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* TheCityVsTheCountry: "Up Around the Bend" is about the desire of escaping the hustle city life to live a simpler, more relaxed life in the country.

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* TheCityVsTheCountry: "Up Around the Bend" is about the desire of escaping the hustle city life to live a simpler, more relaxed life in the country.



* ProtestSong: "Run Through the Jungle" and "Who'll Stop the Rain".[[note]]"Jungle", according to John, was not about Vietnam as many assumed, but the tensions and paranoia of America's firearm culture (specifically, that there was a gun for every single person in the United States, which the song explicitly references); "Rain" was about Vietnam in a more roundabout way, drawing on the heavy rains that the band saw while at Woodstock to create a metaphor for institutional failure and malaise.[[/note]]

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"Run Through the Jungle" and "Who'll Stop the Rain".[[note]]"Jungle", according to John, was not about Vietnam as many assumed, but the tensions and paranoia of America's firearm culture (specifically, that there was a gun for every single person in the United States, which the song explicitly references); "Rain" references)
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''Cosmo's Factory'' is the fifth studio album by Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival, released on July 16, 1970. It got its name from what drummer Doug Clifford - nicknamed Cosmo - called the Berkeley warehouse the band performed early rehearsals in: "The Factory". The three singles from the album: "Travelin' Band/Who'll Stop the Rain", "Up Around the Bend/Run Through the Jungle" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door/Long As I Can See the Light" all charted in the US Hot 100 and the album itself remained at the top position in the Billboard 200 for nine consecutive weeks. It was also a critical success that saw itself included in several retrospective accolades, including the 2003 and 2020 editions of Magazine/RollingStone's Top 500 Albums lists.

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''Cosmo's Factory'' is the fifth studio album by Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival, released on July 16, 1970. It got its name from what drummer Doug Clifford - nicknamed Cosmo - called the Berkeley warehouse the band performed early rehearsals in: "The Factory". The three singles from the album: "Travelin' Band/Who'll Stop the Rain", "Up Around the Bend/Run Through the Jungle" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door/Long As I Can See the Light" all charted in the US Hot 100 and the album itself remained at the top position in the Billboard 200 for nine consecutive weeks. It was also a critical success that saw itself included in several retrospective accolades, including the 2003 and 2020 editions of Magazine/RollingStone's Top 500 Albums lists.
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* InTheStyleOf: "Travelin' Band" was made in the style of Music/LittleRichard.
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* CoverVersion: For Music/BoDiddley ("Before You Accuse Me"), Music/RoyOrbison ("Ooby Dooby"), Arthur Crudup ("My Baby Left Me") and Music/MarvinGaye ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine").
* EpicRocking: Starts off with a seven minute "Ramble Tamble", with the album's other side featuring the cover of "[[Music/MarvinGaye I Heard It Through the Grapevine]]" with instrumentals taking it to just over eleven minutes.

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* EpicRocking: Starts off with a seven minute "Ramble Tamble", with the album's other side featuring the cover of "[[Music/MarvinGaye I Heard It Through the Grapevine]]" with instrumentals a lengthy guitar solo taking it to just over eleven minutes.
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* ProtestSong: "Run Through the Jungle" and "Who'll Stop the Rain"

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* ProtestSong: "Run Through the Jungle" and "Who'll Stop the Rain"Rain".[[note]]"Jungle", according to John, was not about Vietnam as many assumed, but the tensions and paranoia of America's firearm culture (specifically, that there was a gun for every single person in the United States, which the song explicitly references); "Rain" was about Vietnam in a more roundabout way, drawing on the heavy rains that the band saw while at Woodstock to create a metaphor for institutional failure and malaise.[[/note]]
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* CoverVersion: For Music/BoDiddley ("Before You Accuse Me"), Music/RoyOrbison ("Ooby Dooby") and Music/MarvinGaye ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine").

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Good meen through the ages, trying to find the sun.\\

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Good meen men through the ages, trying to find the sun.\\
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''Cosmo's Factory'' is the fifth studio album by Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival, released on July 16, 1970. It got its name from what drummer Doug Clifford - nicknamed Cosmo - called the Berkeley warehouse the band performed early rehearsals in: "The Factory". The three singles from the album: "Travelin' Band/Who'll Stop the Rain", "Up Around the Bend/Run Through the Jungle" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door/Long As I Can See the Light" all charted in the US Hot 100 and the album itself remained at the top position in the Billboard 200 for nine consecutive weeks. It was also a critical success that saw itself included in several retrospective accolades, including both editions of Magazine/RollingStone's Top 500 Albums lists.

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''Cosmo's Factory'' is the fifth studio album by Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival, released on July 16, 1970. It got its name from what drummer Doug Clifford - nicknamed Cosmo - called the Berkeley warehouse the band performed early rehearsals in: "The Factory". The three singles from the album: "Travelin' Band/Who'll Stop the Rain", "Up Around the Bend/Run Through the Jungle" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door/Long As I Can See the Light" all charted in the US Hot 100 and the album itself remained at the top position in the Billboard 200 for nine consecutive weeks. It was also a critical success that saw itself included in several retrospective accolades, including both the 2003 and 2020 editions of Magazine/RollingStone's Top 500 Albums lists.
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->''"Long as I remember, the rain been coming down.\\
Clouds of mystery pouring, confusion on the ground.\\
Good meen through the ages, trying to find the sun.\\
And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain?"''
-->--"Who'll Stop the Rain"

''Cosmo's Factory'' is the fifth studio album by Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival, released on July 16, 1970. It got its name from what drummer Doug Clifford - nicknamed Cosmo - called the Berkeley warehouse the band performed early rehearsals in: "The Factory". The three singles from the album: "Travelin' Band/Who'll Stop the Rain", "Up Around the Bend/Run Through the Jungle" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door/Long As I Can See the Light" all charted in the US Hot 100 and the album itself remained at the top position in the Billboard 200 for nine consecutive weeks. It was also a critical success that saw itself included in several retrospective accolades, including both editions of Magazine/RollingStone's Top 500 Albums lists.

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!! Tracklist:

[[AC:Side One]]
# "Ramble Tamble" (7:09)
# "Before You Accuse Me" (3:24)
# "Travelin' Band" (2:07)
# "Ooby Dooby" (2:05)
# "Lookin' Out My Back Door" (2:31)
# "Run Through the Jungle" (3:09)

[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Up Around the Bend" (2:40)
# "My Baby Left Me" (2:17)
# "Who'll Stop the Rain" (2:28)
# "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (11:05)
# "Long As I Can See the Light" (3:33)

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!!Principal Members:

* Doug Clifford: drums, cowbell
* Stu Cook: bass, backing vocals
* John Fogerty: lead vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, saxophone, harmonica
* Tom Fogerty: rhythm guitar, backing vocals

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!!Doo, doo, doo, tropin' out my back door:
* CoverVersion: For Music/BoDiddley ("Before You Accuse Me"), Music/RoyOrbison ("Ooby Dooby") and Music/MarvinGaye ("Heard it Through the Grapevine").
* EpicRocking: Starts off with a seven minute "Ramble Tamble", with the album's other side featuring the cover of "[[Music/MarvinGaye I Heard It Through the Grapevine]]" with instrumentals taking it to just over eleven minutes.
* ProtestSong: "Run Through the Jungle" and "Who'll Stop the Rain"
* RockstarSong: "Travelin' Band", where the band is constantly on a hectic schedule.
* ShoutOut: Two in "Lookin' Out My Back Door":
** The song itself references ''Literature/AndToThinkThatISawItOnMulberryStreet''.
** There is a name check for John Fogerty's inspiration:
--> A dinosaur Victrola, listening to Music/BuckOwens.
* SongStyleShift: "Ramble Tamble" kicks off like a fast country rocker, then shifts into a long, slow instrumental gradually building up until it segues back into fast country rock.
* WordSaladLyrics: "Lookin' Out My Back Door". WordOfGod[[invoked]] is that it was inspired by ''Literature/AndToThinkThatISawItOnMulberryStreet''.
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