The Very Best of Cream

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The Very Best of Cream

[ Polydor Records / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 2 March 1995

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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.

Tracks:

Wrapping Paper
I Feel Free
N.S.U.
Sweet Wine
I'm So Glad
Spoonful
Strange Brew
Sunshine of Your Love
Tales of Brave Ulysees
Swlabr
We're Going Wrong
White Room
Sitting on Top of the World
Politician
Those Were the Days
Born Under a Bad Sign
Deserted Cities of the Heart
Crossroads
Anyone for Tennis
Badge