Cream (2) – Wheels Of Fire
Label: |
Polydor – 543-004/5 |
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Country: |
Canada |
Released: |
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Genre: |
Rock |
Style: |
Blues Rock |
Tracklist
| In The Studio | |||
| A1 | White Room | 4:56 | |
| A2 | Sitting On Top Of The World | 4:56 | |
| A3 | ing The Time | 4:31 | |
| A4 | As You Said | 4:19 | |
| B1 | Pressed Rat And Warthog | 3:13 | |
| B2 | Politician | 4:11 | |
| B3 | Those Were The Days | 2:52 | |
| B4 | Born Under A Bad Sign | 3:08 | |
| B5 | Deserted Cities Of The Heart | 4:36 | |
| Live At The Fillmore | |||
| C1 | Crossroads | 4:13 | |
| C2 | Spoonful | 16:44 | |
| D1 | Traintime | 6:52 | |
| D2 | Toad | 15:53 |
Companies, etc.
- Manufactured By – Polydor Records Canada Limited
- Lacquer Cut At – RCA Studios, Toronto
- Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Smiths Falls, Ontario
Credits
- Artwork – Martin Sharp (2)
- Design [Album] – Stanislaw Zagorski
- Engineer [Re-mix Engineer] – Adrian Barber (tracks: C1 to D2)
- Engineer [Recording] – Tom Dowd (tracks: A1 to B5)
- Producer – Felix Pappalardi
Notes
Red labels, with a reflective silver gatefold cover.
First record is recorded in studio; second record contains live performances at the Fillmore.
[On labels record 1]
543.004
ATCO (U.S.A.) SD-2-700
[On labels record 2]
543.005
ATCO (U.S.A.) SD-2-700
First record is recorded in studio; second record contains live performances at the Fillmore.
[On labels record 1]
543.004
ATCO (U.S.A.) SD-2-700
[On labels record 2]
543.005
ATCO (U.S.A.) SD-2-700
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched, variant 1): 543-004-3 A Side 1
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched, variant 1): 543.004-2 2
- Matrix / Runout (Side C runout, etched, variant 1): 543-005-3 2 GT
- Matrix / Runout (Side D runout, etched, variant 1): 543.005-4 2 GT
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched, variant 2): 543.004-A-4 Side 1 G T
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched, variant 2): 543.004-2 -② TG
- Matrix / Runout (Side C runout, etched, variant 2): 543-005-3 ② Side 3 GT
- Matrix / Runout (Side D runout, etched, variant 2): 543.005-4 ② GT
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Wheels Of Fire (2×LP, Album, Stereo) | Polydor | 583 031/2 | UK | 1968 | ||
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Wheels Of Fire (2×LP, Album, Stereo) | Polydor | 184 167/68 | 1968 | |||
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Wheels Of Fire (2×LP, Album, Mono) | Polydor | 582 031/2 | UK | 1968 | ||
| Wheels Of Fire (2×LP, Album, Stereo, Monarch Pressing, Gatefold) | ATCO Records | SD 2-700 | US | 1968 | |||
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Wheels Of Fire (2×LP, Album, Terre Haute Pressing) | ATCO Records | SD 2-700 | US | 1968 |
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Reviews
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My copy matches everything in cover and dead wax/matrix info, except the label has different design. Instead of small white rectangle frame around black 1 shown here, I got much wider white frame almost across the label, covering black “1”, “543.004” and “STEREO” “33” (below STEREO). Anyone has this variant?
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An amazing album of blues rock. Though I would say that as much as I do love tracks like White Room and Spoonful, I've fascinated by lesser-known tracks like ing the Time and As You Said. I like the studio album quite a bit more than the live album. The live album is fine, but I think some tracks do go on for too long, especially Toad, which may excite drumheads but it's simply Ginger Baker taking a drum solo, and not much more than that. I've never been a devout fan of Clapton. I believe he did a lot for shaping the sound of blues rock and electrified music, but a lot of imitators appeared pretty quickly and many of them were simply more interesting guitar players. So for my money, I've never really needed a 17-minute jam track of Cream (the aforementioned "Spoonful"). But these are honestly minor quibbles. This is an important album in the history of blues rock and it still carries a lot of impact.
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