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Cream is no doubt legendary and rightly so. But honestly, Cream recorded as many average to bad songs as good ones among their four studio albums. If you want to avoid the clunkers The Very Best of Cream is an outstanding collection that summarizes their career in a fairly definitive manner, which includes their original songs and several blues covers they played extremely well, such as Howlin' Wolf's Sitting on Top of the World.

There has been many previous compilations of Cream previously released such as the twelve track CD Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream; Conversely, this album contains twenty songs. Unless you are planning to collect all of the studio releases The Very Best of Cream is the obvious choice. ~ by Barry Small © 
Grade  B + 

1. Wrapping Paper (Brown / Bruce) - 2:21
2. I Feel Free (Brown / Bruce) - 2:51
3. N.S.U. (Bruce) - 2:43
4. Sweet Wine (Baker / Godfrey) - 3:17
5. I'm So Glad (James) - 3:57
6. Spoonful (Dixon) - 6:30
7. Strange Brew (Clapton / Collins / Pappalardi) - 2:46
8. Sunshine of Your Love (Brown / Bruce / Clapton) - 4:10
9. Tales of Brave Ulysses (Clapton / Sharp) - 2:46
10. Swlabr (Brown / Bruce) - 2:31
11. We're Going Wrong (Bruce) - 3:26
12. White Room (Brown / Bruce) - 4:58
13. Sitting on Top of the World (Howlin' Wolf) - 4:58
14. Politician (Brown / Bruce) - 4:11
15. Those Were the Days (Baker / Taylor) - 2:53
16. Born Under a Bad Sign (Bell / Jones) - 3:09
17. Deserted Cities of the Heart (Brown / Bruce) - 3:38
18. Crossroads (Johnson) - 4:15
19. Anyone for Tennis (Clapton / Sharp) - 2:38
20. Badge (Clapton / Harrison) - 2:44

Recorded in 1966 - '68 and Released in 1995.
The CD has good liner notes.
Eric Clapton's Box Set Crossroads includes 12 Cream tracks.