Cream Gold

Cream Gold
Compilation album by Cream
Released	April 262005
Recorded	1966-1968
Genre	Blues-rock
Length	144:30
Label	Polydor
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BBC Sessions (2003) Cream Gold (2005) Royal Albert Hall (2005)

Cream Gold is a two disc Cream compilation album, and was released in 2005 to help celebrate the band's reunion at the Royal Albert Hall.

Disc 1 consists of twenty-one studio tracks, and Disc 2 consists of eight live tracks.

The tracks come from the band's four studio albums: Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears, Wheels of Fire, and Goodbye, as well as Live Cream and Live Cream Volume II (which were released after the band's break up).

Track listing

Disc one

Tracks taken from Fresh Cream (1966):

1. "I Feel Free" ¹ (Bruce, Brown) – 2:54

2. "N.S.U." (Bruce) – 2:47

3. "Sweet Wine" (Baker, Godfrey) – 3:19

4. "I'm So Glad" (James) – 4:01

Tracks taken from Disraeli Gears (1967):

5. "Strange Brew" (Clapton, Pappalardi, Collins) – 2:48

6. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Bruce, Clapton, Brown) – 4:10

7. "World of Pain" (Collins, Pappalardi) – 3:05

8. "Tales of Brave Ulysses" (Clapton, Sharp) – 2:46

9. "S.W.L.A.B.R." (Bruce, Brown) – 2:31

10. "We're Going Wrong" (Bruce) – 3:29

Tracks taken from Wheels of Fire (1968):

11. "White Room" (Bruce, Brown) – 4:58

12. "Sitting On Top of the World" (Burnett) – 4:59

13. "Passing the Time" (Baker, Taylor) – 4:32

14. "Politician" (Bruce, Brown) – 4:11

15. "Those Were the Days" (Baker, Taylor) – 2:56

16. "Born Under a Bad Sign" (Jones, Bell) – 3:09

17. "Deserted Cities of the Heart" (Bruce, Brown) – 3:41

Tracks taken from Goodbye (1969):

18. "Anyone For Tennis" ¹ (Clapton, Sharp) – 2:37

19. "Badge" (Clapton, Harrison) – 2:46

20. "Doing That Scrapyard Thing" (Bruce, Brown) – 3:16

21. "What a Bringdown" (Baker) – 3:57

Disc 2: Live

1. "N.S.U." ⁴ (Bruce) – 10:12

2. "Sleepy Time Time" ⁴ (Bruce, Godfrey) – 6:50

3. "Rollin' and Tumblin'" ⁴ (Waters) – 6:34

4. "Spoonful" ² (Dixon) – 16:46

5. "Crossroads" ² (Johnson, arr. Clapton) – 4:14

6. "Sunshine of Your Love" ⁵ (Bruce, Clapton, Brown) – 7:24

7. "I'm So Glad" ³ (James) – 9:12

8. "Toad" ² (Baker) – 16:16

Release notes

Note 1: originally released as a non-album single, but included on later prints of the album
Note 2: previously released on Wheels of Fire (1968)
Note 3: previously released on Goodbye (1969)
Note 4: previously released on Live Cream (1970)
Note 5: previously released on Live Cream Volume II (1972)

See also

Other Gold titles:

• Traffic
• KISS
• Rod Stewart
• Classic Rock
• Scorpions
• The Allman Brothers Band

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