CreamWheels Of Fire
- Label
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Universal Music Group International
- Release date
- 1 Jun 1998
- Running length
- 13 tracks
- Running time
- 80:45
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
| 1 |
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White Room | 5:01 | 477,914 | ||
| 2 |
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Sitting On Top Of The World | 5:01 | 100,703 | ||
| 3 |
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Passing The Time | 4:37 | 46,829 | ||
| 4 |
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As You Said | 4:22 | 41,153 | ||
| 5 |
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Pressed Rat And Warthog | 3:16 | 37,689 | ||
| 6 |
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Politician | 4:12 | 115,440 | ||
| 7 |
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Those Were The Days | 2:58 | 79,476 | ||
| 8 |
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Born Under A Bad Sign | 3:13 | 156,426 | ||
| 9 |
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Deserted Cities Of The Heart | 3:43 | 79,507 | ||
| 1 | Crossroads (Live At Winterland) | 4:18 | 7,909 | |||
| 2 |
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Spoonful (Live At Winterland) | 16:46 | 1,310 | ||
| 3 |
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Traintime (Live At Winterland) | 7:03 | 685 | ||
| 4 |
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Toad (Live At Fillmore West) | 16:15 | 931 |
About this album
The album was also released as Wheels of Fire (In the Studio) and Wheels of Fire (Live at the Fillmore) as two single albums, released together, with similar cover art except: In the UK, the studio album was black print on aluminium foil, while the Live at the Fillmore album was a negative image of the studio cover. In Japan, the studio album was black on gold foil, while the live album was black on aluminium foil. In Australia, both covers were laminated copies of the Japanese releases (it was never released as a double album in Australia). In 2003, the album was ranked number 203 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The sleeve was designed by Australian pop artist and cartoonist Martin Sharp, and it won the New York Art Directors Prize for Best Album Design in 1969.
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DavidSmith98
their best record
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justinehering
brilliant record, so classy it hurts.
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MusicMagic77
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MusicMagic77
Note 1: Some pressings of this album contain an alternative version of “Passing the Time”. This “long version” is extended by 67 seconds, but also differs from the “extended version” included on Those Were the Days, which is longer by a further 8 seconds. >> Note 2: Original US pressings of Wheels of Fire incorrectly listed the running time of “Deserted Cities of the Heart” at 4:36.
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MusicMagic77
Note 3: Side 1 tracks 1 and 3 and Side 2 tracks 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the studio album were processed with the Haeco-CSG system. Also processed was “Anyone For Tennis”, which was recorded at the same sessions and appears on some versions of the album. Haeco-CSG was intended to make stereo recordings that were fully compatible with mono playback equipment. The unfortunate side effect is that it “blurs” the stereo imaging of musical parts mixed to the phantom center channel. Using modern digital audio processing software it is possible to reverse the Haeco-CSG effect and restore the original intended sound quality.
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MusicMagic77
Note 4: Original album pressings list “John Group” as the author of “Traintime.” The “John Group” appellation dates back to Jack Bruce’s tenure with the Graham Bond Organisation (with whom Bruce originally recorded the song in 1965), and was used by that band to ensure that members other than Bond received songwriting royalties. The song is based on a vintage blues by Peter Chatman.
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MusicMagic77
It's not "nice" >> It's a MILESTONE of the rock history!!!
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ablosung
nice
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prominence_la
Baker. Toad. 'Nuff said.
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silverlage
Great album, however, it is hard listening to white people play blues...t7b
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gingerbakercorp
http://www.gingerbaker.com/albums/cream-wheels-of-fire.htm The making of Wheels of Fire from the Official Ginger Bker Archive
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IanCad
probably my favorite cream
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ejbarto
incredibleeeeee!
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lookingformagic
Cream under any circumstance is ear candy!!!
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DookieMestrebug
Way better than Disraeli Gears
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GrantRS
Better than Disraeli.
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clasicrocklover
Best Cream album
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hawk1984-3
on par with disraeli
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grayholyhead
not half as good as disraeli gears
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novemberland
Every Cream record is essential listening for those interested in the trajectory of R'n'R...this record is perhaps Cream's most consistently exciting of their tremendous work.
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