Gold (Cream album)

Gold
Greatest hits album by
Cream
ReleasedApril 2005
Recorded1966–1968
Genre
Length144:30
LabelPolydor
Cream chronology
BBC Sessions
(2003) 		Gold
(2005) 		Royal Albert Hall London, 2–3, 5–6 May 2005
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

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.

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

References

  1. ^ "Gold". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  2. ^ "UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts". everyHit.com. 16 March 2000. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  3. ^ "I Feel Free – Ultimate Cream". Jack Bruce. Retrieved 6 January 2012.