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Have You Ever seen The Rain

Original - Creedence Clearwater Revival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou7P0QX25IY

Cover - The Ramones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D16V1QJINv4

Easy vote for CCR on this. I can listen to the Ramones but thry never captured my imagination the way they have with others.

Erg. CCR by a long mile. Some of the Ramones' stuff is okay, but this one, no.

Creedence by a long way.

I've seen the Ramones cover of Journey to the Center of the Mind. That cover worked for them. For me, this cover was almost a waste of time. I say almost because, in spite of my not caring for this cover, I appreciate people putting different things out here for us to discuss. If we didn't sometimes push the edge, we would miss lots of the little gems that we have seen in this series.

I prefer the Original by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

CCR.

Been listening to CCR since I was a small lad. Mother named her dog Susie Q, so I have to go with them.

Susie Q is a cover.

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Good luck getting me to vote against song, original or cover, performed by this definitive rock group. I even prefer their cover of Heard It Through the Grapevine over Marvin Gaye's cover. (But then again, I also prefer Gladys Knight's version.)

The word "Rain" figures in the title of two of my favorite CCR songs and I cannot imagine that I'd ever prefer a cover over either original.

But in this case, the cover version presented here would make me want to kill the jukebox lest I kill myself.

That said...

The Original -- Creedence Clearwater Revival, please!

I love the Ramones and most of the covers they've done. They inject a bit of the premise of early R&R into most of their covers that they do, but even they can't touch CCR on this one.

Original

Original - Creedence Clearwater Revival

This one is not even close.