Cosmos Factory
It combines every good quality of CCR on to one wonderful album. It has the extended/jam tracks that are essential to any southern rock album, in my opinion. "Ramble Tamble" is a 7-minute rocker that just makes want to get up and start playing air guitar. While most people dispose of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" as excessive or filler, I find it to be one of the best songs on the album. CCR adapted the song as well as any other artist could have. Surprisingly, John Fogerty puts about a pretty damn good 7 minute guitar solo, proving that he is one of the most underrated guitar players of the seventies.
Also included on this album are the fifties covers/sounding tunes that Fogerty loves so much. "My Baby Left Me" and "Ooby Dooby" are both fifties covers, but are still both awesome. In fact I've come to like the 50's type songs CCR does as well as any of their other stuff because of the ones they do on this album. Truly great.
Of course, there are the wonderfully written and catchy pop-like southern rock (for lack of a better style name) songs that Fogerty and CCR are most famous for. For example "Travelin' Band" which is perhaps my favorite CCR song ever, "Who'll Stop the Rain" which is as catchy as any XTC song, though totally different, "Up Around the Bend" which is catchy in a way only John Fogerty can achieve, "Lookin' Out My Back Door" a tale of a Southern home in a Southern city which is of course another gem, and "Long As I Can See the Light", a good way to end this amazing album on a high, but slow, note.
I cannot stress enough how good this album is. It is up there with such amazing southern rock albums as "Allman Brothers Live At the FIllmore East" and "Pronounced Leh-nerd Skeh-nerd", and may be even more impressive than those two. No matter who you are, you have to have this album!!!!!! Though amazon.com was incorrect in simply calling it a singles album, they were completely justified in rating it an ESSENTIAL ALBUM. Buy it NOW .
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