CREAM DISREALI GEARS MONO 1st PRESS A1+B1 LAMINATE BACK

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CREAM ‘DISREALI GEARS’ 1969 FIRST PRESSING A1 + B1 STAMPER CODES AND FIRST MONO ISSUE IN FRONT AND BACK LAMINATED SLEEVE

Sleeve Condition: Ex to Ex+ and free from marking, writing, stickers, damage, defect or significant wear.

Record Condition: There are a few marks on the vinyl which are light and cosmetic only on what is an otherwise glossy, clean and clearly well-cared for record.  The whole record actually plays Ex or even Ex+.

Side one

No.

Title

Writer(s)

Lead vocals

Length

1.

"Strange Brew"  

Eric Clapton, Felix Pappalardi, Gail Collins

Eric Clapton

2:46

2.

"Sunshine of Your Love"  

Clapton, Jack Bruce, Pete Brown

Jack Bruce, Clapton

4:10

3.

"World of Pain"  

Pappalardi, Collins

Clapton, Bruce

3:03

4.

"Dance the Night Away"  

Bruce, Brown

Bruce, Clapton1

3:34

5.

"Blue Condition"  

Ginger Baker

Ginger Baker

3:29

Side two

No.

Title

Writer(s)

Lead vocals

Length

1.

"Tales of Brave Ulysses"  

Clapton, Martin Sharp

Bruce

2:46

2.

"SWLABR"  

Bruce, Brown

Bruce

2:32

3.

"We're Going Wrong"  

Bruce

Bruce

3:26

4.

"Outside Woman Blues"  

Arthur Reynolds, arr. Clapton

Clapton

2:24

5.

"Take It Back"  

Bruce, Brown

Bruce

3:05

6.

"Mother's Lament"  

Traditional, arr. Clapton, Bruce, Baker

Baker, Bruce, Clapton2

1:47

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Cream teamed up with producer Felix Pappalardi for their second album, Disraeli Gears, a move that helped push the power trio toward psychedelia and also helped give the album a thematic coherence missing from the debut. This, of course, means that Cream get further away from the pure blues improvisatory troupe they were intended to be, but it does get them to be who they truly are: a massive, innovative power trio.

The blues still courses throughout Disraeli Gears -- the swirling kaleidoscopic "Strange Brew" is built upon a riff lifted from Albert King -- but it's filtered into saturated colors, as it is on "Sunshine of Your Love," or it's slowed down and blurred out, as it is on the ominous murk of "Tales of Brave Ulysses." It's a pure psychedelic move that's spurred along by Jack Bruce's flourishing collaboration with Pete Brown. Together, this pair steers the album away from recycled blues-rock and toward its eccentric British core, for with the fuzzy freakout "Swlabr," the music hall flourishes of "Dance the Night Away," the swinging "Take It Back," and of course, the schoolboy singalong "Mother's Lament," this is a very British record. Even so, this crossed the ocean and also became a major hit in America, because regardless of how whimsical certain segments are, Cream are still a heavy rock trio and Disraeli Gears is a quintessential heavy rock album of the '60s.

Yes, its psychedelic trappings tie it forever to 1967, but the imagination of the arrangements, the strength of the compositions, and especially the force of the musicianship make this album transcend its time as well.  The title of the album was taken from an inside joke. Eric Clapton had been thinking of buying a racing bicycle and was discussing it with Ginger Baker, when a roadie named Mick Turner commented, "it's got them Disraeli Gears", meaning to say "derailleur gears," but instead alluding to 19th Century British Prime Minister,

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