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Disraeli Gears
Rmst ed.
Reissued, Remastered
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Track Listings
1 | Strange Brew |
2 | Sunshine of Your Love |
3 | World of Pain |
4 | Dance the Night Away |
5 | Blue Condition |
6 | Tales of Brave Ulysses |
7 | Swlabr |
8 | We're Going Wrong |
9 | Outside Woman Blues |
10 | Take It Back |
11 | Mother's Lament |
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Product Description
This deluxe reissue (available at mid-price) features digital remastering and enhanced packaging with authentic artwork, plus new photos. Tracks: "Strange Brew," "Sunshine of Your Love," "World of Pain," "Dance the Night Away," "Blue Condition," "Tales of Brave Ulysses," "SWLABR," "We're Going Wrong," "Outside Woman Blues," "Take It Back" and "Mother's Lament."
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Fresh Cream, the album that introduced this seminal super-blues trio to America, was perhaps a bit too blues-based to do the advance hype ("Clapton is God!") justice. Two of its three best-known tracks, after all, were blues covers. It was Disraeli Gears that turned Cream into a "supergroup." Here they pursue the psychedelic ideals of the era with total abandon (the LP cover art still stands as one of the 1960s' most striking designs), merging these ideals with their take on the blues and adorning the amalgamation with some superb pop craftsmanship. Of the eleven originals here, four--"Tales of Brave Ulysses," "SWLABR," "Strange Brew," and "Sunshine of Your Love"--earned major airplay. This, their excess-free greatest moment, does the Cream legend proud. --Bill Holdship
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 4.8 x 5.63 x 0.39 inches; 3.25 ounces
- Manufacturer : Polydor
- Item model number : 2138981
- Original Release Date : 1998
- Date First Available : February 9, 2007
- Label : Polydor
- ASIN : B0000067L2
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,576 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #5 in British Invasion Rock
- #18 in Classic Psychedelic Rock
- #36 in Blues Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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I was missing out. "Disraeli Gears" is absolutely essential in its entirety, possibly the best album in Clapton's career, and my favorite type of musical purchase--an album that hangs together completely, that somehow manages to be both consistent and consistently interesting.
Many great artists go through an apprentice phase of sorts, imitating their masters and churning out workmanlike work that's derivative of what they admire, or maybe just a step or two beyond. Some never grow out of it. Others eventually transcend it, becoming the new masters that others then seek to emulate. Bob Dylan had to try to be Woody Guthrie for a while before he could learn how to be Bob Dylan; Bruce Springsteen tried to be Dylan but eventually learned how to be Springsteen. So it was with Eric Clapton--for a while he seemed to want to be an American bluesman, working on great but evolutionary albums (his work with The Yardbirds, John Mayall's "Bluesbreakers," the first Cream album) until he launched his own revolution. It's the difference between craftsmanship and artistry, between working with the hands and working with the heart.
For this is something unlike anything that had existed before. The album (minus its odd palate-cleansing music hall closing song) is full of fat rich guitar tones that just hang there in the air like beautiful psychedelic balloons. There's mention of blue--the "witch of trouble in electric blue" mentioned on the album's opener, the song "Blue Condition," et. al.--and there are echoes of the blues, but it feels like something else, something warm and acid-tinged and flooded with psychedelic colors. "You've got that rainbow feel, but that rainbow has a beard," Clapton sings on "SWLABR," and it's clear from the song (and heck, even its title) that we're in a new place here, a place where nothing makes sense, but it's OK, because everything is awesome.
Cream by and large was overwhelmed with their success and subtly parodied the news media for following them so closely on their meteoric ride to fame.
At the time, the late 1960's generation was changing the attitudes of the previous conservative one, and the colorful cover art on the album was characteristic of the hippie culture with its vision-inducing electric neon artwork.
The songs of "Disraeli Gears" shows a marked shift in the context of lyrics, becoming more creatively different, taking everyday situations in the case of "Outside Woman Blues" and relating it to the problems of non-monogamous relationships. In other songs, the obvious departure from reality is apparent, relating to history in the case of "Tales of Brave Ulysses"; alcohol-related creative surges with respect to "Strange Brew"; the obvious discontent of the generation with "We're Going Wrong". Not to leave the listener in a bad mood, the last song, "Mother's Lament", is a humorous poke at bathtime with the children, and a cautionary tale to boot.
I have rated this album at 4 stars because for the time, "Disraeli Gears" was ground-breaking material. By today's standards, however, I think other less generous listeners of this generation would barely rate this album at 2 stars. One must remember that as ground-breaking material goes, this album was one of the first new works that heralded the '60s generation of music, among Hendrix, the Beatles, and other groups that ushered the world into a new wave of beliefs and attitudes, as a way of telling the previous generation they didn't want the Vietnam War; that they were adopting new social responsibilities that snubbed the conservatives. Although "Disraeli Gears" does not take a political stance by addressing social concerns other than "We're Going Wrong", this album is only the beginning of the peace movement in which other artists take a more direct look at world conditions and offer their views through their music.
If you are a listener new to Clapton, listen first to "Sunshine of Your Love" and hear the guitar solo. You'll understand Clapton's notable use of pentatonic scales as he weaves blues notes and passing tones into a rock context. This song is the most recognized of Cream's songs, with the exception of "Badge", which does not appear on this album. As a guitarist myself, I certainly appreciate Clapton's influence on countless others who have begun learning by listening to Eric, and only beginning to understand his intricate methods of technique and feel.
This album is a must-have for any true rock collection, because of its significance in history, and the music that began to change the world.
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Reviewed in Brazil on January 17, 2023