Gold (Cream album)

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Greatest hits album by
ReleasedApril 2005
Recorded1966–1968
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Length144:30
Label Polydor
Cream chronology
BBC Sessions
(2003)
Gold
(2005)
Royal Albert Hall London, 2–3, 5–6 May 2005
(2005)
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Gold is a two-disc compilation album by the British rock band Cream, released in 2005 to help celebrate the band's reunion at the Royal Albert Hall. It was a part of the larger Gold series.

Contents

The first disc consists of twenty-one studio tracks, with the second featuring 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).

Gold was also released under the name I Feel Free – Ultimate Cream, reaching No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart in May 2005. [2] This version was available both as a two-disc release identical to Gold, and as a "limited edition box set" with Cream's 2003 BBC Sessions album included as a third disc. [3]

Track listing

Disc one: In the Studio

Tracks taken from Fresh Cream (1966):

1. "I Feel Free" [note 1] (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) – 2:54
2. "N.S.U." (Bruce) – 2:47
3. "Sweet Wine" (Ginger Baker, Janet Godfrey) – 3:19
4. "I'm So Glad" (Skip James) – 4:01

Tracks taken from Disraeli Gears (1967):

5. "Strange Brew" (Eric Clapton, Felix Pappalardi, Gail 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, Martin 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" (Walter Vinson, Lonnie Chatmon; arr. Chester Burnett) – 4:59
13. "Passing the Time" (Baker, Mike Taylor) – 4:32
14. "Politician" (Bruce, Brown) – 4:11
15. "Those Were the Days" (Baker, Taylor) – 2:56
16. "Born Under a Bad Sign" (Booker T. Jones, William Bell) – 3:09
17. "Deserted Cities of the Heart" (Bruce, Brown) – 3:41

1968 Single

18. "Anyone for Tennis" [note 1] (Clapton, Sharp) – 2:37

Tracks taken from Goodbye (1969):

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

Disc two: Live

1. "N.S.U." [note 2] (Bruce) – 10:12
2. "Sleepy Time Time" [note 2] (Bruce, Godfrey) – 6:50
3. "Rollin' and Tumblin'" [note 2] (Muddy Waters) – 6:34
4. "Spoonful" [note 3] (Willie Dixon) – 16:46
5. "Crossroads" [note 3] (Robert Johnson, arr. Clapton) – 4:14
6. "Sunshine of Your Love" [note 4] (Bruce, Clapton, Brown) – 7:24
7. "I'm So Glad" [note 5] (James) – 9:12
8. "Toad" [note 3] (Baker) – 16:16
Release notes
  1. 1 2 originally released as a non-album single, but included on later prints of the album
  2. 1 2 3 previously released on Live Cream (1970)
  3. 1 2 3 previously released on Wheels of Fire (1968)
  4. previously released on Live Cream Volume II (1972)
  5. previously released on Goodbye (1969)

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