CREAM Disraeli Gears 1967 UK REACTION *STEREO* FRONT LAMINATED - NEAR MINT
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Aug 2, 2018 Sold Date
Jul 26, 2018 Start Date
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CREAM Disraeli Gears 1967 UK REACTION *STEREO* FRONT LAMINATED - NEAR MINT

CREAM
Disraeli Gears

1967 UK REACTION (594 003) *STEREO* PRESSING
GREAT COPY - PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY

PRESSED WITH THE BLUE REACTION *STEREO* LABELS
MATRIX: 594003 A ? 1 12 61 / 594003 B//3 ? 420 1 1 1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED SLEEVE “Printed and made by Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd., London W11. Patent pending”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE
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 Disraeli Gears gets 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 colours, 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 this album away from recycled blues-rock and toward its eccentric British core, for with the fuzzy freak-out "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 became a major hit in America as well, because for no matter how whimsical certain segments are, Cream is 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.

Side 1:
Strange Brew (2:45)
Sunshine Of Your Love (4:08)
World Of Pain (3:05)
Dance The Night Away (3:31)
Blue Condition (3:26)
Side 2:
Tales Of Brave Ulysses (2:50)
Swlabr (2:32)
We're Going Wrong (3:25)
Outside Woman Blues (2:20)
Take It Back (3:05)
Mother's Lament (1:47)

LABELS: EXCELLENT+
Clean, unmarked labels with moderate spindle traces
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT
Both surfaces shine like new with nothing but a few light harmless hairlines under bright light and a couple of equally harmless in-vinyl pressing blemishes
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Fantastic sound quality and my play check at volume found little to fault.
No scratches, loud clicks, ticks or pops.
Just a touch of low-level surface noted on some of the quietest moments/in between some of the tracks - nothing really
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Apart from a couple of knocks to the opening edge and soft creasing on the corners the cover is clean, sharp and fresh

POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £18.00 (International Signed For delivery)

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