Cream -- "Badge"
One of my favorite songs from when I was in high school, still in my classic rock phase. I'm pretty much a sucker for anything in a-minor, and I have spent hours learning that guitar solo. This is definitely an Eric Clapton song, more like one of his solo outings than it is like the rest of what he did with Cream, and I'm generally not much of a Clapton fan, but there's also the George Harrison aspect of the song, which evens it out a little bit. The appeal of the song, to me, is partly nostalgic, but it's also, I think, a genuinely good song, though I can't quite figure out what makes it good. It's not in the usual sphere of things for me.
The British preference for the word "queue" (where we would say "line") is on display here as well. That doesn't affect the quality of the song; it's just something I always note when I hear it. I always thought "cue" when I was 17, and I wish someone had been there to tell me what a queue was.
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