It was with a great deal of reluctance that I explored Cream's albums, seeing as I was never a huge fan of the songs that I did hear on commercial FM radio over here in Australia, plus the fact that only two of their songs ever get played here. The first album by Cream did nothing to overturn my prejudice against this. Their second album wasn't bad. "Wheels of fire" is a five star album in my view. It's highly polished album orientated blues rock, with an endearing "English-ness" about it...something that "Disraeli gears" lacked, I think, despite it being their most lauded album, appearing on the tv series "Classic albums". Of Cream's first three albums, it is "Wheels of fire" which is most worthy of giving rise to the "super-group" moniker which the band usually gets attached to it.