Wheels Of Fire |  | Artist: Cream
Label: Polydor
Category: Music
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 5676
Format: Box set, Double CD, Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 531812
UPC: 731453181229
EAN: 0731453181229
ASIN: B0000067L3
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | White Room - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Adrian Barber | | • | Sitting On Top Of The World | | • | Passing The Time | | • | As You Said | | • | Pressed Rat And Warthog | | • | Politician - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Adrian Barber, Tom Dowd | | • | Those Were The Days | | • | Born Under A Bad Sign | | • | Deserted Cities Of The Heart |
Disc 2
| • | Crossroads - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Bill Halverson, Tom Dowd, Adrian Barber, Joseph. M Palmaccio | | • | Spoonful - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Adrian Barber | | • | Traintime - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Adrian Barber | | • | Toad - Cream, Felix Pappalardi, Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Kevin Brady, Gene Paul |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 13
 The best... January 5, 2004
nicjaytee (London)
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
Gifted, erratic and incredibly powerful, Cream were probably the most important band to emerge from London's mid 60's RB scene. Faced with a peer group of brilliant guitarists including Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Peter Green Jimi Hendrix, a host of other world-class musicians such as Rod Stewart, John Mayall, John McVie Steve Winwood, and a huge number of other less well known but equally gifted back-up players - all touring the same small club circuit night after night - Cream exploded into this scene in mid 1966 as a group deliberately conceived, as their name implied, to be "the best".pTo understand how good they were you had to see them live during the short period in which their lofty ambition came close to fruition. They were... "the best" and, after stamping their authority in the UK, they switched to the USA to blow their home-grown competition off stage. Imploding in well documented strife by mid 1968, those who saw them during this brief period were privileged indeed. For those who didn't there's little on offer. The group's recordings are at best a shadow of what they were live, with the few real gems spread across their four albums - "Fresh Cream" (a fair encapsulation of where they were in mid 1966); "Disraeli Gears" (a studio album with a couple of real highlights and much mediocre stuffing); "Goodbye" (even more so) and, "Wheels of Fire" (probably the closest you'll get). The subsequently released live albums add little more.pBut... one track says it all. "Crossroads": possibly the best interaction of three musicians at the peak of their powers ever committed to tape. Eric Clapton's breathtaking guitar solos are matched, virtually note for note, by Jack Bruce's brilliant "lead guitar" bass lines and Ginger Baker's power drumming. Live, because it had to be to capture it. As DJ John Peel said after playing this track on its first UK broadcast: "now tell me they're human". It's here, surrounded by some of their best recorded music, and it's priceless!
An anthem to the greatest and most original rock band ever March 17, 2000
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
The mixture of blues, jazz and rock played with the sheer brilliance of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. Clapton with his classic fast blues style innovating on live tapes and his genius in playing set pieces on recordings, Bruce with his wonderful wailing blues voice and imaginative bass complimented with the thundering, intricate rhythms of Ginger Baker's drums makes for the most scintillating music of its time and is still relevant today. People forget that this first of the great super groups was hailed by classical and other musicians alike as being original and the best. Cream carved a niche in the annals of rock history and there will remain as a shining example to all for the future.
Phenonenal January 24, 2004
beast of the sausage meat
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
This is most definately the Cream of the Cream's albums. It contains not only a studio disk packed with wonderfully creative and ingenious songs, but a live album containing 4 monster tracks which are absolutely astounding. pIt is difficult to describe Cream's albums because there are not enough superlatives. My father first played me "white Room" when I was 4, and I have hailed it as one of the best rock songs ever recorded.pBecause this was the band's third album, they were definately more experimental, introducing tympani, glocks and cellos, but still the album is fantastic. "Passing the time", "As you said" and "Pressed Rat and Warthog" are certainly not what you would expect from cream, judging by their first two albums but if you persevere, they become just as good.pThe rest of the album contains their classics; White Room, Politician, Deserted Cities of the Heart, Born under a Bad sign and Sitting on top of the world. All of these are examples of some of the best blues paying ever recorded.pOn the live album, their ability as a band to Jam and interact with each othe are showcased, with Crossroads and Spoonful being some of the greatest songs ever cut.pMy advice is to get this album and prepare to be blown away. It is well worth it.
Monumental July 25, 2002
Jimmy Sclaff (UK)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
A great band at the top of their form.brA studio album and a live album.brThe 4 live tracks capture Cream at their stunning best. brThe quality of the interplay and improvisation is stunning. Claptons stunning work on Crossroads and the interplay between Bruce and Clapton and Baker on Spoonful is unsurpassed No other rock band had come close to this at this point.brThe studio tracks are great too from the power blues of Sitting On Top Of The World and Born Under A Bad Sign to the classic power rock of the Bruce/Brown penned White Room (one of the greates rock songs ever) and Ginger Bakers fun recitation on Pressed Rat and Warthog.brThis group influenced so much. Yet the people who followed ended up more revered and lauded and they were not fit to stand in their boots. brKeep listening to Cream folks.
Probably one of the greatest rock albums ever. August 22, 2000
Mr. Colin Rankin (Braintree, essex United Kingdom)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This album is momentous.I can think of nothing else that has so musically defined an era.Clapton,Bruce and Baker tore into the blues and redefined it for a generation.Yes,they became excessive but they still shine as an outstanding example of musical ability.Their live recordings on this album in particular show them at their best......A great,great album from a great,great band.
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