Cream - BBC Sessions
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Artist: CreamEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2003-03-25
Music Label: Polydor / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Sweet Wine
- Eric Clapton Interview
- Wrapping Paper
- Rollin' And Tumblin'
- Steppin' Out
- Crossroads
- Cat's Squirrel
- Traintime
- I'm So Glad
- Lawdy Mama
- Eric Clapton Interview 2
- I Feel Free
- N.S.U.
- Four Until Late
- Strange Brew
- Eric Clapton Interview 3
- Tales Of Brave Ulysses
- We're Going Wrong
- Eric Clapton Interview 4
- Born Under A Bad Sign
- Outside Woman Blues
- Take It Back
- Sunshine Of Your Love
- Politician
- Swlabr
- Steppin' Out
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Free Music Review: OK - but lacks intensity.
Hit: 3 Stars
Being a big-time Cream fan, I eagerly waited to receive this CD in the mail. Kinda disappointed. Sure, the good tracks are all there, but what do you gain over the studio versions? - Ans: Not much. The versions here lack any real intensity like what you hear in the Cream Live Vols. 1 and 2, and the live tracks from Wheels of Fire. The singing is not that great, and the leads are, in general, just OK. I would suggest you get this only if you really need to hear everything that they recorded. Otherwise, don't waste your time. Most of the tracks lack inspiration.
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Betwixt journeyman stints with the Yardbirds and John Mayall and decades of laurel-resting, guitar god Eric Clapton was but one competitive third of what remains rock's most compelling power trios. Cream's penchant for incendiary live excess was legendary, a fact that makes the release of these 22 live-in-studio recordings for the BBC (which span just over a year of the band's early, brief career) all the more interesting. Powered by Ginger Baker's complex rhythms and the kinetic bass lines and burnished vocals of Jack Bruce, Clapton's playing is focused and intense, with the trio bringing a pop-smart economy to its slate of over-amped blues ("Rollin' and Tumblin'," "Cat's Squirrel") and originals that veered from nascent pop-psychedelia ("Strange Brew," "Sunshine of Your Love") to music-hall kitsch ("Wrapping Paper," "Take It Back"). The tracks here--fully 20 of them previously unreleased--offer extensive contemporary live previews of Disraeli Gears and even more compelling early workouts of material that would appear on Wheels of Fire. Though the collection's four Clapton interview excerpts come at the expense of Baker and Bruce, their musical accomplishments here can't be denied. It's as taut and focused a primer on the oft-overblown world of '60s blues rock as one is likely to find. Cream, indeed. --Jerry McCulleyAnother gem from the BBC archives! And this might just be the 'cream' of the crop-22 live-in-the-studio performances by Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce, only two of which have been released before! Includes renditions of then-current singles like 'I Feel Free' and 'Strange Brew' previews of upcoming album tracks like 'Tales of Brave Ulysses', 'We're Going Wrong', 'Born Under A Bad Sign', 'Politician', and 'Sunshine of Your Love', and versions of concert favorites like 'Traintime', 'Steppin' Out', and 'Crossroads', all recorded between November 1966 and January 1968. Also here are four short interview segments, as well as rare photos, session info and notes. A major find! Polydor. 2003.
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