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Brilliant start with Strange Brew and Sunshine Of Your Love and World of Pain, before tailing off a bit. Solid album overall
Good sound, I think I have heard a few before. Different than I usually listen to though. I like the funky guitar stuff throughout.
I was expecting to love this one a lot more, but it's mostly just a serviceable blues/rock album with some good guitar work and vibe. With that though, it's extremely solid and not too long a listen, so it doesn't become too samey. Quite good! Standouts: Sunshine of Your Love, SWLABR, Outside Woman Blues
Meh. Clapton makes me indifferent unfortunately.
I give this one three stars (out of five) and one of those stars is for Sunshine of Your Love being used so well by Scorcese. Never been a big Cream fan.
Cream is so original and authentic. The theatricality really made this an enjoyable album
3.5 stars
Strange Brew: Very cool vibes. The guitar solo just oozing with style. Really nice bass too. Sunshine of Your Love: UGH CLASSIC. Memories of playing this song on Guitar Hero 3, always enjoyed it. Once again that guitar is so sexy, almost scratchy sound. Great drums! World of Pain: Very mellow. Dance The Night Away: Almost a melancholy feeling to it, and feels like there are Indian/Asian music influences. Blue Condition: Enjoyed this one, a bit more lowkey. Tales of Brave Ulysses: Love this one, the building up it creates is almost heroic connecting the feelings the title illicits. The instrumental breakdowns throughout getting more elaborate until the end also accentuate this. SWLABR: Interesting tone in this one. We're Going Wrong: Not a lot to say Outside Woman Blues: Not a lot to say Take it Back: A lot more bluesy, enjoyed the harmonica in this one. Mother's Lament: Silly little song, like the cockney energy. Final thoughts: Some absolute bangers in this, but also quite a few songs I wouldn't actively listen to and kind of blend into the background. I'd say I enjoyed the first half more. Favs are probably Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love (Obviously) and Tales of Brave Ulysses.
I dunno! Yeah, the first two tracks are brilliant classics, and there are one or two others that I liked, basically the bluesy ones. The rest left me cold, so I'll give this effort three stars.
good ol psych and blues
I really like the first two songs, but side B is a little weak for me. Overall, though, pretty good.
guys rock
Very interesting psychrock album. The guitarwork is sharp and sounds great, the vocals conplement the records themes and soundpatterns, being rough and hazy. Overall just a clean psychrock record. Favorite track: Strange Brew. Overall score: 7.0/10
Iconic sound of the 60s the guitars sound effortlessly cool Favourite song: Sunshine of Your Love
very funky, great guitar, excellent atmosphere!! will definitely listen again
Yeah ok
Could take or leave but objectively v good
First time in psychedelic rock. Guitar feels like lead vocals and lead vocalist is singing backup. Things turn bluesier at blue condition.... OHHHH. Fav- Tale of Brave Ulysses. Riff sounds like that Rasputin song
nyilván sokkal jobb zene ez az előzőnél, cserébe viszont unalmas. nem blues annyira hogy szeressem mint zenét, és nem pszichedelikus annyira, hogy értékeljem az innovációt meg a kísérletezést.
Not my cup of tea but this is a cool album. It has plenty of guitar riffs and some cool vocals. I like the mix of psychedelic rock and the Blues. Tales Of Brave Ulysses was a particular highlight.
The only Ingredient missing to make this 4* or higher is a quarter ounce of skunk. Pretty good guitar wankery just slightly odd
This is my favorite album with Eric Clapton. I don’t really know why but it’s better than all the others. I’m too tired to write this
摇滚吗
Okay, let’s get this out of the way. Sunshine Of Your Love carries the album for me. It’s the only song that I legitimately like on this album. The rest range from okay to ugh. The good ones range from Outside Women Blues and Tales of Brave Ulysses, which made Clapton easier to digest and appreciate since he’s teamed with Bruce and Baker. They emphasize the psychedelic spirit of the album. But then there are some annoying songs, like Blue Condition and We’re Going Wrong. And if I ever have to hear about the tree outside the window in World of Pain ever again, I’ll have it cut down. Maybe then you will stop singing about it. Mother’s Lament was a bit jarring too, but it’s at the end of the album and was probably the band fucking around, so I’m not going to go too hard on it. Overall, this is okay. Probably as good as an Eric Clapton effort will be for me. As an aside, can Clapton please stop showing up under different bands? This is the third time he has shown up under a different project and I haven’t even hit 150 albums yet. Calm your racist ass. Favorite track: Sunshine Of Your Love Other hits: Strange Brew, Outside Woman Blues, Tales of Brave Ulysses, SWLABR, Take It Back
For something so psychedelic I fluency, you'd hope it'd be a super vivid cornucopia of sounds. The reality is it's a lot of fairly standard blues with some more psychedelic stuff here and there. But even that sounds a bit derivative of other things done by themselves.
Britisk paykedelisk rock, udmærket
It's a nice album, but after so many albums, it's hard to listen to something that sounds innovative. Somehow they were doing what everyone was doing at that time.
First time listening to this album in its entirety. Recognized a few songs, some deep cuts. overall okay, but a couple tunes didn’t hit the mark for me, personally.
Eric Clapton views aside, I thought that this was mediocre with a couple of gems sprinkled in here and there. Listen again to the whole thing? Probably not!
enjoyable late 60s psych rock album. that last track is terrible though
The greatness is there, but only for the first half.
Good classic rock.
A few fantastic songs, and some that were just fine. My wife gives this 5 stars, but she grew up with it.
The album that bought you "Sunshine of your Love" and not much else
It's really hard to rate an album where I mostly like the music but I don't want to listen to this much if it at one time.
Pretty cool for 1967, basic but cool it's only three guys
Started really strong with the first 2 songs but the rest of the album was forgettable, including some skippable songs
I didn't hate this, but it didn't feel very memorable.
Multiple classic songs. Not consistent in quality, but stellar overall
Eric Clapton is the most overrated guitar player on the planet. However, Jack Bruce is a great bassist and an interesting singer, although his almost-falsetto can get on my nerves sometimes. Ginger Baker is an amazing drummer and was an interesting man--the film "Beware of Mr. Baker" from 2012 was an interesting film. So despite Clapton's involvement, I'll still give this a 3.
Had the classics otherwise, as lot of these bands from the 60s and 70s that I've heard only the hits, the rest of the album is just okay.
Some jams, the non-hits aren’t my speed.
Some good, some not so great. Decent album with a couple killer cuts.
Decent. Sounded good, well performed. The songs didn't really do much for me, though.
Would probably listen again; too bad Eric Clapton is a weird, because this does rock pretty hard, though not a no-skip for me; favorite songs: sunshine of your love, strange brew; tales of brave Ulysses
I thought it was interesting that I hadn’t come across a Clapton album yet in this project and this week here are two. Stranger still is how much more I preferred the Derek and the Dominos album to Cream. Still, it’s fun to think of how the psych rock (which I largely think is silly) compares to other music of the time. Good stuff on here. But not completely for me.
As a fan of psych rock I thought I’d like it more. The whole thing sounded pretty samey samey and didn’t really hit many highs or lows. Sunshine of your love is a jam but nothing else struck me. I’ll insist that strange brew is a better movie than song.
Итс о кэй (что неожиданно, потому что я, конечно же, никакой не мьюзик крикет, а чистейший ноу ГМО хейтер, когда дело касается Эрика Клэптона). Лучшая песня - Sunshine of Your Love.
в целом прикольно но только одну песню себе добавила, думала поинтереснее будет,это же всё-таки крим
3.09
This is a hard one to rate. I initially thought I wouldn't have a lot to say. The guitar/production on ‘Strange Brew’ sounds like ass, and Clapton and Baker both have irritating singing voices. But I quite liked the songs that, per Wikipedia, were written and sung by Jack Bruce. Liked the goofy music hall kinda song at the end too. It would be sensible to separate this album from the shadow of Eric Clapton.
Being a non-Clapton fan (obviously his politics are terrible, but I also don't like his music), I let out a big ol' "ugh" when I saw this was my album of the day. But it offended me less than I anticipated. I didn't like the last three songs, but the others were more or less fine. Going to give this 3 stars because I liked it more than the Derek & The Dominos album, which I rated 2 stars. And because this is, mercifully, much shorter.
Ginger Baker’s drumming is just savage. Jack Bruce’s playing also grabs me throughout the whole album, The strongest tracks were the singles, of course. I started listening to the standard release and was disappointed by the hard panned stereo, so I switched over to the deluxe edition and was glad I did. It’s a much better mix.
Decent, I guess. A few highlights here and there, but overall feels overplayed and occasionally clumsy.
Decent but underwhelming blues rock, pretty standard Clapton fare. Nothing here that actively offended me but nothing that stood out as worthy of inclusion on the list.
I’ve always liked Sunshine of Your Love, and I liked Blue Condition. The rest of the album was enjoyable enough, but nothing special.
Did not make an impression
I mean it's alright
I liked that more than I really expected. It's been a minute since I last listened to these things and I expected I'd leave on a sour note but this was great. It's mostly psychedelic rock which has never been a favourite of mine but Cream pulled it off quite well. The ending track was also fun. Hope this won't be a one and done thing for me!
Not terrible, some enjoyable 60s rock. Album is defined by Sunshine of Your Love, and deservedly so
Pretty cool stuff, I had only heard strange brew and sunshine of your love, and to be honest I wasn’t a huge fan of strange brew, but as a whole album this was a very good time.
I am an incredible hater. I hate vociferously and with a persistent and ignorant malice. The perfect combo to indiscriminately just not like stuff. Eric Clapton fits that hateable category for me. I know nothing about the chap, but I still find that he seems like a man who make you feel uncomfortable buying a guitar. Anyway, here’s one of his bands. Hope I don’t hate it. The best. Can only go down from here. Accompanied the nuclear waste montage on the perfect yet still underrated show “Get a Life,” and now hits my ears as both a reminder of that and as an incredible song. Three thumbs up (the extra is from the toxic waste). Super overplayed, but Sunshine of your Love is good. It’s so hard to hear it anew, and I think that ship has sailed but the song has its moments. That riff is iconic but I’ve never been able to enjoy the rest of the track as much. I’m such a sucker for vocal variation. The falsetto sections are so weird and haunting. This song was a huge surprise and absolutely fantastic. Hmm. The boredom is creeping in with this puppy. Ugh. This is terrible. Alright. A little bit of a reprieve here. Finally. Back to some upbeat stuff. It’s fine. A rainbow with a beard??? That’s cool. Uhhh. I’m running out of things to say. I’m still so behind from the Christmas break. Boring white guy blues. They’re ENGLISH????????????? NOOOOOOO. I knew that. Anyway. This is weird. I feel like it’s trying to be psychedelic and not really genuine. This feels like straight edge drug impersonation. Well Eric. This wasn’t too bad, I have to say. Tracks 1 and 3 blew my face off, and the rest sort of just left me without a face and getting kind of chilly noticing that my now faceless body is being exposed to the elements. I think if this was delivered in a more rough manner, it would’ve been even better, but what we have with Disraeli Gears is a competent album with some real heavy hitters to start it off and a trail of mediocrity to wind to a close. I suppose a re-listen might be warranted but for now, I leave dreaming of sunshine, love and of course, spelling bees in space. 2.5-3 HIGHLIGHTS: Strange Brew, World of Pain
The good songs (singles?) are great, the musicianship is great… some of the other songs are only okay.
Yes!!
Very generous 3 stars. 2 Star felt too harsh. The music actually had me excited from the get go, enjoyed the first song. Then the second song started, Sunshine of Your Love, and was really excited about it as I didn't know that it was THAT song. Sick guitar shit. Lyrcis abit meh, and that seemed to be the theme for the album. Got abit bored of it to be honest, but appreciated what it was doing alot of the time. I feel as though they were great musicians with fuck all to actually write about. Their talent with their instruments carried it for me. Like I said, generous giving 3 stars. Would've liked half stars again to give a 2.5
I quite like Cream’s albums. The live shows sound hellish in terms of drawn out, indulgent solos. Strange Brew is as cool as a cucumber, perfect mash up of blues and rock, with hushed vocals washing over it. Great false ending too. Sunshine of Your Love is iconic, its use in cinema immediately springs to mind during the first few notes. It's arguably their finest moment. It centres around such a simple riff, but the sounds and the space between sounds are so well crafted on this song, it's transformed into a giant rock anthem. World of Pain has a playfulness and psychedelia to it that reminds me of Pink Floyd with Syd, off kilter and whimsical, not as good though. I hated Mother's Lament with a passion. It's true that all musicians want to be comedians, and all comedians want to be musicians. There were a lot of album tracks like this in British music in the late sixties, The Beatles, Cream, The Who, The Small Faces to name a few. I reckon this is because everyone fancied themselves as being able to do The Goons or Monty Python. This album probably had wide appeal to the hippie youth of the late sixties. I found most of the tracks very average though. Yes you can play, but are the songs interesting, or are they incredibly samey? I can't deny some of the greatness on display so it's getting 3 stars.
Disraeli what? Cream who? World of Pain is the answer to all. High 3* again. Getting a lot of these recently - closer to 75/100 though, but not quite 4*
La Crema es la crema. No es quizás su mejor material, pero las perlas están ahí.
Reminded me of the beetles
It’s great, but stressful to listen to.
It wasn't bad, but not amazing - maybe just didn't get me in the right mood. I'll give it 3*, but it could have been 4* on another day.
Starts strong. Gets weak. 4/11 songs I like.
Although "Disraeli Gears" is Cream's most acclaimed album, it is comparable to a weak Beatles album at most. There are a couple standouts admittedly, and "World Of Pain" is a fantastic example of late 60's psyche. However, the general songwriting and musicianship of the album is overtly mundane and underwhelming. Eric Clapton has got to be among the most conceited guitarists of all-time.
3/5
I was expecting way more from an album with Strange Brew and Sunshine of Your Love
Definitely highs and lows, many great songs but a few slower ones that felt out of place for me
I think I've made my peace with Clapton
Loved strange brew and sunshine of your love, but the rest of the tracks on this album didn’t really impress me
Decent classic rock vibe
Excellent psych Brit rock record. Good tunes and vibes throughout this one with some experimental guitars and vocals. They're having fun on this one. A couple classics I'm familiar with on here too.
acceptable tunes standout track: sunshine of your love
Nice!
good bluesy
I enjoyed this album - particularly the electric guitar. I love their song White Room and I feel like they’re super consistent with their sound which is cool! I probably wouldn’t put this one in high rotation but would listen to give my self a break from the frequent flying albums I have on repeat! I’d say 3.5
Groovy music that I would add to certain songs to playlist
Was alright
Das Album Disraeli Gears von Cream ist interessant, wirkt aber stellenweise eintönig, da viele Lieder sich ähnlich anhören. Trotzdem beeindruckt es, dass man ein bis zwei Tracks wiedererkennt, obwohl weder die Band noch das Album einem zuvor bekannt waren. Ein spannendes Werk mit bekannten Momenten, das jedoch an Abwechslung vermissen lässt.
Pretty cool!! A solid and consistent sound, good drums and guitar. Enjoyed this
It wasnt my type of music but it was realky good. I can only explain it as calming feels good music mostly I'd listen to it for reading or driving.
Liked the change up in the last two songs. Anytime one of these albums has a song that I know I feel like the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the tv meme
Overall, I was surprised by how much I liked this album. Very diverse and dig the trio's interactive parts with each other. Even though I marked it as 3 stars, I would give it a 3.5 if I could.
old rock, dnf
LOVE "Strange Brew" since the first time I heard it on classic rock radio in Jr. High. It just has a easy going groove but still rocks & it was an early Clapton vocal. "Sunshine Of Your Love" is still a rock staple and you hear it in movies, ads and on the radio. "Tales Of Brave Ulysses" used to be on the radio a lot in the 70/80's but not so much anymore. Some of the tracks are a bit dreary ("Blue Condition", "We're Going Wrong"). In it's day this may have been cutting edge, and I know Cream's influence is deep, but the sound hasn't aged as well as a lot of other classic recordings of the late 60's. I can't rank it Top 1001 and can only give it 2.5 stars
A few good songs, but more filled than anything else. This feels like an early album, not as cohesive as it could be. It was fun to listen to though.
Sunshine of Your Love Take It Back (Clapton blues)
A good album. But, I’m not sure it is on my must have list. Many Blues albums I would prefer to listen to.
Whatever
i forgot how well i know this album. i have my dad’s vinyl copy and used to listen to it a lot in high school (especially whenever i was rewatching freaks & geeks lol). it’s fine. i can’t say it moves me but it’s fine.
I like the general sound of this album. It feels like the kind of music that would be playing in the background of a retro movie where some cool dudes are hanging out at a bar…maybe they’re playing pool…and smoking 😎 I absolutely LOVE Strange Brew and was hoping that on this relisten I’d find some other gems on here that I like even half as much as that one but unfortunately I did not. It gets a little samey for me after a few songs and I felt like I was listening to the same songs over and over (with the exception of the final track, Mother’s Lament, which was functional in that it reminded me he’s British which I for some reason always forget). Outside Woman Blues had such a similar groove as Strange Brew and it’s kind of weird those are on the same album (and I always thought the beginning of the riff from Sunshine of Your Love sounded so much like that of Cocaine, the latter of which I knew first as a kid and then was confused when I heard what sounded so similar years later in the former, but at least those are on different albums). I guess that’s just a signature rhythm and chord progression of the blues style but I do think there are artists who manage to have that distinct style without it all sounding like repeats of each other. It all ends up just sounding like Eric Clapton Flavored Sounds, which is not a horrible vibe to curate as I mentioned at the beginning, but the songs on their own aren’t distinct enough for me to care about as songs in their own right. *Best tracks: Strange Brew*
For all the classics, I get impatient listening through it.
a cool album and i like the acoustic/natural instruments used. very rock vibes and the album cover is so cool i want the poster just to look at.
Plenty of great songs on here but I was expecting something a bit more. Like the first 6 tracks are notably pretty good but after that the tracks just get weaker and my retention for it goes down as well. Not saying their bad but just that there was some untapped potential there. All in all it was still a pretty good album. Top 3 Favorites: Sunshine Of Your Love, Tales Of Brave Ulysses, and Strange Brew No bad songs 3.25-3.50/5
It's good but only that
78% Best: Strange Brew; Sunshine Of Your Life; SWLABR; Take It Back Must-Hear? Not quite
Cream: Decent. Clapton: Permacunt.
Great band
Classic album, but some of it is a little stale. The hits are bonified and it's easy to see why they are staples in classic rock, but the rest of the album is a little stale.
This album has some obviously great tracks. In addition to the hits that remain staples on Classic Rock radio, lesser known songs like "Tales of Brave Ulysses" and "SWLABR" ring out as Psychedelic Blues gems. However, some other songs on this one fall flat musically and the falsetto singing gets tiresome after a bit. Also, that stupid song at the end, "Mother's Lament" is another example of artists using up valuable vinyl space and time for a jokey indulgence. I believe that these tracks later gave rise to the skits that have littered Rap albums for decades now. This would get four stars, but Eric Clapton is a notable prick and his racist right-wing politics are unforgivable. Minus one whole star for that.
222/1001 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
I liked it with but not a top classic rock album
Good but kind of dragged towards the end. 3.5
Enjoyable psychedelia rock. I, for whatever reason, thought Sunshine of Your Love was a different song so interesting to me
Clapton!!! He’s a musical genius but yes quite the asshole… anyhow this album had lots of potential after the A side but doesn’t quite carry that momentum. Nonetheless a very important album for the evolution of psych rock/pop, clearly had influence on the likes of Beatles, PF, etc and vice versa
Bueno
***An ok album. Nothing great and yet nothing distasteful
thumbs up
Quintessential Cream - Iconic Album Cover - Late 60's Rock at its finest.
It's ok. Songwriting is on point, which is to be expected. But it's not very fun after a while.
When Cream's hitting, they're great. When they're not, it's psychedelic mush. Sunshine of Your Love is an all-timer, of course. But I hadn't heard the non-hits on Disraeli Gears and, honestly, they didn't add much to my thoughts about the band. Unexpected bangers: Take it Back
I'd have dug this in 1967, but not sp much in 2024. The classic hits I dig, as I grew up with them, but the music, out of the context of the 60s and 70s loses my interest. A solid three for blues based music.
It was okay.
Can see why it was influential musically, some tracks are naff like SWLABAR
Mid 3s, goes pretty good. Tame Impala be here.
3.5
I really liked this at first, but felt like it failed to expand on the initial sound as it went on.
I was excited to see a Cream album pop up in this collection, and I also liked the somewhat-obscure-political-reference-sounding album title. But then came away feeling like I had *far* too outsized expectations for both the first-ever-superband and their album (and very disappointed to find out the "Disraeli" reference had nothing to do with the Right Honorable Mr. Benjamin). It's hard (maybe impossible) to find fault with "Sunshine of your love", of course, but that seems to be it on this album; the opening track starts you off on a bad foot, and then there's this weird alien insertion of "Sunshine" to blow your little mind, and then the remainder of the album is back to sad, occasionally-falsetto 60s generic rock, with a small exception for "Tales of brave Ulysses" and "SWLABR". How can the sum of several (well, three) incredibly talented musicians equal quasi-psychedelic-rock mush? Maybe it's because they had to record the album in a hurry due to expiring visas, or maybe just that veering away from their blues wheelhouse ran them on the rocks of mediocrity. A shame too that this is the only Cream album in the collection (although maybe it's a blessing?).
3 incredible songs but a lot of filler
Yummmm warm and fuzzy late 60s psych. I can see how this album likely had and has had a strong influence in psych music and it was probably mind blowing when it came out. currently I find it just a bit boring. The melodies and the riffs aren't super interesting and it's not very layered. So I like the vibe of the record and I appreciate the influence but I'll likely never listen to this one again.
After listening to 2 shitty records was I happy to see Cream coming up. But it wasn't as amazing as I wanted it to be. A lot of the songs sound very similar in guitar tone, and maybe I'm not paying a lot of attention to this... But the structure of the songs were quite the same. I don't know... Maybe Eric clapton's best work, and Ginger Baker is a mad man. But nothing on this record do I really care about. Except the mustache line. It's crazy that Cream were only a band for a few years. I think they would have written some crazy stuff eventually. The blueprints are all there.
this looks like shit <-- i didnt type this btw i opened the album and it said this so maybe its a premonition strange brew- 5 sunshine of your love- 4 or 5 world of pain- 5 dance the night away- 5 blue condition- 4 tales of brave ulysses- 4 swlabr- 5 were going wrong- 5 outside woman blues- 4 take it back- 5 mothers lament- 4. too british it wasnt shit but it wasnt anything to write home about
Not a fan of Eric Clapton as a person, but I can see how people hold his guitar playing in high regard. Sunshine of Your Love is catchy and gets super stuck in my head. The rest of the tracks are enjoyable as well. Nothing mind-blowing, but a solid blues-rock record.
Fav: Strange Brew Least Fav: Mother’s Lament Certainly better than Eric Clapton’s solo work
I guess I’ve just never appreciated Cream. Outside of the 2 hit tracks the rest left me uninspired
Pleasing to listen to. Sadly, sometimes the mix is very dated. Extreme stereo effects. mainly the song "Mother's Lament where the reverb is only on the right chanell. But nice tunes overall. Not gonna lie, i probably won't come back.
British guys playing blues isn’t nearly as exciting in 2024 as it was in 1967 - but I appreciate a trio, and Ginger Baker rules. pretty cool chord progressions on the originals, too. Highs: Strange Brew, World of Pain, Tales of Brave Ulysses (aka White Room, part 1); Lows: Take it Back, Mother’s Lament.
Een best wel vermakelijk psych rock album! De cover alleen al zorgt ervoor dat ik me meteen een beetje high voel en de fun die de cover laat zien is ook zeker aanwezig op het album zelf! Enige nadeel is dat ondanks dat ik me wel echt heb vermaakt met dit album, kom ik wel echt steeds meer tot de conclusie dat ik gewoon niet zo dol ben op rock/psychrock enzo. Wel vet dat Capton ook op dit album een grote rol speelt, je hoort het in de bluesy stukken. Simpelweg; geinig album, denk niet dat ik het nog eens op ga zoeken. FAVO: Blue Condition, Tales of Brave Ulysses, Outside Woman Blues, Take it back
Quintessential 60s hippy music
Some great Clapton riffs and great percussion, but a little iffy on the lyrics.
Some great guitar riffs throughout, was ready to give this 4-stars but the last track was absolute shite
Reminds me of the Beatles and David Bowie Probably a 5.5/10 I would listen to some again
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The thing about Cream is that you can tell they are trying very hard and that they are always on the cusp of being awful. Less said about the last track the better as well
Meh. 3 stars purely for Sunshine Of Your Love
Too psychedelic for me, doesn’t seem as cool as it did when I was 16.
It was ok. I thought I would like it more. 3 stars.
For me, late 60s psychedelic rock can be really hit or miss. And that's kinda what I feel this album consists of: some hits, some misses. The Vibe: It is 1967 and you think you're really cool because you've smoked weed a couple of times and you like Cream.
Rock. I was actually a little disappointed with this album. A few great songs, but mostly I didn’t like the vocalist in a lot of the songs, and the vibe was just a little off.
With tracks like Strange Brew and Sunshine of Your Love, this album is a classic. I’ve never been into Cream other than their hits, but I enjoyed the listen. Quintessential trippy album cover.
Nothing special, sorry Clapton fans.
I recognized the hits on this, four or five at least. I liked this but I was a little underwhelmed. I feel like this should be higher but I can’t get above a 3 here.
With the first two tracks/hits I was expecting this to be better. But the cream starts to settle midway through and by the backend becomes a little stale. The fact that they recorded this in 3.5 days is pretty amazing, but not enough to help the cream rise to the top.
Surprised I didn’t like this more. Sunshine is iconic and Clapton plays a good guitar. But this ended up sounding like a boring stoned hippie. Much like your mom.
Clapton is good at guitar and bad at being a decent human. This album is fine but not amazing. 3/5
Okay psychedelic rock from the 60s
Sunshine of your love is a timeless banger, the rest of the album is unremarkable. Other reviews tell me Eric Clapton is a cunt, won't spend the energy to confirm or deny.
ok
Used to rly like this, proabbaly worse than Layla
It was ok I guess. Some tracks are ok while others are just meh.
Never really cared for Cream and this has not changed that. Don't hate it but don't really like it either.
-interesting, has sort of an early arena rock feel to it. The first few songs are especially good. kind of lost my interest toward the end but damn Outside Woman Blues is awesome. Solid 3.5 probably -Favorites are Strange Brew, Sunshine Of Your Love, and Outside Woman Blues
Pretty good, didn’t finish but had some good tunes in it
3.5
I think the only Cream song I already knew before going into this was Sunshine Of Your Love, which feels like the ultimate hippy anthem. This album as a whole was certainly a pleasant listen, with a really bizarre final song which is literally about a thin baby falling down a drain. I did enjoy this overall, but I’ll likely just stick with Sunshine Of Your Love when I’m fancying a bit of Cream.
What could go wrong when you put the best musicians of their respective instruments together in a band... apparently, a lot
One good song is more than most bands manage, and that’s exactly how many Cream made. Sunshine Of Your Love earns this a 3.
Mixed album, a few decent tunes, a few not so good ones.
I had lately come to believe that the “cream years” were the best of Clapton. For that reason, I was rather excited to press “play” on this today. But aside from a couple of tracks, including one with no guitar at all, I was rather disappointed by how uninteresting this was. Part of the problem I think is the meaningless pseudo-artsy lyrics typical of psychedelic rock. But all in all, I did not like this as much as I would have if I were still 17.
Had fun. The rainbow has a beard. 3.5
I knew I was in for it when I saw that album cover
Cream might be the only thing Eric Clapton was involved with that doesn’t suck. Stressing the word *might*
I appreciate Clapton, and I can see how this album was popular in its time. Just not something that I would run around listening to 60 years after its release.
I'd rate this as an average classic rock album. Still classic, but rarely makes me rise to euphoria or anything. Because I like the genre, I like the album.
Pretty forgettable outside of "Sunshine of Your Love." Not unpleasant, though.
Noteworthy songs - 808080808 Magical Dream - Kinda catchy synth, but the rest is bland. Ancodia - Good background noise. Cobra Bora - Actually kind of cool, reminds me of Bomberman Hero. Pacific 202 - N64 vibes, but melody isn't great. Donkey Doctor - Nothing too special, weird ending. 808080808 - Really cool beginning. A little slow in the middle but stays interesting enough. Sunrise - Nothing remarkable. The Fat Shadow - Eerie. Very short.
Wow, super cool! Seems like it must have been first wave psychedelia.
3.5
Kind of felt like the midway point between Hendrix and the Beatles, but without hitting the heights of either. Also important to note that Eric Clapton is a colossal prick.
Solid Cream album. I had not listened to it for many years. It contains several classic songs, but nothing on the level of White Room, and this band will never be my favourite band.
Sure has that 60's vibe. Favourite track: World of Pain.
This is a classic rock album. I don't have much time for Eric Clapton, especially having had the misfortune to see him live (Ouch!). Solid three
Interesting listen. I had heard of Cream before due to Clapton, but I had not really listened. I would assume this was typical of the 60's. But it was a little more electric than I had anticipated. A good listen.
Some great tracks but also some spaced out 60s strangeness, turns out some of these lads were on drugs!
I might be too sober to enjoy this fully. It was good, and the best songs (“SWLABR”) really showcase Cream’s musical talent. But ultimately I think the members of Cream (the Creamers?) might be better as session musicians than fronting their own band, Clapton included.
I get it. I had it. It's fine.
Great to throw on in the background 👍👍
The best thing that Eric Clapton ever did. mainly because the other 2 guys were so awesome.
one hit wonder
Wanted to like it more. Some are great/classic, the rest are droning. I don't understand how an inconsistent album can be so revered...?
Excellent electric guitar playing. That's really about it. Very short album. Some classic late 60s vocals. Slightly above average 6.5/10 (3.25/5)
Sunshine of Your Love is a good track and the album has a consistent rock style but it just didn't do that much for me.
🎧This is fine I guess.
classic 60s.
It's fine. I don't hear anything here that I don't like, but at the same time not much catches my ear. It's pretty chill and a bit funky and is a cohesive listen. It doesn't feel quite as dated as I'd have feared, but it's still very clearly 60's sound I'd say. Standouts World Of Pain Tales Of Brave Ulysses Mother's Lament 3/5
Cream are basically the quintessential 60s psychedelia rock but Disraeli Gears is just good (very good in places) without being great. Obviously it's quite self-indulgent because the entire genre is; at its best you have quality all-timers like Sunshine Of Your Love, Strange Brew and Tales of Brave Ulysees, and it's a pretty tight album overall despite that indulgence, it's all boxed off in quality grooves and guitar work. It's a high 3 or a low 4 because it doesn't last throughout the record, there's too much filler, but one of the better albums we've had recently.
Mixed bag here, there's some really good (at the start of the album), and some a lot less good (mostly towards the end). Doesn't have as much character as Hendrix (with which it shares a lot of similiarities), but it's pretty close to equal on the guitar work and the music behind it. 3/5 seems fair, really slap bang in the middle of that. Probably would've scored better had it come before the Hendrix albums on our journey through this list.
not a fan of strange brew. sunshine of your love always good. the rest is just whatever. SWLABR was ok
I’m starting to realize that I have such a varied taste in what I like and yet I assumed I’d love this. Sunshine of your love really is a great song.
It was fine, but underwhelming. Good tunes, but a little plain and repetitive.
Psykedeelistä rockia, muttei oikein omaa suosikkia. Ihan ok. Parhaat: Sunshine Of Your Love, SWLABR
Alright done good songs but overall just alright
Not as good as I remember. Seems to be a lot of filler songs on the album. Three virtuosic legends in their prime, yet the songs don’t really come together for me aside from the classics on this album.
Pieces of past albums are coming together today. I had Eric Clapton with Derek and The Dominos not too long ago. And early on I first heard Ginger Baker on a Fela Kuti record. Now, with the addition of Jack Bruce as a bassist and lead vocalist, makes the band Cream. Considered by many as the first proper supergroup, this band has serious talent behind it. Whatever your opinions of Clapton are, you can’t deny that these guys were changing the game at a young age. Even Baker himself became known as one of rock’s first big drummers, along with people like Ringo Starr and Keith Moon. I found a fair amount of enjoyment from that other album featuring Clapton. So I had expectations to hear something at least mildly interesting. To my surprise, I was far less entertained by what is going on here than I imagined. Aside from a few highlights, these songs just don’t hit the same as that previous album, and other blues music I’ve heard in the past. Clapton’s guitar work doesn’t stand out nearly as much. And as much as I respect him as a drummer, Baker doesn’t feel as heightened and his drumming is not as engaging. Maybe it’s the time he spent with Fela, while embracing more African based rhythms and techniques that really made his skills stand out to me. In regard to Jack Bruce, I can’t comment much on his bass playing because it barely felt like it made an impact on the sound of this. And this album also made me realize that neither Bruce nor Clapton are the best vocalists. Sunshine of Your Love is definitely a blues classic, and a great song, but I’m disappointed by how little there actually is here. I’ll end this by saying that the cover is awesome. And the music definitely matches that vibe. I’m interested to see if anything from Yardbirds pops up in the future. Clapton plus two other legendary guitarists could be cool. Rating: 5/10
SOYL and SWLABR are great but I was expecting more from the rest. 3.5
The lows are low, the highs are high, but not as high as these guys surely were when they recorded this. 3 trees out my window out of 5 🌳🌳🌳
The 2 first songs are absolute bangers, but having listened to this album a few times over the years, they're the only tracks I come back to. There's not much else I connect with here. Still, the rest of it isn't *bad* (except Mother's Lament...???). I'm trying to separate art from artist and all that with this challenge, but I should also note that Eric Clapton can get fucked.
eh, it was fine. mostly just average white guy blues rock for boomer dads at this point but it has some big tracks. i much prefer the singles from wheels of fire, but whatever. favorites: strange brew, sunshine of your love, tales of brave ulysses
Starts with a couple of Blues/Rock classics then goes nowhere until the bizarre final track which was clearly included for one reason alone, to reveal (57 years later through 1001 generator reviews) who listened to the whole album, and who did not!
Sure!
A mix of hard blues rock and gentler hippie psychedelia. Even when it rocks hard it feels pretty easygoing. Compared to similar bands of the era, I personally prefer the urgency of The Jimi Hendrix Experience or the straight up sexiness of Led Zeppelin. But this was good. My first time listening to Cream aside from their big hits. I knew “Sunshine of My Love” and “Tales of Brave Ulysses” but there were some good album cuts here too. “World of Pain” was a highlight for me.
It was kinda fun and spooky.
My heart sunk a wee bit when this came up as, ahem, my debut album. It’s ok tho! Probably helps that there ain’t too much jamming on it and the songs are mostly pretty contained. His help me, I think the Ginger Baker one may be my favourite?
Never the biggest Clapton fan, and this reminded me why. Outside of a few songs it was just, "meh".
Perhaps Cream’s reputation was impossible to match, but this was my first listen to Cream, and after years of hearing praise get heaped on them, I did expect more. Sunshine of Your Love and SWLABR lived up to the hype, but the rest of the album left me cold. Again, I think it’s due to the overhype- if I’d listened to them without preamble, then I might have been able to listen without my guard up, but I came in ready for A Masterpiece and got a good album. Perhaps they deserve a relisten at some point so that I can judge them on their own merits. Nah.
3.5
I've never listened to this album all the way through in one sitting. Obviously I know "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine of My Love" but I'm not familiar with most of the rest of this album. Obviously, it's good. But it also kinda all sounds a lot alike. One or two songs is better than the whole album.
Has some great moments, has some incredibly boring moments. Fantastic drumming, when Jack Bruce stays out of falsetto range he's a fantastic vocalist. Overall solid album but don't think I'll be coming back to it
Sunshine of your love es conocida, no sabía que era de ellos. Me gustaron varios temas, aunque hay otros que son para saltearselos… como We’re going wrong. El último tema lo tomo como una muestra del humor inglés.
Some very good/excellent, some okay.
Don’t have anything to say about this one- it was okay.
2.7 - It was fine, some good moments
I don't understand why this isn't better. The Sunshine of Your Love riff is so iconic, and yet the song is so anonymous (to me at least). This whole album feels like something is missing, some character or passion or some critical instrumentation that would add some flavour. 2.6/5
Over this era now
it was chill, just not my personal preferred flavor of 60s rock
Not good, not bad...
Ok
Definite highlights (SWLARB and Sunshine of your love) but a bit boring overall. All the songs blur together at some point. 3.
Sounds like a band that hadn’t figured things out yet. Potential insane greatest lays there, untapped, but ready to burst. They play on this record as if scared to let loose. Let the lion out!
Meget bra! Fet psych. Strange brew banga kanskje hardest, men ingenting som satt igjen sånn sjuuukt.
This was a bit hit or miss for me. It felt like every other song was a bit of a dud. There were some really good tracks, however. I especially liked the song "Sunshine Of Your Love." I've only heard about Clapton in discussion about great artists, so I was unaware of his less-than-savory opinions on certain topics until I did some reading about it. It's a shame since he's pretty good. 7/10 Would I listen again? Probably not the whole thing, but I will be listening to some of the tracks again.
A few really good songs but overall I remember thinking this album was better.
Não tem jeito, "Sunshine of Your Love" é enorme, espetacular (e eu ainda prefiro a versão do Ozzy), assim após esta segunda música, as outras são eclipsadas.
Actually pretty great
The original Power trio.
Some classic tracks but other tracks very ordinary. Iconic sleeve. Overrated IMHO.
The drums sound like cardboard, the singing is not very good, bass is great, guitar is great. I'm sure it was groundbreaking, but it's been done better later by lots of bands. Favorite song: strange brew
OK album with only a few good songs
This was one of the first records that teenage stoner Kit pulled from the dollar bin at Amoeba. Then and now, it's definitely meant to be played loud though giant speakers. Some of it aged pretty well, but it's definitely not as mind blowing as it was back then. The highs are quite high, and the rest is quite fine. Sunshine of Your Love and Tales of Brave Ulysses are the standouts. Also Sunshine is the only song I ever got 100% on Guitar Hero 3. Blue Condition is kind of a dud, and very Englishman attempts the blues. I liked when they said "skellington" in the last song Album Cover: A
I see why this is considered an all-timer and cutting edge for the time, but absolutely nothing stuck with me. Every track was immediately deleted from my brain by the time the next one started. Not interesting enough to love, not disinteresting enough to hate. The perfect example of what my ears consider a 5/10. Will never listen to this one again.
‘Sunshine of your love’ stands out in this album. What a banger
The first third of this album I like. It’s got some chill groovy songs, then there’s Blue Condition which I didn’t like. Ulysses brought it back but the rest of the album didn’t thrill me. Mostly just boring bar blues rock and one novelty song at the end. It’s between a two and a three for me, but I’ll give it a three cause I liked almost half of it.
Some iconic guitar riffs and easy to listen to.
Good, but modestly overrated. Clapton was the talent, the rest held on for the ride.
Ok
This didn't really do it for me -- nothing particularly outstanding.
M'avorreix bastant Cream, però no està malament ELR: 4/5
fuck eric clapton. that being said, this is some fun 60's psych/blues rock.
not bad, average NNN
Ein paar starke Tracks wie die ersten beiden, ansonsten Songs die wie Blues-Klassiker klingen. Ich hätte mir weniger ausgeleierte Blues-Scala hoch und runter gewünscht. Aber ok, 1967 bin ich noch mit der Trommel um den Weihnachtsbaum gelaufen und Clapton war Gott. Ich warte auf das erste Hendrix Album, das war auch 1967.
eric clapton... i do already know that i like sunshine of your love
Some bangers. And some decidedly not bangers. What a weird bunch of lads.
I have had to listen to sooooo much 60's psychedelic rock because of this list. I still don't like it much. That said, this album is definitely one of the better ones I've heard from that era. 3.5/5
3/5
"Sunshine Of Your Love" alone makes it a 3-stars-rate. The rest of the album is listenable but too much sixties for me. 2,5
Album was good, musically was great just didn’t enjoy the vocals that much. 3/5 Might listen again
Sunshine of your Love and Strange Brew are bangers.
Good
Pk
Best song was mothers lament lol
Didn’t pay too much attention to the album. I found a lot of the songs on the album sounded similar, a little to similar to parse through. It was a fine listen, and I did enjoy it. Always love Sunshine of Your Love. Standouts: Sunshine of Your Love, World of Pain, Dance The Night Away, and We’re Going Wrong.
- why did u name yourselves cream
Psychedelic blues that should have put more of an emphasis on the blues. Tales of brave Ulysses feels like it should be included in a future oceans 11 movie. Clapton can tend to overuse his wah pedal but this song uses it tremendously. Mothers lament feels like a drunk in English pub song with a bunch of Americans that think they have an English accent but don’t. This song doesn’t really fit with the rest of the album.
I forgot Cream wasn’t always amazing. A great trip down memory lane though
Sunshine of my Heart is a must at every party of my generation. Simply great. The rest of the album is surprisingly unimpressive. 3/5
Fine, nothing special.
Some classic tracks with a few that drag and are just boring. Despite how much I hate Clapton his guitar playing is on point here. Overall a nice listen with solid highlights.
3 absolute melting classics and 7 standard 60s blues rockers, and one 1 comedy closer Listen to Mr Baker, quite extraordinary what was in the water in the UK to create him, Moon, Bonham, Starr and others
KREM! strange brew isch geil. i liek. einzige titel woni mi no dra mag erinnere aber isch glaub au eis vode bekanntere cream lieder. ah syke sunshine if your love. icooonic riff. plus bruststimm schono cool. eeeh nocher singt de clapton! riese song. world of pain hani au scho ghört, glaub da album hani scho meh glost als ich gmeint han als 14 jöhrige gitarre bueb. au schöne song hey. dance the night away isch chli whiny-dreamy nöd son fan. blue condition isch chli slow blues time, au cool aber finds etz nöd so spannend. tales of brave ulysses isch wieder recht geil super guets riff. und de text passt hammer. outside woman blues isch wieder bluesy vieeel besser krem da chönder. take it back isch au bluesy au cool.
what in the woodstock sunshine of your love ischmer na für de restlich tag nahgloffe hahahaha idk es gfalltmer zwar aber es isch alles chli glich für mich? vlt losis z wenig ufmerksam aber nüt sticht megaa usse SCHNORREGIIGE mother's lament isch es lied ja rig sehrsehr cooli musig aber schlussendlich doch alles chli ähnlich für mich?
Enteilee vuotta -69 ja vielä raskaampaa otetta, pidän siitä. Hauska! Ainakin A-puolella. Pituus on maltillista. Vihaan bändin nimeä mutta en silleen oikeesti koska se näyttää hyvältä levyn kannessa, siksi varmaan on vaikea myöntää että tykkään tästä.
May just not have been my day for it but this was fine. Skilled playing but not a ton of excitement while listening. Could be how foundational Cream was in building a style that has been built upon. I have a hunch on a relisten on another day I may give this a 4.
Top Lyric - "You've got that pure feel Such good responses But the picture has a mustache" The music is fine but a bit flat at times. Also gets a little too cheeky.
Never actually owned this album but was always on my want list. I was at the start of my record buying days and funds were short. There were loads of other albums out in 1967 which I also just had to have. Since I had already bought two singles from the album Strange Brew and Sunshine Of Your Love with Tales of Brave Ulysses and SWLBR as B side’s I’d already got a good third of the actual album. As these 4 tracks were probably the best on the album other albums took priority. All the tracks showcase how great the component parts of Cream were and how together they were one of the best supergroup’s ever. Mothers Lament at the end of the album was a very strange ending but as a young boy I thought it highly amusing and at one time it was my party piece reciting the poem. 3/5 8/4/24
Disco muchas veces unidimensional, pero que cimentó el camino para lo que hoy conocemos cómo Rock Psicodélico. No me veo volviendo a escucharlo. FAVTRAXS: Tales Of Brave Ulysses, We're Going Wrong LEASTFAV: Blue Condition
un banger notable dont je ne connaissais pas la provenance, je ne pensais que le style général du groupe serait ça
They had one cool hook on one of their songs.
A good album, I liked Sunshine Of Your Love and Mother's Lament.
It's very conflicting to hate Clapton as much as I do, yet really enjoy this album. Tales of Brave Ulysses kicks ass.
3.5/5
An album that is mixed but also one I’d place a lot later so I can see how it was influential and moved music along. I think a bit variable but with some absolute classics.
There are some good songs here (Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love, SWLABR), but the bad ones (World of Pain, Blue Condition) are truly awful. Clapton may be an excellent blues guitarist, but there's some bit of authenticity or soul he's missing for me.
Eric Clapton being a bell-end aside, this album has some highlights but overall was pretty forgettable. Stand out tracks: Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love, Take it Back
Trio of highly acclaimed musicians, separating because Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce hated each other. Completed by Eric Clapton.
possible hot take...? but i think i prefer clapton's solo stuff?
Meh....Sunshine of your love is a classic but nothing else really stood out for me. Also, fuck Eric Clapton.
Classic late 60s psych rock. The highs were high, but the lows had me waiting for the next track.
I think this album marks the beginning of a heavier blues rock style of music, and Cream were one of the early 'supergroups'. I don't think this style of music has stood the test of time, but I do think it was quite an influential album.
Hmm. I know this is the first supergroup, right? But as an album, it's pretty uneven and the production value is pretty low. Ginger Baker is one of my favorite drummers (a bit nutty too it turns out - watch the doc about him Beware of Mr. Baker) and his playing is submerged in the mix.
ganz okay, last song sucked
- The guitar work is delightfully crunchy and strong (no surprise there) and there is no question that Cream was bringing a new psychedelic sound to the table. - Actually more entranced by the one blues track ("Take It Back") than I was by much of the rest. A cool sound overall, but this album does get repetitive.
A fun listen with a good amount of groove and a lot of creativity. Hard to believe this was made in the 60s, but also at the same time makes so much sense. Makes me want to look into the cultural vibe of the UK in the 60's since so much of pop culture from that time that is discussed now is so American-focused. "Mother's Lament"? Such a funny way to end an album lmao
Great album
Sunshine of your love is such a banger (easy to hear the influence it had on Black Sabbath) that the rest of the album pales in comparison. Except for the last track, there isn’t really any bad songs on here, but none of the other tracks stand out in any way either. Like, World of Pain has excellent verses, per-chorus and bass lines, but the chorus is painfully average, and that’s the story on many tracks here.
first, fuck eric clapton. “strange brew” is a great song, and “sunshine of your love” is good too. i haven’t listened to this album in full before today, and the rest of it is kinda boring to me. two great songs but pretty overrated overall.
Not really my jams but I hear the influences. I get why people at the time thought it was great.
meh, every song sounds identical.
Imagine blazing to this in the 60s....
not my thing- never been a clapton fan and i probably won't relisten, however i can't deny that all three musicians here are masters. i wish they would do a little more with it on here because to me these tracks feel formulaic. 7/10 fav tracks: strange brew
Sunshine Of Your Love: a classic, and never heard of them
Groovy Reminds me of music my Parents would listen to I thought that riff was smoke on the water Track 3 is certified Probably wont revist album, 7/10
Classic rock at its classicest. Good playing and songwriting. Captures a certain feel of the time. Very much a prototype for future stuff.