Cosmo's Factory

This album has been added to 3 private lists and 6 public lists:

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  The Music Slut Committee

  Steve

  "I do want to focus on these originals because they are all so different. He open with this swamp rock jam, Going into the bombastic show stopping Travlin’ Band with those great drum breakdowns. John screaming is just so raw and the excitement is contagious. Then we have the laid back country ditty Looking Out my Back Door. The dark Eerie run through the jungle. The standard rocker with one of the greatest intro licks of all time. A ballad that defined a generation (who’ll stop the ran), but it’s isn’t too ballady, it has a great tempo and band work. And then the very soulful As Long as I see the light. He wrote all of these and all of them a fantastic. How is this album is so great and goes against the statistics. It’s the 5th album out of 6 in a chaotic 2 year frenzy of making records and touring. How could the 5th album be so good, when you already had 4 other albums packed with songs that were massive. People would beg to just have one song in a lifetime. CCR has like 20 genre defining standards in 2 years. John was the song songwriter on these songs, he sang and played lead (insane) and he def was able to convey to the band how to perform these songs. He had a gift and a fantastic point of view that really resonated with people as he seemed to have his thumb on the pulse of the people and the culture around him. I think it helps that they did what they wanted in their sound without falling into the tropes of the 60’s California sound and the acid rock. They were playing things that were old in spirit but fresh and new as well. A perfect balance.

  we know he is the brain, soul and power behind CCR’s success. But he did rule the band with an iron fist and was definitely blinded by that power. So much that when the band shared their disappointment over not being able to have any creativity. John was like alright, we will split it evenly. you guys have to write and sing too, I’m not gonna do all the work. They did. AND IT FLOPPED and they broke up. Like the dude risked it all to be petty. He was a one man band at the end of the day. Though he didn’t have the massive success after leaving the group apart from a handful of singles. This part of his life was his biggest and best creative output.

  Of 7 albums. 6 are dynamite. And I believe Cosmo’s Factory (5) is the peak of this band with its diversity and quality of all the material." - Zach

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  2025

  PL

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  Aivan pistämätöntä menoa alusta loppuun. Mieli lepää tätä kuunnellessa ja mikäs hauskinta, monia kappaleita voi itsekin soittaa.

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  2025-03

  vertino

  1001albums:911

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  1001Albums

  Neil Hopkins

  Sometimes you just want an album of good old fashioned swampy blues and southern fried rock ‘n’ roll to stomp along to. Creedence Clearwater Revival might not be the world’s greatest band, but they really sound like they’re enjoying themselves on this and it’s infectious. Does this earn them a place in this list? Yes, if only for their audacious eleven minute cover version of ‘Heard it through the Grapevine’ which is a whole lot of fun. Bayoutastic!

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  James