Cosmo's Factory

I wasn't sure about this album, rife with white guy blues riffs and guitar solos which dragged out way too much for me. Although I'm wondering whether it's about context because I think in a sweaty club in the 70s I might have been all for extending those riffs and solos if you're just dancing and riding the high... Maybe sitting working from home and listening in 2023 doesn't quite hit the same...

gratuitously long riffs. generically catchy tunes.

Ik moest het opzoeken, maar ik heb dit vorige maand gedraaid... dat zegt eigenlijk wel genoeg.

Het balanceert nogal tussen gezapig en swingend.

Largely boring vitalization of Creedence Clearwater Revival's aptly named 'swamp rock', muddy hillbilly musings. Style is enjoyable on more reserved tracks as the campy classic rock boogie-groove of Ooby Dooby and quaint ballad of My Baby Left Me and a wonderful display of endurance and classic blues soloing in the Grapevine cover. The more popular tracks- Travelin' Band and Ramble Tamble really don't grab me.

Highlights: "Up Around the Bend," "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Travelin' Band," "Run Through the Jungle" This album really drags for almost all of the first half before it gets going. A resolute step backwards from Bayou Country. The arrangements can be really rich, and their production has stepped up, but the songwriting has definitely suffered from their grueling output.

White men ripping off black music. Slow and boring

honestly boring

fairly standard electric blues but not unenjoyable. goes on a bit, but when it's on it's on for sure. best tracks: travelin band, i heard it through the grapevine, who'll stop the rain.

70s southern rock with too many blues covers. 2/5

I did a review of another CCR album where I said I couldn't ever listen to them without thinking of them as "That band from the Vietnam war films". So I was presently surprised that this was something a bit different. Full on blues. That being said pleasantly surprised is probably the extent of it unfortunately. Although its all done quite well it just made very little impression on me. I just don't like CCR unfortunately and no amount of variations on the formula is going to change that.

Well, the instrumental portions of Ramble Tamble are great, so I was cautiously optimistic going in to the rest of the album. Unfortunately, everything after that first track is just the usual CCR swamp-rat wannabe nonsense.

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Yeah, it was decent, not a scratch on their other work though Favourite song: didn’t really have one

Klassisk rock, gode trommer, keyboard går solidt. Kæmpe riffs. Cowboy vibes. Riffs var kun i starten, nu er jeg skuffet, det ligepludselig country??? Run through the jungle var faktisk rimelig ild.

creo q oword a esta gente 6/10

The whole album sounds the same. Nice voice. Not my style. 2/5

Who is Cosmo? Why the factory? Why the very backhanded compliment to Marvin Gaye? (I wonder whether this may possessed something of the Eric Clapton/Bob Marley "I Shot the Sheriff" dynamic – or just wishful thinking on the part of CCR?). Anyway. Rather than rubbish an album that is fond to many, I'll simply say that I'll acknowledge this without quite understanding why.

on yer bike mate

nicht aufgefallen

Cosmo Kramer Laugh Factory

Dirty fuckin' hippies. CCR, will always occupy that space on the other side of the peace, happiness and 'love -will-save-us-all' flower power movement for me. Just over that line resides the stinky, up-all-night, bloated excesses with a dirty harmonica in a shirt pocket, otherwise known as Creedence Clearwater Revival. Though listening to this album did not change my, albeit narrow view of the band, I did find enjoyment in that Up Around the Bend intro and the the guitar picking in Ramble Tamble and Run Through the Jungle. However, as with any CCR album there are three things going on here that prevents me from ranking this album higher: 1. FOGERTY SINGING - (not sure which one 'cause I don't care) and his fake-ass southern drawl. These guys are from Cali. 2. That boxcar-harmonica paired acoustic twang-y guitar sound. 3. The dirty fuckin' hippies.

It's fine. Doesn't really do a ton for me but it's pleasant and has some good musicianship. I like the less southern-influenced parts the best honestly.

Greit å få ting unnagjort

A lot more rock than I expected it to be. Unfortunately, I did not love it. I respect it, but it wasn’t for me.

M'ennui de Bowie.... Pas mon band préféré, pas étonné que Little Richard les ai poursuivi... Clairement pas enregistré au click😅 surtout au début de l'album (je sais c'est voulu la shot en fin de toune) ça pousse pis ça tire de tout les bords dans la toune d'après... Grapevine : Il y a clairement 5 minutes de trop dans cette toune... Bon, assez chialé, les drums sonnent bien mettons...

C’est correct. Ça tire en longueur sur tout un album. Visuellement, ça ne fit pas avec la musique. C’est organique par contre et ça fait un bon pont entre rock, blues et country. John Fogerty a vraiment une voix l’fun, mais quand on écoute les track live à la fin, on voit que c’est fragile.

Plusieurs chansons m’étaient familières sur cet album. Pas un grand fan du groupe, mais les chansons plus soul sont bien.

Can't stop doing the OOBY DOOBY

“Oh don’t worry there’s only 2 songs left” and yet here we are 15 mins later still listening to this album. I think it was fun but bland and there’s no holy reason for a cover to last that long.

Not for me

Неплохо, но скучно. Не вызывает эмоций.

Creedence hits at something faster, then settles into their groove. Not a bad album: Middle of the road as this list goes. But the main takeaway is the hits, which are less moving than they could be.

Strange album. Bunch of 2 minute songs and then an 11 minute cover of 'Heard It Through The Grapevine' that goes on forever.

I found it to be meh, not my jam

Too many cover versions to my taste. Sounds Like a good pub covers band

Why all the CCR? Never been a fan.

я хз это они этот стиль придумали или спиздили но я уже тысячу ебаных раз такое слышал

I feel like I should have liked this album more than I did. It was a bit to country for my taste, had to control myself from yelling yeehaw a few times

For a brief period during my college years, I really liked CCR and listened to them a lot. I do love John Fogerty's guitar playing, and I absolutely get the importance of this band. That being said, I haven't listened to them in years. Nothing bad about it, just not interested anymore.

Loud and not my style save one track.

Un disco con bastantes canciones famosas de esta banda histórica. Me han gustado: Up around the bend y I heard it through the grapevine. Entiendo que sea un disco famoso con millones de escuchas en Spotify, pero para mi gusto aunque está más o menos bien no creo que se convierta en imprescindible.

It really has an amazing selection of tracks from the era... but i went from appreciating it to not being able to listen to fogerty's voice a long time ago. It deserves better than this, but "rain" and "light" are the only bearable songs.

Overall, the album was ok, I have had one or two tracks before, but not the whole album. The sound of the album with country and rock ties made the album very fun to listen through as every track was different. You can tell that this band helped inspire others and riffs taken by other bands i.e., Led Zeppelin. If I saw the Creedence Clearwater Revival I would have been amazed. The main issue is the way this album has been mixed and produced at least on the Spotify version it sounded very flat. Multiple albums in this time area sound much better even album I have had on this site like Pearl by Janis Joplin. Great albums came out in this period like Paranoid, Kinks & Led Zeppelin. I hope to see a remaster or find a cover version of this album that fulfils the punch this album should have.

Too poppy

Absolutely not.

Absolutely not

Bore fest

I did not like this.

I have come to realize, I do not care for majority of older western music. Idk why stuff like this is considered the pinnacle of any and all music, when in reality this stuff is boring as shit. Why do westerners constantly hype up boring shitty ass music like it's the best thing ever? This would have two stars, but I was angry enough to change it to one.

Too much tappy tap hi-hat jarring singer growling and grumbling all the time. Was nice to see where the accident help line jingle came from tho, some songs were nice but the growling was too much

1/5

0.5

Pass

Brhgghghg

A 2 hour plus work drive back home from Surrey today so I thought I’d give the album a go, made it through to track 4 and thought this isn’t going to change, I’m not going to change and we should part company. Switched to 6 music and managed to catch that Underworld had just released (or dropped as the kids would say) a new album. Swamp rock just ain’t my bag. Nuff said.

New competitor for the worst album I've heard here The only moment I got livened up was when I noticed that the guy who uploaded this album to youtube wrote "good album" in the title. Fuck youtube and its clickbait titles rock is the devil's music Mr. Beast did nothing wrong

actually made me angry when I realised what band this was. it's just a bunch of shitty cover versions of already boring music

Boring

strange indeed

this is so fucking boring, 11 minutes for a song? bro you're not pink floyd 😭

This album is my worst nightmare. Radio friendly three chord dribble. No imagination here just lame covers and blues based twangin.

More boring blues dad stuff. A few hits on here have been on permanent radio rotation for 5 decades so have that warm familiarity. His voice is great in its gritty overstretched way. They're not reach for the dial songs, but equally nothing worth seeking out. Very disappointing that 'Who'll Stop the Rain' wasn't the far superior 'Have You Seen the Rain'. It's just totally inessential replacement level rock by numbers - listen to Marvin Gaye or Little Richard or Chuck Berry or Jimi Hendrix instead of their pale imitator.

AHHHH THE GUITAR THE GUITAR ITS HAUNTING ME

First listen Saved 1/11 Top track: Ramble Tamble

1. Ramble Tamble- Long AF! But digging the transitions throughout the song :) Did not finish the rest sooo can’t vote

i think there was a maybe 2 minute overall part of this album that i enjoyed, but other than that, i just didn’t care for it. i wanted to because i realised i quite like folky eclectic and unusual but this just irked me, was glad to be finished.

Nervt irgendwie

passssssssssssssssss Significant 28/78 Liked 13/78 Added 3/78

One track on the album was bearable.

Blocked

always annoying

So CCR is like bad Kings of Leon?

...not my thing

Hoary old rockers. Terrible version of 'Grapevine'. Whatever they were reviving, they should leave it where it is.

dad rock

Well liked this when it started, but then the first tune kept going and going then the next was like hippy country. Nah not for me.

Not my music

Æ mér leiðist CCR. Ofspilað shit, mest megnis.

Not into this at all.

fælt

Demasiado USA

eh its fine

A classic however CCR has never really been my thing.

Awesome Artwork!

Ok

God damn hippies!