Released April 2005 Length 144:30 Release date April 2005 | Recorded 1966–1968 Label Polydor Records | |
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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. 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.
Disc one: In the Studio
Tracks taken from Fresh Cream (1966):
1. "I Feel Free" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) – 2:542. "N.S.U." (Bruce) – 2:473. "Sweet Wine" (Ginger Baker, Janet Godfrey) – 3:194. "I'm So Glad" (Skip James) – 4:01Tracks taken from Disraeli Gears (1967):
5. "Strange Brew" (Eric Clapton, Felix Pappalardi, Gail Collins) – 2:486. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Bruce, Clapton, Brown) – 4:107. "World of Pain" (Collins, Pappalardi) – 3:058. "Tales of Brave Ulysses" (Clapton, Martin Sharp) – 2:469. "SWLABR" (Bruce, Brown) – 2:3110. "We're Going Wrong" (Bruce) – 3:29Tracks taken from Wheels of Fire (1968):
11. "White Room" (Bruce, Brown) – 4:5812. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Walter Vinson, Lonnie Chatmon; arr. Chester Burnett) – 4:5913. "Passing the Time" (Baker, Mike Taylor) – 4:3214. "Politician" (Bruce, Brown) – 4:1115. "Those Were the Days" (Baker, Taylor) – 2:5616. "Born Under a Bad Sign" (Booker T. Jones, William Bell) – 3:0917. "Deserted Cities of the Heart" (Bruce, Brown) – 3:411968 Single
18. "Anyone for Tennis" (Clapton, Sharp) – 2:37Tracks taken from Goodbye (1969):
19. "Badge" (Clapton, George Harrison) – 2:4620. "Doing That Scrapyard Thing" (Bruce, Brown) – 3:1621. "What a Bringdown" (Baker) – 3:57Disc two: Live
1. "N.S.U." (Bruce) – 10:122. "Sleepy Time Time" (Bruce, Godfrey) – 6:503. "Rollin' and Tumblin'" (Muddy Waters) – 6:344. "Spoonful" (Willie Dixon) – 16:465. "Crossroads" (Robert Johnson, arr. Clapton) – 4:146. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Bruce, Clapton, Brown) – 7:247. "I'm So Glad" (James) – 9:128. "Toad" (Baker) – 16:16Songs
I Feel Free2:54
NSU2:46
Sweet Wine3:20