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2	[[caption-width-right:320:''Disraeli Gears''.]]
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4	''Disraeli Gears'' is the second studio album by Music/{{Cream}}, released in 1967. It is generally considered to be their strongest and most popular release. Upon release, it hit number one in the Australian and US (Cashbox) charts.
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6	The album is most famous for the hits "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine Of Your Love", the latter of which is essentially Cream's SignatureSong. It was also subject of a documentary about the creative process behind the making of this album in the series ''Series/ClassicAlbums''.
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9	!! Tracklist:
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11	[[AC:Side One]]
12	# "Strange Brew" (2:46)
13	# "Sunshine Of Your Love" (4:10)
14	# "World Of Pain" (3:03)
15	# "Dance The Night Away" (3:34)
16	# "Blue Condition" (3:29)
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18	[[AC:Side Two]]
19	# "Tales Of Brave Ulysses" (2:46)
20	# "[=SWLABR=]" (2:32)
21	# "We're Going Wrong" (3:26)
22	# "Outside Woman Blues" (2:24)
23	# "Take It Back" (3:05)
24	# "Mother's Lament" (1:47)
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27	!!Principal Members:
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29	* Ginger Baker - drums, percussion, backing and lead vocals
30	* Jack Bruce - lead vocals, bass, piano, harmonica
31	* Music/EricClapton - guitar, backing and lead vocals
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34	!! World Of Tropes:
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36	* CoverVersion: "Outside Woman Blues", "Mother's Lament". "Strange Brew" started as a cover of a blues called "Lawdy Momma" before changes rendered it completely unrecognisable and it became another song entirely.
37	* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: The narrator of "Dance The Night Away" intends to vanish from the world as a whole, living in the sea or the sky, ''just to dance uninterrupted''.
38	* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The psychedelic album cover.
39	* FaceOnTheCover: The band shown in close-up, in a psychedelic cover.
40	* GratuitousPanning: On most songs off this album, all the drums are on the right channel. Also, on "Mother's Lament," the reverb on the vocals is only on the right channel.
41	* Myth/GreekMythology: "Tales Of Brave Ulysses" is based on ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
42	* NewSoundAlbum: Less blues, more Psychedelia.
43	* NonAppearingTitle: "[=SWLABR=]"
44	** FunWithAcronyms: "'''S'''he '''W'''alks '''L'''ike '''A''' '''B'''earded '''R'''ainbow"
45	* ThePowerOfLove: "Sunshine Of Your Love".
46	* ProtestSong: Possibly "Take It Back", which was inspired by [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar students burning draft cards]], [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation though there's also room to read it as about self-defence or outright cowardice.]]
47	* RaceAgainstTheClock: The band only had so much time to finish recording - their visas expired the very morning they finished the last song.
48	* RereleaseTheSong: A salsa-styled version of "Sunshine Of Your Love" appeared on Bruce's 2001 album "Shadows In The Air", with Clapton guesting. Both played it on multiple live albums as well.
49	* ShoutOut:
50	** To UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli on the title.
51	** Clapton's solo in "Sunshine Of Your Love" is patterned after the 1930's Rodgers and Hart song "Blue Moon".
52	** "Sunshine Of Your Love" was covered together with Music/JimiHendrix' "Purple Haze" on Music/FrankZappa's ''Music/TheBestBandYouNeverHeardInYourLife'' (1991).
53	* SomethingBlues: "Outside Woman Blues".
54	* StandardSnippet: The opening riff of "Sunshine Of Your Love" has become associated with any media set in the late sixties.
55	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Eric Clapton sings lead vocals on "Strange Brew" and "Outside Woman Blues", as well as co-lead vocals on "Sunshine Of Your Love", "World Of Pain", "Dance The Night Away" and "Mother's Lament". Ginger Baker sings lead vocals on "Blue Condition" as well as co-lead vocals on "Mother's Lament".
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