Gonna build myself a castle
High up in the clouds.
There'll be skies outside my window;
Lose these streets and crowds.
Dance the night away.

Wil find myself an ocean,
Sail into the blue,
Live with the swordfish,
Forget the time of you.
Dance the nught away.

Dance myself to nothing.
Vanish from this place.
Gonna turn myself to shadow
So I can't see your face.
Dance the night away.

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Written by: WAYNE WILKINS, ALEX BROWN

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jimmy hawkins

1y↑110

Hail the Cream. The saviors of my sanity when I was in VietNam

Kevin Carmell

Jimmy.. Hail to Cream... Hail to YOU and hail to my DAD my FRIEND.

CrankyRay

4w↑1

Thanks for you service and I hate to be the person that says the same thing because you deserve more than just a “thank you for your service”.

You’re a warrior

I’m Homeless

Ah dude sry u had to go to nam

Jean Pierre Reynoso-Fournel

24w

Pablo Pistacio

41w↑3

Hi Jimmy . Have you read Chickenhawk by Robert Mason . To quote
John Del Vecchio " the best book to come out of Vietnam " .

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Hector Rojas

1y↑24

I have a friend who is into gangsta rap & music of that nature, he heard this for the first time and he said that his soul left his body, that it was that good. I told him that he has no idea, that that was just the tip of the a MASSIVE iceberg called Cream!!!

Pedro Barajas

3w↑1

Did he turned white

I’m Homeless

Rip. the name don’t hold up that well today

Daniel Herrera

2y↑113

Gonna build myself a castle
High up in the clouds
There'll be skies outside my window
Lose these streets and crowds

Dance the night away

Will find myself an ocean
Sail into the blue
Live with golden swordfish
Forget the time of you

Dance the night away

Dance myself to nothing
Vanish from this place
Gonna turn myself to shadow
So I can see your face

Dance the night away

George Fawcett

49w↑2

Love this since day 1

John Bennett

1y↑4

Pure genius.

Syd Floydism

43w↑26

RIP Ginger Baker
(August 19 1939 - october 6 2019)

badlands

5y↑75

holy shit the album artwork is beautiful and so is the music

Play List 5496

43w

You can thank the heretical genius of the late Aussie artist & friend of the band , Martin Sharpe for the artwork and layout.

IwshIcldstrtover

44w

shit isn't holy.

Karen Redd

1y↑4

Shoulda looked at it on a good hit of acid in the great old days!!

Godskingdomwithin

3y↑116

This is possibly the most underrated psychedelic rock song of all time! The synergy between the base the guitar and the drums is so powerful it sends chills up my spine!
Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce(Bass), and Ginger Baker(Drums)! Baker carries the band! But the band together is transcendental man!

Thomas Bedell

Godskingdomwithin This entire album was (IS) acid filled.

Martti Suomivuori

@Garret Fitzgerald Yeah, you can hear 'Eight Miles High'.

Chris Campbell

27w

Obviously, this song wasn't played to death on classic rock radio. One of Cream's lesser known gems. I first got this album used at a thrift store. Played it through the scratches (luckily, no skips). Loved this song. Nothing like hearing it on a turntable while staring out into the afternoon sun, letting your mind drift away to the sound of Eric's 12 string echo in the distance... You get the idea.

Joe John

30w

This song transcends worldly music. It comes from interstellar space.

Sublime Music Channel

44w↑1

Possibly, though there are so many underappreciated songs from the psychedelic era that trying to boil it down to one is pretty much a fool's errand. Try "Coming Down" by the band United States of America, to name but one of many.

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S. SESTRIC

3y↑95

If Cream and the Doors got together...

Martti Suomivuori

Ginger Baker would have punched Jim Morrison unconscious the first two beats...
He loved Eric Clapton but tried to stab Jack Bruce with a knife. He was a madman. R.I.P. both of them.

A Nautical Gate

39w

@@Karen Redd forget the rhythm section.How about just Morrison....and Hendrix.

bassmanjoe

43w

Influenced by Buffalo Springfield too

Don Dixon

44w

THE WORLD WOULD EXPLODE IN GROOVY

Karen Redd

1y↑4

Cream didn’t need the Doors- nor did The Doors need Cream.

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Feudi Pandola

3y↑93

Best drum work ever on a rock song...Ginger was from some other world on this song

A Nautical Gate

39w

@mike Marino @ could any other way have soaked into your dna

Frisbieinstein

43w

@Sluff Adlin Back in the day just about anything could be called rock. We didn't have the "genre" bullshit. Cream was one of the very top rock bands. Not rock? Get real.

bassmanjoe

43w

@eisenhertz Jazz guy that could Rock!

IwshIcldstrtover

44w

@Sluff Adlin Emerson, Lake and Palmer also had classical background, jazz as well. Keith Emerson was a composer written with the orchestra in mind Carl Palmer as well. Greg Lake was heavily into folk and classical. They were far from being "rock and roll" but they were stuck with the same thing as Cream, being referred to as a rock and roll band.

Ralph McHendry

47w↑3

Ginger's work on "Those Were The Days" ("Wheels of Fire") is also very interesting!

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J Dubbiyou

3y↑31

Cream's nod to the Byrds' style of 8 Miles High. Yet another production gem by Felix Pappalardi; speeded up guitars and all.....have you ever heard a cooler ending to a Rock tune?

Francis Paul Cannon

Wow, you're spot on 😁

arkanoiddude

2y↑4

No speeded up guitars on this song

Jeff Motsinger

3y↑34

Ginger shows that awesome drumming doesn't have to be super fast or hyper-complicated, it just has to feel 'right'. Love Eric's ethereal guitar sound.....give some credit to the sound engineer, too.

city zen

25w

tHIS WAS MY FAVORITE SONG ON THE ALBUM.

Vicious Spiegel

@Donal Callum thats what you call pure magic.

Donal Callum

2y↑2

Tom Dowd engineered at Atlantic Studios in NYC, album was done in 3.5 days

Ragnar Lothbrook

1y↑14

Clapton was 22yo when they recorded this song. That's why he's considered a guitar god.

X YZ

2y↑30

In a class by itself, hauntingly unique

Frisbieinstein

3y↑30

So unusual. Double falsetto. Unique.

Paul Fuller

51w

I had never thought of it in that way before . Jack used falsetto quite
a lot on this album , but Clapton had a high voice in those
days anyway , so he only had to go up an octave to harmonise with
Jack's voice . I listened to this song for so many years . I always
focused on the 12 string guitar and Jack's voice , but Eric comes
through as well . Pete Brown's lyrics are haunting .

sPacEc0w60y

8y↑62

There is something incredibly transcendent about this song. The mundane reality in which we dwell seems to be lifted like a veil hiding a bejewelled truth within the pure beauty of the sounds and lyrics here, letting that truth shine like a thousand suns in my mind.

CrankyRay

Sandro Kovalev No, he’s just being a peaceful beautiful human being living up to his true purpose.

debbie matheson

2y↑1

this song doesn't seem to touch the ground!

Andrew Palfreyman

You've clearly never danced yourself to nothing

Sandro Kovalev

2y↑5

Oh man, lay off the acid

Bufford Pusser

2y↑17

Ya, Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, but the songwriting of Jack Bruce is peerless. Especially the first 2 album's.... outstanding.

MRHenHen 1986

2y↑13

Clapton playing a fender 12 string 😊

Glenn A. Bagley

3y↑25

RIP Jack

harry haller

4y↑44

this song accompanies me since 46 years. Its amazing, a picture, a story, a feeling. Something that goes straight into your soul. Its great to know that people all around the world feel in a similar way. As fair minded musicians said...music has no boundaries, no religion, no rules...its uneversial...keeps us all together, please dont forget that...thanks

Mark Bolei

48w↑1

On the cream record Sunshine of Your Love was first in the underrated dance the night away was the second song kind of got forgotten I'm glad everyone digs it

Karen Redd

1y↑1

EXACTLY!!

Da

2y↑1

Same here Harry.and to tell you the truth,your words/reaction remind me of an old african voice saying : we are the strings and God is the musician.♥

Deborah Brown

2y↑2

harry haller I agree with you!! It does go straight into your soul, I've always loved this one🎶💓🎶

Deborah Brown

2y↑1

Dicedude I totally agree with you!! I'm 65 as well, and have loved this song since it came out. It seems as I get older, I love it even more & appreciate it.🎶🎶

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Tom Maddalena

3y↑56

I know It's a little strange to analyze a song I've been listening to for 50 years... but listening to this I remembered reading a report about Musical Psychedelic Trance..harmonic components of which are able to transport the listener into a state of euphoria. Not unlike "8 Miles high" and "Chestnut Mare" there are motions and gestures where you are almost feeling out of your body.. it is such an accomplishment that these wonderful musicians were able to effect so many music lovers in this way.

Steven Lutkevich

38w

jack bruce had said this was their tribute to the byrds

Carrie Berry

44w↑1

Yes!

gasper signorelli

2y↑3

Yes this is A Byrd tribute, Cream admired them highly.

Chris Collins

2y↑2

Very interesting observation, and I totally agree!

Psychedelic BluesMan

1y↑7

Best band of all time and their greatest song in my opinion.

asamlang5

4y↑32

"dance myself to nothing..................

Zig-Zag Wanderer

1y↑1

Vanish from this place...

Godskingdomwithin

3y↑1

asamlang5
“So I can’t see your face!”

E. F.

2y↑12

It's Psychedelia quintessential - way tripped out mood. Always reminds of San Francisco 68'

Shyra M

4y↑28

obsessed with it

Godskingdomwithin

3y↑2

Shyra M
It’s a song the stirs the Soul!
The three guys in this band create a synergy that’s transcendental!

Walter Fechter

6y↑14

Sublime sounds from my youth. Eric's lilting and resplendent 12-string guitar is like being bathed in pure white light from Heaven. For the 1960s artwork of Peter Max. For My Western Star, My Eternal Love, My Wife Barbra Rose (RIP).

Ed Pearson

2y↑1

I feel what you're feeling. My wife passed two years ago -- we were both children of the 60's -- and this is the song I remember her by.

D. D.D.

4y↑22

One of the best bands to listen to on acid. Magical. If you've been there........you know.

Aldebaron9

2y↑4

you phony FUCK @AlXore

Mitch

2y↑4

AlXore triggered

AlXore

2y↑1

Will pretentious junkies ever die out? There are no words to describe how strongly I despise your kind.

Rick Stafford

know what? oh yeah. huh?

BowieTip

4y↑2

LSD? Three times to this.

SCOTT Rammjett

2y↑9

Close my eyes and I'm back in 1968 and the whole psychedelic era tripping out on this awesome music and era again. Fantastic! transcendant..

Stephen Paraski

42w↑6

This and Deserted Cities of the Heart are 2 of the criminally under rated, best Cream songs of era.

Ivan

4y↑41

THE BEST ALBUM FROM CREAM

DAVID SANTIAGO GUEVARA ZUÑIGA

48w

aish.

Karen Redd

1y↑2

THE BEST ALBUM OF ANYONE— AT ALL. No one else was even in the same world as they were. They taught the meaning of music- ALL ALONE.

Steve Ross

maybe best song from maybe best album by cream

annihilating angel

You got that right.

Ricardo Burmeister

perrimeno I think that talking objectively this is the best album from Cream

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pcsbeat

3y↑9

Byrds-y cool...

Mr. Numi Who

2y↑7

Record Company: "Can't you give us a dance song like everyone else?" Cream: "A dance song... hmmm..."

LJ Caballero

36w

Total creativity!!! And I can dance to it!!!

Robert Hoberg

2y↑1

And how do two jazz guys hook up with a blues guitarist to create this???

RZAJW

2y↑17

Probably my favorite cream song

Mark Choma

46w

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

A Nautical Gate

It's power I think is derived from it's going against type

Karen Redd

1y↑1

Nothing in the world can compete with SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE being the greatest song that ever has been done- or ever will be done.

eli abra

9y↑14

Love it , that guitar just tears into your heart!!!

cathy struska

45w↑5

I just read Ginger Baker is in critical condition. He needs our prayers. I love that cantankerous tough guy. What a drummer and Pioneer...TJ S

mark tyner

3y↑8

Play those high notes Eric.

Da

2y↑6

Another planet ♥

Lorraine Maskless

1y↑5

Sublime harmonies

Sluff Adlin

2y↑6

Those drums.

todd windyhill

44w↑4

10/5/19....Ginger Baker: RIP.

Cesar Herrera

2y↑6

Dark and beautiful mind blowing

Zig-Zag Wanderer

1y↑4

Easily in my favorite songs of all time. Which I think is a long list

Vicious Spiegel

1y↑2

Man the chords... Pure magic... Clapton is legend

Ned D.

2y↑4

One of the best songs on the album.

Mark Choma

46w↑1

The Blimp Frank it's The Blimp!

DJ R Superluminal

1y↑2

Another Fan of the Captain!

Nathan

2y↑5

God damn this is a good song. It’ll take a century or more before people at large understand what was done here.

Nathan

18w↑1

Ay I’m 24 and pretty much exclusively listen to this era of music. I do what I can to turn people my age on to this stuff. I often find it just takes someone introducing it to them. The music and stories behind it have never been more accessible and before this pandemic I noticed a lot more people my age at classic rock concerts. But sometimes when I see the number of views these pop acts I get I do worry.

Kevin Corcoran

18w

Would love to believe that but twenty-somethings today don't even know who the Beatles and the who are let alone Cream. This music will live on as long as the people who experienced it are alive. I say that with great sadness

John Bennett

1y↑4

Some music is just so far superior....

Thomas Vassallo

1y↑3

Breautiful

Nessie ZZ Huang

Love this. Glad I have this album too. Brilliant to the max.

james fitzgerald

18w↑1

Cream did this as a homage to The Byrds! Record Mirror interview in the 1967

Louise F.

2y↑2

Such a soul-grabbing, haunting tune...beautiful!!

T

6y↑21

This song I've always loved, one of my favorites on this great album. I saw a documentary where Eric Clapton said this was greatly influenced by the music of the Byrds and Lovin Spoonful, big California bands of that time, you can definitely hear it....no power blues guitar solos. There's a certain trance like quality to it coupled with that haunting voice of Jack Bruce's that makes a great listen...I can see all those lovely topless hippie chicks dancing to it on some hill top!

james fitzgerald

Tribute to the Byrds

Bruce Reed

2y↑2

Yes, indeed, William. Eric sang lead on this song.

MIKECNW

2y↑1

Actually The LS were from NYC.

William Parks

3y↑3

Actually Clapton is the main singer on this

NoyzyBoyZ3

6y↑1

I think this was the first time I heard Clapton play a 12 string.

Chris Morfas

51w↑2

Fascinating production. Unusual sounds and arrangement. The work of Felix?

Juliette Hughes

3y↑5

Unreal

Mael Ughran

44w↑2

RIP, Ginger Baker. Passed away, aged 80 - 6 October, 2019. A legendary rock star.

Chris Collins

1y↑2

The Brilliant Colours! Amazing Jack and Ginger at 120 Proof!

jane oughton

44w↑2

ginger baker you were the best drummer .what a genius bloke x rip

Max Merry

41w↑2

Great tribute to the 66/67 Byrds. Brilliant bass-playing,drumming and the 12-strings are sublime.....

Herbert Rossman

2y↑2

This song has a sooth guitar sound to it

John Shane

43w↑1

Extraordinary track! RIP 2/3’s of Cream.

Joshua Marsella

44w↑1

RIP Ginger Baker! Next time I hear thunder I’ll know you found your kit in the afterlife.

soxwina

2y↑2

sounds like Blind Faith could have done this.

Greg Reardigan

44w↑1

Hey Ginger I'll see ya the next time around ! Possibly a little gentler. Love u bro and I'll miss you .

Damian Woollam

1y↑1

Eric Clapton just took it one step further when going on to Cream after John Mayall's Blues Breakers did he not? I have both bands in my collection and love the sweet taste of early Clapton! Mmm mmm!

glenn h Friedmann

1y↑2

Gears was the bomb

what

This song ages perfectly

Sally F

43w↑1

One of my favorite songs of this short-lived but excellent group. Ginger Baker, who is rumbling nicely here, just passed away.

Bobby Twig

44w

An underrated tune from one of the greatest rock records of all time. Lives on with me and the boys forever!!

Jim Zeleny

10w

Yes there is a 12 string part. But there's also something playing an octave higher. Vox Mando guitar? Nobody seems to know or even mention it.

Erin Weilmuenster

1y↑3

In 7th grade we had a really cool teacher, Miss Ross. She asked if anyone would bring 3 albums to class for ll to hear, this was one of the 3 I brought. The looks of my classmates told me they weren't into the same music as I was. Hopefully they caught on later to some of the best music from that era.....

A Nautical Gate

Great isn't it ? To have a teacher like a Miss Ross to encourage us not only to reach for the next rung up the ladder but accept ourselves in the process

Tony Hill

33w

The Cream always rises to the top; SUBLIME!

rocknrallsoul94 Rockero

19w

Happy 75th Slowhand 🔥🔥🔥

rvisual

42w↑1

Great cymbal work and drumming by the late Ginger Baker. RIP

Tony Last

40w↑1

The great Ginger Baker made this song. Amazing rhythms.

Francis Paul Cannon

Love Eric's riff

james fitzgerald

It’s a tribute to The Byrds!

Mike Jones

37w

All Cream was magnificent, but this was their greatest of all. I still get chills listening to it.

John Henni

1y↑1

A great work of psychedelia!

Suzanne Kneale

44w

Dance myself to nothing
Vanish from this place 👌🎶💗

Da

2y↑1

DIVINE ♪ ♥ ♪

Samuel Jett

1y↑1

The ads are killing me tho

Chris Morfas

47w↑1

Delightfully understated lead from Clapton.

Rodrigo Mattar

18w

Supreme! Awesome song. Awesome 12 chords guitar!

theharakiriboy turned out

47w↑1

Uma das mais belas canções populares de sempre

Mohair Ellis

1y↑1

IMO>>>This is Cream's greatest album>>>WOW, Does it take me back to ,my younger years>>>1967>>>I was 16>>>!!!!!!!

Arpad Jones

51w

todd windyhill

44w

11/67....Fr. Yr @ BC....emergence of "Alternative Rock" & FM-Stereo music stations....WBCN FM-104.1....Boston....Peter Wolf and others....the rest is history and memories.

Jean Pierre Reynoso-Fournel

24w

Monty Lindeman

44w↑1

Rest In Peace Ginger Baker you truly were a godly drummer fly high

G Beez

9y↑9

Intellectualizing the dark side here. It's a place where most concrete foundations for conspiracy theory were born. Take a trip to the psychodelic side and you might not return. I haven't done drugs in 20 years. I am 41 years old with a wife and three kids. Yet I still can't stop trippin' to the roots era of rock divisions. All the names, the styles, the influences, the evolutions, and the brilliance.

Arpad Jones

51w

@Murph 61 Born in '54 , heard the best RnR ever made in my teens and early twenties........lucky!!!!!

A Nautical Gate

"Set....and setting". It's a part of us forever -which is a good thing

Murph 61

Born in 1961 and heard all of this great stuff on the radio (which was on all the time in our house). I cannot agree with you more on today's so-called pop. What garbage!

gardensofthegods

2y↑1

I cannot believe how many people out there have never indulged in rock and roll they love that disgusting pop music it's as if they can't deal with real depth or real emotions..
I was very blessed to have been a little kid when all this music was first coming out and able to hear it on the radio and as it was coming off the presses from the album factories

no no

You should have been there !

warren rubin

2y↑3

An anthem

andrew wheeler jr

48w

Exactly what it is just that well peace to you .

Chuck Francis

2y↑7

This is Clapton doing, as he did so many wonderful times, what Jimi did a bit more often, which is no dis of Eric; rather, I mean it as a compliment. Who among us has done, musically; even once, what Jimi did often? What wonderful musical genius did Eric give us in this song? The wah-wah from heaven; that’s what! Which is to say, that Eric’s playing was often as if God Himself, was playing guitar. We got a first solid taste of that in Hideaway (no wonder Jimi wanted to meet Eric). Eric likely got a first taste of that from Freddie King.
The elite club of heavenly output guitar heroes also includes no less than the likes of Jeff Beck, Van Halen, Stevie Ray, Billy Gibbons, Joe Walsh, and such likewise awesome ax-men (being a killer list that must include your own top three favs), and Jimi, and God (who, arguably, created it all; with a little help from his friends; namely, those awesome artists, and you and me, and all fans). We can’t leave out the genius engineers and produces that were part of the miracle! Thanks Eric! You made the most of what God gave you, and as a result, we all are all blessed with your perfect music (as deemed by us, your fans, via our personal perfect tastes).

Porfle Popnecker

42w

How exciting it was being a little kid in the 60s and growing up with this kind of music coming out all the time, brand new and so intensely good.

t spez

3y↑1

Did this song make it to any compilation albums?

Bruce Dunkle

Early Screaming Trees is very reminiscent of this sound. Pretty obvious those guys were listening to Cream.

Jack's Pick Phone

3y↑4

I can hear the talent, and the greatness in these songs to a certain extent. But they would mean more, and resonate with me more, had I been born in 1956 instead of '66. The times and the sounds don't quite mean as much to me, so I can only enjoy what I think is good. I can still hear a "dated" quality in this era, even with this great band. Does that make sense? I am not saying this doesn't sound good, because it does. It just doesn't quite nail it for me in my experiences. Doesn't quite make me get as excited as a song from when I was 15 would (like Tom Sawyer or Red Barchetta or You Better You Bet or Any Way You Want it) simply because there is no backdrop to it. I guess that explains my connection to music. Having said all of that LOL.....Cream sounds awesome to me. And I can get into it somewhat.

Sandro Kovalev

2y↑2

Shit I was born in 1981, and I love this band. I grew up listening to Alice in Chains, Metallica, and Korn, but I still think a lot of 60s-70s stuff kicks ass, stuff like Cream, Sabbath, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Genesis, Floyd, Tull, Yes.... I also think Bach kicks ass, and he's from the 1700s. You're right, I don't feel any sort of nostalgia when I hear any of this stuff, but maybe I will 20 years from now.

B Dale

Hey Sweetie, don't worry about your age so much. This song is very real to connect with. If you feel it in your gut, it's real. I first heard Disraeli Gears in 1970 when I was 13, but it moves me more now than it did then. Some things are timeless.

Frisbieinstein

3y↑1

1955 birth for me. Yeah, the recording engineering is crude. But a great piece anyway. SO unusual.

EDITH VALER

44w

Rock In Peace

Carrie Berry

44w

RIP, Ginger

TheDillestWeed

29w↑1

This is a good

Jean Pierre Reynoso-Fournel

24w

Paul Minihan

2y↑2

What a blast

Glenn Bagley

37w

RIP Jack & Ginger.

Barbara Keen

2y↑1

Bravo.

Janie Barker

18w

My Dad is spending his isolation writing his life story a Musical journey that I was born into becoming mine that I am forever gratefull for I reminded Dad of this Cream album my early recollection of the Music he loved to play and the being of the Psychadelic era ❤