This album really epitomizes what Cream was about.  They were both marvels live and in the studio, and never was that shown better than in this album.  Jack Bruce and Peter Brown were amazingly prolific writers, and their best songs are all here.  White Room is deserving of its classic (with a really good, intricate drum workout by Ginger Baker), and As You Said is another gentle, charming song.  Passing the Time is really beautiful (showing Baker could write great songs too).  I love Politician, whose chorus "I support the left, though I'm leaning, leaning to the right" still rings true today.  The live stuff is phenomenal, especially the epic cover of Spoonful and Bruce's blues workout Train Time.  The only song I could do without was Toad.  It starts out well, but Baker's drum solo isn't very dynamic, and it goes on much too long.  If Baker and Bruce had gotten along better (contrary to popular belief, it wasn't Clapton feuding with his other band mates, but Baker and Bruce, who had a bit of a history before Cream), Cream would have kept making great albums for a while.  Nevertheless, this is a great album, Cream's best.