THE TALK OF FREEDOM
AND HUMAN RIGHTS
MEANS BULLYING
AND PRIVATE WARS
AND CHUCKING
ALL THE DUST IN OUR EYES
AND PEASANT PEOPLE
POORER THAN DIRT
WHO ARE CAUGHT
IN THE CROSSFIRE
END UP WITH NOTHING
TO LOOSE BUT THEIR SHIRTS
Steel Wheels
is the
nineteenth U.K.
and
twenty-first U.S.
studio album
by the English
rock band
released on
August,29th 1989
in the US
and on
September,11th
in the UK.
It was the
final album
of new material
that the band
recorded for
Columbia Records.
Hailed as a
major comeback
upon its release,
Steel Wheels
is notable for
the patching up
of the
working relationship
between
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards,
a reversion to a
a reversion to a
more classic style
of music
and the launching
of the band's biggest
world tour to date.
It is also the final
full-length studio album
to involve
long-time bassist
Bill Wyman,
preceding the announcement
of his departure
in January 1993.
Wyman's final tenure
with the band
would be on
two studio tracks
for the 1991 album
Flashpoint.
Steel Wheels
was also the first album
since
Some Girls
not to feature
former member
and frequent contributor
Ian Stewart,
who died
shortly before
the release
of their
previous album
Dirty Work.
It was produced by
Richards and Jagger,
along with
Chris Kimsey,
who had previously
produced the Stones' 1
983 Undercover.
After the
relative disappointment
of their prior
two albums,
Steel Wheels
was a hit,
reaching
multi-platinum status
in the United States,
Top 5 status
in numerous markets
around the world,
and spawning
two hit singles:
"Mixed Emotions",
which peaked at No. 1
in Canada and No. 5
in the United States,
and
"Rock and a Hard Place",
the band's last
Top-40 hit
in the US. Critics
were generally
lukewarm
towards the album,
exemplified by
Stephen Thomas Erlewine's
retrospective assessment:
"It doesn't make for
a great Stones album,
but it's not bad,
and it feels like
a comeback."
BONUS
Steel Wheels Live:
Atlantic City, NJ 12.19.89
CD 1
Start Me Up
Bitch
Sad Sad Sad
Undercover Of The Night
Harlem Shuffle
Tumbling Dice
Miss You
Terrifying
Ruby Tuesday
Salt Of The Earth
(w/ Axl Rose & Izzy Stradlin)
Rock And A Hard Place
CD 2
Mixed Emotions
Honky Tonk Women
Midnight Rambler
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Little Red Rooster
(w/ Eric Clapton)
Boogie Chillen
(w/ Eric Clapton & John Lee Hooker)
Can't Be Seen
Happy
CD 3
Paint It Black
2000 Light Year From Home
Sympathy For The Devil
Gimme Shelter
Introduction
It's Only Rock'n'Roll
(But I Like It)
Brown Sugar
[I Can't Get No] Satisfaction
Jumping Jack Flash
BONUS
The Rolling Stones :
ABC/'s
20/20 Steel Wheels Tour 1989
(Interview) [*]
I Saw Her Standing There
(Live)
(All Star Jam)
Billy Joel,
Bruce Springsteen,
Jeff Beck,
George Harrison,
Ringo Starr,
David Bowie [*]
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