case with the other two discs, which round up 40 of CCR's biggest and best songs, including all their familiar hits and most of their great album cuts, including "Don't Look Now," "It Came Out of the Sky," "Porterville," "Tombstone Shadow," and "Wrote a Song for Everyone." Not all of the great CCR songs are here but there are no bad ones, so Ultimate winds up as another one in a long line of enjoyable compilations of the great Creedence Clearwater Revival, even if it falls just short of the promise of its title. (www.allmusic.com)

CD 1
1. Proud Mary
2. Born On The Bayou
3. Bad Moon Rising
4. Good Golly Miss Molly
5. Up Around The Bend
6. Suzie Q
7. Fortunate Son
8. Midnight Special
9. Who'll Stop The Rain
10. Run Through The Jungle
11. Hey Tonight
12. Wrote A Song For Everyone
13. Sweet Hitch-Hiker
14. Before You Accuse Me
15. Commotion
16. My Baby Left Me
17. Bootleg
18. Pagan Baby
19. (Wish I Could) Hideaway
20. Cotton Fields

CD 2
1. Travelin Band
2. Don't Look Now
3. Down On The Corner
4. It Came Out Of The Sky
5. Lookin' Out My Back Door
6. Born To Move
7. Green River
8. I Put A Spell On You
9. Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
10. Molina
11. Long As I Can See The Light
12. Hello Mary Lou
13. Tombstone Shadow
14. Lodi
15. Walking On The Water
16. The Night Time Is The Right Time
17. Someday Never Comes
18. Porterville
19. Lookin' For A Reason
20. I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CD 3
1. Travelin' Band
2. Proud Mary
3. Born On The Bayou
4. Bad Moon Rising
5. Fortunate Son
6. Hey Tonight
7. Up Around The Bend
8. Lodi
9. Down On The Corner
10. Who'll Stop The Rain
11. Suzie Q
12. Keep On Chooglin'