FRESH CREAM
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FRESH CREAM
Fresh Cream is the debut studio album by the British rock band Cream. The album was released in the UK on 9 December 1966, as the first LP on the Reaction Records label, owned by producer Robert Stigwood. The UK album was released in both mono and stereo versions, at the same time as the release of the single "I Feel Free".-Wikipedia
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All Music
This fluidity is most apparent on the blues covers that take up nearly half the record, especially on "Spoonful," where the swirling instrumental interplay, echo, fuzz tones, and overwhelming volume constitute true psychedelic music, and also points strongly toward the guitar worship of heavy metal.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
2016 - Fresh Cream helped spur a bigger, louder and heavier way of playing rock 'n' roll. Even with three accomplished musicians, the amount of power the band manages to generate on this album is remarkable.
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BBC
2007 - their debut captures one of those elusive moments in music when blues, pop and rock magically starts to coalesce to create something brand new
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Uncut
2017 - The origins of their music was in the earth, but their transformative power was in revealing how it might take flight.
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Classic Rock Review
By the end of Fresh Cream, the critical listener is left wanting more, a true testament to the album’s quality. Further, although less than half the tracks on the album were totally original, the album as a whole was tremendously original.
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Louder Sound
Fresh Cream, however, fully justified Clapton’s description of the group: “blues ancient and modern”. ... They never lost sight of the dynamic tension of the blues
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Bearded Gentlemen Music
2017 - Earlier this year, Polydor issued a huge, super-deluxe version of Fresh Cream. Spread over three packed CDs are everything from this record you could possibly want, while on a DVD is some of the best-quality sound versions of the record you’ll probably ever hear.
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Psychedelic Baby Magazine
2017 - the listener is aware that something special is in store, with Baker’s drums pounding, Clapton’s guitar soaring, Bruce’s bass booming, and Bruce’s vocals sounding ethereal
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Only Solitaire
A jolly good pop album with lots of enjoyable songs, even though the tone is somewhat monotonous.
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Paul Rigby (The Audiophile Man)
2017 - (Deluxe Box Set) The CD masters are excellent in that they are relatively quiet while retaining and open and informative nature. The mids are smoothly implemented with enough elbow room in between instruments to enable the music to flow with ease.
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We Are Cult
2017 - The powerful but quirky songwriting of Bruce and poet Pete Brown is in its infancy, and the blues influences dominate, but ‘Fresh Cream’ is a remarkably concise opening salvo. Universal’s exhaustive deluxe edition makes it ripe for reappraisal.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
Of course there are some classy blues covers (the rave up "Rollin' And Tumblin'"), but like the other cuts they sound tame in comparison to the group's later efforts, just edging towards the distorted, psychedelic guitarwork that made Cream so memorable.
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
You need this album in your collection, though not quite as badly as you need the next one. VERY GOOD
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Blog Critics
2009 - very good and one of the more creative debuts in rock history
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Jam Bands
2017 - Everything is here that a fan could want or need, sounding as innovative and influential now as it did 50 years ago. Fresh Cream is certainly super, and, definitively, deluxe.
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Jazz Music Archives
2011 - this album should be justifiably lauded as groundbreaking in any blues aficionado’s book
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Oocities
a somewhat inconsistent but altogether fine first effort by a band who were still defining their style, which was rooted in blues and pop idioms but was about to be expanded exponentially
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U Discover Music
2018 - From the first chord of the first song, the debut album by Cream was something new.
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Record Collector Magazine
Dreaming, NSU and the contemporaneous single I Feel Free demonstrate the trio’s little-remarked facility for hard pop, while their bewildering opening gambit, Wrapping Paper, only makes sense in the context of a long-vanished world wherein Winchester Cathedral could be a breakout hit.
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Alltime Records
But I'd recommend Cream to anyone who's been through the usual early Classic Rock artists and is wondering what band almost single-handedly replaced screaming pre-teen chicks with people who actually sat and listened to live performances. Cream made Rock serious, and they achieved that in less than three years.
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