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The Very Best of Cream - Cream (CD 1995)

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Track Listing
1. Wrapping Paper
2. I Feel Free
3. N.S.U.
4. Sweet Wine
5. I'm So Glad
6. Spoonful
7. Strange Brew
8. Sunshine of Your Love
9. Tales of Brave Ulysses
10. Swlabr
11. We're Going Wrong
12. White Room
13. Sitting on Top of the World
14. Politician
15. Those Were the Days
16. Born Under a Bad Sign
17. Deserted Cities of the Heart
18. Crossroads
19. Anyone For Tennis
20. Badge

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Playing Time:	77 min.
Contributing Artists:	Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Cream: Jack Bruce (vocals, acoustic guitar, cello, harmonica, piano, organ, electric bass); Eric Clapton (vocals, guitar); Ginger Baker (vocals, drums, percussion).
Producers: Robert Stigwood, Felix Pappalardi.
Compilation producers: Chris Griffin, Bill Levenson, George McManus.
Engineers include: Tow Dowd, Damon Lyon-Shaw, John Timperley.
Recorded in 1967-1968. Includes liner notes by Hugh Fielder.
Digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio (PolyGram Studios).
There've been numerous one-disc Cream retrospectives over the years, but this is probably the best. Of course, Cream's official recorded output was only four albums during the group's brief two-year run, with very little chaff amongst the wheat, so one might be excused for wondering if you'd be better off with those still-in-print albums, or with THOSE WERE THE DAYS, the four-CD box set that collects more or less every note Cream ever recorded. In any case, at 20 songs, this is the most comprehensive one-CD Cream best-of extant and conceptually it's certainly the most interesting. Despite the fact the group was mostly esteemed as (and occasionally dismissed as) a live, blues-based extended-jams outfit that sometimes didn't know when to quit, most of the songs here are tuneful, concise studio tracks with Beatle-esque touches in the arrangements; it's hard to imagine how anybody could dismiss gems like "Anyone for Tennis" or "Badge" as excessive.

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