I like both of those CCR albums, but whatever, I can see being uninterested in the lesser songs. I love the bands sound. I will say that I once enjoyed the jamming on Keep on Chooglin’, but now I can’t here what I really liked about it.

I’ve always thought that Road to Ruin was The Ramones making an album that would appeal to people who like more “normal” rock without compromising the punkiness. I Just Wanna Have Something to Do is a great opener.

> when it really sounds like an album of lovable knuckleheads getting drunk or high and sort of enjoying themselves?

I re-listened to this for the first time in a long time this morning, and I really, really do not hear this. To me they sound depressed and, most of all, exhausted.

> but I never found it much different than other Neil albums

It sounds like Neil Young, but he’s certainly taking his sound in a different direction than he did on more commercial albums like After the Gold Rush and Harvest, or would on Zuma. But it’s closer to the two albums that actually came out immediately before it.
I think it’s a significant album and I do enjoy it, but really the Neil Young albums I listen to the most are his more commercial releases.

Tyranny and Mutation is cool, but I guess I like it less than the other two b&w albums. You like Agents of Fortune More? WTF man? Would Tyranny and Mutation be better if it had Sinful Love on it???

I guess it’s kind of lame to open with a rewite of something from the previous album.