College Student's FIRST TIME Hearing "White Room" | Cream Reaction 

My first Cream song and DAMN! It was a killer track, the instrumentation and lyrical depth was immaculate! Cheers friends! 🔥😁

Drummer, Ginger Baker just died last week, OCT, 2019. Rest In Peace - He’s in the TOP 5 of drummers in every list.

Jesus Christ I feel old. Hahaha. Glad you young bucks are exploring the past when music was music.

Isn't it amazing how complete a sound you can get from just a 3 piece band. There is nothing lacking.

I am gray-haired now, but I was in college when this album (vinyl) was first released (dropped). My friends and I had almost the same reactions as you. Glad to see that you are listening to music from the 60's and 70's-much respect to you. There's a lot of good stuff there. Enjoy.

So glad to be 68 years old. My generation most definitely enjoyed the best music EVER!!!😂😂🍻🇬🇧

You can definitely feel the 60’s, What a great era. All the psychedelics

Even back in the day I never thought these lyrics were given enough credit ( the music was so superb) So glad to see you dig in & appreciate them.

Oh, I didn't expect Cream. A phenomenal song. I suggest you Sunshine of your love - 60s classic, most well-know Cream song

Check out the yardbirds they had Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck..three of the best through one band.. 👍

Tales of brave Ulysses , Strange brew , crossroads and Sunshine of your love would be other cracking Cream songs to do next the first supergroup Eric Clapton on guitar the late great Jack Bruce on bass and vocals beware Ginger Baker on drums

Cream was my first experience with British rock. There I was, 18 or so, in my lavender room, floating on waves of White Room. That was it! Got into every song on that album. Loved your reaction Andy. You gave the song the time it deserves. Hope you've had the chance to listen to the rest.

OMG! Glad you like it!!! Eric Clapton lead guitar, Jack Bruce bass, and Ginger Baker drums … quite the super group !!! Eric Clapton was arguably considered the premiere guitarist of the time , at least until Jimi Hendrix came along!!! Wheels of Fire is a great album, BUT Disreali Gears is a must listen. Songs to look for by Cream - Strange Brew, Crossroads, Tales of Brave Ulysses, Swlabr, Sunshine of Your Love, Outside Woman Blues, Cat's Squirrel, and N.S.U. … there are many more but these are great. They have a couple Live albums that are gold too. Envious of you discovering them for the first time …. have fun and enjoy. ***** Keep in mind with many (not all) of Cream's lyric's are of the poetic psychedelic type, which almost seems nonsensical at times, if that makes sense ???

That was a beautiful thing to watch you dig this.

"Who prepares you for a song like that?" Your reaction is delightful and sharp.

Yes! Agree with you about the feeling you get from real instruments. This song encompasses that elusive complete package.

I always loved Sitting on Top of the World from this album - a smoldering slow blues number

They were called Cream as the three members Eric Clapton guitar, Jack Bruce bass vocals and Ginger Baker drums were considered the finest exponent of their instruments at the time. Jack Bruce was classically trained , but played jazz prior to rock and blues, Baker was a jazz drummer who was influenced by African rhythms Clapton was probably the first guitar hero having honed his blues chops in the Yardbirds and John Mayall's blues breakers. Non band member lyricist Pete Brown supplied the words.

I'm so glad you love this song as it's definitely on my list of top 100 rock songs. Some of the lyrics are so good I've actually written them down which I almost never do. Still get a little chill down the spine when it comes on the radio!

This one and "Tales of Brave Ulysses" are my Cream favorites. Ginger Baker is an awesome drummer.

The Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul

Cream were the first 'super group', the first band made up of the chosen best drummer, bassist and guitarist of the day. Hence the name Cream. I always liked Spoonful, especially live. There are videos of them playing Spoonful, and other songs, live in the 1960's and four decades later in 2005.

I really appreciate that you listen to the song without interruption so you can appreciate the music and the voices the way it's meant to be! That's how all of us "old" people that lived through and heard the original classic rock as it was originally released! I subscribed because of that and I liked your reaction to the music. Thanks

yep.....this song is a MIND BLOWER

One relationship ended with a heartbreaking goodbye at the train station. He found consolation with a new lover that he met at a party.

Besides all the other great Cream songs mentioned below (and solo Clapton), let's not forget Layla by Derek & the Dominos. This was Eric's short-lived band from the early 70s. This title track is one of his best and considered to be an ultimate classic.

Andy, I'm so glad you got to experience this classic song. I really feel your love and understanding of music in your emotional reaction. Loved it!

I'm 62...I bought this record when I was 12 years old....lol. Glad you got to hear it!

Ginger Baker’s drumming is so distict. Not just in the variety of fills and beats, but the general lack of cymbals compared to most other drummers. So incredible.

This song was written by bassist Jack Bruce along with his regular writing partner Pete Brown. Bruce also sang on this, as well as most of Cream's other songs, though Clapton and Baker both provided vocals sometimes. The lyrics might be slightly cryptic, but I take it the song is about a man whose girlfriend has just left him, by train. "You said no strings could secure you at the station." But then he meets another nice girl at a party, "consolation for the old wound, now forgotten." I like the way the song combines fantastic, psychedelic imagery with a very ordinary, slightly dreary, urban setting, "black roof country", "tired starlings" (perhaps because they've got nowhere nice to land).

I can remember hearing White Room for the first time, I was sixteen, a friend had given me a single - from the Netherlands weirdly - and it knocked my socks off. Never tire of it, the lyrics, the vocals and the instruments are all perfect. Best live version I know of is the last time they ever played as Cream at the Royal Albert Hall in 1968, before reuniting decades later. Superb.

Thanx for listening & appreciating the musicianship and vocal ‘ dancing on top of it’

Andy, you're awesome. I'm in the business, so I just wanted you to know that you make listening better.

Your reactions are priceless... can tell you're a musician... these are the recordings of the greats, setting the template for what is bass, drums, guitar & genius!

I will forever remember this song played on the cafeteria intercom during lunch hour........a high school senior memory if there ever was one. And now, at nearly 70 years old, the song still moves me and is on the band's set list! Rock on!

Back in 68 we said those lyrics were Heavy. Jack Bruce is one of the premiere voices of Classic 60s Rock!!!

I was 11 years old when Disraeli Gears came out, and me and my musically inclined friends got it! It's so cool to see millennials and younger discovering the roots of rock and prog rock. I was there for the music Revolution of the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's ("grunge "). I'm so fortunate. It was like living in the modern era of Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach. Explore the roots, which originated with black American jazz and blues. Jazz, “America's classical music”.

Ginger Baker's inventive, unpredictable drum work on this song is other-worldly. Little wonder he is considered one of the finest R&R drummers, in the same pantheon as Keith Moon, Neil Peart and John Bonham.

RIP Ginger Baker. 😢 You were legendary! ❤️ Cream paved the way for blues rock. 🤘Eric Clapton is one of the all time guitar gods!

"Where the shadows run from themselves" Okay, imagine walking down a street, with the street lights above your head and watch your shadow as you walk down the street under each street light, then watch the shadows run from themselves..................

Your guitar faces are improving video by video, I love it! THE power trio, some riffs of that period around '66/'67 are proto-metal in my opinion, if you imagine the main riff from "Sunshine of your love" with modern sounds and intention, it's fucking metal man. Keep on rocking man!

When you want another shot of Eric Clapton, try Bellbottom Blues from the Layla album.

The late great bassist and vocalist Jack Bruce, the late great drummer Ginger Baker, plus the superb guitar of Eric Clapton, fabulous stuff of my youth.

Cream! My 17 yr old self loving them..and still listening to this album these days. Sunshine of Your Love

Genuine reaction . That’s real rock music

Great to see you discovering great music and you feel it ...shows youre a heart of gold

It's very impressive to me, your ear and appreciation for the drummer Ginger Baker, as well as your other impressions and comments on the artists, the instrumentation, lyrics and song elements. You might enjoy the documentary film; "Beware of Mr. Baker", if you're interested in an up close and personal glimpse.

Boy Andy! You have so many bands to check out! I envy you! There is a lot to go through! 1965-1980

Ginger Baker on drums, Eric Clapton on guitar and Jack Bruce on bass and freakin amazing vocals (he's kind of underrated as a singer but his voice was fantastic)... very difficult to find 3 better than those Anyway, they worked even better live, specially Baker and Bruce, they just cried Havoc! and slipped the dogs of wars

I feel that everytime I hear it and it never changes. Great reaction.

Sunshine of Your Love for sure! As an aside, it's delightful to watch you listen to all of these incredible songs. You're awesome, Andy! *edit - Strange Brew also

My favorite album for the Cream and also the song that got me into drumming and made me understand what it was at the age of 14. Also listen to this song live, it is much more profound as Cream more known as a live act and and enhancing that industry: simply by being the most paid and wanted act of 1968. An important year, an important band, not instrumental technicality and finessed don’t ever, and since then.

Wow does this ever bring back memories? I was a teenager and bought this on a 45 RPM. I believe the song badge was on the flip side of this 45

Glad you liked this. The summer of '68, when I was 15, I listened to this nonstop. I could feel Ginger Baker's drumming in my heart, he was my favorite musician for years.. Eric Clapton's guitar playing and voice was amazing but my favorite vocalist was Jack Bruce as he played the bass. Jack's annunciation / articulation of the lyrics was exceptional. Politician is another powerful song; As far as the lyrics... assume there's a woman and he's high.

So glad some young people are paying attention to the history of music. This was old when I was your age but I learned to appreciate it's historical perspective. You always have to keep things in perspective of the time it was released. This was nothing short of crazy in the 60's. They were an original super group and power trio.

Jack Bruce on bass, vocal and co written with 60s beat poet Pete Brown. Jack was classical trained on cello at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Glasgow.

Wheels of Fire was one of the albums everyone I knew had.

Badge and crossroads are also very good songs by them.

Ah! My flower child period. One of my favorite bands. Thanks for playing this great album. Peace and, love each other ❤👍🌻🌻🌻🌞

I love how Ginger doesn't use his cymbals during the verses. Love the dry sound to the drums aswell

One of the all time great classic rock songs. Cream were maybe the representative hard rock band of the late 60's

The song is about a departing lover (at the station). And maybe finding a new one (at the party). Tales of Brave Ulysses, Sunshine of Your Love, Badge, Politician...there are a bunch of great Cream songs. Most of the best ones IMO are written and sung by Jack Bruce.

Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. Cream was so good, came out when I was in Jr. High (middle school). So much awesome music back then!

I saw Cream on American TV when I was 10 years old. Been a fan ever since. NOBODY before or since sounded like them. Legends.

Cream is one of the greatest "supergroups" of all time. Easily the best of the 60's. Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce. More talent right there than in this entire generation of "musicians" and "recording artists".

I love your reaction. I was born in the 70s, but listened to "classic rock" on the radio all the time and grew up with my parents listening to this music, so I really don't remember the first time I heard it. But I love seeing young people listening to other genres and older music. Glad you are enjoying it!

Andy: I am not brand new to the channel, but having come to it a little later, I noticed that I usually hear more of the perspective of Alex. That is a good tiny Alex points out musical things I had not noticed. What I want to say is that Your reaction video here of the lyrics is fantastic. Your voice and evaluations are just as valuable, and I would like to hear your voice more.

Great reaction ! You recognize great musicians playing together - the first Super Group.

Cream with that ? Daft question, Cream and more Cream. Delving back to see Andy's very first reaction to Cream was glorious. 60's & 70's the best decades of ROCK !!!

“Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes”.....beautiful 🐅 I always thought it was a heroin den under the train station??

I felt the same way as you when I first heard this song, it's just a perfect, the lyrics are pure poetry. Jack Bruce, the bassist, Ginger Baker, the drummer, and Eric Clapton were made to play together. My favourite Cream song is "Tales of brave Ulysses" it sounds similar but has even better lyrics.

In my late teens/early 20's, I can remember listening to this album, high af, and coloring the album cover with pencil crayons. 😁 ... Man! Was my sister ever pissed at me! 😂 It was her album... and her weed! 🤣

I love the way Andy is checking out the lyrics!

They weren't called CREAM lightly. Amazing super group anything Clapton was in was incredible. Try Sunshine of your love. I love these reaction shows...brings me back to the greatness of the time!!!

Your first Cream? Your first Clapton? Amazing. When I was young this was my favourite band by far. They shone briefly (4 albums over 3 years) but very brightly. Everything they did was incredible. They are sometimes said to be the first supergroup (though I don't know if the term was actually coined then). Although since then Clapton's fame has hugely overshadowed that of the other two, when the band was formed they were each individually famous musicians in blues and jazz circles. I think you can hear that there is no leader in this band. Okay, Eric Clapton is "lead guitar". But then you could say that there's also a lead bass (Jack Bruce) and lead drums (Ginger Baker). Each instrument is equally dominant in this "power trio". Live they sometimes ended up sounding like they were fighting each other for position and the results were amazing. On this song note comparatively early use of a wah-wah pedal. Clapton, along with Jimi Hendrix, was a pioneer of this. Like I said, everything they did was brilliant, but you might particularly like Tales of Brave Ullysses, Strange Brew, Born Under a Bad Sign, Politician, or Sleepy Time Time. But anything by Cream is going to impress you, though you might hesitate before trying Toad, unless you really like that sort of thing. It's basically a 5min drum solo (quarter of an hour in the live version!) That's not for everyone, but you have heard in this track that Ginger Baker is a special sort of drummer. Finally, I should say that a live performance is an essential part of the Cream experience. For this I particularly recommend their version of the Robert Johnson song, Crossroads. There are lots of versions out there, but try and listen first to the one that's on the album Wheels of Fire (the same album that has White Room on it). I think that's probably the best introduction to what it must have been like to listen to them in concert at the time.

Cream was hugely popular while in high school .. their greatest hits album spectacular

Span your horizon...so much great music out there to discover.

I always felt incredibly lucky that I experienced 70s music firsthand. It’s a joy watching you being enthralled too.

The album Disraeli Gears is godlike. SWABLR and Tales Of Brave Ulysses are my favorites

Great analysis. And also the way the song touches you on another level. Respect.

Now, this is a gr8 song~~Cream did some awesome stuff~~def. a favourite of mine then and now~~

Give their 2003 (?) live reunion a thorough listen. Prepare for pleasure. THree of the best musicians the world has ever seen and heard.

Haven't listened to this track in so long. What surprised me was how dry and subtle the instruments were mixed, particularly the drums and it's still such a powerful sound without any need to drench everything in reverb like lots of other acts do.

College student and I just love all these songs... ✌🏼🤘🏼

I was lucky enough to see Cream live at their 2005 reunion show. Ginger Baker is the best drummer ever, the man was amazing. Always keeping in time, no matter what else he did.

First time I ever heard a wahwah pedal and it was amazing! Glad to see you guys enjoying the music of my youth!

What joy to witness your first time with this song. You made my day. MY first live rock concert at age 15, my parents' friends' kid I'd known all my life, a year younger, talked his uber-conservative folks into letting us go see CREAM, 1966, Anaheim CA. Ginger Baker instantly made me want to be a drummer, never mind I was a girl. Eric Clapton, all of them, were a revelation to my young ears. It was the beginning of a long career of witnessing the birth of rock, in person and in your face. I've seen the Who 9 times from '71 to now, and if you ever get the chance, GO SEE ROGER DALTREY AND PETE TOWNSEND, legendary live performers, before they are gone. Roger STILL hits the high notes and screams with all his heart in Love Reign O'er Me, Won't Get Fooled, and Who Are You?....just he always has. :D

Clapton is God graffiti started turning up back when he was with Mayall's bluesbreakers. The Yardies and Cream just made it more common. Ginger Baker, Keith Moon and John Bonham changed rock drumming forever. Opened up the door for Bill Ward and Neill Peart. No more banging on the twos. Jack Bruce was a phenomenal bass player and great vocalist. Cream came closest to the idea of 'everybody solo'. A friend used to have a band and whenever he had guests sitting in he would yell 'everybody solo!' They never did. Too bad, he loved the idea, a stage full of musicians all pouring out their best at once.

One of my favorites and I know what you mean, even after all these years it still does it for me!

Wow!! A real oldie and legendary song! Guess you noticed that Cream was playing while Freddie was trying on clothes in Biba (with Mary Austen).

Short lived but Outstanding! Was lucky to see Cream Farewell tour in L.A.. and yes Giner Baker was a madman on the drums. 53 yrs AGO? Yes it changed us too...long ago in 67/68?

Thanks for that. I had forgotten just how good that guitar was.

i just love watchin yours and Alex's faces...ty

The drums sing on this one. One of the best ever!

Cream, Blind Faith, Eric Clapton......what's not to like?

One of my fav's! : - )

It was just another song in the radio back in the day. That’s the level of music in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Great time to grow up!

Pete Brown wrote the lyrics. He was a poet and alcoholic who spent some time in rehab in a white room with black curtains. His thoughts at the time were jumbled and vivid. Great song!

Our snooty 1960's high school had a jukebox in the cafeteria and every day at lunch, this song was playing. I hear it now and get hungry for yeast raised rolls and Cream!

Thank you for acknowledging greatness. A friend of Jack Bruce(bass), Pete Brown(poet) wrote the lyrics about hopelessness and depression. He also wrote Sunshine of your love.