Cream - Goodbye
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Artist: CreamEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-04-07
Music Label: Polydor / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- I'm So Glad
- Politician
- Sitting On Top Of The World
- Badge
- Doing That Scrapyard Thing
- What A Bringdown
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Music Review: Say Hello to "Goodbye"
Rating: 4 Stars
This fourth and final album to be issued--in January 1969--during Cream's two-and-a-half year career is probably their most consistent, and among their best. At six songs in just over thirty minutes, it's short, and for anyone awaiting a major final statement in 1969 it must have been a bringdown. But looking at the group's work 35 years later, it is by far their tightest album, with nary a weak cut.
"Fresh Cream" (December 1966 - the US version issued early in 1967 is superior)was Cream heavying up the blues. Some of Clapton's most blistering guitar can be found on this mix of originals (by Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker) and blues covers. The best version on CD is DCC's gold disc, combining the UK only track ("Spoonful") with the US only track (the classic "I Feel Free") and adding both sides of Cream's debut single ("Coffee Song"/"Wrapping Paper"), all nicely annotated. "Disreali Gears" lacks the sonic impact of the debut, but shows Cream's progress away from blues derivations to a more integrated sound: fine pop hooks adorn blues/psych originals. Clapton is more subdued as a guitarist, but makes his presence felt as both vocalist and (for the first time) songwriter, and there are more varied tonal colors and moods, from the proto-Zep mythology of "Brave Ulysses" to the haunting, downcast "We're Going Wrong." Much of the progress is due to new producer/multi-instumentalist (and virtual fourth member) Felix Pappalardi, who had produced Fred Neil and the Youngbloods, and would go on to found Mountain in 1969.
The # 1 smash double album "Wheels Of Fire," was yet another step forward, with Bruce, Baker and Pappalardi adding trumpets,tubular bells, tonettes, cellos, and violas to the mix of two covers (Albert King and Howlin' Wolf) and seven fine originals (including perhaps Ginger Baker's finest contributions to the group--"Passing the Time" is worthy of John Cale, and fans should hear the near-six minute version first issued by DCC). The second, live, disc shows that,however far they had grown in the studio they had become amazingly self indulgent on stage. (No doubt these aimless jams sounded fresher in 1968). Of the four mostly long tracks, only the Clapton-sung "Crossroads" captured the fire of live Cream at its best. The other three live tracks, adding up to 40 minutes, are really the worst Cream on record. (Again, the DCC gold version, reproducing the original silver-foil cover and adding Clapton's only original song from these sessions, "Anyone For Tennis," is the way to go if you can afford a copy).
Cream broke up in December 1968, and "Goodbye" is its farewell (though a 'Best Of' and two volumes of "Live Cream" would follow). The three live tracks are loose and full of fire (especially the classic nine-minute "I'm So Glad"), recorded near the end, in October 1968. Clapton's guitar is blistering, but the trio maintains focus and these killer tracks beat the live disc on "Wheels of Fire" hands down.
The three studio tracks show the continuing growth of the band (with Pappalardi once again playing and producing throughout). This is not the sound of the famed power trio, but a creative studio collaborative. Each member contributes a gem: Clapton's "Badge" (with George Harrison) is one of his greatest achievements. Bruce plays piano (and Pappalardi, mellotron) on Jack's delightfully whimsical "Doing That Scrapyard Thing," which, like "Badge" is more reminiscent of the Beatles or Traffic than anything on the first two Cream albums. Ginger Baker's track, typically mordant and surreal(he was, after all, both the oldest member and in the midst of a lengthy period of opiate addiction)"What A Bringdown," is terrific: driving and jazzy, a four minute antecedent to Blind Faith's "Do What You Like," with Bruce on keyboards and Pappalardi playing bass!
"Goodbye" was no grand final statement - thank god! - but a fleet, near flawless minor classic that has aged better than some of the group's more famous work. If you can find it, check out Mobile Fidelity's killer transfer (now out of print).
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