Cosmo's Factory (studio album)
by Creedence Clearwater Revival

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.

A wonderful record that never disappoints

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"

An excellent album with some real standout tracks; My personal favorite: "Who'll Stop the Rain." 9.5/10!

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.

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.

From VictorVale 10/11/2022 19:44

Uma escola de bom rock!

Great record

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

Great album, underrated IMO