Reviews (page 4 of 14)
Mothers Lament???
Good ol' Cream
Really enjoyed this one, felt like a psychedelic journey, only a couple of songs let it down
I like psych-rock, also SOYL… THAT riff, epic. EC has said some awful things though.
That Clapton guy’s pretty good at guitar Unsurprisingly the guitar solos are really really good in this one, really impressive what Clapton’s able to get out of that instrument. Sunshine Of Your Love’s got one of the most iconic bass lines of all time, so simple but so catchy. The bluesy psychedelic sound is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Really well paced album as well I like the vocals Bruce and Baker provide for the most part, but I don’t really care for Clapton’s sound all that much, he should stick to guitar. It’s not the end of the world but I 100% think this would be a better album if Bruce sang the whole way through
I love love love Tale of Brave Ulysses; just a fantastic song with great fun lyrics Blue Condition sucks though so it all balances out idk man i remember listening to a lot of cream back then but it's not as good as I remember? I know Ginger Baker is really good at drumming, but it's a little too heavy handed for me, especially when paired with the distorted guitars. It works great on We're Going Wrong, but it can be overwhelming on other tracks.
What can one say about Disraeli Gears? Groundbreaking. Bad ass. Great album cover. Brilliant sophomore effort. Definitely veering harder toward psychedelia as opposed to blues, far different sound than Fresh Cream. Tales Of Brave Ulysses still one of my favorite Cream tracks, if not my all-time favorite. So unlike anything else they did. SWLABR is a pretty good jam. Strange Brew is a banger, and great Opening Track. In the short life of "The Cream" this is really an outstanding album. Representative of the times and featuring the full power of the first rock Super Group. There's a lot to like here. 4 stars.
This album is pretty good, except the only thing I really have to say is that almost all of the songs just repeat and don't really change. It almost sounds like they just loop each song. Other than that, it was a pretty good album to listen to.
I don’t really consider myself a huge fan of Eric Clapton, but it’s hard to deny that he’s had a major role in making a ton of really good music. From the Yardbirds to Derek and the Dominoes and everything in between. This album is definitely no exception. He shares vocas with Jack Bruce, and they both do an excellent job of matching vocal styles to the groovy basslines, the psychedelic style of Clapton, and the funky drumming of Ginger Baker. The classic hit single on the album “Sunshine of your Love” stands out for good reason, the main guitar riff alone is iconic, but it’s far from the only great tune on the record. “We’re Going Wrong” is one that particularly stood out to me, huge drums, and a solid tempo dropping bridge. “Outside Woman Blues” is another track that I really enjoyed. If I had to pick one negative on the album, it would be the song “Mother’s Lament” a weird little jingle that I don’t particularly care for. I’m not confident in calling this a perfect album by any means, but as far as the bluesy psychedelic rock genre goes, it’s pretty good. Did I need to hear this before I die? For sure
I loved this. I was not very familiar with Cream, for some reason I thought some of these songs were from Jimmy Hendrix... I also like Claptons later work but regret this band did not exist longer.
Not super familiar with these guys but I enjoyed the album.
Classic and legendary. Good tunes
Sunshine of your love is good. Sorry but the rest is just psychedelic noise :///
3 A few great psychedelic tunes. You can hear the blues coming through.
this is what i listened to when i used to roll up
Monty python british shanty really elevated this piece for me
Does everyone love sunshine of your love or just me??
Classic psychedelic rock. Amazing trio
I have a personal vendetta against Eric Clapton but this was still a 4 up until the last song, fuck you eric take my 3
I was a tiny bit disappointed my this album. Obviously Sunshine of your Love is great but the rest were kinda whatever. 3.5 but round up to 4
Another time or day I may have liked this more but it was boring today
Sorry chaps this one didn’t really do it for me
jsp un peu répétitif
Album oubliable mais reste sympa en musique de fond. Note : 2 À réécouter : Non
Bonne ambiance, quelques fulgurances par moment mais manque de peps au global
A few good tracks and lots of aged british white boy rock 'n' roll. Tales of Brave Ulysses was fun!
Not every song here is a winner and I think overall the vocals could be better, but the quality of the guitar playing more than makes up for it. Favorites were Sunshine Of Your Love, Tales Of Brave Ulysses, SWLABR, Outside Woman Blues, and Take It Back.
Thoroughly enjoyed this album, really getting into the retro rock sound through this journey. Bar a couple of forgettable tracks, it's an incredibly solid album. Will be listening again in future. Best songs for me were: "Sunshine of your Love", "World of Pain", "SWLABR" and "Outside Woman Blues".
I get the progression and this is solid, but just not my favorite feel. A few good memorable ones in there and the musicianship is good. 3.
Nice, rockig, Chillinger
3.5
3.5
Another psychedelic album that thankfully leans more towards the blues power trio format than English tea whimsy or American navel gazing. It's short, punchy (like Ginger Baker) and to the point. The get-in-get-out vibe makes it so much better than others around at the time. Clapton may be a fairly vile person, but he could play a mean guitar. Best Tracks: Strange Brew; Sunshine of Your Love; SWBLAR
Tales of Brave Ulysses sure sounds a lot like Sunshine of Your Love. Is that on purpose? Also, Mothers Lament sounded like it should have been a Monty Python song.
3.5. Not bad. Not great either.
Excellent collection of British psychedelic blues rock. 4.5
Cream fucks hard
good music, bad racist :/
I think the only thing stopping it from being a 5 is my mood. But I get to write the ratings, so it's a 4.
Man I love Cream and this album has their best banger. I don't think I need to put more words here.
moderately catchy but very same-y. guitars occasionally do something interesting, some of the vocals are decent, but it's the same texture over and over again. not really convinced there's more than four actually different songs on the album.
Woof, this sucked. The stuff that may have once been good (or at least tolerable) is absurdly overplayed and the rest is nearly unlistenable - leaden, plodding, tedious crap.
Some stone cold classics in this album, some less so. Very much a nostalgic listen based on the music I was around growing up.
Was very ready for a bit of psych but this didn’t hit as much as the first few tracks suggested it would. Picks up again after a baggy middle.
I know ginger isn't noted for playing simple rhythms and beats, but it does get a bit wearing when its all through a lot of the songs. A few classic songs but the rest forgettable, was expecting to like this a lot more than I did. Classic Clapton guitar work, but it doesn't save the weak songs. I can hear the basis of other classic later Cream tracks in some of the songs.
I listened to this 4 or 5 times to make sure. There are 5 solid tracks here, but none that I love. The mix has my favorite feature from rock music around this time where all the drums are in one speaker and the guitar is the other side. Feels foundational to a bunch of other music I like more. Ultimately settled on a 3 but can see how this could be higher.
Very good album, there's a couple of stinkers but the classics outweigh them.
Had never listened to this album front to back but knew many of the songs. Strong strong band, some classics.
Nice roots rock feel, band had fun especially towards the end of the album. Three stars because it's generally not my favorite style.
Ooohhhhh Eric Clapton is in this band? No wonder I couldn't stand this. It's just so boring and dreary, and from start to finish completely uninteresting with how the entire album just sounds exactly the same. Eric Clapton has got to be one of the most overrated musicians to have ever existed. He's often hailed as one of the greatest songwriters and guitarists of all time, but just 5 minutes of this man's music will make it obvious that the first claim is a complete load of shit, and as a guitarist I mean he's perfectly competent but I really don't see what makes him anything special.
Lots of big, important albums came out in 1967, and Cream’s Disraeli Gears was one of them. Of course, 1967 was also peak psychedelia, and although Cream was very much a blues-rock inspired power trio, it doesn’t disappoint. In fact, parts of Disraeli Gears are really very trippy; the off-kilter blues of “Strange Brew” manages to be simultaneously quite odd and completely accessible, “Tales of Brave Ulysses” gives Eric Clapton plenty of wriggle room while Jack Bruce tumbles the words around – ominous and dark. There’s also the marvellous “Sunshine of Your Love” – a rock classic by anyone’s standards. All three musicians, Clapton, Bruce and Ginger Baker sound great, and producer Felix Pappalardi keeps it tight throughout. Just a great rock album. 9/10
"Sunshine Of Your Love" has such an iconic guitar riff. This type of British rock isn't quite my taste, but it was a good listen.
2/28 Pretty good. Good to know where the song Sunshine of Your Love came from.
As good as this sort of thing gets, way cooler than the generations of blues dentists with Murphy Lab Les Pauls. Massive noise, eternal tunes. Bass! Fucking bass! Favourite tracks: Sunshine Of Your Love, World Of Pain, Tales Of Brave Ulysses (my favourite Cream song)
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Getting a bit bored of 60s psychedelic rock. I know there is the great Eric Clapton and his musical genius but that's it for me!!
I think I creamed hearing this. This sounds exactly how I thought the late 60s would sound.
Hard to be objective. Bought this a million years ago. It's a prime piece of British psych. Eric before he was a shitbird. Jack Bruce is a great singer. Pete Brown nails the 67 flavored lyrics. And Ginger does his thing.
No me gustó (la vrd me siento mal de que ninguna me llame la atención)
buenas guitarras
𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭𝘪 𝘎𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 feels like blues-rock with the intensity dialed back — you can sense the band’s raw power, but it rarely breaks loose. The one true standout is 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲, driven by Eric Clapton’s unmistakable riff, a hook so strong it practically carries the album’s legacy on its own. Beyond that, the record is competent and occasionally interesting, but it never quite catches fire.
nao gostei
“Oh it has this song on it neat” but nah this was pretty chill I think I liked the back end of the album more than the front but the front had the most memorable song! What a conundrum. 4/5 good stuff!
"White room" a bunch of times over at its best. At its worst, "Mother's Lament". Unfortunately a lot more bad than good here
Hard to deny the musicianship on this and there's some killer tunes to boot. I knew this before I developed my distaste for Clapton hence the slightly higher score but he does mean i'm less likely to revisit.
Good, funky, dancing rock
In terms of classic rock Cream gets a resounding "meh 🤷♂️"
2.5 - Didn't hate it!
Classic record. Very good quality production for the time. Love the musicianship of everyone involved.
A 4 at least
Expectations were a little too high heading into this. I don't know quite why I had Cream set up in my mind as this sort of legendary all-timer group. This was pretty good? Kind of boring, still solid? For being called psychedelic rock, it doesn't seem to push it very far, but it's bluesy and rocky and a good time. Obviously Clapton is a fantastic guitar player, but I don't think this album showcases it all that well. Still, this was a very good record. Fave tracks: - Stange Brew - Sunshine Of Your Love - Tales Of Brave Ulysses - SWLABR - Outside Woman Blues
Sunshine of your love is such a good song, the rest were good but didn't hold up as much for me.
No me pareció la leche, pero es buena música
1 (Strange Brew)- Tiene algo que hace que te enganches, buen tema 2 (Sunshine of Your Love)- Seguramente la conozco de antes, me gusta el solo 3 (Sunshine of Your Love)- No es la gran cosa pero diria que me gustó 4 (Dance the Night Away) - La guitarra tiene algo que me gusta, pero no es de mis favoritas 5 (Blue Condition)- No es de mis gustos la verdad, safa pero para mal,, 6 (Tales of Brave Ulysses)- Tiene un aire en un momento (No) a la hija del fletero, medio medio 7 (SWLABR)- Bastante buena 8 (We’re Going Wrong)- Mejor que algunas la verdad, bastante 9 (Outside Woman Blues)- Esta bueno por mas q no me guste mucho el blues 10 (Take it back)- No. 11 (Mother’s Lament)- no Buen album, cumple y es llevadero por más que es un poco corto, de los 3 primeros que escuche fue el mejor
Not even joking, the closer pushed this from a 4 to a 5
It’s not a bad album in any sense, but it doesn’t really stand out, either. After listening to the album, I can only remember "Sunshine Of Your Love", which is a bangers
3.5
This is my first time listening to this album start-to-finish, though I'm quite familiar with quite a few of these songs. It's a pretty solid album, and I'm glad I listened to it. I'm not sure I'll add it to my list of albums to listen to again, as the unfamiliar tracks weren't compelling enough.
Awh yeah it's a banger. Put a tab on my tongue and set me free brother
Front half was so good. I was not expecting the oddity of the last track
Mid
Been a long time since I’ve listened to this whole album and I forgot how much I disliked Blue Condition and how the instrumentation of Tale of the Brave Ulysses is so similar to Sunshine of Your Love.
nao gostei muito
Mostly basically OK I suppose, although deathly dull in the main. The first two songs are decent, and there's one in the middle (SWLABR) that's great fun. It loses about sixty million points for the absolutely painful, appalling, terrible final track, one of the worst examples of that weird thing where mostly southern bands do music hall pastiches for no-one's benefit but their own. No.
4.5
Disraeli gears- kinda disappointing. I had live cream vol 2 as a kid and I loved how they did power trio improvisation when it sounds like they are all soloing at once. This does not really capture that energy. I think Jack Bruce’s bass playing was the thing that made Cream interesting and special. The songwriting is pretty weak at points. Not really a fan of ginger baker -his drums don’t sound great on this recording and it often just sounds like he’s smashing without much time feel. I prefer Clapton’s more melodic playing in the 70’s 80’s and 90’s. A lot of this sounds just like 60’s blues rock noodling but he guess he was a pioneer of the sound and super influential at the time. I’d rather listen to any Hendrix album or the first Black Sabbath album for this kinda 60’s blues rock. Tales of Brave Ulysses and Sunshine of Your Love are great though.
I had the “best of” cd as a kid and wore it out. A lot of nostalgic and iconic ones from this album that i love, but the b sides are not so great. I especially hate ginger bakers singing (last song on side A 🤮) and honestly not a huge fan of his drumming either. But its a classic
It was really hard for me to pay attention during this one
Built on a blues foundation but filtered through vivid psychedelic color, this album balances familiarity with experimentation. The guitar tones are thick and assertive, yet the songwriting remains concise and structured. It doesn’t drift into abstraction; instead, it stretches traditional forms just enough to feel adventurous. Some tracks hit harder than others, but the overall sound is cohesive and confident.
strange brew - very dreamy, whispery vocals, but with rock elements, a really sharp, twangy electric guitar, and strong drums, 89/100 sunshine of your love - this is one is way more funky, the vocals are strong and smooth, and the drums are more prominent. i love the riffs, they feel like rolling down hills. 90/100 word of pain - this one is more witchy in it's tone, the vocals are back to their whispery, dreamy state. There are now synths which add more to the dreaminess. 90/100 dance the night away - 80/100 blue condition - more dramatic than the previous tracks. 91/100 tales of brave ulysses - i wish the beat drop went a little harder :( 95/100 SWALBR - 90/100 we're going wrong - 80/100 outside woman blues - this one is more jazzy. 92/100 take it back - expanding on the jazz elements of outside woman blues. 96/100 mother's lament - this one is little more silly, felt more like an interlude than an outro but i looove spoken word singing. 92/100
Rockin' and rollin'
Was prepared to be underwhelmed but actually enjoyed it a lot. 'We're Going Wrong' is an extraordinary song. Listen for the drumming.
For as influential as the band is, and how stacked it is with incredible musicians, there's far too much filler on such a short album. The highs are high, but how can a 30 minute album have so many forgettable tracks? Especially when considering how incredible each musician is in their own right.
It's fine. There are four songs on here I do really enjoy - Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love, Tales of Brave Ulysses, and SWLABR. Other than those, this really is just an average blues rock album, eclipsed by many of its peers. I truly, truly do not understand why Eric Clapton was ever regarded so highly, as one of the best blues guitarists (or even guitarists, period) of all time. From all that I've heard, his playing is pedestrian even for its time. Really, really overhyped.
Eric Clapton has some extremely disappointing views and I’ve never found his guitar playing as phenomenal as the legends tell. The first two songs are the highlight of this album and obviously Sunshine of Your Love is fantastic. Then the album lost me for the next few songs until Tales Of Brave Ulysses and SWLABR. The guitar playing finally got me!! Those were solid. Rest was nothing to write home about. Blah.
Cool guitar jams for the time, that's about it. 60s psych rock isn't my thing! Standouts: Sunshine For Your Love • Blue Condition
I never really liked Cream. Out of all the CDs I plundered from my dad's collection, they were the most disappointing. Even their best of collection awakened nothing in me. This album is boring as shit. The production also sounds terrible. I can barely hear anything and a few highlights do not do enough to keep my attention.
There's a lot to like in this album, Sunshine of Your Love is the obvious standout track , but there's also a good bit that I can admit I hated. Blue Condition is my least favorite of the original compositions, and Mother's Lament is just terrible. I know it's one of those songs that's just supposed to be a bit of fun for the band themselves, but I just never want to hear it again. Even Strange Brew is a bit of a miss. Shame though, since World of Pain, Dance the Night Away, Tales of Brave Ulysses and Outside Woman Blues are all really good songs
Mother's Lament is a horrible closer because if you didn't enjoy the album (beyond the first two tunes because they're objectively great) they highlight all the reasons why you're right not to. If you did enjoy the album they give you a powerful lens through which to focus subsequent listens, revealing a mostly dull album high on borrowed Americana. If you were on the fence like me it makes you realise that, just maybe, those doubts you had in the middle of the album were right...
3,0 Highlights: Sunshine Of Your Love, Swlabr
Really a 3.5 for me
Tienen una canción blue condition que es re aburrida. Pero habla de eso... Interesante. Escuché entero el álbum. Me gustó
Najbardziej podobała mi się piosenka "Mother's Lament", bo miała konkretny tekst. Inne nie przykuły mojej uwagi. 2,5/5
Boring as fuck. riff by riff, but why?
classic
These guys (the self appointed cream of the talent of the day) had the advantage of being first to the party with this kind of sound. It's good and was innovative but if you like this type of music there are probably some better artists who took this forward and in different (maybe better) directions. No doubt this album was an important milestone in the development of rock music.
A '60s psychedelic-blues classic, the star track being Sunshine Of Your Love - easily a contender for most iconic guitar riff of all time. But because of that, I was worried it would completely overshadow the rest of the album. It definitely looms large, but most of the other tracks are strong. Clapton’s guitar work is sharp and inventive, Baker delivers world-class drumming, and Bruce’s lyrics and vocals are consistently engaging. Don't let Clapton near your wife, though...
those poor babies
A classic rock album, maybe a bit more funky. Some famous songs on here. I liked it.
Listened before and it's very good
Psych but just ain't hitting quite right. Cool guitar work tho. Got that groove. Kék kondíció Okay, Mother's Lament is funny af
Yeah, pretty good
I am pleasantly surprised. Just a really good rock album from the late 60s. Really good for the time. I would expect all the songs to sound the same but It doesn't, there's variation. There is some filler however. Still good though. Standouts: Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love, World of Pain, We're Going Wrong
it’s not as creative as piper at the gates of dawn or as vivid as sgt pepper, but it’s still ahead of the curve compared to a lot of other music from that era. i also really like the quality of sound they captured in the guitar. +1 for tales of brave ulysses
a groovy time
Psychedelic and bluesy. The cover matches the content perfectly. Best lyrics: "Tales of Brave Ulysses"
There is a clear distinction between the stronger and weaker tracks on this one. At its best, it's distilled 60s psychedelia with urgent, anxious and joyful guitar licks. At its worst it's wobbly, lightheaded tedium. Fortunately there is more good times than bad comedowns. It probably sits somewhere around a 3 personally, but I'll bump it to 4 for it's cultural significance.
Now this is how you do a rock record!
Some classics intermingled with some meandering filler
Classic rock
Classic Clapton
Fuzz was an epidemic of the 60s (complimentary)
This one keeps on keeping on.
Aus heutiger Sicht ganz coole Abwandlungen von Sachen die irgendwie bekannt sind. In Wirklichkeit wohl besonders und neu in seiner Zeit. Heute eines von vielen Bluesrocksachen, sehr gut gespielt, manchmal mit einer gewissen Grundspannung die es sehr gut macht. Finde das gar nicht so psychedelisch wie es angeblich ist, das scheint mir mehr Marketing zu sein. Aber soweit ich das lese, sind sie mitverantwortlich für die Veränderung der Livekonzerte hin zu längeren Formaten und besserem Sound. Dafür Respekt. 20-minuten Jamvarianten solcher Songs muss ich allerdings echt nicht haben.
it was great thought it was from 2000s however it was released in the 60s and the band also wrote three albums in matters of three years impressive compared to SOME music artists nowadays
// en av de jeg ikke forstår er 1001-essensiell. en god opplevelse men ikke særlig minneverdig.
I want to give credit where credit's due. The psychadelic bluesy influence is definitely good, and really shows itself on side B with the song "Tales of Brave Ulysses." However, this album is largely uninspired songwriting with a mediocre to often outright bad vocal performance. I was unsurprised by the Wikipedia page remarking on the brief recording sessions. I respect Cream and Eric Clapton for their work, but I can't pretend to have enjoyed this.
A classic album by Cream. I enjoyed it - the last track was unexpected haha fun way to end the album
7.4/10 some nice guitars and fun jams, but many a bit the usual 60s Psychedelic rock Highlights: Sunshine of your Love, Strange Brew, SWLABR, Take it Back
This is musical dna. I know it’s not perfect and Clapton and baker are problematic people but sunshine of your love invalidates it. So does tales of brave Ulysses. Shut up. You don’t know what you’re talking about. YOU’RE a sociopathic racist violent badly tempered fractious argumentative dis functional group of egomaniacs. But seriously this is a great album. Both Clapton and Bruce shaped how I play guitar and bass respectively. The band was never going to last. But boy was it bound to last beyond its finish. PS - in my retort I was covering how all three members have been described individually. I do not endorse necessarily any of those traits being attached to them. In unrelated news. Interested readers might watch the various documentaries
I'm surprised by how poppy this is. You'd think it is full of extended riffing etc, but it's not. It's 33 minutes of 3:00 minute tunes except for Sunshine. Jack Bruce and Pete Brown were quite a song writing partnership, but you can hear them trying to be commercial while also catering for Eric's prodigious talent. I don't know about Ginger, I never got what it was he doing, why it was of any note, compared to say Ringo and Charlie. Sunshine leads to Badge on the next album, and Eric pretty much creates the momentum for the next stage of rock and roll, especially Led Zep. Great record, Jack and Eric hit those descending riffs with aplomb and it is a fantastic record all round, except Mother's Lament of course..
Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker are two of the most odious people ever to work in the music industry. Their unpleasant and intolerant views on all manner of issues and ghastly behaviour were long-standing and well documented. That said, this album is the cat's pyjamas. Very much of its time (the fuzz tone, wah wah everywhere, psychedelic lyrics, the terrible recording quality), it has a number of strengths when compared to many contemporaneous albums. 1) The songs are brief. No extended and aimless instrumental noodling. 2) The playing is focused and powerful. They knocked the whole thing out in less than four days because they were well-rehearsed and tight. 3) The songs are pretty damn great. Jack Bruce probably deserves most credit there. 4) Some of those riffs are among the best ever, and set the template for blues-based power trios (see also: Hendrix, Led Zep, Blue Cheer,. Sabbath) 5) That cover is fantastic. Great work by Martin Sharpe. 6) There is enough humour to stop this being too self-serious (Mother's Lament and the album title are good examples). The production is a bit of its time -- the drums all sound like they were recorded by a single microphone stuck in a cardboard tube -- but I find it a charming sound. I am most familiar with the stereo mix, so I listened to the mono version today. Sometimes I find it hard to tell the difference, but I know this album so well that I could hear the differences (more prominent kick drum, additional reverb on some guitar parts, etc). I have never really rated Clapton much. I find him to be a generally bland blues poseur. Disraeli Gears is the best album Cream ever did, and by extension, the only really consistently interesting album Clapton ever worked on. I think credit for that can largely be attributed to Jack Bruce. But this is the one Clapton album enjoy. With regards to everything else, he can get fucked.
Pari biisiä oli mielenkiintoista, joissa oli hyvä meininki. Mutten aikalailla luotaantyöntävää ulinaa. Blues toimii yleensä taustamusana jossain hämyisessä pubissa, kun on hyvä kalje edessä. Töissä kuunneltuna ei vain toimi. Vai toimisiko töissä, jos ois hyvä kalje edessä. En tiedä.
Hyvä se on. 5/5. Mutta siis erittäin tuttu albumi entuudestaan, on kuunneltu lukemattomia kertoja läpi.
Mukavaa psykerokkia, kyllähän tämä aina menee.
Strange Brew: very very bluesy, very fun, cool guitar solo, lyrics are simple but i think theyre fun and fit. Overall a pretty fun and laid back song. 7.5/10 Sunshine of Your Love: this is a great song i like the jam i like the lyrics, love the bass and guitar. really fun! 7.8/10 World of Pain: I like the lyrics, jam is great, i like the bass and the guitar, and the drumming is so so good. very good song! 8.2/10 Dance the Night Away: Bruce's voice is so beautiful in this, very nice lyrics, sick guitar and drumming. very good 8.1/10 Blue Condition: something was off with the vocals w this for me, but i liked the song overall, it was chill. 7/10 Brave Ulysses: Cool story telling! Very jammy. vocals are so like "yelling" sounding, like why is he yelling?? 7.3/10 SWLABR: Def the most jammy song in the album. Its funnn. 7.7/10 We're Going Wrong: It's interesting, definitely the most unique song they have on this album, it's not bad. 7.4/10 Outside Woman Blues: uhh interesting lyrics (ik its a cover, but why even choose this song its kinda ehhh)? everything else is fine. 6/10 Take It Back: It's alright, i feel like its a little bland. 6.5/10 Mother's Lament: silly ending. 5/10
Interesting album cover 1967 67 This first song "Strange Brew" is trippy Sunshine of your love is a classic song, One of the first i was ever taught on guitar World of Pain gives me vibes that some shit is abt to go down like a bank robbery or something Dance the night away gives me some creepy vibes idk I'm imagining some skeletons dancing eternally Blue Condition sounds like a kids song but im pretty sure the lyrics are talking about being dead interesting song i think my least favorite so far. Tale of brave ulysses has interesting imagery im still trying to determine a meaning from it likely drugs tbh its the 60s SWLABR classic 60s rock song nothing wrong with it tho its catchy chorus is great. of course the lyrics are very random yet i somehow understand it if that makes sense We're going wrong is interesting not really vibing with it. Outside woman blues is starting off strong for me rlly interesting riff Take it back sounds great so far I like the ambient crowd cheering noises and i always love the hermonica, this one got me bumping my head Mother's Lament feels like something my Irish grandpa would sing to me randomly when hed get drunk. Def wna sing this in a bar even tho the lyrics lowkey sad tbh Overall this album aint bad this is my first album I've heard By cream. Eric clapton shows his very unique and sometimes genius guitar riffs that really defined this generation even tho hes a piece of shit RANKING 1. Sunshine of your love 2.Dance the Night Away 3.Take it Back 4.SWLAB 5. Wolrd of Pain 6.. Strange Brew 7..Outside Woman Blues 8. Tales of Brave Ulysses 9. Mother's Lament 10. We're Going Wrong 11. Blue Condition
Het is prima, maar ook een beetje sleepy. Als ik dan bedenk wat er nog meer speelde eind jaren 60, voelt dit niet als een must-hear album. 5/10
One of Clapton's finest moments, albeit not as fine as Layla or Blind Faith. 4/5
Album art says it all. Psychedelic rock! Mellow yet rocky with a rhythm. A perfect vibe for a chill time at the pub haha
I found I prefer Tales of brave ulysses to sunshine of your love
It is an album from 1960s so i had low expectations and it just reached them, no more
Pretty good album
This was fine. Not sure I can understand why people like them so much though. Less huge guitar solos than I thought there would be so that's a bonus!
Cream is a great band. Eric, Ginger and Jack are fantastic musicians. Strange Brew: 6.5/10 Classic Bluesy song but still original. Sunshine of your Love: 8/10 That riff is up there with Smoke on the Water. Fantastic song. World of Pain: 7.3/10 Basic and the words are spoken well. Dance The Night Away: 6.4/10 Nice 12 string Blue Condition: 6.1/10 Basic blues song. Tale of Brave Ulysses: 6/10 That riff sounds like white room. Pretty standard song. SWLABR:6.2/10 Not bad. Interesting song. We’re going wrong: 5.9/10 Boring Outside woman blues: 6.1/10 Standard Take it back: 6/10 Pretty normal blues track Mothers lament:7/10 Funny track. I like it.
Too much psycodelia for me
YESSSSSS
Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love and Tales of Brave Ulysses are the exceptional songs on this album. The rest are fine, but definitely nothing special.
eric clapton is a POS but the album is good
1 nummer er ikke nok til at trække pladen nogen steder hen
Pladder plade
Nice! Enjoyed this one.
3 out of 5 Great classic rock album. Clapton!
Ok. Overrated.
좋음 굳굳.
Know it well! Half of it is classic stuff and such growth from the first record, but the filler is still pretty filler-y.
Consisting of 11 masterfully constructed songs, the musicianship of Clapton, Bruce and Baker created an album that remains one of the most influential in rock. Disraeli Gears marked a turning point in the genre and its incredible blend of sounds truly makes it a timeless classic.
I'm not sure where to rate this. I didn't hate it, but it wasn't the best thing I've heard. Psychedelic tunes is a specific niche I try to give a chance, which can be a hit or miss with me. For this one, I'll settle with a 3 since it wasn't strong enough to be a 4 with me.
Gammal favorit, kan ha lyssnat sönder det här albumet lite men av klar anledning. Tickles my psych nerves so nicely, nice fusion med blues som jag vanligtvis inte riktigt faller för. Albumet tappar lite mot slutet men overall riktigt nice.
Cream of the crop! Vill egentligen att de ska luta sig ännu mer i psyken, men det blir ändå en fin balans med bluesen. Sunshine Of Your Love, vilken låt alltså. Också kul att Tales Of Brave Ulysses och White Room typ är samma låt, de kände att den här jäveln kan bli ännu bättre! Jäkligt svårt att välja mellan 3a och 4a, men känner att jag varit lite snål senaste tiden med mina ”starka treor” så det blir en fyra!
Går inte att underskatta betydelsen av den här skivan, men den landar inte högre än 3 den här gången.
är sällan på humör för detta Sound. men då och då skadar det väl inte!
Meh
I know Clapton is an ass. I still love him as a guitarist. These guys, Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker put lightning in a bottle for a while. This album is bluesy, psychedelic and just a really solid listen, although, it must be said, A Mother's Lament is just a little weird.
A couple of really good songs and a bunch of filler
Again not my style
Riff, rhythm, and ripping. Cream was early and influential. "Disraeli Gears" is easy evidence of a primordial rock soup that would lead to "heaviness" bands to follow: A tight band brings energy and whole universes are borne on the scraps of a simple dumb riff. Solos never end. There's also a sort of common-denominator lowering stupidity present in the album that shows up in the form of the bands' inside jokes. I was super curious about the title "Disraeli Gears". I thought it be some cryptic wordplay about Israel and geopolitical machinations. Turns out it's just the band naming their whole album after something dumb their roadie said. The album carries other moments that display the band clearly having a lot of fun, and not needing to be very intelligent or coherent to do so. The entire existence of the last song "Mother's Lament" is particularly head scratching in this way. "Tales of Brave Ulysses" is a total ripper. I first heard it on Buffy the Vampire Sayer (Giles was listening to it) and was shocked to hear the clear origins of what Monster Magnet (super underrated) would take on to make "Negasonic Teenage Warhead". I get the importance of this record. It's a little scattershot, and kind of dumb overall, but with a few brilliant and redeeming moments. It would be a solid 3 for me, but I'm docking a star because, fuck Eric Clapton.
Good for its moment. Always difficult to separate the man from his art with Clapton, and as I began to enjoy the British 60s rock innovation, there he'd pop up with an appropriated Albert King lick... The ego. The lack of shame. Still, this is a great album, marked down for El Crappo
Exactly what I was expecting based on the cover and my limited experience with Eric Clapton.
A foundational building block of mine.
Clapton's guitar prowess is on full display here, even if the b-side doesn't carry the same weight.
Rating: 5/10 Meh.
It's interesting and groovy
I tried to understand it but for me it is just ok. I enjoy it but it didn't blow me away in any form 3/5
It's musically really appealing, and I love many of the songs. The lyrics/songs often just feel like pranks, but that's just Cream.
Eric Clapton's a piece of shit. There, got that out of the way. I kind of have a soft spot for this album. Although looking back it's maybe not as deserving of they hype it gets. I suppose that this was an important album in music history, as was Cream an important band though they had such a brief run. And as much praise as Clapton got (gets?), I really feel like he's the weak link on this record. Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker are just obviously so much better and more diverse musicians than he is. The bass tone on this record is sooo good and the drums sound huge. I kind of wanted to hate this album after listening to it again, it's been a long time. But damned if I didn't like it just as always. It's well played, creative, fun to listen to, and memorable. Is it overrated? Absolutely. Is it a great album? Yeah I think so. Maybe not one I would listen to a lot but I'd definitely come back to this now and again. The vocals are lacking a bit, a better singer could have done wonders. But this was really (as far as I know...) the first power trio and that's a very difficult thing to accomplish as a band. As for a rating, I don't know. It's a great record but there's no way I would call it perfect. It would hover in the neighborhood right under 4 I think, maybe going up and down here and there. Eric Clapton is still a piece of shit though.
Eric Clapton is an asshole. This album is good. Two things can be true. This album trails off after putting some heavy hitters in leadoff but has nice blues throughout. Top tracks: "Sunshine of Your Love," "Strange Brew," "Tales of Brave Ulysses," "SWLABR"
Really falls off after the first few tracks. Makes me want to listen to, like, 12 other albums from the same era. Shockingly meh, despite the obvious talent involved. 3.
--Strange Brew...a little slow for my taste but the guitar is nice --Sunshine of Your Love...again, decent tune, but I wish Ginger Baker would push the tempo a little more --World of Pain...60s faux-hippy slop --Dance the Night Away...methinks they were under the influence when recording this --Blue Condition...Ginger probably shouldn't sing --Tales of Brave Ulysses...a kind of proto-prog-metal, or something. it's fine --SWLABR...okay, Ginger's kicking here. lyrics are dumb --We're Going Wrong...plodding --Outside Woman Blues...oh, Eric Clapton, you racist stealer of music, you --Take It Back...fun blues number --Mother's Lament...sigh
I thought this had some hits and some misses. Some of it sounds like it's from an altogether different project (especially "Mother's Lament"). I find "We're Going Wrong" interesting.
great hard hitting psychedelic rock!
The album.was really good, but I found the lyrics just a bit weird and off-putting. Great guitar work and iconic riffs, but too abstract in lyric content. 4 stars.
This album is like your older brother coming home from university holidays. The family is having dinner and your brother has just handed you a beer, without even checking with your parents.
Some great tunes. Nice.use of effects like fuzzy and chorus and wah on the guitar. Lots of blues influence. But too many drugs being taken during these sessions leads to some odd songs in there that just dont hold up.
I've probably listened to this at some point, but beyond "Sunshine of Your Love" nothing is familiar. And it's....not very good beyond that? A couple other decent songs, but nothing I really care to listen to again.
Definitely some good tracks on here, Sunshine of Your Love is a classic! I discovered Strange Brew and Tales of Brave Ulysses which were bops! I guess the melodies don't suuuuper hit me on every song but I can appreciate the album as a whole
really uninteresting psych rock. boring and underwhelming
Pues la verdad es que este álbum es una auténtica pasada. El blues-rock que más me gusta, que viene de UK y no de USA, probablemente por el distinto sustrato musical del que nace. Cream, con Eric Clapton al frente, sienta las bases para mucho del hard rock y del rock psicodélico y progresivo que vino después, casi nada. Hay quien les critica el exceso de virtuosismo, como si eso fuera algo malo, pero supongo que es por criticar algo. “Sunshine Of Your Love” contiene uno de los riffs más míticos de la historia de la música popular, aunque esta canción no es precisamente muy representativa de lo que es el resto del disco, pero bueno, un acierto como single.
ok
It's just okay
Very front loaded, but mostly enjoyable all throughout.
Where it all began!!
I know the songs but I never knew the band - such a pleasant surprise so good - sunshine of your love is incredible
Cream de la cream
i like… im being too generous with my 5 star ratings
This is a great album!!
Creamed my pants😩😩 Miss ginger baker rn
+Er en del kule riff's, rå bass, noen sinnsyke bangers på plata. - Ikke så fan av vokalene, mye low energy. Litt kjedelig til tider. Sikkert skamfett i 67 tho. 3/5 would buy the record on sale
VIVA A PSICODELIA
I'll stay with you 'til my seas are dried up I've been waiting so long To be where I'm going In the sunshine of your love SIMPLISMENTE PERFEITO!
Cream on my Gears
A cracking album a great sound of the time it was made
Classic !
Despite my distaste for Eric Clapton the man can definitely play the guitar
I liked it
Freitag, 23.01.25 - Sonntag 25.01.25 ~ von früh bis spät ~ Morgens auf dem Weg zur Arbeit, mittags in meinem alten Kinderzimmer, nach dem Planetarium - von der Birkenstraße bis zur Haustür.
Sonntag, 25.01.2026 Beim spazieren auf dem Ku'Damm, bei AERA Charlottenburg, in der U8 am Nachmittag nach dem Schauen von 'Nausicaä im Tal der Winde'
prachtig psychedelisch plaatje... bewijs dat je met drie man ongelofelijk goeie muziek kunt maken
Yep, that's a classic
Peak psychedelic rock, great playing from all members.
Eh.
Sunshine of your love was almost enough to make me rate this as 4. Almost.
Absolutely cooks start to finish
Strange Brew sets the tone for the album, leading into the classic that is Sunshine Of Your Love. The deep guitars and layered vocals throughout give the tone of struggle and release. Ending with Mothers Lament, we get the ending to the story we are waiting for.
Great psychodelic-rock album! Favorite song: SWLABR
2.0 - Fuck Eric Clapton. Bonus point for Ginger Baker.
Top Songs: Sunshine of your Love Tales of Brave Ulysses Take It Back
The drums sound like they were recorded in another room filled with blankets. Muffled into oblivion. Cream are known for the guitar riffs and they deliver here. Sunshine Of Your Love slaps. The rest can stay in the 60s. Vocals are so thin. Agreed wholeheartedly with the I hate Eric Clapton sentiments expressed others. I would be more understanding if Mothers Lament was a Monty Python skit. 2/5 for Sunshine and Tales of Brave Ulysses .
Incredibly boring. Tired of Sunshine of Your Love. SWLBAR is cool.
Were they drunk for that last song wtf lmao Probably my favourite of clapton's stuff other than layla
Surprisingly good actually. Last track was my favourtie
4.14/5 Stars Top Songs: Sunshine of Your Love, Strange Brew, Tales of Brave Ulysses
Very solid. Influential.
Due to my anti-Clapton bias, I was bracing myself for this to be two straight-up bangers (Strange Brew and Sunshine of Your Love) followed by a load of old blues wank. So, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that while Disraeli Gears is a tad patchy, it's not boring.
ewidentnie wpływowy na muzykę ale ogólnie mocne ok
cool album
My friend who plays the guitar recommended this album to me and I was thinking I already have to listen to like 500 albums that probably sound exactly like this. But the album was not bad, solid length too. Low 4.
More white guy blues. This will always be boring
Cream Classico
Gav nästan en etta för sista låten
Inget som stack ut för mig utöver Sunshine of Your Love.
Känns väldigt inflytelserikt och lagom intressant, men inte så mycket mer än så.
Lite sådär, men Sunshine Of Your Love är grym
Muzikaal erg goed, voor die tijd bizar. Toch niet altijd enorm verassend voor mij.
Great album... but not for me.
Pretty great!
Clapton is god right? Maybe…
Sunshine of your love riff is great, Mother's Lament is horrific. 7ish
Solid classic rock. Not really my thing. Good vocals and instrumentals.
Not much to get my teeth into after the first two tracks. But some interesting (and variable in quality) production, pleasant vocals and cool guitar.
J’adore Cream. Éditorial: on revient d’un spectacle du festival de musique El Alma y el Cuerpo à Carthagène en Colombie et je me fais remettre sous le nez l’impérialisme culturel USA/UK. Cette liste des 1001 albums en est un exemple parfait. //// Plus tard dans la soirée j’ai vu Paquito D’Rivera, qui a fait un hommage medley à Charlie Parker… On ne s’en sortira pas! 77 ans quand même. //// Autre sujet: vous aimez la keffure de Jacquouille la Fripouille?
Je préfère quand Clapton reste dans le blues rock strict. Mais la petite exploration psyché est pas si mal.
3/5, a pleasant listen and has a couple amazing songs. "Sunshine of Your Love," a wonderful song whose legendary riff launched the sale of 10,000,000 super strats, is the obvious champ of the album, but there are a few that I enjoyed more: "Tales of Brave Ulysses," "SWABLR," and "World of Pain" were my favorites.
What a great album to get on this Monday Morning! Already familiar with Cream and their hit Sunshine of Your Love, but I was immediately hooked by the familiar and fun sound on the Strange Brew opener which I can’t recall previously being exposed to. The delightful guitar, vocals, and sound continued through the album and made me want to dig into the lyrics and learn more about the band. Tales of Brave Ulysses was a standout for me. Mother’s Lament was quite the interesting closer, and more funny than sad upon closer inspection of the lyrics. Overall I just really enjoyed the feel of this album and listened several times throughout the day.
Cream is great and this is my second favorite album of theirs.
Groovy
Sounds like drugs and feels like them too at times
Not listened to this one for a while, obviously very well structured but also obviously completely all on Acid, and way gone🤣 Still a very good album
Great walk jams
Yikes, this certainly aged like 60 year old cream
Strange brew #1
It’s such a vibe, pretty good and groovy
Is there a reason for today? World of pain, in the falling rain, around me
Nice soft-ish rock. Very period, I wonder what influence they had on the genre since it was released somewhat early in ‘67.
Another rock album that sounds like a rock album :)))
Great vibe. And loved many of the lyrics. Like in the 3rd song. Was pleasantly surprised.
Mixed bag of blues and psychedelic
Yeah it’s good
Not my thing, but it was alright I guess.
so this is eric claption right right album cover had potential buuuttttt i dont think it actually looks good. they tried :/ Also, not a long album. Love people nowadays complaining about wanting long albums back and then u get this lmao. Sunshine of your love slaps deserves to be their most listened song on the album. mister eric claptons guitar is going incredibly strong ngl still a piece of shit tho ey i liked it, buuttt i wanted more ig
Knew Sunshine of your love pretty well but haven't explored the album, the only song that really hit me though on this was the Ulysses one? Good to explore, probably my least favourite so far though
Entire album held kind of the same muffled tone throughout it. Needed spice.
liked it
This album just didn't click despite me really wanting it to based on what I knew of the band. First time I've ever listened to a full album of Eric Clapton's guitar playing and his slow hand blues shit is not for me, which I have decided to attribute to him being a huge racist (at the time? He says he's not anymore, but he's also British so...) They are great musician's individual it just doesn't really come together for me and the tracks where Clapton or Ginger Baker sing just drag. It should have been a breezy half hour listen, but it felt way longer and the dorky lyrics didn't help. Sunshine of Your Love and SWLABR were standouts that I very much enjoyed
Strange Brew - This is a fun jam, I like it! Not my usual type of music but it’s fun. Sunshine of Your Love - Oh hey, I’ve heard this one before! Really like it. The riff is real nice. Quick favorite so far. Really like the guitar solo too. World of Pain - Ooh, very groovy, very smooth! I like it! It has a very interesting feel to it that I’m enjoying. Dance the Night Away - For some reason this isn’t really clicking with me right away. It’s not bad, it’s just not really hitting for me either. I do think it grows on me a little the longer I listen, though. Blue Condition - This one also isn’t really my thing. Slow in a way I don’t really enjoy very much. Again not a bad song, just not my thing. Tales of Brave Ulysses - Ooh, I like the start of this. I like the rest of it too! Another favorite I think. Really nice, really interesting, good jam! SWLABR - Ooh another immediate favorite, this is really fun! This is much more in line with the vibes I usually enjoy in music. Really nice and upbeat. We’re Going Wrong - A good slow song, not so much my thing though. I really enjoy this guitar in this one though. Outside Woman Blues - Oh this is fun! I like the intro. Some more really nice guitar. Take It Back - Oh this is a really nice one. Another upbeat one which I enjoy. This would be a good song to dance to. I really like it! A head bopper of a song. Like literally, I am bopping my head listening to it. Mother’s Lament - This one is really different from the rest of the album, huh? A nice change up, but not really something I’d listen to independently. OVERALL: A lot of it isn’t my usual style, but it’s nice! Another one I would rate 3.5 if I could, but I can’t, so it’s a 3. Favorites were Sunshine of Your Love, Tales of Brave Ulysses, SWLABR, and Take It Back.
not totally for me
Similar to Willie Nelson, I know how formative this album is, but it is not one I would go out of my way to hear again. There are plenty more authentic blues albums I would rather hear.
I enjoyed this fun psycho (psychedelic?) album!!!! Made me want to watch school of rock. My favorite song was take it back or strange brew. Can’t you see that as a coffee shop theme? Also obviously sunshine of love was catchy af. I went on a minor deep dive, recognized Eric claptons name. I always thought he was like a TN guy!! Not British!! Same exact feelings for take it back — such a bluesy, country song, who would’ve guessed it was British? Interesting overlap. Maybe I’m uncultured. I’d give this album 6.5/10 stars!
Just makes me want to watch freaks and geeks again. Losing a full star for this deranged blues song! Another star gone for Mother's Lament. Are we ok? WTF?
A little too short. I love the straight up single take-style recording and production vibe. Nice early 70s vibe going on. At the same time also a little forgettable. Album cover is fire
This is a fine 60s rock album.
Aight
considered to be the greatest thing Clapton ever had a hand in and booooooy does that reflect poorly on him. fitting though. deserves to be one of the 1001? probably yes, unfortunately
One of those albums that told you that Rock & Roll was about to change. Legendary.
I've heard enough guitar wankery to last several lifetimes, so I was pleasantly surprised at how much actual songwriting there was to be found here. On top of that we have terrific performances from multiple vocalists and a heaping helping of fun psychedelic nonsense. I think "Blue Condition" is the real outlier here (besides of course the dumb joke of "Mother's Lament") and I enjoy it thoroughly - funny and catchy and truly odd. "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Strange Brew" remain untouchable, although no one needs to hear them again. My top favorite is "Tales of Brave Ulysses" - I wouldn't have guessed that over-the-top psych and Greek myth make the perfect pairing. Everything else is fun, occasionally exciting, and very much a time capsule.
meh
This is good, although a bit front-end loaded and really does tail off towards the end. Also, despite only being 32 minutes it does feel a lot longer, plus there’s the Clapton factor. Still, Strange Brew and Sunshine Of Your Love are excellent and really lift the album.
Favourite Songs: SWLABR
An absolute classic that’s under appreciated. I understand that a lot of the songs are covers or “stolen”, but Cream on my Mount Rushmore of trio bands. Cream are bar none the most influential band of the 60s.
3 stars - not bad musically at all. very nice guitar
8/10
I’m starting the year off with a banger of an album. I knew the name but have never listened to Cream properly before and I was very impressed with this one. If I was being really picky I could probably do without Mothers Lament at the end but the rest of the album was that good I can forgive it. Top Track - Sunshine Of Your Love
Quite the power trio.
Never heard a cream album before, the psychedelic blues was easy listening and I enjoyed most of it tbf
Strong record mixing the blues with other influences to create something that is different and more original. Still got Clapton and he unfortunately does all the best songs here but they all put in a strong performance
Classic!
"Disraeli Gears" is the second studio album by British rock band Cream. Psychedelic rock, blues rock and hard rock are the Wiki-listed genres. The album was produced by future Mountain bassist Felix Pappalardi and saw the band minimize their improvisation from their debut. Cream was Jack Bruce (vocals, bass, harmonica), Eric Clapton (vocals, electric and 12-string guitars) and Ginger Baker (drums, vocals). Commercially, the album reached #5 in the UK and #4 in the US. It also had critical high praise with one critic citing it as "the quintessential heavy rock album of the 1960's." The album opens with Clapton on lead vocals in "Strange Brew." A bluesy and funky guitar. The bass and drums anchor the slow pace. Clapton with a high voice and falsetto as he describes the captivating but destructive nature of a woman. Bruce takes over the majority of the lead vocals in "Sunshine of Your Love." Equally great guitar and bass riffs. The rhythm guitar and bass give this is a psychedelic vibe. Noticeably great drumming by Baker who every bit equals Keith Moon. And speaking of the Who, an explosive Who-like outro. A great deeper cut is the Byrds' tribute "Dance the Night Away." Clapton just shredding it, Byrds' style. Pyschedelic, druggy lyrics too as Clapton and Bruce sing about dancing after coming down from LSD. A drum roll, bass lines and a wah-wah guitar begin "Tales of Brave Ulysses." Pounding drums and drum rolls. Clapton combining wah-wah, blues and pyschedelia in his guitar riff. It was inspired by a trip to Ibiza and the sirens calling Ulysses: something tells me more drugs were involved. "SWLABR" means "She Walks Away Like a Bearded Rainbow" and is about a man defacing a picture of his girlfriend with facial hair. Bruce with a melodic bass and Clapton nailing it again by layering his guitars. If you ever wondered why Cream was called a supergroup, this is exhibit A. Each band member showcases their superior talents on their instruments. By having short, tight songs, the music stays focused but lets each musician get their riffs, rolls and short solos without them become indulgent. The music is psychedelic, bluesy and even a bit jazzy. The mix is outstanding with each instrument clear; this is a great headphones album. The lyrics are pyschedelic with references to drugs, Ulysses and trees and also personal with relationship issues. I do see the comparison to early prog rock in both the lyrics and music. This is a great album and a must listen for any rock fan.
Great
Quiet good but I didn’t really listen to the lyrics :/ 7.5/10 2025/12/28
I thought I would like this more. Obviously sunshine of your love is great but the reset didn’t really do anything for me
Some classic British blues and psychedelia. Top listens here are Sunshine of Your Love, Strange Brew, and Tales of Brave Ulysses
eff that guy for real
Fine
A (very) short trailer for Wheels of Fire.
assez oubliable
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. I would give it 6 stars if I could.
Startede godt, tabte kadence.
Yeah fine. A couple of good songs, but, otherwise, not for me. Talented musicians
Dun dun dun dun dun duuu dun dun dun dun din duuuu in the sunshiiiine of your loooooo-ooo-ooove osv, men bortsett fra den ene va nu resten mest bare ok.
chill not my fav