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whitem8
Steel Wheels... I was so excited. And was waiting for a one two punch to tell the world they were back. But it was........so boring. It had its moments, Continental Drift, and the writing was solid as well. But it just felt so flat. Somewhat emotionless and sterile. Again, the production just didn't do the songs justice.
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Stoneage
There is no proof whatsoever that everyone hates Steel Wheels. This is a stupid thread to begin with...
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sonyzzz
I'm sorry but Almost Hear you Sigh and slipping away are pure classics.
My only complaint is they should have but Fancy Man Blues on the album
and Cook Cook Blues, than the whole album would be classic.
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GasLightStreet
I always thought - I don't have any of the UMe reissues except for SOME GIRLS thanks to the bullshit of not making Disc 2 a seperate release - that the Virgin reissue skimped on the packaging of this album. Which seemed rather strange since when the reissues came out in 1993 it wasn't that long since STEEL WHEELS was out seeing that it was their most recent album and it did sell particularly well.
Virgin made the record look different. The inside artwork was cropped or not fully represented.
I'm not sure if it ever sounded any different either. The 1970s LPs indeed sounded different. I got DIRTY WORK for shits and giggles (and to have all of the Virgin reissues, of course).
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nico one
not everybody hates it ,
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GasLightStreet
I always thought - I don't have any of the UMe reissues except for SOME GIRLS thanks to the bullshit of not making Disc 2 a seperate release - that the Virgin reissue skimped on the packaging of this album. Which seemed rather strange since when the reissues came out in 1993 it wasn't that long since STEEL WHEELS was out seeing that it was their most recent album and it did sell particularly well.
Virgin made the record look different. The inside artwork was cropped or not fully represented.
I'm not sure if it ever sounded any different either. The 1970s LPs indeed sounded different. I got DIRTY WORK for shits and giggles (and to have all of the Virgin reissues, of course).
Oh it did. The Virgin remasters were so much better than the CBS versions.
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vertigojoe
The Stones as a functioning band ended at Leeds in 82. Dirty work was the sound of the band ripping itself apart as it imploded. Quite interesting all the same.
Steel Wheels is, like all the studio albums since, nothing more than an excuse to go on tour and rake in the cash.
Later on they discovered they didn't have to go thru the charade, and would just go on tour anyway, on the back of a greatest hits compilation or some spurious anniversary date.
Don't compare these albums to anything pre '82. It's not the same band. The band you loved is gone. I'd even go as far as to say that if you can't see that you don't even know what the Rolling Stones are, they are not this "Plastic dry hump" imitation corporate co#k sucking money making machine! they used to be artists.
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Title5Take1
I love STEEL WHEELS. It's been in my car's CD player for a week and I've not been tempted to change it. What prompted me to "revive" it, of all things, was seeing the movie CLEOPATRA for the first time on TV recently, and I wanted to listen to BLINDED BY LOVE more closely.
Characters in BLINDED BY LOVE:
"On a barge that was burnished with gold." Mark Anthony and Cleopatra:
"The secrets that two lovers share/Should never have been betrayed":
“A parvenu second-hand lady.” Wallis Simpson and Prince Edward:
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24FPS
Steel Wheels is the only great Stones album since Some Girls. It is the last coherent, consistently good album with their original, classic rhythm section. This is not an A-Plus album because it lacks a monster single. This is the last Stones album that I will listen to and have that special feeling that I'm listening to the real Rolling Stones creating something new. It has more spunk to it than IORR ever had. It's better than Black and Blue. In fact, it's their second best album post-Exile.
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vertigojoe
The Stones as a functioning band ended at Leeds in 82. Dirty work was the sound of the band ripping itself apart as it imploded. Quite interesting all the same.
Steel Wheels is, like all the studio albums since, nothing more than an excuse to go on tour and rake in the cash.
Don't compare these albums to anything pre '82. It's not the same band.
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shadooby
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Cook Cook Blues a Dirty Work outtake? I always thought that even the released version was recorded circa 1985. Put that one on Dirty Work, it needed all the help it could get.
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vertigojoe
The Stones as a functioning band ended at Leeds in 82. Dirty work was the sound of the band ripping itself apart as it imploded. Quite interesting all the same.
Steel Wheels is, like all the studio albums since, nothing more than an excuse to go on tour and rake in the cash.
Don't compare these albums to anything pre '82. It's not the same band.
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nico one
not everybody hates it ,
It's the last great Rolling Stones album.