{"id":39605,"date":"2006-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/cosmos-factory\/"},"modified":"2006-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"cosmos-factory","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/cosmos-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmo’s Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"

CCR released THREE albums in 1969 and then took some time off to recharge and pen the 11 tracks for Cosmo’s Factory<\/i>. The break worked, because these songs are among the best CCR ever put to vinyl. A few choice covers are mixed with some excellent originals, and the best of these prove CCR’s status as a great American band . <\/p>\n

The opening “Ramble Tamble” is bookended with a basic Creedence tune, but the middle five minutes become a hypnotic instrumental with an air of finality, a giant leap from the meandering jams that made up the band’s 1968 eponymous debut. “Up Around the Bend” is an excellent rocker, while “Travelin’ Band” has a 50s feel and “Who’ll Stop the Rain” is the band’s best slow song, an coustic ballad with poignant lyrics and double-tracked vocals that lend a haunting effect to the chorus.<\/p>\n

Much of the album is covers, although CCR’s unique sound makes them sound like originals. “Ooby Dooby” and “My Baby Left Me” are just fun, “Before You Accuse Me” is a standard take on the tune that is still pleasant, and “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” is faithful to the original, with one caveat — it’s 11 minutes long, filled with riffing and tons of solos.<\/p>\n

This leaves “Lookin’ Out My Back Door,” a pleasant drug song; the poignant closer “Long As I Can See The Light,” featuring some excellent Fogerty vocals; and “Run Through The Jungle,” a cousin to “Born on the Bayou” in that it retains all of that song’s swampy murk and menace (“They told me don’t go walkin’ slow \/ Devil’s on the loose \/ Better run through the jungle \/ Whoa don’t look back to see”). <\/p>\n

Cosmo’s Factory<\/i> is the apex of Creedence’s career, pulling all their strengths together in one massive burst of creativity. <\/p>\n

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