Artist: CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Album: PENDULUM 40 ANN. EDIT. (CD)

Year: 1970/ 2008
Media type: CD

Pendulum is the sixth album by American band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1970. It was also the final Creedence album with rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty who left the group shortly after this album was released. The group continued as a trio.

The most sonically adventurous of Creedence albums, the "surprisingly durable" (Robert Christgau) Pendulum is noted for its widespread use of horns and keyboards in contrast to the group's previous albums which were dominated by guitar. A female backing chorus even appears on one track. Among several lesser-known Fogerty songs ("Pagan Baby," "Sailor's Lament," "It's Just a Thought") were two top-ten hits, "Hey Tonight" and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?". Both songs reached number eight in 1971. It also contains their only avant-garde venture "Rude Awakening #2".

The 1987 CD reissue of the album notes that the record was more experimental for the time period, and notes that it was highy regarded among popular music fans, noting it is "universally acknowledged as amoung the greatest in the annuals of rock".

All songs written by John Fogerty.

TRACKLIST:

1."Pagan Baby" – 6:25
2."Sailor's Lament" – 3:49
3."Chameleon" – 3:21
4."Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" – 2:40
5."(Wish I Could) Hideaway" – 3:47

1."Born to Move" – 5:40
2."Hey Tonight" – 2:45
3."It's Just a Thought" – 3:56
4."Molina" – 2:44
5."Rude Awakening #2" – 6:22

40th Anniversary Edition CD bonus tracks:

11."45 Revolutions Per Minute (Part 1)" - 3:17
12."45 Revolutions Per Minute (Part 2)" - 7:19
Tracks 11 and 12 are musique concrиte tracks (in the vein of Revolution 9), including tongue-in-cheek interviews with band members
13."Hey Tonight" (Live in Hamburg 1971) - 2:30

LINE-UP:

Doug Clifford - drums
Stu Cook - bass
John Fogerty - lead guitar, piano, organ, saxophone, lead vocals
Tom Fogerty - rhythm guitar, backing vocals