Cream Gold

Infobox Album |
Name = Cream Gold
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Cream


Released = April 262005
Recorded = 1966-1968
Genre = Blues-rock, hard rock
Length = 144:30
Label = Polydor
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4s8gtq1zxu43 link]
Last album = "BBC Sessions"
(2003)
This album = "Cream Gold"
(2005)
Next album = "Royal Albert Hall"
(2005)

"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 one

Tracks taken from "Fresh Cream (1966):"

:1. "I Feel Free" "fn|1" (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. "S.W.L.A.B.R." (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

Tracks taken from "Goodbye (1969):"

:18. "Anyone For Tennis" "fn|1" (Clapton, Sharp) – 2:37:19. "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." "fn|4" (Bruce) – 10:12:2. "Sleepy Time Time" "fn|4" (Bruce, Godfrey) – 6:50:3. "Rollin' and Tumblin'" "fn|4" (Waters) – 6:34:4. "Spoonful" "fn|2" (Dixon) – 16:46:5. "Crossroads" "fn|2" (Johnson, arr. Clapton) – 4:14:6. "Sunshine of Your Love" "fn|5" (Bruce, Clapton, Brown) – 7:24:7. "I'm So Glad" "fn|3" (James) – 9:12:8. "Toad" "fn|2" (Baker) – 16:16

Release notes

fnb|1 originally released as a non-album single, but included on later prints of the album
fnb|2 previously released on "Wheels of Fire (1968)"
fnb|3 previously released on "Goodbye (1969)"
fnb|4 previously released on "Live Cream (1970)"
fnb|5 previously released on "Live Cream Volume II (1972)"

ee also

Other "Gold" titles:

* Traffic
* KISS
* Rod Stewart
* Classic Rock
* Scorpions
* The Allman Brothers Band