YMMV / Cream

• Epic Riff: "Sunshine Of Your Love", "White Room"...
• Genius Bonus: The outro of "Pressed Rat and Warthog" has Bruce playing the melody of an old English folk song called "The Cutty Wren" on his overdubbed bass part.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Their albums were huge hits in their native UK, but surprisingly they never had a Top 10 single there ("I Feel Free" came closest, hitting #11), compared to two Top 5 hits in the US ("Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room").
• More Popular Spin Off: Of The Yardbirds and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (Eric's previous bands) and the Graham Bond Organisation (Ginger and Jack's earlier group).
• Stuck in Their Shadow: How Bruce ended up. Baker managed to escape this, partially due to the Beware of Mr. Baker documentary, which cemented his status as a memetic Jerkass.
• Values Resonance: Unlike many other bands of their era, Cream always properly credited the older blues songs they reworked, so that their original composers could receive royalties. They did this even when said covers were nearly unrecognizable (or when the writers were deceased). For instance, almost everything that makes Cream's version of "Crossroads" so memorable in the eyes of fans comes from Clapton's arrangement, but the song was still listed as being written by Robert Johnson on the Wheels of Fire sleeve. Considering how just in the next decade, another band featuring a former member of the Yardbirds would get into near-endless legal trouble for not crediting the old blues songs they recorded, this was quite forward-thinking of Cream.

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