Cream Gold

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Cream Gold
Compilation album by Cream
Released	April 26, 2005
Recorded	1966-1968
Genre	Blues-rock
Length	144:30
Label	Polydor
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (5/5) link
Cream chronology
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).

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc one 1.2 Disc 2: Live 2 Release notes 3 See also

[edit] Track listing

[edit] 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. "Swlabr" (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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] See also

Other Gold titles:

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

Cream
Ginger Baker - Jack Bruce - Eric Clapton Pete Brown - Felix Pappalardi - Martin Sharp Gail Collins - Janet Godfrey - George Harrison - Mike Taylor
Discography
Fresh Cream - Disraeli Gears - Wheels of Fire - Goodbye Live Cream - Live Cream Volume II - BBC Sessions - Royal Albert Hall 2005 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)