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| Released | 1983 | |||
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| Label | RSO/Polydor | |||
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Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream is a 1983 compilation album by the British rock band Cream.
| Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream | ||||
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| Released | 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 1966-1968 | |||
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| Length | 41:24 | |||
| Label | RSO/Polydor | |||
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Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream is a 1983 compilation album by the British rock band Cream.
In a contemporary review, Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote that the album "must be the fifth or sixth Cream reissue--I stopped counting around 1976--but it's the only one I ever played twice, and I've always wanted an album with 'Anyone for Tennis?' on it." [1] AllMusic critic Rob Bowman later gave it three stars and praised the compilation as being "what the title implies, all the finest tracks from the band's four studio albums. The best was brilliant." [2]
(Note: Tracks 6 and 11 may not appear on some vinyl LP versions or on the cassette - they are on RSD5021 in the UK)
^1 Tracks 9 & 12 originally released on Fresh Cream (1966)
^2 Tracks 2, 6, 7 & 11 originally released on Disraeli Gears (1967)
^3 Tracks 3, 4, 5 & 10 originally released on Wheels of Fire (1968)
^4 Track 1 originally released on Goodbye (1969)
^5 Track 8 originally released as a single (1968)
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA) [3] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
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