Thursday, May 17, 2018

Cream - Goodbye - Alternate Version (1966-1969)

In 1969, after Cream had broken up, the album "Goodbye" was released. Its chief reason for being seemed to be a release of the three songs Cream did before breaking up, especially the all-time classic "Badge." However, those songs only add up to 10 minutes. But rather than put them out as a single, the record company padded out the album with 20 minutes of live performances. This was widely criticized as a cash grab, because all three had already been released in live versions on other albums and these versions weren't that different from the others.

What if, instead, the record company raided their vaults and released all the remaining studio material from the band? That's what I've done here. 

Adding in the various stray tracks to the three new songs, one still gets an album that's only 35 minutes long. So I've also added in the two most "Creamy" songs from Jack Bruce's album "Songs from a Tailor," which came out later that year. They almost certainly would have been turned into Cream songs had the band stayed together a little longer.

01 Badge (Cream)
02 Doing that Scrapyard Thing (Cream)
03 What a Bringdown (Cream)
04 Anyone for Tennis (Cream)
05 The Coffee Song (Cream)
06 You Make Me Feel (Cream)
07 Lawdy Mama (Cream)
08 Meet Me in the Bottom (Cream)
09 Hey Now Princess (Cream)
10 Weird of Hermiston (Cream)
11 The Clearout (Cream)
12 Rope Ladder to the Moon (Jack Bruce)
13 Theme from an Imaginary Western (Jack Bruce)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15100215/Crea_1968-1969_Goodby_atse.zip.html

The cover is just a repeat of the official "Goodbye" cover.

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