Cream Gold
| Cream Gold | |||||
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| Compilation album by Cream | |||||
| Released | April 262005 | ||||
| Recorded | 1966-1968 | ||||
| Genre | Blues-rock | ||||
| Length | 144:30 | ||||
| Label | Polydor | ||||
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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:
| Cream | |
|---|---|
| Ginger Baker · Jack Bruce · Eric Clapton Pete Brown · Felix Pappalardi · Martin Sharp · Gail Collins · Janet Godfrey · George Harrison · Mike Taylor |
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| Studio albums | Fresh Cream · Disraeli Gears · Wheels of Fire · Goodbye |
| Live albums | Live Cream · Live Cream Volume II · BBC Sessions · Royal Albert Hall 2005 |
| Compilations | Heavy Cream · Strange Brew · The Very Best of Cream · Those Were the Days · 20th Century Masters · Cream Gold |
| Songwriters covered by Cream | William Bell · James Bracken · Howlin' Wolf · Tony Colton · Willie Dixon · Skip James · Robert Johnson · Booker T. Jones · Blind Joe Reynolds · Ray Smith · T-Bone Walker · Muddy Waters |
| Related bands | The G.B.O. (Baker/Bruce) · The Bluesbreakers (Bruce/Clapton) · The Powerhouse (Bruce/Clapton) · Blind Faith (Baker/Clapton) |
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