Cream Those Were the Days Box Set Review

Artist Cream Type Compilation Released September 1997 Recorded 1966 - 1968 RYM Rating 4.28 / five.0 0.5 from 264 ratings Ranked #5 for 1997, #77 overall Genres Blues Rock, Psychedelic Stone, Hard Stone Descriptors male person vocals, melodic, energetic, psychedelic Language English language Share

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• i.four Sleepy Time Time 4:xx

• 1.x Rollin' and Tumblin' 4:42

• 1.13 Lawdy Mama (Version 1) 2:00

• 1.fifteen Sunshine of Your Love iv:x

• 1.17 Trip the light fantastic the Night Away 3:34

• 1.19 Tales of Brave Ulysses 2:46

• ane.21 We're Going Incorrect 3:26

• i.22 Outside Adult female Dejection ii:24

• 1.24 Female parent'due south Complaining ane:47

• 2.2 Sitting on Summit of the World 4:58

• 2.3 Passing the Time (Alternating Version) 5:53

• 2.5 Pressed Rat and Warthog iii:13

• ii.vii Those Were the Days 2:53

• 2.8 Born Under a Bad Sign iii:09

• ii.9 Deserted Cities of the Heart 3:38

• two.10 Anyone for Tennis 2:38

• 2.12 Doing That Scrapyard Thing 3:14

• 2.13 What a Bringdown three:58

• two.14 The Coffee Song 2:44

• ii.15 Lawdy Mama (Version 2) 2:46

• two.xvi You Make Me Feel (Demo Version) 2:39

• 2.17 We're Going Incorrect (Demo Version) iii:49

• ii.eighteen Hey Now Princess (Demo Version) 3:31

• 2.19 Swlabr (Demo Version) 4:30

• 2.20 Weird of Hermiston (Demo Version) 3:12

• two.21 The Clearout (Demo Version) 3:58

• 2.22 Falstaff Beer Commercial 1:00

• 3.1 N.Due south.U. (Recorded March 10, 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco) 12:38

• iii.two Sleepy Time Fourth dimension ((Recorded March 9, 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco) 6:48

• three.3 Rollin' and Tumblin' (Recorded March 7, 1968 at Fillmore W, San Francisco) 6:29

• iii.iv Crossroads (Recorded March x, 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco) 4:24

• 3.5 Spoonful (Recorded March ten, 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco) 16:39

• 3.6 Tales of Brave Ulysses (Recorded March ten, 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco) iv:43

• 3.7 Sunshine of Your Dearest (Recorded March 9, 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco) seven:25

• 3.eight Sweetness Wine (Recorded March 10, 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco) xv:08

• iv.1 White Room (Recorded October 4, 1968 at Oakland Coliseum Loonshit, Oakland) 6:21

• iv.two Politico (Recorded Oct 4, 1968 at Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland) v:08

• iv.3 I'yard So Glad (Recorded October 19, 1968 at The Forum, Los Angeles) 9:32

• 4.iv Sitting on Top of the Earth (Recorded Oct xix, 1968 at The Forum, Los Angeles) 4:55

• 4.5 Stepping Out (Recorded March 10, 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco) 13:29

• 4.6 Traintime (Recorded March 8, 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco) seven:02

• four.7 Toad (Recorded March 7&8, 1968 at Fillmore West, San Francisco) 17:35

• 4.eight Deserted Cities of the Heart (Recorded October iv, 1968 at Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland) four:14

• 4.ix Sunshine of Your Love (Recorded May 1968 at CBS Studios, Los Angeles for the Glen Campbell Evidence) 4:44

• Total length: 303:12

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I'k all the same declining to see what's and then incredible virtually this band! Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker both functioned far amend in Graham Bond'south group and, Eric Clapton just never needed to exist. The vocals are lame, kind of like if Ray Davies lost the ironic edge and went all schmaltz... and the harmonies often audio flat. Then there's those trudging, thudding drums with all the tom fills. Mayhap Ginger Baker was too busy trying to keep from falling asleep on stage every night to bother tuning them. No thanks.

Edit: The studio segment of Wheels on Burn down may as well be an entirely different band - it's amazing!!! No incertitude this was due to Felix Pappalardi'due south interest.

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It'southward everything past Cream in one fell swoop. Great toll, great sound, splendid booklet. It's a ane stop slab of goodness.

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Everything Cream ever did in i spot. Well 99% of information technology anyway. So what that two songs that appeared live on either Live Foam or Adieu aren't here. Well they are... NSU is a previously unreleased live recording and Politician is the performance from Alive Cream Book two.

With that out of the way Disc 1 contains all the songs from Fresh Cream and Disraeli Gears. Disc 2 contains all of the studio piece of work from Wheels of Burn and Goodbye. Discs three & 4 contain the alive work that appeared on disc ii of Wheels of Burn, the first side of Good day and both volumes of Live Cream.

Because any true Cream fan volition accept already purchased the stand solitary CDs,
What's the allure to popular for this box fix? Fair question. The answer lays in the flawless remastering and remixing of the songs. The digital restoration really makes them glisten with new life. Both "Passing The Time" and the alive "Toad" take extra cloth that was edited out from the original issues. With these changes and improvements the compilers have brought a little extra value to the tabular array.

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All you demand from Cream in i fine made Box!Beautiful Booklet likewise!
Remembering a great ring at their acme!
And adequate recorded...a goldmine for the interrested listener!

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If you got this box you need nothing else. All Studio recordings, (almost) all live recordings, demos and a commercial! Nice layout and a good booklet.
Best buy from all Foam releases.
If you merely want a regular album get "Wheels of Fire".
If you only want a single compilation get "Cream Gold".

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A real beauty. The amazing fix of live cd'due south demonstrates vividly, that Cream was at its finest on stage. Just breathtaking. Clapton was at his peak and for once surrounded himself with musicians whose skill matched his.

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The name of the band says it all!!!
Despite all the in-fighting, this trio produced some of the best music ever - q.v. 2005 at the Purple Albert Hall, OK a picayune older merely Ginger tin still pound the skins on Toad and what about NSU!!! Demand I say more?

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This four disk set gives you everything the band released plus plenty of bonus stuff. Cream was at their best when they played live, and the remastered tracks from the _Live Cream_ albums in spectacular. What I find really interesting is that this band was rightly credited with being a groundbreaking group. They deserve the accolades in light of the innovative fashion they blended The Blues with Psychedelic music. Yet, information technology's their reworking of great blues standards like "Spoonful", "I'm And then Glad" "Crossroads" and others that stands the test of fourth dimension. There are times when Clapton'southward solos volition only astonish you.

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Ratings: 264

Cataloged: 328

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