Disraeli Gears

Artist: Cream
Label: Umvd Import
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988005288844
ASIN: B00005R0V3

Release Date: 2007-05-03

Disraeli Gears

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Tracks:

Strange Brew
Sunshine of Your Love
World of Pain
Dance the Night Away
Blue Condition
Tales of Brave Ulysses
Swlabr
We're Going Wrong
Outside Woman Blues
Take It Back
Mother's Lament

Album Description

Japanese remastered reissue of 1967 album, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

Customer Reviews:

Cream's Masterpiece.......2006-03-18

This album brought Cream to the top in 1967. While their debut was a great album on its own, this sophomore effort is in my opinion the band's finest hour. On this record, the trio of Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton approaches variety of genres like Psychodelia, Classic Blues, Rock and many more with perfection. Many songs from this album are longtime Cream classics and stand as a principle of the band's repertoire.

Disraeli Gears saw the trio growing as the musicans. The songwiritng has improved a lot since Fresh Cream and the songs sound a lot more sophisticated and inspired. Unlike on the band's debut, most of the songs are originals written by band's members and there are only two covers to be found (Outside Woman Blues, Mother's Lament)

The album opens with Strange Brew, straight-up blues with a recognizable guitar lick. A good opener. Sunshine Of Your Love, arguably Cream's biggest hit, follows next. This classic opens with a fierce guitar riff and features a legendary guitar solo. Every band member shines on this number. But even if it's the major hit, it's far from being the only one great song on here. World Of Pain and Dance The Night Away deliver some colorful psychedelia, and Blue Condition is a nice relaxing blues track. The giant Tales Of Brave Ulysess follows next. This track features a superb guitar riff and some psychodelic poetry written by Martin Sharp. The use of wah-wah is a great addition. Definately an inspired and amazing track, one of my personal favourites. SWLABR (She Walks Like A Bearded Rainbow), an intense rocker, never fails to please. Catchy lyrics and guitar riff will get stuck in your head once You hear it. Outside Woman Blues delivers some more classic blues playing. Take It Back follows similar stylings, and some harmonica is to be found here as well. The closing Mother's Lament is more a joke song, and though most reviewers seem to dislike it, I think it's a nice closer. Cream is not only about being seriously, and they show it on this track.

Disraeli Gears is not only Cream's finest record, it's also one of the major classics of the 60s. It is as influental as Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced", The Doors' debut album or The Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's lonely Hearts Club Band". If You call Yourself a classic rock fan, this is a must have. And If You want to get into Cream, this is the best place to start. Highly Recommended.

The quintessential Cream........2006-02-02

Yes there are other albums and singles that may strike your fancy. But this one is the first to come to mind when mentioning Cream. It is too bad that the samples stop before "Tales Of Brave Ulysses" as each track is unique. Therefore you have to listen to them all to get a more complete picture of this group.

Warning this album is addictive I find my self singing, "Sunshine of Your Love" a little too loud at work and then I hear others completing the words from other cubes.

Eric Clapton and Cream at their Power Trio Best!.......2005-08-19

What a time for rock music '67 was! Jimi Hendrix with "Are You Experienced?", the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's", Love's "Forever Changes" etc. As for this album, Cream's breakthrough, you've always heard that Eric Clapton was a great guitarist and if you need proof, it's here in this album.

Clapton seems to really excel here and his influences can be clearly heard from B.B. King to the great Albert King riffs in the first track, EC plays homage to all his guitar idols in imitating their playing styles in these tunes.

Why 4 stars? Well, for a remastered disc and especially one from Japan of which I expect even more, I thought the sound quality was okay but not great although I really liked the mini-lp sleeve. Also, the sound seemed a little soft to me for the first track but the levels thankfully improved as it got to "Sunshine of Your Love", the album's tour de force.

As a guitarist, I would have liked to have heard more of EC and his solos but this album overall is rather short at a little below 40 minutes long. Otherwise, a good album especially for aspiring blues guitarists; the EC vibrato is next to B.B. King, probably the best there is. Peace!

Cream's masterpiece... Clapton would never top this.......2004-12-18

Disraeli Gears (1967.) Cream's second album.

In 1966, after leaving John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Eric Clapton formed Cream with bassist Jack Bruce and percussionist Ginger Baker. The trio released their debut album, Fresh Cream, in 1966. Unfortunately, the debut left a lot to be desired. Many of the songs were good, but many were subpar, and many of them were covers as well (including the best-known songs on the album!) The band followed it up with their sophomore effort - 1967's Disraeli Gears (the story of how they came up with that title is a bit lengthy and awkward, and I'm not going to get into it here.) Read on for my review of this album.

1967 was a great year, as far as classic rock albums go. Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, and The Velvet Underground all released their debuts, and the Beatles released their wildly popular Sgt. Pepper LP. With Disraeli Gears, Cream created their own 1967 "classic for the ages." The band's sound undergoes a radical shift from blues-based rock to a psychedelic heavy sound. Two of their biggest hits, Strange Brew and Sunshine Of Your Love, can be found on this album. The former is, by far, my favorite Cream song. But, as with any album by any band, the underrated masterpieces are one of the true attractions. A great example of this is the masterpiece of a track known as Tales Of Brave Ulysses. Unfortunately, as far as single releases go, it was a B-Side, so it tends to go overlooked. Blue Condition is a Ginger Baker contribution to this album, and it's a damn fine one. Every track on this album is great, with the lone exception of the "joke" song at the end, Mother's Lament (why'd they put this on there?), making this one of the finest psychedelic rock albums of all time. Nothing Eric Clapton would record after this would top this - although some of his later releases came close.

Disraeli Gears finally got deluxe album treatment in September of 2004. Unfortunately, unlike other reissues in this series, this one is very subpar. Much like the deluxe Velvet Underground And Nico reissue, this one has one stereo version disc and one mono disc, with a few bonus tracks. And any Cream die-hard has pretty much all of these bonus tracks already. What the record company SHOULD have done is reissued Fresh Cream and Disraeli Gears together on a SINGLE disc. If you're gonna do these deluxe reissues, do them right! The Who reissues in this series are a beautiful example of how these things SHOULD be done. Take my advice - just get the old single disc version of the album. (The reason I didn't take any stars off of my total rating for the album is because I can't give an album this good anything less than five stars.)

There's really not a whole lot more that I can say. If you're a fan of psychedelic hard rock from the sixties, or an Eric Clapton fan, or maybe you're a little bit of each, I highly recommend this album. No classic rock collection is complete witout this masterpiece!

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