John Fogerty

John Fogerty has never been the world's most relaxed human being, but Eye of the Zombie
carries his apocalyptic paranoia to unprecedented heights. If the heavy-metal monster on
the album cover doesn't convince you that Fogerty's bad moon has fully risen, one spin of
"Headlines," the title track or "Violence Is Golden" will do the trick. By the time the LP's
closing cut, "Sail Away," recommends a spaceship escape as the means of "leavin'... More >

With his compact songs and workingman's aura, Fogerty was an outsider in the '60s. In the '80s, with his San Fran contemporaries either cozying up to MTV or peddling nostalgia on the bar circuit, it's clear that he took the visionary fallacies of the time as deeply to heart as Jerry Garcia himself, and good for him. Then as now he had no interest in fashion, which is why his music retains an undeniable modicum of interest. But like they say, the '60s are over. (Grade: B)