Cream's "Disraeli Gears" re-released today in a 2-CD "Deluxe Edition"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Cream's seminal Disraeli Gears album from 1967 will receive the Deluxe Edition treatment on September 13th, adding a variety of bonus and live tracks. It had been scheduled for release a year ago, but put back while a search for unreleased live material for possible use on the set was made. Sadly, nothing came of it.

The new expanded edition will not only feature the original 11-songs, which included "Sunshine Of Your Love," "Tales Of Brave Ulysses" and "SWLABR", but will also feature five demos, an unreleased alternate version of "Blue Condition," and the outtake "Lawdy Mama." A second disc features the album in a mono mix and incorporates a selection of tracks from last year's BBC Sessions release. The five demos -- "We're Going Wrong," "Hey Now Princess," "SWLABR," "Weird Of Hermiston," and "The Clearout" -- were all released on the 1997 Cream box set Those Were The Days. The tracklisting for Disraeli Gears: Deluxe Edition includes:

DISC ONE -- Disreali Gears (stereo version):
"Strange Brew," "Sunshine Of Your Love," "World Of Pain," "Dance The Night Away," "Blue Condition," "Tales Of Brave Ulysses," "SWALBR," "We're Going Wrong," "Outside Woman Blues," "Take It Back," and "Mother's Lament," with the bonus tracks: "Lawdy Mama" (outtake), "Blue Condition" (alternate version with Eric Clapton lead vocal), "We're Going Wrong" (demo), "Hey Now Princess" (demo), "SWLABR" (demo), "Weird Of Hermiston" (demo), and "The Clearout" (demo).

DISC TWO -- Disreali Gears (mono version):
same tracks as above, including "Lawdy Mama" and "Blue Condition," with live BBC recordings of "Strange Brew," "Tales Of Brave Ulysses," "We're Going Wrong," "Born Under A Bad Sign," "Outside Woman Blues," "Take It Back," "Politician," "SWLABR," and "Steppin' Out" as bonus tracks.



http://www.whereseric.com/clapton/news/2004/07/cream_disraeli_gears_deluxe_edition.htm

[Trajan]

1. Shocking ....

I was JUST THINKING about Disraeli Gears ...

Just thinking how I loved it .....

How I wanted it ....

Yeah ...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. Well, there you go..."Ask and you shall receive"...LOL!

:toast:

[Dudley_DUright]

3. Ooooooh, now I know what I want for my birthday!

:-)

[truthspeaker]

4. cool, but why the hell would you want a mono version?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. "Purists," I guess...if there's a mono and stereo version they want both

Like Brian Wilson being deaf in one ear, and the reissue of "Pet Sounds" that was in the 2-album set "Carl & The Passions" with the note "In Mono - The Way Brian Recorded It."

But yeah, Cream in mono...I don't think so.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. Dance the Night Away is one of my alltime favorite songs

[jukes]

7. the epitome

of "bunker music". soon i'll be able to flashback to my heart's content!!!!