Those Were The Days | 
| Artist: Cream
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Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 8725
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 303 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.9
UPC: 600753028087
EAN: 0600753028087
ASIN: B001675SKS
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | Wrapping Paper - Cream, Robert Stigwood | | • | I Feel Free - Cream, Robert Stigwood, John Timperly | | • | Nsu - Cream, Robert Stigwood, John Timperly | | • | Sleepy Time Time - Cream, Robert Stigwood | | • | Dreaming - Cream, Robert Stigwood | | • | Sweet Wine - Cream, Robert Stigwood, John Timperly | | • | Spoonful - Cream, Robert Stigwood, John Timperly | | • | Cat's Squirrel - Cream, Robert Stigwood | | • | Four Until Late - Cream, Robert Stigwood | | • | Rollin' And Tumblin' - Cream, Robert Stigwood | | • | I'm So Glad - Cream, Robert Stigwood | | • | Toad - Cream, Robert Stigwood | | • | Lawdy Mama - Cream, Ahmet Ertegun, Robert Stigwood | | • | Strange Brew - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd | | • | Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd | | • | World Of Pain - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | Dance The Night Away - Cream, Robert Stigwood | | • | Blue Condition - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | Tales Of Brave Ulysses - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd | | • | SWLABR - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | We're Going Wrong - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | Outside Woman Blues - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | Take It Back - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | Mother's Lament - Cream, Felix Pappalardi |
Disc 2
| • | White Room - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Adrian Barber | | • | Sitting On Top Of The World - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | Passing The Time - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | As You Said - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | Pressed Rat And Warthog - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | Politician - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Adrian Barber, Tom Dowd | | • | Those Were The Days - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | Born Under A Bad Sign - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | Deserted Cities Of The Heart - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | Anyone For Tennis - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | Badge - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Damon Lyon-Shaw | | • | Doing That Scrapyard Thing - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | What A Bringdown - Cream, Felix Pappalardi | | • | The Coffee Song - Cream, Robert Stigwood | | • | Lawdy Mama - Ahmet Ertegun, Cream, Robert Stigwood | | • | You Make Me Feel - Cream | | • | We're Going Wrong - Cream | | • | Hey Now Princess - Cream | | • | Swlabr - Cream | | • | Weird Of Hermiston - Cream | | • | The Clearout - Cream | | • | Falstaff Beer Commercial - Cream |
Disc 3
| • | N.S.U. - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Adrian Barber | | • | Sleepy Time Time - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Adrian Barber | | • | Rollin' And Tumblin' - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Adrian Barber | | • | Crossroads - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Bill Halverson, Tom Dowd, Adrian Barber, Joseph. M Palmaccio | | • | Spoonful - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Adrian Barber | | • | Tales Of Brave Ulysses - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Kevin Brady, Gene Paul | | • | Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Gene Paul, Kevin Brady | | • | Sweet Wine - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Adrian Barber |
Disc 4
| • | White Room - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Kevin Brady, Gene Paul | | • | Politician - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Kevin Brady, Gene Paul | | • | I'm So Glad - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Bill Halverson, Adrian Barber | | • | Sitting On Top Of The World - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Bill Halverson, Adrian Barber | | • | Steppin' Out - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Kevin Brady, Gene Paul | | • | Traintime - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Adrian Barber | | • | Toad - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Adrian Barber | | • | Deserted Cities Of The Heart - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Kevin Brady, Gene Paul | | • | Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream |
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From Amazon.com
Among the earliest supergroups (at least in their native Britain), Cream's titanic trio--guitar god Eric Clapton, jazz bassist and vocalist Jack Bruce, and thundering drummer Ginger Baker--was justifiably revered for its vivid[EJM1], virtuoso instrumental attack. What began as a logical excursion into heavily blues- and jazz-accented power-rock shifted, on their second and best album, Disraeli Gears, into a British variant on America's psychedelia, powerfully influenced by expatriate string-slinger Jimi Hendrix. This smartly resequenced four-CD box divides the trio's four original albums into discrete studio and live segments, the latter approximating a full concert. Granted, phantom fourth member lyricist Pete Brown doesn't fare well given lyrics that now sound merely incoherent, rather than heavy, but there are still plenty of sparks flying here, as well as a panoply of powerful, indelible riffs, starting with "Sunshine of Your Love" and continuing right through "Badge." --ISam Sutherland/I
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The essential Cream Collection January 26, 2001
Dr Digby James
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
I was delighted to find this when it was released. At last I don't have to do battle with a record deck and have many added extras not available on my vinyl collection. What a pity that the Goodbye version of Politician was dropped. Personally I would have preferred the original running order, having got so used to hearing things in a certain order for over 30 years. A pity too that odd snippets were cut - like Clapoton saying Right you are then before launching into Steppin' Out. But these are mainly minor quibbles.
The (almost) Complete Cream August 29, 2004
lexo1941 (Edinburgh, Scotland)
29 out of 35 found this review helpful
"There was something wrong with the Cream," writes Joe Carducci in his magisterial-yet-snotty "Rock and the Pop Narcotic", "that has to do with the word mundane." Carducci's book is maybe the single best book ever written about rock music qua Rock music as a form, and his judgments are hard to quarrel with (order it now, Amazonians!). Yes, they were the "original" power trio, which is another way of saying that the Jimi Hendrix Experience were better. Yes, they brought improvisation to the masses, which was great in some ways and awful in others. Yes, they were arguably the first supergroup. So like, fab. How the world needed supergroups.pAnd yet, they were bloody brilliant. I was a deeply gawky teenager when I first listened to this stuff in the early 80s, a time when nobody - but nobody! - of my age group was listening to anything made before 1977, with the possible exception of the Doors. (And if you liked the Doors that meant that you were probably into D*R*U*G*S. If you liked Cream, all it meant was that you were into weird obscure bands from the 60s.) This set contains almost everything they ever recorded - complete versions of the doomy, bluesy first album, the purple-hazy second album, the gloriously sui generis third album and the oddly Beatleoid fourth album, plus all the live cuts ever officially released, with the exception of the "Goodbye" live version of "Politician" - which , to be honest, I'm not missing. Get this and the startlingly rocking "BBC Sessions" and you have all the Cream any sensible person needs.pFor anyone who wasn't around at the time, Cream's reputation has been forever posthumous, and has existed in the shadow of the mighty Jimi. You have to feel a little bit sorry for Eric Clapton in the mid-sixties - he's only 21 or so, he's from Surrey, he's the king of the hill for about eighteen months, and then this hyper-hip black dude blows in from the chitlin circuit and rewrites the rulebook. To be sure, Hendrix took his band into outer space and beyond, and did more for the electric guitar than anyone since Charlie Christian. But to listen to this album is to hear Clapton's talent progress from being that of a superior white bluesman into a balls-to-the-wall, take-no-prisoners lead weapon. Hendrix was spacey, he had the Surround-Sound Technicolor Armageddon thing going on, but Cream had something else, which involves turning the word "mundane" upside-down and seeing it as a hymn to the power of gravity. Cream understood a lot about silence - check out "Sweet Wine" or the original studio version of "Spoonful". They are a remorselessly physical-sounding band. I don't know of a better cure for the jim-jams than their cover of Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign" - funky, sleazy, laid-back, wry, funny and yet also passionate. (They also tended to be better-recorded than Hendrix, and kudos is due to both Tom Dowd and Felix Pappalardi for producing the original recordings and the guys who remixed and remastered the stuff for CD.) Their most characteristic mood is one of threat and menace; you may think of "Sunshine of Your Love" as a stoner anthem, but listen to the feel of the song and it sounds a lot less cuddly than you remember - small wonder that Scorsese chose it for the moment in "Goodfellas" when De Niro decides to start killing everyone in sight.pThe live stuff? Some of it is stunning. "Crossroads" still raises the hairs on the back of the neck, and "Traintime" is a tribute to the power of Jack Bruce's lungs, as well as being endlessly gripping from a rhythmic point of view. Some of the rest of it you probably have to be in the right mood for. At their finest, this band could truly destroy; to round off the Hendrix-motif in this review, recall that Jimi interrupted a performance on Lulu's TV show to do an impromptu cover of "Sunshine of Your Love" in commemoration of this short-lived band of genius that ripped itself apart before it ever got even close to sucking. Oh, and Clapton and George Harrison also wrote "Badge", a song I want played at my funeral. pThere's a generous handful of demoes (this band was only together for two years, they didn't have time to do a lot of unreleased stuff), but my favourite unreleased track is a sublime moment of rock indignity, a commercial for Falstaff beer in which the band riffs doomily while Jack Bruce sings "FALSTAAAAAAFF! The THIRST-QUENCHERRRRR!" See, Led Zeppelin would never let something like that get back into circulation. Cream were truly special, and if Clapton achieved genuine transcendence only with Derek and the Dominoes, he still deserves to be toasted along with his bandmates for the hours of surging, up-your-ass rock in this collection. All together now: "Ba ba ba ba-ba-ba..."
A Dynamic Box Set. October 8, 2006
Alan Burridge (Poole,, Dorset. United Kingdom)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a child of the early 50's, the upsurge of Eric Clapton's career were a huge part of my youth. A friend had a reel-to-reel tape of '5 Live Yardbirds' which we played to death, and on holiday with parents and a 'holiday treat' in store, I chose the 'Bluesbreakers' 'Beano' album. So at the right age for what Clapton did next, I was there, ready and waiting for Cream.
br /On this box set we have everything, plus a few tracks we didn't know existed back then and would have no doubt robbed grandmother to get hold of. So here you have the 'Fresh Cream' album, 'Disraeli Gears,' and an extra of the track Jack Bruce has always been so fickle about, 'Hey Lawdy Mama,' which became 'Strange Brew.' The studio tracks from the 'Wheels Of Fire' double album follow, plus the 'Anyone For Tennis' single. Something of a treasure trove fills this CD with a fantastic array of demo versions no Cream fan would want to be without; including 'The Weird Of Hermiston' and 'The Clearout,' which Jack later re-recorded for his 'Songs For A Taylor' album. 'The Clearout,' so legend has it, was the last studio song the band recorded together; and there's a 1 minute Falstaff beer commercial jingle they did for a Scandinavian TV advert as if to prove all their songs didn't have to run to the 20 minute mark!
br /Discs 3 4 are live tracks taken from 'Wheels Of Fire,' 'Live Cream,' and 'Live Cream Volume II,' and if you find these too long and tedious then you're obviously far too young to appreciate everything Cream were about - they are magnificent!
br /The box set itself is more like a hard backed book with 2 CD's inside either cover, and a massive booklet with to-die-for pictures and an essay by Cream/Jimi Hendrix main-man, John McDermott. The cover is the same as 'Disraeli Gears' with a different title, and anyone with an interest in this superb band and the history surrounding both them and their era of magnificence will be justly proud to own this.
Definitive collection covering studio and live masterworks January 9, 2000
Peter Fenelon
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
The evolution of Cream from blues purists to prog-rock pioneers, in all its magnificent detail. Superb musicianship, brilliant songwriting, sympathetic production, magnificent live showmanship -- it's all here. The studio discs cover all their live studio output (with some demos, alternate takes etc) and the live ones cherrypick from a wide selection of material. Hours of fun for anyone with an interest in the evolution of superior guitar rock.
an almost complete cream collection!! January 26, 2009
Mr. S. L. Smith (england carlisle cumbria)
this band was just the deal no1 quite like them and this set is amazeing recommended to fans its nearly complete but just a little fault with tracks and other things they could of added but still essential stuff one of britains best bands!! also recommend the bbc sessions!!
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