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Music : Wheels Of Fire
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Wheels Of Fire by: Cream List Price: £16.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.98 You Save: £7.01 (41%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0731453181229 Format: Box set, Live, Double CD, Original recording remastered Label: Polydor Group Manufacturer: Polydor Group Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Polydor Group Release Date: June 01, 1998 Running Time: 80 minutes Studio: Polydor Group Sales Rank: 7486 MPN: 531812 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Sterotypical 60s rockTo set the cat amongst the pigeons here a little, I will have to disagree with those who view Cream and this album as a kind of holy grail of rock. This album suffers from that 60s disease known as selective memory, a disease which with one hand inflates the value and worth of anything that was produced during the years 1966 - 69 and with the other wipes the board of everything that was done since, in the end we talk of Cream as if it all happened a number of centurys sgo and in a far away land in which everything was bigger and better, the truth however is that Cream were then and everything that has come after struggles to get past the nostalgia block that selective memory creates. This album like so much of the 60s stuff is another ... Read More: Rating:  - The 16min 'Spoonful' is probably the greatest achievement of rock music so farThis performance of 'Spoonful' is the 3rd/5th/9th* Symphony of Rock. It's 'The Rite Of Spring' and Bruckner's 8th. Jack Bruce is the human race individualised. He is the first and last man on earth. He is Job, Mani and Zarathustra. His song is a great Humanist Assertion or a great song of Gnostic defiance or both. You say it's just a blues with two chords. No, it's the blues transcended. It's the apotheosis of the blues - and it could only be achieved with Bruce's 'heroic jouissance' as a singer and simultaneously playing bass, which is partly where the incredible tension comes from (i.e doing both: Robert Johnson achieved a similar contrapuntal tension singing and playing the guitar at the same time but only connoiseurs seem to be able to hear it). ... Read More: Rating: - They're On Fire!This is a classic. It unfortunately doesn't quite reach the peaks that "Disraeli Gears" had the previous year, but gets very close. It starts with a cracker; "White Room". This is one of rock's classic tracks which mingles Jack's weird and wonderful lyrics with Ginger's crashing drum beats, an opening that sounds like it's out of a spaghetti western and Eric's wah-wah laden solo that that comes from nowhere and eclipses most things done before or since. Things quieten down slightly with the old blues staple "Sitting On Top Of The World". "Passing The Time" is probably the albums weakest track, but has a nice hypnotic feel to it. "As You Said" is an weird track for Cream, cos it's acoustic. It's very creepy at points, but brillient - it's ... Read More: Rating: - A must have! Cream at their peak!Disreali Gears was a superb album that got Cream the popularity they so rightly diserved and thus Wheels Of Fire cemented that with an album that showcased how good they were. Particular note needs to go to Clapton, he was having a field day with this album. Every song is drenched in his smooth guitar licks and it's jaw dropping as a guitarist to listen to him work the fretboard. Cream represented their musical unity to astounding effect, the bass plays off the drums, drums off the bass etc. Jack Bruce has such a distinctive sound and his bass lines are so unpredictable and inspiring. I'm not even gonna talk about Ginger Baker cause you'll hear all you need to know about him when you buy this album. "White Room", "Passing the ... Read More: Rating:  - Who did this remaster?I have the vinyl version of this 2 CD set. The remaster has clarified a lot of the tracks, and revealed some imteresting extra bits undetected on vinyl. The bad news is that some of the remixes are AWFUL!The most clear victim is Clapton - many guitar parts that soar and kick on vinyl are either mixed down or have bizarre tones.I manipulated the equalizer as best I could, but still didn't get a decent sound. The live tracks suffer especially Crossroads, where the classic soloing is dulled down. Crossroads for God's sake! One of the great rock tracks of all time. I also compared it track for track through the same amp (Aiwa black system)and the vinyl won out most times. It's still good - but the sheer excitement and edge - that raw wild sound - is dimmed. ... Read More: |
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