Track Listing

1. Ramble Tamble
2. Before You Accuse Me
3. Travelin' Band
4. Ooby Dooby
5. Lookin' Out My Back Door
6. Run Through the Jungle
7. Up Around the Bend
8. My Baby Left Me
9. Who'll Stop the Rain
10. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
11. Long as I Can See the Light

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65870 in Music
• Released on: 2001-04-24
• Number of discs: 1

From Amazon.com
If, as many contend, Creedence Clearwater Revival was the foremost singles rock band of its time, Cosmo's Factory is the ultimate end-of-the-'60s singles album. Indeed, 7 of the album's 11 tracks turn up on Chronicle, CCR's best hits collection. That said, Cosmo's Factory is really a must-own in its entirety. No other album so adeptly laces together the various strands of the CCR sound. John Fogerty's ready-for-AM-radio knack surfaces in "Lookin' Out My Back Door" and "Up Around the Bend." His sober side is in evidence on "Who'll Stop the Rain" and "Long As I Can See the Light." And no white group of its time could cover black music with as much natural flair; for proof, check out the 11-minute cover of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." The band broke up two albums after the release of this, their apex LP, but Cosmo's Factory cemented CCR's standing as a great American band. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews

Bad album cover, great album
I don't know why, but this album cover always seemed so plain. Anyway, this is Creedance at their best. John Fogerty's creative flame is white hot on this effort. This is what happens when you are focused on nothing but music and writing for a long time and you have an outlet for your creativity. A certain part of your brain goes into overdrive and you produce something like Cosmos Factory. Creedance was, in fact, greatly appreciated in their time. From early on, their record company made a number of greatest hits packages available and they had something like a string of 7 or 8 number 1 records. That's a big deal. They were a little different in that they had a Beach Boy type gimmick. Instead of surfing, they initially sang about the Bayou. Brian Wilson never surfed and John Fogerty was from California. Same difference. I don't care that the inspiration for Green River was a soda drink. The chord structures to Fogarty's writing are simple, but he did something really special with that simple structure. Part of John Fogarty's magic may be that he can really sing and does it in a very unique way. "Long as I can see the Light" is a great song, but the CCR recording is a masterpiece. If you examine John's vocal style, you might be able to argue this was his most powerful demonstration of his technique. Which quickly developed over the course of their very brief recording career. Of course, they put out more albums in a year than most bands put out over their entire career.

Stellar!!!!!!!
Sorry it took me a bit to reply. I wanted to be
able to give you an honest answer. So what I did was
listen to the disks in 3 different mediums. At work, at
home and in my car. I can say, without a doubt, that
the sound effects between the tracks help the
continuity of the music as a whole. Which is quite difficult
to do in my opinion, because the tracks themselves
are so fantastic! To be able to choose what sound
effects to place between tracks must have been an extremely

difficult job in lieu of the fear of completely
destroying motif of the music as a whole. But,
one must also take into consideration the robotic,
coldness that is brought about by playing track
after track which is reminisant of a simple que
(standing in an ineffectual line) when dealing with a audio
only type situation. If placed in conjunction with
video then one does not have to worry much about
transgression between tracks as the video factor
fills the gaps.

The type of music that is being delt with here is
not the simple Led Zeppelin type music (which needs
no assistance in standing by it's self quite well)
but an assortment of artistic works that are of gallery
quality. To bring consistancy to these works is
as bringing consistancey to a museum showing of the
Cleopatra exhibit. Where each piece in itself is
a work of art but still needs a thread leading to
the next art work to flow smoothly (hence the audio
narration thread for those that chose to rent the
audio prompting devices)
So, in a nut shell, I would not touch, nor change
this beautiful piece of artwork that you had your hand
in creating. If anyone says that it needs to be
changed and lifts a hand towards it, a metal ruler held
by a firm hand should be employed to break that
uplifted Anarchistic hand!

My apologies to my dear friend Mr. Tom Mitchell for the lateness of the entry of this review. I thought that I had put it up last we spoke but it must have slipped my mind.

Slap yourself (harder this time)...
if you give this more than one star. Most overated group in history. The old Fogey brothers and crew's amateurish music? was laughed at back in the day - people are still guffawin'. There isn't one memorable song out of the 11 on this - good thing for them the Gong Show wasn't around in the late 60's...