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Cream - Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream Audio CD

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Cream Band: Cream
Title: Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream
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Release Date: 2003-12-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Badge 2: Sunshine of Your Love 3: Crossroads 4: White Room 5: Born Under a Bad Sign 6: Swlabr 7: Strange Brew 8: Anyone for Tennis 9: I Feel Free 10: Politician 11: Tales of Brave Ulysses 12: Spoonful

Strange Brew is The Very Best of Cream!!!


Too often, best-hit albums cram enough excess cargo to screw up the whole package. I hate to say I just returned a copy of The Very Best of Cream _ the CD's case was cracked, but the 20-song disc was filled with old Cream classics that sounded so dated _ and whose sound quality seemed so poor.

I grew up on 1970s rock, so I was looking for the big hits that transcended into 70s radio.

I used to have the Strange Brew LP _ it had the Cream of the Cream, as it were _ White Room, Sunshine of Your Love, Crossroads and the rest of the radio hits.

Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream holds the hits that passed the test of time.

Get a copy while you can.


Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream.


The Very Best of Cream
Did this ever take me back to my youth!. I received just what I was looking for.


More Like Half And Half
That was the year I saw Cream perform, and while the show was spellbinding, the cast of characters was cadaverous. If, in 1968, you'd predicted which rock stars of the day would survive, much less age well, Eric Clapton would most likely have been at the bottom of your list, had he made the list at all. To be fair, at the time it was considered chic for rock stars to look like they were homeless, hadn't bathed in months, and subsisted on a steady diet of Mountain Dew and candy bars. Even by these low standards, Cream presented on-stage mayhem that only seemed possible through a barely managed tripartite psychosis and amphetamines.

A lot of rockers have "gone to France" since then, or worse, become grotesque caricatures of themselves. Some left the business altogether - Arthur Brown was last seen painting houses on Cape Cod. But the ironically nicknamed "Slowhand" is alive and well, having evolved as a player while still staying true to his blues roots. An amazing achievement. He even looks healthy. I saw him a year ago on a double bill with Robert Cray, (who simply burned the house down), and he still had the bite I noticed first on Stepping Out, which appears on the John Mayall album that introduced Eric Clapton. He also had most of the legendary speed.

What this longevity has meant is that there's always another crop of sprouts introduced to EC. The enterprising ones, who've heard that he lays claim to the title of "best rock guitarist ever," may follow the string to see where it leads, and it leads of course, to Cream, the first "super" group. Cream's tenure was brief, but its impact was immense. (Led Zeppelin, for example, got their entire act from Cream. Clapton was almost tapped to replace John Lennon in the Beatles. ) Ginger Baker, drums, was the senior member who actually organized the group. Jack Bruce, a musical vunderkind, was the genius behind the group's success, as well as being its voice.

For listeners interested in skimming the surface, this CD is a great place to start. Crossroads, Strange Brew, and Born Under A Bad Sign are mandatory listening. (Sunshine Of Your Love - a tired hit - is obligatory. ) There's another Best Of CD available, and while it has more tracks, the selection is not that much better. Any of the 4 original Cream CDs are worth owning, (Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears, Wheels Of Fire, Goodbye). The listener new to this material will also want to check out Blind Faith. But of all the choices, I would recommend avoiding the Best Of route and going straight to Goodbye. Half live and half studio, Goodbye is Cream at their absolute best, the live tracks in particular are incendiary. .


Great Band
I originaly got into this band because Kiss always mentioned this band as one of their favorite bands. This band had a unique sound. As i am a huge Kiss fan,i am curious at time to listen to their musical origins.
I knew Sunshine of your love and White Room. But the rest were not known at all to me. So i decided to get a copy of their best.
Man i was not disappointed. Got right into it and couldnt stop playing it. Some songs seem to be addictive,probably recorded them on tapes made out of hippy weed.
This collection is a must for fans of Clapton, Bruce, and Baker and the great rock of the late 60s. . Great stuff this,and i reccommend this band.
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Decent, but now obselete
And this is no exception. The one-disc, twenty-track Best of Cream has officially rendered all other Cream collections obselete. Though this is a good bunch of tracks, the one-disc collection is so much better. This reminds me of a Jimi Hendrix compilation entitled Smash Hits: probably worked in its day, but is now just about useless. Nice cover photo, though.


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