Disraeli Gears

Outside of the highlights, maybe this just doesn't stand out over the course of time. Enjoyable blues by white people, but that's kind of it. I find it kind of funny that it reached #1 in countries without significant black populations?? 3*
Highlights: sunshine of your love (a timeless groove), take it back (love some blues)

say what you want about clapton (he’s both overly revered and unfairly maligned), but if that first hammer-on note of strange brew doesn’t get you, what’s wrong? too bad the album peaks here.

i don’t like jack bruce’s singing. i never have and i likely never will. he certainly thought so. i don’t buy it. give me ginger baker on "blue condition." hell gimme clapton on “outside woman.”

gimme: strange brew, blue condition, outside woman blues; play that heavy blooz, white boys.

warning: white guy talking about clapton's guitar tone. the formula that works best here is what worked best on mayall's blues breakers record with clapton: put him in the middle of the mix, crank his amp to 12, and let him bleed that sweet, pure overdriven tone all over everything. HOT tubes, baby. with clapton, it's not just what he's playing; it's how it sounds. so i guess it's about the producer or engineer or whatever too. which was the guy from mountain here, who wrote "mississippi queen." which kicks ass. this band sounds best when they sound like mountain.

you can keep: world of pain, dance the night away, we're going wrong (jesus); the "psychedelia"

the rest is mid.

take it back has a fun vocal hook and keeps jack bruce between the lines enough to be tolerable. it's nowhere near as good a traditional blues interpretation as, say, the stones could do though.

i sunshine of your loved myself to death in my 95 ford taurus in high school. it's a good song despite jack bruce. the greatest thing jack bruce ever did was play bass on zappa's song "apostrophe." and he didn't even like zappa. pff jack bruce.

thought about a 2.

Nimalo, nimalo loše. Neke pjesme imaju potencijala da uđu u stalnu rotaciju. Hvala listi što sam konačno dobila nešto ovako.

I’ve spent years trying to get into Eric Clapton’s music—partly because I feel like I should enjoy it, even though he’s a deeply problematic figure. That said, Cream is by far the best version of Clapton. His solo work and time with the Yardbirds never clicked with me the same way. Disraeli Gears stands out as the album I return to most—it's a perfect fusion of blues and psychedelic rock, packed with memorable riffs and standout tracks.

This album is so good I played it three times in a row.

The biggest hit, “Sunshine of Your Love,” features one of the most iconic guitar riffs of its era. It’s brilliant—an undeniable classic. But the rest of the album holds up just as well. Tracks like “Strange Brew,” “Dance the Night Away,” and “SWLABR” are absolute gems, each with their own unique groove and iconic guitar work.

Favourite tracks: “SWLABR” and “Sunshine of Your Love”
Least favourite: “Mother’s Lament” – feels very Monty Python. I’m not convinced it needed to be on the album.
Album artwork: A super cool, quintessentially '60s psychedelic cover—totally fitting for the sound within

So Eric Claptons whole career is just ripping off black artists?
Cool cool cool.

Best one so far. So much better than Coldplay.

Some songs are really good, like 'Sunshine of Your Love', and some are still very enjoyable, like 'Strange Brew', 'Tales of Brave Ulysses', and even 'SWLABR'. Quite a few songs, though, fall very flat and are too psychedelic for any of us normal people to enjoy. I don't want to have to be on drugs to enjoy drug music. And what an awful way to close out an album. 'Mother's Lament'? What the hell was that??

Sunshine of Your Love is a good song, but Living Color did it better. I'd say it's a fine 60s rock album, but nothing special.

ih, sunshine of your love tem no guitar hero 3 e era chatíssima de tocar.
o album segue a mesma linha. chato e monotono

For an album that's just over 30 minutes long, it sure is dragging out. Not bad, but nothing too noteworthy. Though Sunshine of Your Love is really good. Anyway, fuck Eric Clapton for very obvious reasons.

This is one of those albums that's absolutely amazing if you're in the correct mood for it, and mediocre otherwise. I was not in the correct mood today. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Basically what you'd expect it to be, which is just blah. 1.5/5

enjoyable late 60s psych rock album. that last track is terrible though

acceptable tunes

standout track: sunshine of your love

Cream taking blues-psych to the stars. Never bettered but somewhat of a timepiece, from an era that is among the most creative in the history of rock.

Super fun to listen to these three play together, but feels like a lot of padding considering it’s only 33 minutes long. Several indelible classics. Tales of Brave Ulysses is my favorite.

Solid cover to cover

Sunshine of Your Love is iconic, and there are some great, almost glam-y tracks after it that are really up my alley, too. Nothing mindblowing, but this is some good straight up rock and roll, especially for 1967.

3.5

The first couple tracks are really solid, maybe 4/5. Wow, this album falls off a cliff after that. Sluggish, wailing vocals, uninspired song writing. Sounds like a bunch of white dudes ripping off the blues. The last track, 'Mother's Lament' is in the running for worst track I've heard from any album on this list. A snippet of the lyrics: 'Oh, your baby has gone down the plug hole...Oh, your baby has gone down the plug...' Seems to be about the lighter side of drowning a baby, so that's a fun way to close out a rock album I guess?