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One Of The Best Supergroups
2005-11-21
Where should I start? For one thing this Gold series is the best thing that any company has done for classic rock music. I will be writing for the rest of the groups that I have in the Gold series. 5 stars would not do this justice. For a greatest hits CD this is the best you can get and probably will not get any better now or in the future. Lets start off this way, The Cream is one of the best early super groups around. So you will understand what I'm comparing this too, here is what I have, 1) Fresh Cream (Regular and the 24K Gold CDs). 2) Disraeli Gears (the regular, 24K Gold and Deluxe Edition CDs), 3) Wheels Of Fire (the regular, and 24K Gold CDs), 4) Goodbye Cream (Regular and 24K Gold CDs), 5&6) Live Cream and Live Cream II (regular and 24K Gold CDs). The Best of Cream (regular CD). So everyone understands regular CD means first releases, very little if any cleanup for CD issue. Now to top things off I have The Box set "Those Were The Days". All of this in the quest of getting the best sound quality Cream music. Yes I guess I could be considered a Cream fanatic. Just so you will understand there are other groups I have gone through this with. Buy the way for each of the upgrades they did get better. Topping off with the Deluxe Edition, which I believe is the ULTAMATE! But I seem to be going off on a tangent. So let me say this about the Cream: Gold, 1) They did an excellent job with covering their popular songs. There is more than enough for the casual and the most fanatic fan. 2) The equalization/Frequency response is unbelievably good. 3) The clarity/low distortion is fantastic. I have listen to this with an excellent sound system and a very good set of headsets and tape hiss was virtually removed (At least I could not hear it, those with better hearing may be able too). For those who are interested in Eric Clapton (the early days) along with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce this is the best way to get acquainted. This was well worth the money to get and I highly recommend it to everybody.
Finally a good Gold collection!
2005-10-28
As I have bought these Gold collection cd's I have been disapointed beyond belief. The Aerosmith one had no 1970's material, the bands best era, what up with that, and all the others are just well not good at all!
On with Creams gold. Cream is one of rock and rolls all time biggest, best, and most influential bands of all time, and as time goes on the bands legacy only seems to grow! As generations past new ones seem to discover this band more and more. So its easy to understand how you could make a bad best of by Cream because of how many important songs that band made, but Gold hit the nail on the head. Not only doe this collection cover the bands big hits like 'Sunshine Of your Love' 'I Feel Free' 'Strange Brew' 'Im So Glad' and 'White Room' but they also put the real classics here like 'Badge' 'SWALBR' 'Tales Of Brave Ulyssis' and 'World Of Pain' which is amazing because those are the bands best songs and they often get left off of best of's and its a real let down, but once again the Gold collection came through here and delivered the goods, and boy did they deliver them right! As I sit and think about what this collection could have to make it better im cant think of anything, usually I would say maybe a few live tracks, but here you get a whole nother disc dedicated to live material which is great here because live performances is what Cream was known for, so no complaints there. As far as im concerned this is the best Cream collection out there, with out the box set anyways, so if you want to get into Cream this is the way to go!
All hail the heavy acid Gods
2005-08-18
These dudes strived to be the freakiest people on the planet. And they succeeded with hardly any objections. Nevermind Clapton's hair, tutti-frutti colored frilly shirts and psychadelic Gibson guitar. Only one rock group could sing about "trembling mermaids", "tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers", "yellow tigers", "tired starlings", "pictures with mustaches" and incorporate unlikely instruments like the cello and french horn. They wrote songs that made you feel like you wouldn't mind being an inpatient at the nearest psychiatric unit lest you start to hear strange voices and see polka dot unicorns standing in your living room. Yeah, these dudes were entertaining some serious mind-expanding substances when they weren't jamming at head-shattering sound levels. They complimented Hendrix's acid rock scene like peanut butter going with jelly. You'll wonder why they wrote tunes like "Anyone for tennis" which is perplexing, strange and wonderful but this was the music generation that had an identity crisis at times. If anyone could split their time between playing tennis and hitting the pipe it would be these guys. "I Feel Free" and "I'm So glad" are great tunes to sing along to. There are the great covers of "Sitting on top of the world" and "Born under a bad sign". Clapton's playing on these blues tunes is mesmerizing and earth-shaking with the intuition and sensitivity of a great blues master. He created a wah-wah and fuzz which transformed the guitar world. This is beautiful music with other great songs like "Sleepy time time" and "World of Pain". Baker is a God and has an awareness and knack for accentuating these songs especially in "We're going wrong" which sounds like he's channeling through a native indian drummer. Great live versions including "Spoonful". Bruce's voice commands your attention and he stretches his voice like none other coming up with some eccentric, beautiful melodies and harmonies and his bass lines are wonderful and full of feeling. If they wanted to round out this CD with some real strange stuff they would have added "Pressed Rat and Warthog". You have to get the rest of the Cream collection like "Take it back", "Outside woman blues" and "Traintime" to fully appreciate these masterful heavy acid rock gods and dedicated musicians.
A GOOD BARGAIN FOR THE "TRUE" CREAM FAN!
2005-07-17
This truly is the best collection to get if you are a fan of CREAM. Unfortunately, I found out that I mustn't be a big Cream fan after thoroughly exploring this compilation. Sure, all the big hits (the FM staples) are here, Strange Brew, Sunshine Of Your Love, White Room, Crossroads, Badge, etc. There were even a couple (I Feel Free and Swlabr) that surprised me, but there were too many songs that I skipped. The live material was rather hit and miss for me. This is a gold collection? Well maybe I'm just spoiled being such a big DEEP PURPLE fan for so many years. Cream simply might not be my cup of tea, but I can clearly see that this is quite a good bargain for the "true" fan.
If I intrigued any Cream fan by my Deep Purple reference then check out the early Deep Purple first. There is a new compilation out by EMI called, Deep Purple "The Early Years" (7243 5966112 4). This great collection contains highlights of their first three albums 1968-1969 (the same time frame as Cream). In fact Deep Purple opened for Cream on their farewell tour of the States. After three shows Deep Purple were kicked off the tour by CREAM'S management. The word is that Deep Purple were going down just a little too well.
GREAT ALBUM
2005-06-27
The sound quality of these recordings are fantastic. Great album, great songs, great band. This album is a must get.
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