Disraeli Gears
by Cream

Disraeli Gears by Cream
Year: 1967
Release date: 1967-11-02
Overall rank: 270th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 1,173 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1967 (11th)
Award Top 50 albums of the 1960s (41st)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (270th)

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Disraeli Gears is ranked as the best album by Cream.

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 270th | 1960s rank: 41st | 1967 rank: 11th

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Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 1,173 votes)
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27 hours ago TheWongs  Ratings distribution  77071/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.5/100, a mean average of 79.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.

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From 08/30/2024 18:00 | #305047
What keeps this album in my rotation is the heavy darkness laced through it. There's a myth that the psychedelic music of the summer of love was about "flower power" and empty-headed happiness. But psychedelic music has always reveled in topics of death and darkness, the shadow side, as much as the other. One of my favorite examples of dark psychedelia from that time is We're Going Wrong, my favorite of Jack Bruce's funereal dirges that he liked to write. Kids in dorm rooms dropping windowpane and listening to bad-trip songs like World Of Pain, Strange Brew and We're Going Wrong...ah memories, that's the psychedelia that I love.
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80/100
From 12/22/2023 22:45 | #300600
Amazing psychedelic sleeve art housing a classic psychedelic masterpiece. Tales of Strange Ulysses, Strange Brew and Sunshine of Your Love are all excellent.
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45/100
From 11/19/2023 17:03 | #300046
Classic rock, shame about that last track which really drags my rating down. And actually the last 4 tracks are quite weak. The first 7 though are really good. My favourites are Sunshine Of Your Love, SWLABR and World Of Pain.
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70/100
From 02/23/2023 12:28 | #294370
A solid record but there are too many filler tracks on here for it to be ranked amongst the elite. There shouldn't be as many skippable songs on a record as short as this as well as most of these tracks completely take you out of the music. The 3 worst offenders of this are Blue Condition, Dance The Night Away and We're Going Wrong. Despite this, there are some great moments on here and some outstanding performances on guitar (lead, rhythm and bass), percussion and piano. This is best evidenced on the elite songs such as Strange Brew, Sunshine Of Your Love and Tales Of Brave Ulysses. Overall, this record isn't consistent enough to be one of the greatest of all time but it is still hugely influential and quite enjoyable.
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85/100
From 07/06/2022 05:04 | #287131
A classic ~ that more than 45 years later, still stands up to the test of time & technology!
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80/100
From 01/17/2022 19:02 | #279586
The best Cream album, sounds very influential and a lot of songs are great and catchy at the same time.
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75/100
From 01/02/2022 16:55 | #278397
Although everything isn't excellent for me - the guitar work must have been such a standout at the time with a real modern guitar sound. Some excellent and timeless classic riffs
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75/100
From 11/15/2021 19:36 | #276318
This is a really solid album. The problem with grading the album itself though lies in the gap between the best and worst tracks. The top tracks are remarkable, but there are several true skips.
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80/100
From 02/06/2021 15:16 | #265889
really good. excellent early guitar work Eric Clapton. decent songs. bluesy stuff
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70/100
From 12/12/2020 11:49 | #262592
The fact that this is ranked as the 11th album of 1967 speaks volumes about what a year that was.
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