Cosmo's Factory
by Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Cosmo's Factory is ranked as the best album by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Cosmo's Factory track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 86 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Cosmo's Factory rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  pranafilms | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 53/100 | 48 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 29 Music Albums of 1970 | 8/29 | 4 |
| 2026 | Kettwig | Top 28 Music Albums of 1970 | 3/28 | 5 |
| 2026 | sweetness | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 23/100 | 16 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 86/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  imimesis | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 14/100 | 17 |
| 2026 |  LedZep | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 98/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  skelter54 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1970 | 9/50 | 4 |
| 2026 |  pedro1976 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 6/100 | 19 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Robert Christgau's 1970 Jazz & Pop Ballot: Pop | 5/10 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 929 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 7,985 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/08/2026 11:03 | TheWongs | 846 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/03/2026 19:32 | ecocruzr | 187 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2026 16:00 | AledJames | 1,682 | 69/100 |
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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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Forum mentions
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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. (Edited)
A wonderful record that never disappoints (Edited)
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" (Edited)
An excellent album with some real standout tracks; My personal favorite: "Who'll Stop the Rain." 9.5/10! (Edited)
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. (Edited)
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