Cream - Goodbye

Artist Cream

Title Goodbye

Language English

Format MP3 192 kb/s

Release Date 1969

Files 6

Time 30:24

Size 41.7 MB

Genre Psychedelic Blues Rock



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01. Im So Glad [Live]

02. Politician [Live]

03. Sitting On Top Of The World [Live]

04. Badge

05. Doing That Scrapyard Thing

06. What A Bringdown000



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After a mere three albums in just under three years, Cream called it quits in 1969. Being proper gentlemen, they said their formal goodbyes with a tour and a farewell album called what else? Goodbye. As a slim, six-song single LP, its far shorter than the rambling, out-of-control Wheels of Fire, but it boasts the same structure, evenly dividing its time between tracks cut on-stage and in the studio. While the live side contains nothing as indelible as Crossroads, the live music on the whole is better than that on Wheels of Fire, capturing the trio at an empathetic peak as a band. Its hard, heavy rock, with Cream digging deep into their original Politician with the same intensity as they do on Sitting on Top of the World, but its the rampaging Im So Glad that illustrates how far theyve come; compare it to the original studio version on Fresh Cream and its easy to see just how much further theyre stretching their improvisation. The studio side also finds them at something of a peak. Boasting a song apiece from each member, it opens with the majestic classic Badge, co-written by Eric Clapton and George Harrison and ranking among both of their best work. Its followed by Jack Bruces Doing That Scrapyard Thing, an overstuffed near-masterpiece filled with wonderful, imaginative eccentricities, and finally, theres Ginger Bakers tense, dramatic What a Bringdown, easily the best original he contributed to the group. Like all of Creams albums outside Disraeli Gears, Goodbye is an album of moments, not a tight cohesive work, but those moments are all quite strong on their own terms, making this a good and appropriate final bow.