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Cream Gold is a two disc Cream compilation album, and was released in 2005 to help celebrate the band's reunion at the Royal Albert Hall.

Disc 1 consists of twenty-one studio tracks, and Disc 2 consists of eight live tracks.

The tracks come from the band's four studio albums: Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears, Wheels of Fire, and Goodbye, as well as Live Cream and Live Cream Volume II (which were released after the band's break up).

Track listing

Disc 1

Tracks taken from Fresh Cream (1966):

1. "I Feel Free" (Bruce, Brown) – 2:54
2. "N.S.U." (Bruce) – 2:47
3. "Sweet Wine" (Baker, Godfrey) – 3:19
4. "I'm So Glad" (James) – 4:01
Tracks taken from Disraeli Gears (1967):

5. "Strange Brew" (Clapton, Pappalardi, Collins) – 2:48
6. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Bruce, Clapton, Brown) – 4:10
7. "World of Pain" (Collins, Pappalardi) – 3:05
8. "Tales of Brave Ulysses" (Clapton, Sharp) – 2:46
9. "Swlabr" (Bruce, Brown) – 2:31
10. "We're Going Wrong" (Bruce) – 3:29
Tracks taken from Wheels of Fire (1968):

11. "White Room" (Bruce, Brown) – 4:58
12. "Sitting On Top of the World" (Burnett) – 4:59
13. "Passing the Time" (Baker, Taylor) – 4:32
14. "Politician" (Bruce, Brown) – 4:11
15. "Those Were the Days" (Baker, Taylor) – 2:56
16. "Born Under a Bad Sign" (Jones, Bell) – 3:09
17. "Deserted Cities of the Heart" (Bruce, Brown) – 3:41
Wheels of Fire-era single:

18. "Anyone For Tennis" (Clapton, Sharp) – 2:37
Tracks taken from Goodbye (1969):

19. "Badge" (Clapton, Harrison) – 2:46
20. "Doing That Scrapyard Thing" (Bruce, Brown) – 3:16
21. "What a Bringdown" (Baker) – 3:57

Disc 2: Live

1. "N.S.U." 3 (Bruce) – 10:12
2. "Sleepy Time Time" 3 (Bruce, Godfrey) – 6:50
3. "Rollin' and Tumblin'" 3 (Waters) – 6:34
4. "Spoonful" 1 (Dixon) – 16:46
5. "Crossroads" 1 (Johnson, arr. Clapton) – 4:14
6. "Sunshine of Your Love" 4 (Bruce, Clapton, Brown) – 7:24
7. "I'm So Glad" 2 (James) – 9:12
8. "Toad" 1 (Baker) – 16:16

Live tracks release notes

Note 1: previously released on Wheels of Fire (1968)
Note 2: previously released on Goodbye (1969)
Note 3: previously released on Live Cream (1970)
Note 4: previously released on Live Cream Volume II (1972)


Cream
Ginger Baker - Jack Bruce - Eric Clapton
Pete Brown - Felix Pappalardi - Martin Sharp
Gail Collins - Janet Godfrey - George Harrison - Mike Taylor
Discography
Fresh Cream - Disraeli Gears - Wheels of Fire - Goodbye
Live Cream - Live Cream Volume II - BBC Sessions - Royal Albert Hall 2005
Heavy Cream - [[Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream|Strange Brew]] - The Very Best of Cream - Those Were the Days - [[20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Cream|20th Century Masters]] - Cream Gold
Songwriters covered by Cream
William Bell - James Bracken - Howlin' Wolf - Tony Colton - Willie Dixon - Skip James
Robert Johnson - Booker T. Jones - Blind Joe Reynolds - Ray Smith - T-Bone Walker - Muddy Waters
Related bands
The G.B.O.
(Baker/Bruce)
The Bluesbreakers
(Bruce/Clapton)
The Powerhouse
(Bruce/Clapton)
Blind Faith
(Baker/Clapton)

 


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