Cosmo's Factory
by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Year: 1970
Release date: 1970-07-08
Overall rank: 181st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
85/100 (from 999 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1970 (8th)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 1970s (43rd)
Award Top 200 albums of all time (181st)

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Creedence Clearwater Revival bestography

Cosmo's Factory is ranked as the best album by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

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Cosmo's Factory
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Cosmo's Factory track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 86 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 181st | 1970s rank: 43rd | 1970 rank: 8th
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2026Pluto11Top 100 Music Albums of 19703/1005
2026matterhornriderTop 101-200 Greatest Music Albums17/100 -
2026bonnequestionTop 55 Music Albums of 197039/552
2026HyggevinylTop 56 Music Albums of 197035/562
2026matterhornriderTop 72 Music Albums of 19707/725
2026 imacgillTop 100 Greatest Music Albums98/1003
2026sunnydhammTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s84/1003
2026tim0505Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s36/10013
2026 imimesisTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s14/10017
2026 AAL2014Top 100 Greatest Music Albums65/10036
2026fabm0Platinum decade 1970s72/100 -
2026 ExTeaSeaTop 62 Music Albums of 19702/625
2026 Robert Anton WilsonTop 41 Music Albums of 19709/414
2026chavaloricardinTop 100 Greatest Music Albums54/10045
2026LittleM1971Top 66 Music Albums of 197051/661
2026stevengnzTop 85 Music Albums of 19708/855
2026 baystateoftheartTop 92 Music Albums of 19708/925
2026MoondanceTop 100 Music Albums of 197011/1005
2026danceTop 40 Greatest Music Albums21/4048
2026 CrhmgsTop 100 Greatest Music Albums73/10027
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 922
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 8,095
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Average Rating: 
85/100 (from 999 votes)
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04/20/2026 19:36 Deckard  Ratings distribution  26780/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 84.8/100, a mean average of 83.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.

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Cosmo's Factory comments

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85/100
From 08/27/2025 00:29 | #310712
I held off getting any Creedence albums for a long time probably due to them being so thrashed in my party days as a youth, I was over saturated hence never bothered getting anything from them. But this is so loaded with such well known gems. Well worthy of the high accolades it gets.
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90/100
From 04/20/2025 19:18 | #308633
A wonderful record that never disappoints
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35/100
From 03/14/2025 20:54 | #308036
Not for me. Some nice tracks in there including the first and last tracks, but a lot of bland generic rock in the middle, the worst culprit being "Ooby Dooby"
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95/100
From 03/30/2024 19:14 | #302764
An excellent album with some real standout tracks; My personal favorite: "Who'll Stop the Rain." 9.5/10!
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95/100
From 03/11/2023 11:35 | #294908 | TOP COMMENT
This is by far the most consistent Creedence project with it being full of great songs and brilliant instrumental work. They take a more bluesy approach on here and it really pays off for them and for us as they command songs like Travelin' Band, Run Through The Jungle and Up Around The Bend. The peak of this style comes on the cover of I Heard It Through The Grapevine which they transform and completely make their own. On this song they demonstrate how covers can be so amazing and also give us an instrumental masterpiece of a song. They then continue this high quality for basically the rest of the record which results in a consistent listen that is so satisfying to experience. The one knock against the album I have is that there are two filler songs which are My Baby Left Me and Ooby Dooby. They are only 4 minutes long when combined but they do take me out of the record and do feel unnecessary on this release. If you remove those two songs this is amongst the truly elite of albums. Overall, this is a very high quality record that is full of brilliant performances across the whole group and is by far the greatest Creedence record they created.
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100/100
From 01/12/2023 06:16 | #292737 | TOP COMMENT
While this album has a great reputation, I still consider it highly underrated. It says something about the quality of the songs when the covers (besides Grapevine) are the weakest part of the album and they still do them justice. Every original song on this album could have been released as a single and is hit worthy. It deserves the same level of recognition as Led Zeppelin’s fourth album in my opinion. My only gripe is I feel the middle of Ramble Tamble goes on a tad too long, but that’s a tiny nitpick. Truly a masterpiece.
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90/100
From 10/11/2022 19:44 | #290381
Uma escola de bom rock!
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90/100
From 09/06/2022 17:40 | #289426
Great record
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Rating:  
85/100
From 05/18/2022 08:09 | #285459
Album Rating: 81.27
(894/11)

1.Ramble Tamble. 90
2.Before You Accuse Me. 77
3.Travelin' Band. 71
4.Ooby Dooby. 66
5.Lookin' Out My Back Door. 83
6.Run Through The Jungle. 83
7.Up Around The Bend. 78
8.My Baby Left Me. 72
9.Who’ll Stop The Rain. 85
10.I Heard It Through The Grapevine. 98
11.Long As I Can See The Lightning 91
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90/100
From 02/03/2022 23:18 | #280649
Great album, underrated IMO
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