Cosmo’s Factory

Previously I got Bayou Country, which is a solid album, but lacked a bit with some overly long tracks and cuts that aren't as catchy as some of their biggest hits.

This album though has a ton of great stuff on it such as Travelin' Band, Lookin' Out My Back Door, Run Through the Jungle, Up Around the Bend, Who'll Stop the Rain, and I Heard It Through the Grapevine.

Just a great record.

Even though this type of music is about as far removed from my current tastes, this was not too bad of an album. This sort of music usually contains too much blues for me to get into it but somehow listening to an entire album did not feel like a drag. Although I don't plan on actively going out to look for more blues rock music any time soon.

I could live without Ramble Tamble and the 11-minute version of I Heard It Through the Grapevine, but when John Fogerty puts his gift for writing a short, hook-filled song to good use, this is great.

Can’t stand this shit, grew up hearing it over and over on the radio.

If I were in charge of the aux cord at a party where the majority of guests were over fifty, male, and from the generally southern part of the United States I would definitely put songs from this album on.

It was chill. Travelin' Band gave me mega 'good golly miss molly' vibes and I think I like Mr. Revival's faster boogie songs. Lookin' Out My Backdoor, Who'll Stop the Rain, and Run Through the Jungle were my faves. I Heard it Through the Grapevine is 11 minutes long and you feel every inch of it! Cowbell was fun though.

Like Bayou Country (my first-reviewed album!), I don't think this is /super/ my thing but I appreciate the skill and how it influenced later artists.

The hits are legendary. The deep cuts are excellent. This one's an all-timer.

I am just not a fan of CCR overall. I like their hit songs and that's about it. It's not that it's painfully bad, I just don't like this band.

Not much to say . Some good songs but none i would go out of my way to deliberately listen to again. Not bad but just okay

Not really my thing but I did like Who’ll Stop The Rain. Wouldn’t think people are mad for liking this; just not my taste.

Real mixed bag this, some absolutely amazing tracks (that opening song was insane) and more long winded blues-y noodling that this list seems to love (c’mon guys did the Grapevine cover really need to be 10 minutes?). 3.5 but leaning towards 3.

I've heard plenty of Creedence before today, but this is my first generated album. And what an album it is! At their best, Creedence were a great rock-and-roll band with a nice country twang(California origins notwithstanding). Between "Up Around The Bend", "Travelin' Band", and "Who'll Stop The Rain"(which, by the way, is the song that got me into Creedence in the first place), we have an album stacked with all-timers, and that's before we get to the rest of the album. In the end, all I want to listen to each day is a damn good album, and this is a damn good album. In fact, it's a great album. Might even be in my all-time top 10 if we're really extolling it's virtues.

The best of the 3 CCR albums on the list but still not amazing

This is just what I needed!!!

I see the light! And it's a romp!

About as classic as classic rock gets. Bluesy, roots rock that is full of energy and feeling. Can’t go 5 because it relies on too many covers to get it to iconic status, but as solid and rocking an album as this era produced.

Better than Coldplay

I'm not American enough to like this. For once, though, I get why an album was chosen. I don't like it, but I get that it had an influence at its time. Still, I fucking hate CCR. I don't need any more of their albums. PLEASE just make it STOP.

My father was born in 1954, so it was mandatory that we own Chronicle in the 1990s. That, along with Fortunate Son’s inclusion on the Forrest Gump soundtrack, was my intro to CCR. I think this is our third CCR album of this project? And this one has eight songs from Chronicle, all of which I love. When eight songs from the same album form the backbone of a beloved greatest hits album, I’m going to award a 5. Ramble Tamble is pretty great, too.

Also, there’s something very endearing about this nonsense of an album cover.

Pretty good actually. Huh.

I was on the fence between a 2 and 3 for awhile, but it was the extended mid-tier take of Grapevine, combined with the fact that there were 4 covers on the album and a number of meh blues tracks that finally lowered it for me. Not an album I'd return to, just some singles. 2.4/5 -> 2/5