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24FPS
Throw away Sad, Sad, Sad, & Rock And A Hard Place, and Can't Be Seen, and you have a great album.
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24FPS
Throw away Sad, Sad, Sad, & Rock And A Hard Place, and Can't Be Seen, and you have a great album.
That's what I like about this forum...such a rock hard opinion. Can't Be Seen is great go and listen again. The other 2 I agree with you
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Green Lady
I am used to playing my Monitor Mixes CD instead of the official Steel Wheels, so much so that I'm not going to dig out the original now from wherever it's hiding, just to be able to comment on the sound and the mix. And I wouldn't want to be without Fancy Man Blues or For Your Precious Love - I wish those had been included.
The one I really can't get to like at all is Rock And A Hard Place - I think they had high hopes for that, and kept trying it live, but it just doesn't click for some reason. Don't enjoy Break The Spell either.
I do at least like all the rest, although some are a bit Stones-by-numbers - I don't get the hate for Hold On To Your Hat, and Continental Drift is to my mind a successful experiment. Love Terrifying and Slipping Away, but I think Hearts For Sale and Blinded by Love are early examples of a style that has been repeated rather too often on later albums.
It isn't a classic album, but it's a good one.
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TeddyB1018
This ^^^
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24FPS
Throw away Sad, Sad, Sad, & Rock And A Hard Place, and Can't Be Seen, and you have a great album.
That's what I like about this forum...such a rock hard opinion. Can't Be Seen is great go and listen again. The other 2 I agree with you
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Pete66
Fine album, way better than Undercover, which gets a lot of praise on this site.
And they even left the best songs off! (Fancyman blues, For your precious love).
Love Mixed emotions, which was all over the radio in that late summer of '89.
Pete.
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audun-eg
Not one song on the album I really don't like, but agree with the mix part of it. To much reverb over all, and not enough meat in the bottom end. Very '80s overproduced as well. This album would have been great to have remixed. There are great songs in there as well as nice arrangements.
I even think Rock And A Hard Place could have been a Stones Classic. The main reason it maybe isn't, is because Keith isn't driving the main riff, and he didn't bother to do it live either as opposed to Brown Sugar. Maybe the same with Sad Sad Sad.
Hold On To Your Hat is a fireball and holds some of the finest lead work from Keith ever recorded IMO.
Mixed Emotions is sort of almost too. Verses not really going anywhere, but the chorus and "bridge" is simply beautiful.
Continental Drift is one of their most experimental songs, a bit Satanic Majesties-like, and I think they succeeded with this one. A bonus was of course that the last part of it showed ideal for a concert intro. Have they ever had an intro before or after that was taken directly from their own album, and not either from another artist or composer?
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Pete66
Fine album, way better than Undercover, which gets a lot of praise on this site.
And they even left the best songs off! (Fancyman blues, For your precious love).
Love Mixed emotions, which was all over the radio in that late summer of '89.
Pete.
That's because UNDERCOVER is a killer bizarre album. STEEL WHEELS is 2nd grade colouring.
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Natlanta
those wheels are badass though.
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Natlanta
those wheels are badass though.
Never cared for the cover. Never understood what the title was getting at either.