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Cream

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Biography

Although Cream was only together for a little more than two years, their influence was immense, both during their late-'60s peak and in the years following their breakup. Cream was the first top group to truly exploit the power-trio format, in the process laying the foundation for much blues rock and rock of the 1960s and 1970s. It was with Cream, too, that guitarist Eric Clapton truly became an international superstar. Critical revisionists have tagged the band as overrated, citing the musicians' emphasis upon flash, virtuosity, and showmanship at the expense of taste and focus. This was sometimes true of their live shows in particular, but in reality the best of their studio recordings were excellent fusions of blues, pop, and neo-psychedelia, with concise original material outnumbering the bloated blues jams and overlong solos.

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Top Tracks

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  1.  
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    It's gettin' near dawn
    When lights close their tired eyes
    I'll soon be with you my love
    To give you my dawn surprise
    I'll be with you darling soon
    Sunshine Of Your Love - (4:12)  -  159,584 plays
  2.  
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    In the white room with black curtains near the station
    Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings
    Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes
    Dawn light smiles on you leaving, my contentment
    I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines
    White Room - (5:01)  -  103,698 plays
  3.  
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    I feel free, I feel free, I feel free
    I feel free, I feel free, I feel free
    I feel free, I feel free, I feel free
    Feel when I dance with you
    We move like the sea
    I Feel Free - (2:54)  -  68,323 plays
  4.  
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    Strange brew, kill what's inside of you
    She's a witch of trouble in electric blue
    In her own mad mind she's in love with you, with you
    Now what you gonna do?
    Strange brew, kill what's inside of you
    Strange Brew - (2:47)  -  50,373 plays
  5.  
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    Thinkin' 'bout the times you drove in my car
    Thinkin' that I might have drove you too far
    And I'm thinkin' 'bout the love that you laid on my table
    I told you not to wander 'round in the dark
    I told you 'bout the swans that they live in the park
    Badge - (2:43)  -  40,981 plays
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