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Cream - Gold Audio CD

A fair review of the Cream "Gold" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Cream reviews here, or go back to the Cream tabs.

Cream Band: Cream
Title: Gold
Rating:
Release Date: 2005-04-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Feel Free 2: N.S.U. 3: Sweet Wine 4: I'm So Glad 5: Strange Brew 6: Sunshine Of Your Love 7: World Of Pain 8: Tales Of Brave Ulysses 9: Swlabr 10: We're Going Wrong 11: White Room 12: Sitting On Top Of The World 13: Passing The Time 14: Politician 15: Those Were The Days 16: Born Under A Bad Sign 17: Deserted Cities Of The Heart 18: Anyone For Tennis 19: Badge 20: Doing That Scrapyard Thing 21: What A Bringdown 22: N.S.U. 23: Sleepy Time Time 24: Rollin' And Tumblin' 25: Spoonful 26: Crossroads 27: Sunshine Of Your Love 28: I'm So Glad 29: Toad

Great Value But .....
I sure can't complain about the amount of material and the easy price but . . . no studio Spoonful? I remember that the US Fresh Cream didn't have Spoonful - it came out in the summer of 1967 as a two part single on Atco which I ravenously bought. What about Four Until Late, Dance the Night Away (which is truly psychedelic), Outside Woman Blues, and even Take It Back?

The live version of Sleepy Time Time is preferable to the studio version and of course, Crossroads just smokes. But I would have put this set together with some different live stuff. Plus, do we really consider Doing That Scrapyard Thing, What a Bringdown and Anyone For Tennis essential? Is Passing the Time preferable to As You Said? Ginger is a great drummer, and I drum myself, but how many of us are seriously going to listen to the 16 minute version of Toad (a piss break)? I prefer the studio version which is more concise and bearable. Oh well, at least they spared us Blue Condition and Pressed Rat and Warthog.

Hey Polygram, how about some complete shows from Winterland, The Forum and the Oakland Coliseum already???? We're not getting any younger!!!.


Live Tracks Add to Value
Cream is an exception. Some live tracks just lack the quality to merit listening. All the live tracks are good to excellent. Toad remains my favorite. Traintime is an omission on this album, otherwise if you like Cream, you will like this. .


The Best Cream Anthology Yet
It eliminates the trifling "Wrapping Paper", which marred THE VERY BEST OF CREAM, and gets straight to "I Feel Free", which is the true beginning of the band's incredible legacy. GOLD is the best anthology of Cream available. Disc One, which is devoted entirely to studio material, is consistent from soup to nuts, featuring such outstanding songs as "N. S. U. ", "Strange Brew", "Sunshine Of Your Love", "Tales Of Brave Ulysses", "White Room", "Politician", and other heavy blues-rock classics which paved the way for the style that is today called heavy metal; the only lighthearted cut on this disc is the annoying "Anyone For Tennis", but that's made up for by the twenty other studio cuts here. Disc Two, on the other hand, which is all live material, is more of a mixed bag. Three songs here- "Crossroads", "Sunshine Of Your Love", and "I'm So Glad"- are incredible, but the rest do not hold up as well as the studio songs. Nevertheless, this anthology is a must-own for anyone serious about rock music.


CREAM GOLD
THE VERSION THAT IS INCLUDED IS FROM "WHEELS OF FIRE" AND IS AT TIMES BLOATED AND OVER WROUGHT. I WOULD HAVE GIVEN IT 5 STARS BUT FOR THE LACK OF THE STUDIO "SPOONFUL". HOW CAN ONE HAVE A CREAM BEST OF COLLECTION WITHOUT THE STUDIO VERSION OF "SPOONFUL"??????
SHAMEY-SHAME!.


The Ideal Cream Compilation.
Consisting of rock legend Eric Clapton on guitar as well as the amazinf Ginger Baker on drums and Jack Bruce on bass, Cream were and still are amazing. Though they were only together for only three years, Cream accomplished more than most bands could in a lifetime.

This 2 cd, 29 song collection is an ideal Cream compilation. One disc containing classic studio recordings such as "Born Under A Bad Sign" and the immortal classics "Sunshine Of Your Love" and "White Room", and a second disc a sweltering live performance. The sound quality, packaging and liner notes are excellent, and this is overall the ideal Cream collection.


You can see a complete list of all Cream discography, or go back to the Cream tabs. There is also a good guide on how to read guitar tabs here.

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