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Song · 1969 · Roots rock

Bad Moon Rising

Creedence Clearwater Revival
1969
★ 7.3 editorial score

Fogerty wrote it after a hurricane scene in a 1941 film, then set the apocalypse to a cheerful rockabilly stomp.

From the album
Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits
in the Albums canon
Genre
Roots rockSwamp rockRock
Subject
ApocalypseForeboding

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Quote · 1616

“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”

William Shakespeare
Quote · 1935

“The sky is darkening like a stain; Something is going to fall like rain, And it won't be flowers.”

W.H. Auden
Quote · 1912

“And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue, In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.”

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