Cosmo's Factory

The Dude: Do you find them much, these, stolen cars? Younger Cop: Sometimes. Wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck though. Older Cop: Or the Creedence.

Travelin' Band, Lookin' Out My Back Door, Run Through the Jungle, Who'll Stop the Rain, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Long As I Can See the Light. Those are not songs from their greatest hits collection. Well, i'm sure they ARE, but more specifically they are from this album. That's simply a crazy collection of good songs. This really made me want to sit on a patio out in the Bayou and drink beers. If you dont feel the same - call for help.

This is a really legendary album. Probably 75% of it's songs are on every CCR Greatest Hits collection. I really can't say enough good things about. The real star of the show is John Fogerty's vocals, but the musicianship is great too. Long as I can See the Light and Heard it Through the Grapevine are my 2 favorites, but I love most of the songs on here.

To argue that this was anything less than a 5-star album would be a fight against democracy itself. The people have voted. CCR is an institution. Any band that can get right-wing voters to belt out anti-war anthems have some sort of Creole VOODOO going on behind the scenes. John Fogerty is from Berkley, California. The Fortress of Solitude for all things liberal. Yet if you see the confederate flag on a pick-up 50/50 chance they are bumping Fortunate Son. Insanity. True Bipartisanship rocking, I dig.

A wonderful album with great songs. Can’t believe they were only together for three years, and they managed to create so many tunes that are still played today.

I grew up on this band, mostly through Chronicles Vol 1, but most of the tracks on here are also on that. Discovered Ramble Tamble, which I love and Ooby Dooby, which I hate. Had to listen to Up Around the Bend twice because it’s so good. I’m amazed at the different style influences across this album. So good!

ok it seems like a four-worthy album to be honest but i really don't have the urge to listen to any of these songs again and its not my type of music so three it is.

11 minutes is a fucking joke

4.5 stars. Loved the Rockabilly tones. The country was strong with such lovely bluesy undertones. Vocals are on point on this and an 11 minute cover of a Soul Classic in heard through the grapevine is the perfect ending. Which sadly eclipses the actual last song on the album.

Fogerty can really put an album together. So many classics, so much grit.

I liked this one a lot better than the other CCR album I got from this album generator. This one seems somehow 'swampier', but it also has more variety and more experimentation in the songs. This sets it apart from just being more highly polished radio-friendly standard rock-fare. Just a really good album, loved listening to it.

I am devastated—DEVASTATED I TELL YOU—that I got all three CCR albums within a week of each other. I love CCR and would have rather spread them out to be a little tasty treat for my ears. This is my favorite of the three CCR albums on the list—some certified classics and also features CCR really experimenting with their sound on a few tracks. I do find “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” unnecessarily long and CCR has always excelled at creating great singles rather than cohesive albums, so this one still earns 4/5 stars. Nonetheless, they really were a one of a kind group that wrote some of the greatest songs in the rock and roll canon. Also, let’s pour one out for “Willy and the Poor Boys,” which easily could have been on this list and features my favorite CCR song (“Fortunate Son”).

Pretty dreadful stuff. I really dislike Fogerty's voice. Travelin' Band is a straight rip off of Good Golly Miss Molly. The version of Grapevine adds nothing to the Marvin Gaye version. Sorry Dude, I'd be relieved if my Credence tape was stolen (though I agree about the f'n Eagles, man)

I already knew over half the songs, but hearing it all come together as one unit makes it all the better. Some classic stuff here.

The opening track alone (Ramble Tamble) is inexplicably not on any greatest hits, but is their best song.

Love it' A Classic. Reminds me of drinking in a barn in NB.

A few notable songs on the album, like "Up Around The Bend". Never really was a big fan of CCR but can certainly appreciate their music. Some songs are dopey though, like "Ooby Dooby" is a waste of time. There's a cover or two on the album as well, which I almost never appreciate on studio albums because it's just filler, IMHO. Like we don't need an 11+ minute rendition of "Heard it through the grapevine". 7/10.

This is the John Fogerty show through and through which is both fantastic, because he's an amazing musician, and rough, because so are his band mates. It's a damn shame the man couldn't muster three dimes worth of humility because what this band could do when they worked together was incredible. Regardless of the internal drama and their breakup just over a year after dropping this gold, Cosmo's Factory is a great album. Every CCR album (except maybe Mardi Gras) has one or two stone cold classics but this one is packed. Travlin' Band, Lookin' Out My Backdoor, Run Through the Jungle, Up Around the Bend, and Who'll Stop the Rain are all instantly recognizable to anyone who's listened to music in the last twenty years. On top of that you've got some solid blues tracks and CCR's recording of Heard It Through the Grapevine which competes with Marvin Gaye's classic version. Just a phenomenal album.

Acid flashback to ‘Nam ‘71

A masterpiece.

Amazing how many timeless classic songs CCR was able to produce in such a short period of time. I went into this album thinking it would end up being a 4 star rating, but after listening to it I'm giving it a 5.

Ooby Dolby is a little silly, but the rest of this album is fantastic.

I forgot how much I absolutely love this album!

Loved it. The right vibe for my later day relaxation.

10/10

Very fun album to listen to.

Hell yea

Amazing

Put me in, coach

Love this album

Awesome album. Can listen to it wherever

I don’t know what I expected before listening to this album. I think my preconceptions about Creedence Clearwater Revival were that they were a country band like the Allman Brothers, and while I think there is a time in a place for that kind of music, it’s not my favorite. But after just a couple minutes of listening to this album, I am a convert. only giving four stars because white people gaining fame from music that is clearly inspired by traditions of black musicians deserves to be knocked down a peg on principle.

Instantly makes you 290% more horny for your sister

Credit where credit is due. I know all music has it's influences but sometimes it's so just so blatant. Early Stones, early Beatles and half of the songs here owe such a great debt to Chuck Berry, Little Richard and all the old Blues masters. CCR don't try to hide this influence but I find it hard to give those songs any real credit. Tracks 5, 6, 7, 9 & 11 are however what I expect CCR to sound like. Of those, 'Up Around the Bend' & 'Who'll Stop the Rain' are decent songs. Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 & 10 just sound like a blues tribute band so I struggle to see the importance of this album, other than it's popularity. 3 stars.

Repetitive, Frantic, Plagiaristic.

When I was a kid, my mom wanted to get my dad a copy of John Fogerty's Centerfield on vinyl. We went around to every record shop in town trying to find a copy. One shop we tried to go to had a sign on the door that said "no minors," which my mom thought was an incredibly confusing and stupid policy, and she held a grudge about that incident for several years. That story really doesn't have a lot to do with this album, but I always think about it when I listen to CCR. I've listened to quite a bit of CCR over the years. They were never one of my favorite classic rock acts, but they got a ton of radio play on the local classic rock station. It's not that I think they're bad, there's just other stuff I'd rather listen to when it comes to classic rock. Needless to say, this was my first time listening to one of their albums in its entirety. I'm familiar with a few of the songs on this album, and "Up Around the Bend" is easily my favorite CCR song. Outside of the songs I knew, this was about what I'd expect for a CCR album: a southern rock album with touches of psychedelica, blues, and rockabilly. Most of the songs were good, with "Ramble Tamble" being my favorite of the songs that I didn't know. John Fogerty has one of the most recognizable voices in classic rock, and his vocals on this album were really good. His voice really helps create the band's unique swamp rock sound. "Up Around the Bend" is easily the best track on the album in my opinion. That high pitched guitar riff is just incredible, and the song does a fantastic job of making me feel like I'm driving down an old country road, headed to a backyard cookout. This song always puts a smile on my face, and listening to it today was no exception. CCR's version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is really good too, and they really succeed at making the song their own. Outside of those tracks though, the album was just kind of boring to me, and that makes this album pretty middle of the road overall in my book. Again, I don't think it's bad, but it's just not my cup of tea.

Surprising how one album can have songs that are absolutely shit and amazing.

Classic CCR. 5/5

This is basically a greatest hits album. 5/5

CCR are one of my favourite bands and I can't help but feel criminally underrated. What they aren't though, is forgotten, as I read an article a few weeks ago about their greatest hits album basically never leaving the Billboard Top 200, floating around the 30s, and they split up 52 years ago! Anyway, what an album, what a band, if you liked this go and check out some of their other stuff ('Fortunate Son' is one of my favourites).

The old school Black Keys! Loved it, but then again I listened to it on a haze of caffeine. Banger after banger. Even the ones I didn't know were great!

Great album! This is one of my husband's favorite bands, and now I know why.

Fogerty and the gang were cranking em out.

Rock on

I don't need to listen to this to give it 5/5, it's been one of my favourite albums for a long time (I did anyway though). I wish they had done more psychedelic stuff like Ramble Tramble Highlights: Ramble Tramble, Lookin' Out My Back Door, Ooby Dooby, I Heard It Through the Grapevine

YAY Creedence!!! The dude approves to hard. I love these guys and I had hoped to hear one of their better albums like others have said, many of the Creedence's greatest hits are all just on *this* album so I'm happy SO GOOD Ramble Tamble Before You Accuse Me Travelin Band?!?!?!?! Lookin out my back door certified BOP Run Through the Jungle UP AROUND THE BEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My Baby Left Me Who'll Stop the Rain Heard it Through the Grape Vine?!?!!?!? Fuck yea Credence!!!

Another group I know. I especially enjoyed Heard it thru the Grapevine.

Almost all of my favorite CCR songs are on this album? Wow, I had no idea! I love swampy Southern rock. Funny considering that the band is from California. Can't go wrong with John Fogerty and the gang.

ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. I loved it. I liked every single song on the album on spotify

great. classic

Songs: Travelin Band, Looking Out My Back Door, Run Through the Jungle, Up Around The Bend, Who'll Stop The Rain, Long As I Can See The Light

Know every song. Love it all.

love it

wow, not just a 5 star album, but most songs in the album get 5 stars. Favorite track: i heard it through the grapevine vine(cover) other picks: ooby dooby(cover but still), traveling band, up around the bend, Looking out my back door

Yes

Always loved this album, has some great hits and feels like a great length. I've even listened to the deluxe album with all of the various performances before. Lean 70s 5/5

Awesome. Songs that were new to me, and plenty of familiar standards

Chill

Favorite Track: Up Around The Bend

This album includes hit after hit. A must have for any music collector. You can hear the versatility in the band from the energy driven Chuck Berry like tracks Travelin' Band and Ooby Dooby. R&B/Gospel worthy tracks such as Long As I Can See The Light and Who'll Stop The Rain. Blues is represented well with Before You Accuse Me. This doesn't even include the now renowned songs in Up Around The Bend, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, and Born On The Bayou.

A laundry list of all-time songs. Do not sleep on this one

John Fogerty is honestly one of my favorite songwriters

One of the best so far

Many bands featured on this list can be described as “ahead of their time”. CCR is not one of those bands. They are very much of their time and even that is a stretch. It’s too bad that this album is fantastic. Ramble Tamble is an epic, their version of I Heard It Through The Grapevine features an expansive instrumental section that ebbs and flows, Long As I Can See The Light is an excellent outro. Everything works here.

La CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL, son uno de los mejores grupos de la historia y este uno de sus mejores discos. Ese mismo 1970 publicaron además de Cosmo's factory otro álbum: Pendulum, el quinto (y podríamos decir que último) disco de estudio de la banda en menos de dos años. Ramble Tamble es un temazo que crece y crece, de lo mejor del disco. Before You Accuse Me es una excelente versión del tema de Bo Diddley, que Clapton recuperó para su Journey man. Hay otras dos versiones más: el clásico I Heard It Through the Grapevine y Ooby Dooby de Roy Orbison. Travelin' Band, es un rock al estilo Little Richard pero con sonido sureño de la Credence, una gozada. Lookin' Out My Back Door fue otro sencillo lanzado. Una delicia boogie made in Fogerty. Cierra el lado A Run Through the Jungle, con obvias referencias a la guerra de Vietnam (también en su clásico Who'll Stop the Rain) La cara B abre con el sencillo Up Around the Bend, y sigue con My Baby Left Me, ambas marcas de la casa (rock-blues-sureño). Cierra, tras las citadas Who'll Stop the Rain y 11 minutos de I Heard It Through the Grapevine, con Long as I Can See the Light, más reposada pero muy intensa (saxo a cargo de John). Disco esencial, por el que no pasa el tiempo. Otras obras fundamentales de 1970: The Beatles- Let it be, Paul McCartney-McCartney, George Harrison- All Things Must Pass, John Lennon- John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, LED ZEPPELIN-III, THE KINKS- Lola versus Powerman and the moneygoround, VAN MORRISON - Moondance, THE STOOGES - Fun house, THE DOORS - Morrison hotel, NEIL YOUNG - After the gold rush, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - Loaded, BADFINGER - No dice, GEORGE HARRISON - All things must pass, FLAMIN' GROOVIES - Flamingo, IKE & TINA TURNER - Come together, ERIC BURDON & WAR - The Black-Man's Burdon, MC5 - Back in the USA, DAVID BOWIE - The man who sold the world, WILLIE DIXON - I am the blues, FLYING BURRITO BROS - Burrito Deluxe, SANTANA- Abraxas, Miles Davis- Bitches brew, Simon and Grafunkel- Bridge over Troubled Water, SIXTO RODRIGUEZ- Cold fact, THE SOFT MACHINE -III, DEREK AND THE DOMINOS- Layla and other assorted love songs, JJ PERREY- Moog Indigo, Carpenters- Close to you, SPIRIT- Twelve dreams or Dr. Sardonicus, DEEP PRUPLE- In rock, THE WHO- Live at Leeds... y debuts de Black Sabbath (además de Paranoid),Elton John, Stephen Stills y Kraftwerk.

Love it

Very good album with some great songs

CCR is one of the very few bands I've loved and listened to my entire life and never felt burnt out on. Yeah it's kinda cheesy and overplayed but it's really good. They released a ton of killer material in only three years and it's staying power is incredible. Bands are still trying to sound like this.

Just awesome. Added to my Tidal Collections, so it must be good!

How many bangers do you need to have on an album before it becomes too much? Clearly Creedence didn’t het the quota memo, because Cosmo’s Factory is all banger. Fuck, this is good. I’ve said before in the R.E.M Document review, it’s one thing to make an album that’s great, it’s an entirely different thing to make an album that’s all good, all the way through, and I don’t think Creedence, with the one notable exception, ever made an album that wasn’t all good. And even Mardi Grad has Someday Never Comes, which I and ever other songwriter would kill to have written

nada como empezar un disco con un tema de 7minutos. todos hits.

los ultimos dos temas valen las 5 estrellas

Credence tapes

Just so much energy and charisma. I would have loved to go to a CCR concert. So many classics on this album: Ooby Dooby, Lookin’ Out My Backdoor, Up Around the Bend, Heard it Through the Grapevine (which I never realized was CCR). I loved the few times where they drastically change the tempo in the middle of a couple of songs.

Ya I was anticipating this was going to be a five just with how strong bayou country was but man did it still deliver. Excellent opening riff and just a great way to open an album. 4 singles that I had heard before nicely spaced throughout the album. I always shoutout lead guitars but I’ll swerve and give some love to the unsung heroes: the bass player. On freakin travelin band, I did have to look it up, but it was a quarter note=168 which is fuckin flyinggg. Talk about slappin da bass. Guy killed it. I also loved on the wiki article where the band describes their genre as “swamp rock” which is just a cool genre title that I had no idea existed but makes perfect sense for them. It’s interesting that in this time in rock so many people were doing the whole psychedelic thing but CCR is just like nah, and really tap in to those bluesy rock vibes circa Elvis, etc. I think My Baby Left Me is a cover of an Elvis song? Don’t quote me but pretty sure. Or maybe I’m just thinking of heartbreak hotel cuz it has similar cadences. This resets the bar as a good classic rock album as I’ve been lulled into a feeling of mediocrity with some of our most recent classic rock albums (like I think I would retroactively drop my rating for the police to a three). Give me more CCR. And yes, the harmonica still fucks.

Not much to say other than this album is fantastic. Only critique is that I don’t need an eleven minute cover of Heard it Through the Grape Vine, but it’s got a good groove so I’ll let it slide.

Fuck dude, this might be it. Starts out with a 7-minute jam to remind you of that CCR sound and then it's followed by hit after hit after hit. It feels like these guys were nailing out songs one day and then said "Hey, maybe we shouldn't make an album." There are so many iconic songs throughout this album. Most of theses songs were probably the background music for some of your favorite movie scenes. The peak of a band with a unique sound that should have been a one-hit wonder doing it again and again and again.

There are so many great songs on here that it is impossible for me not to give it 5 stars. I'm not even the biggest Credence fan, but damn...what an achievement of rock and roll songwriting and performance.

This brought back memories, most of them good ones. Used to listen to this when on a camping holiday in the Lake District, running around pretending we were in Vietnam. We used to take turns "taking point" from watching Tour of Duty and the like. It's a very good album and an easy five stars, even though it's technically not music I would typically enjoy.

Great high energy rock tunes. Singable lyrics with foot stomping rhythms. Distinctive John Fogerty vocals. This is a keeper.

Always good

Another album filled to the brim with hits. Albums like these are the reason I started with this. I knew CCR by name but never sat down to really listen to a full album, but I was blown away by the songwriting, the music and the craft at display. One I will go back to a lot for sure

I dig it. Jammy but grounded.

Classic album that might as well be a greatest hits album

I've been really enjoying the CCR albums on this list so far. Sure, they completely rip off Black blues and gospel, but they do it so well. They're one of the few bands in the genre that really seem to put their hearts and souls into it, and I love how they meld the blues and gospel with a bit of psychedelic jamming too. This album follows along the same trajectory as their earlier ones, but it's a bit more polished than Bayou Country. I'd have to listen to the album again to pick out the highlight tracks, but the whole thing flows really well and has a really fun energy to it from the first track through the last one. Their cover of Heard It Through the Grapevine is very vibey and never really gets old despite its lengthy jam session. It's a little hard not to laugh at Fogerty's ridiculous affected accent at times ("I hoid it through the grapevine" — what even is that, NYC bayou?), but that's the only negative I can find with this album. 5/5

CCR is my shit. Drown me in this sound, bury me with it. This album is the balls

Huge hits, extended jams, an 11 minute Grapevine...this album has it all. Expanding beyond swamp rock and rockabilly into soul, country, and rhythm and blues, it's honestly hard to fault.

Loved the album. Jams and covers actually made them come across as a more mature band. Great stuff!

Amazing how much music they managed to put in this album. Every single song on here is great and memorable, and somehow they managed to fit 2 of their longest songs with jams in there on it as well.

It's hard to find any fault with this album, it's iconic for a reason. Favorite track on this listen: "Who'll Stop the Rain."

What I have always found remarkable about this album is there are 6-7 songs on this album that were either "hits" or can be heard on the radio frequently today, yet 3 of the first 4 songs are a 7-minute psychedelic re-write of "Commotion," an old blues song and song that was a hit back in the 1950's. They didn't even bother to start the album off with the strongest songs. Great album. This is CCR's best album and the non-hits are very strong as well. Even the covers which tend to make me feel "meh" on other CCR albums are really strong here. I hope this isn't controversial, but this version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is very good.

It's funny I've been listening to CCR my whole life but I've never listened to this album as a concept. I think we had the Chronicle greatest hits cd in the minivan growing up so we'd just listen to that, but this album has so many of the all time classics they're kinda indistinguishable. Anyways, CCR rules.

Exactly for me. These are a fine fine selection of songs. Some are so simple yet tailored to absolute perfection and Fogerty’s delivery and very southern sound of the band make it so refreshing. Everything here works for me.

So many classics on one album. Loved the whole thing

9/10. Great vibes and some classics in the mix. I wouldn't say there is anything "wow!" about it, which is why I went with a 9, but enjoyed the entire thing. Typically take points off for covers, but they made 'Heard it Through the Grapevine' their own with the guitar solos.

Great to hear some rock classics again, along with some new songs that I enjoyed just as much

Loved it.

An all time great album. Six or seven singles everyone has heard, regardless if they're fans or not. CCR has a gritty, live sound that it enjoyable without being bad or annoying. I have been a Creedence fan since a teenager and will continue to be.

Fahhhh… Far out, man. Far fuckin’ out!!

What a great opener. At first I was not super into it, but then after the switch up I was hooked. Ok, so Ooby Dooby isn't a very good song, but it is short. But besides that this album is stacked with hits.