Disraeli gears deluxe edition (2004)/ Cream

"Cream collectors might be disappointed in this two-CD Deluxe Edition for offering little in the way of previously unreleased material. There is a lot of extra stuff here, mind you, which makes it a nice expansion of the group's best and most focused album. There's the original album in both stereo and mono; two outtakes of "Lawdy Mama" and five additional demos and nine 1967-1968 BBC recordings from the "Disraeli Gears" era. The only wholly previously unavailable item is an alternate version of "Blue Condition" with Eric Clapton on lead vocal, in both stereo and mono, actually about the least interesting track on the set. But this is a fine listen, the main album enduring as the peak of Cream's artistry, as the group blended its original blues-rock with psychedelic pop on well-written songs with a mystical tinge. Almost every song is excellent, and most of them (like "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine Of Your Love") are among the very best tracks the band laid down." (Richie Unterberger, Allmusic)

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