Disraeli Gears
by Cream
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Disraeli Gears is ranked as the best album by Cream.
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Disraeli Gears track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Disraeli Gears rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 50 Music Albums of 1967 | 40/50 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 36/100 | 13 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of 1967 | 13/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 60/100 | 8 |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 68/100 | 7 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 40 Music Albums of 1967 | 9/40 | 4 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 34 Music Albums of 1967 | 13/34 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Best of The 60s Pt.2 (101-200) | 35/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1967 | 22/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Rivera | Best of Rest 2 | 64/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 1,009 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 5,964 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/02/2026 07:51 | AndyLish79 | 505 | 81/100 |
| ! | 08/29/2026 23:41 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/13/2026 19:08 | Fritz | 1,366 | 77/100 |
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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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BestEverAlbums 09/08/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5429): By Steppenwolf666 BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements BestEverAlbums 08/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movementsDisraeli Gears comments
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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. (Edited)
Amazing psychedelic sleeve art housing a classic psychedelic masterpiece. Tales of Strange Ulysses, Strange Brew and Sunshine of Your Love are all excellent. (Edited)
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. (Edited)
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.
A classic ~ that more than 45 years later, still stands up to the test of time & technology!
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