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Steel Wheels [Reissue]

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Digitally remastered reissue of the veteran British Rock band's 1989 album.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Language : English
Product Dimensions : 5.51 x 4.8 x 0.39 inches; 3.17 Ounces
Manufacturer : Interscope
Item model number : 5819341
Original Release Date : 2009
SPARS Code : DDD
Date First Available : May 12, 2009
Label : Interscope
ASIN : B00272NH04
Number of discs : 1

Best Sellers Rank: #30,316 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,057 in Hard Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,563 in Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) (CDs & Vinyl)
- #3,034 in Metal

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John McKeon

the voice of conscience, the voice of reason...

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2018

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Any Stones CD is a good one some better than others. This one was a pretty good issue from the 80's with some very good songs that was remastered in 2009. Emotional Rescue was the biggest hit and a good song but my favorite is Hearts for Sale which is a classic addictive Stones tune . Sad, sad. sad , terrifying, Rock and a Hard Place and almost hear you sigh are also good songs. The two Keith Richards songs are his best since I need a love to make me happy, can't be seen and slipping away are great offerings. Continental Drift and Break the spell are my least favorite Stones songs on this CD. The strengths outweigh the weaknesses as usual and this is a worthwhile purchase. Recommended.

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Mark K. - San Simeon, CA

music that soothes

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2020

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Steel Wheels takes me back to a time of a lot of rain and a lot of pain in my life. This recording was played over and over again on the veranda of a large house in Hilo on a New year's Eve. I had an abscess that started with a root canal gone bad and ended eating a bit of my jawbone-the pain was nearly intolerable and it was raining heavily. The songs stuck in my head and I got through my predicament. Years later it still sounds good to me.

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flying Burrito Daddy

Skipped it then, enjoying it now(2015)

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2015

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Ok folks, I skipped this album just like I skipped Voodoo and Bridges albums that followed. Those are the only 3 tours I've seen the Stones and yet the only albums other Black and Blue and Goatshead Soup that I didn't own.
Yes, on the one hand they are regrettable overlooks on my part, but the upshot is I now have new Stones music to enjoy until my son and I see them play in June 2015.
This is the last album with Good Ole Mr. Wyman on bass and he really shines on this one. You will not be treated to his funky rhythms on Voodoo Lounge and when listening to both albums for the first time as I did a few weeks ago, this fact really jumps out at you.
Keith Richards has a gem here in Slipping Away, which BTW is even better on Stripped.
Keith's voice is the perfect whiskey and cigarettes voice that can age well into his 70's.
If the Stones do no more records, Keith can still do it on his own.

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Socrates Stewart

Stones Comeback; First Album of Their Elder Years

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2009

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This is the third release of "Steel Wheels" which was recorded as a digital album in the first place. This version is louder as most newer CD's are these days, but there really isn't any reason for someone who has enjoyed a previous release of this album to go rushing out to buy this release. That being said, "Steel Wheels" is a good album, not a great album but is a huge improvement over "Dirty Work" and surely better than the all-too conspicuous attempt to sound current, "Uundercover." It's also the last album that Bill Wyman served as a member of the band. The album opens with "Sad Sad Sad" a pretty standard Stones rocker. "Mixed Emotion" is the first single from the album often called "Mick's Demotion" given Keith Richiards plays a more central position in the band. Other noteworthy numbers include, "Terrifying" a song with latin jazz overtones. "Rock and a Hard Place" is another single with some fine Ronnie Wood guitar work. "Almost Hear You Sigh" is an incredible soulful ballad. Keith Richards' strongest number on the album is a fine Al Green tempo number, "Almost Hear You Sigh." About half the album is filler, but the good is very good not an essential Stones album but definitely worth it for Stones' fans and even a mediocre Stones album is better than most bands at their best because even the Stones' worst albums have at least a couple great tunes. "Steel Wheels" have more than a couple great ones.

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R. Watson

Still a good sounding Stones album

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2020

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Sounds great and came well packaged. Not the Stones best album, but better than I remember it. Hard to find a good original copy from the late 80s, so went with the rerelease.

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John Alapick Top Contributor: Blues Music

The last great Stones album

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2011

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Steel Wheels is the last great album that the Rolling Stones have released. This is their best album since Tattoo You and every song here is very good. One listen to the album shows that the band is hungry and having fun again after Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' mid-80's spat. "Mixed Emotions" is their last Top 10 single to date and has an excellent chorus while the funk/rock of "Rock in a Hard Place" and the ballad "Almost Hear You Sigh" would also be strong and successful singles. "Sad Sad Sad" and "Hold On to your Hat" are joyous rockers, "Hearts for Sale" has one of Keith Richards' most killer riffs, and "Slipping Away" and "Blinded by Love" are strong heartfelt ballads. They also touch on their "dance" era with the song "Terrifying" while "Continental Drift" recalls their psychedelic era even with its modern production. The rest of the tracks are fine as well. If you like the Stones, Steel Wheels is certainly worth owning.

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VICTORIA STEINMETZ

it works fine

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2019

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love this album for 30 years

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One of My Fave Rolling Stones Albums

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2017

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I bought this CD to replace an old cassette that finally broke. I have a big Rolling Stones library and consider Steel Wheels as one of their best "comeback" albums after a period of creative/producing doldrums. It is excellent listening whether as background music working in the garage or as dedicated sit-down listening.

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The Punk Panther

The elephant's in the bedroom...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 31, 2018

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Along with 1986's "Dirty Work", it is easy to dismiss this album as "execrable", as many, many journalists and fans have done over the subsequent years. Yes, it is has a synthesiser presence, as did work from many artists in the mid/late eighties, but, in my opinion, it is nowhere near as bad an album as so many have considered it to be. It is actually far superior to "Dirty Work".

The late eighties were, admittedly a dreadful, barren period for music, and this album suffers some of the drawbacks of coming from that era, but there is still some solid Stones rock on here.

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1. Sad Sad Sad
2. Mixed Emotions
3. Terrifying
4. Hold On To Your Hat
5. Hearts For Sale
6. Blinded By Love
7. Rock And A Hard Place
8. Can't Be Seen
9. Almost Hear You Sigh
10. Continental Drift
11. Break The Spell
12. Slipping Away

"Sad Sad Sad" is an excellent, riffy opener, while "Mixed Emotions" is a captivating rocker, some great backing riffs and, on the 2009 remaster, a big, throbbing bass sound. Conspiracy theorists claim the title is a subtle play on "Mick's demotion". Yeah, of course it is. Not. I love the line in "Sad Sad Sad" of "the elephant's in the bedroom, throwing all his weight about". Jagger is on revitalised vocal from on these tracks. He sounds totally rejuvenated. "Terrifying" has another killer bass line and a hypnotic intoxicating beat with one of those sleazy, menacing Jagger vocals, going on about "strange, strange desire...". Some nice brass at the end of it and some rhythmic drums from Charlie Watts. "Hold On To Your Hat" is a breakneck, slightly punky rocker that sounds a bit like it should have been on "Dirty Work". "Hearts For Sale" is a Jagger vocal-dominated mid-pace, intuitive rocker that I haven't heard for ages and I am quite enjoying discovering it again. Some excellent guitar and harmonica interplay comes in near the end. You know, this really isn't too bad an album.

A lilting, rich bass and fetching percussion introduce another Jagger, Latin/Elizabethan-style groove of a smoocher in "Blinded By Love", with him going all snake hips as he gavottes to it, no doubt. There are endearing country/acoustic twinges to the song too. One of the better, undiscovered tracks from the album. Songs like these are never played live, which is a shame. It is current trend, utilised by Bruce Springsteen a lot, to play old albums in their entirety. I reckon it would be good to hear The Stones do so with albums like this. A typical Stones grinding riff and rubber band bass give us the rocking "Rock And A Hard Place". This was a single and a good one it was too. Keith Richards' "Can't Be Seen" is a appealing, upbeat Keith song, it would have sounded great on "Talk Is Cheap", but it is ok here and considerably ballsier than some of his more wheezing ballads that cropped up with increasing regularity on latter-day Stones albums.

"Almost Hear You Sigh" was a leftover from Richards' "Talk Is Cheap" sessions, but here is sung, and convincingly too, by Jagger. It does beg the question that all those "Keith songs" would have been better served by Jagger's vocals. Certainly the latter era ones. Not so much the earlier "I Got The Silver" blues ones. The song features some lovely acoustic guitar in the middle, Ronnie Wood, I think.

"Continental Drift" is the big surprise on the album - a lengthy song, with instrumental experimentation not heard in The Stones' material for many a year. Moroccan sub-Saharan musicians are used on the track, in true Brian Jones-inspired style. Many have said, rightly, that The Stones would have done a lot more stuff like this, had Jones lived. Best track on the album by a mile. The repeated line "love comes at the speed of light" would not have sounded out of place on "Satanic Majesties". "Break The Spell" is another revelatory track - a sort of grinding, upbeat, jazzy almost rockabilly meets the blues sort of thing - if that makes any sense whatsoever. Either way, it is some speeded-up fun. Then we end, of course, with one of those Richards songs I mentioned earlier. Actually, despite that, I quite like "Slipping Away". It has a gentle tenderness to it. All in all, a much better, more enjoyable album than it is ever given credit for being.

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WOW! Sound quality, blows your socks off

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2020

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Simply one of the best remasters I’ve heard. Taut, crisp yet warm and detailed. Buy it if it’s not in your collection. A must have!

I have not set out to write reviews of the music content as “beauty is in the ears of the listener”. These reviews are about the quality (or not) of the recorded sound. To read about how the reviews are done please see my profile.

• Clarity – superb, stunning, exceptional
• Channel separation - superb
• Channel balance – conventional left, right and centre but what balance. Can place every instrument and vocal individually and clearly. Overall exceptional
• Sound Stage – superb, like having your own private performance. Wide, detailed and magical
• Distortion – non audible
• Compression – non audible
• Atmosphere – so good that if you close your eyes you can see Jagger prancing around the stage sneering and wiggling his hips
• Bass – low frequencies – staggering, the drums sound exceptional like real drums they thump, boom and rattle. The bass guitar throbs and thrums in the background, every note is audible
• Treble – high frequencies – excellent the guitars soar and attack yet are capable of being mellow and melodic
• Vocals – excellent, crisp, clear, well defined. You can hear and feel Jagger’s vocal sneer

As a general rule of thumb recordings from the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s are nearly always better on the original vinyl. Remasters often fail to please as it’s just not possible to make a silk purse from a sows ear, i.e. the original recording lacks the necessary detail to be processed digitally and show an audible improvement. Indeed such processing can make the sound worse.

Modern recordings which have been processed digitally from start to finish can be as good as vinyl. CD’s are often unfairly criticised for being poor quality. This is not the case, it is the original recording or the process which is to blame. Modern “remasters” can both enhance and degrade a recording. The statement GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) is the limiting factor. Ignore this at your cost.

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G 1975

Great album from the stones

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2020

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Great album as well as from a great time... 1989... but also a not so great time as this was the last album completed at air studios monserrat before hurricane hugo struck destroying George Martin's studio a few weeks after the rolling stones completed recording this...

Steel wheels... the album that brought the hits "mixed emotions", "almost hear you sigh" and "rock and a hard place"... also for anyone that's well into the rolling stones it's a must have in the collection.

It may sound a bit flat on the top end but that might just be the remaster CD... still great stuff from the oldest band still on the go today.

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S Regan

It’s music

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2019

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Not a lot to say, never listened to it

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Charlotte

A Surprise Success

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2013

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After the tumultuous 80's, I wasn't expecting to enjoy their later releases, and bought Steel Wheels with some hesitation and reservations. However, after listening I can say I was wrong to doubt the Stones. Steel Wheels really delivers the sound that you've been waiting for,with song like the fun Sad Sad Sad and Mixed Emotions. I wouldn't think about skipping one song when listening! Learn from my mistakes, and don't miss out, this album truly is great and not one to miss out on! I'm sure the die-hard fans agree, but I want to encourage passers-by to give it a try!

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