Looking at disc one ("In the Studio"), you'll see that the most successful songs are by the team of Jack Bruce and Pete Brown. Bruce was conservatory trained and played the cello as well as bass; Pete Brown was a London-based poet whose lyrics made "White Room," for example, such a great song, set to the classical and rock music of Bruce. Then, we have Eric Clapton's excellent electric versions of two blues classics, placed second and next-to-last in sequence. The three weakest songs, those by Ginger Baker and Mike Taylor, are placed third, fifth, and seventh, in the middle of the album. So, two strong Jack Bruce/Pete Brown songs frame the disc, with Eric Clampton's two (traditional) contributions just within those frames, and Ginger Baker's songs (the weakest material) are in the middle, more or less, which shows that the group was going in three different directions in their last and perhaps greatest album, and that prevents the studio disc from being a totally convincing unit, mirroring the band itself at that time.  If we didn't have the magnificient, driving vocals of Jack Bruce, such minor songs as "Those Were the Days" (Ginger Baker/Mike Taylor) would have fallen flat. In fact, Bruce was really the voice of Cream, since neither Eric Clapton nor Ginger Baker were stong vocally. Their contributions are mainly instrumental (but what fabulous musicians they are!!!). As much as one would like to believe otherwise, disc one is somewhat of a miscellany.