best of the rest of the Stones 2: Cheap Wheels

The last Rolling Stones album I actually like, and which I consider pretty much end of their essential catalog, is Undercover. The last one I think has a fair album's worth of decent or better material is the bloated Voodoo Lounge. And I think there's some alright enjoyable Stones and Mick and Keith solo stuff in between. So, playlist time.

(if ya happen to use Apple Music, you can hear this here)

Here I'm asking — wouldn't Steel Wheels, which I find so lackluster, be much better with the benefit of the best songs Keith instead had debuted over on Talk is Cheap? In an effort to compile a single LP of material originally released 1987-1989 from Keith's solo debut album, Wyman's last Stones album, and a single selection from Mick's second solo disc, I found myself initially dismissing and then, within a week, reconsidering the last two songs released during Bill's tenure in band –recorded January 1991– and added the dancier, more distinctive of the two, bumping Keith's Locked Away from spot as side one closer.

I think I've arrived at something quite passable. It's no Sucking in the Seventies — it'd barely even Suck Under the Eighties — but here's…

Cheap Wheels

Shoot Off Your Mouth    Primitive Cool    7

Take It So Hard    Talk is Cheap    2

Terrifying   Steel Wheels    3

You Don't Move Me    Talk is Cheap    6

Sex Drive    Flashpoint    17

Fancy Man Blues    Rarities 1971-2003    1

Almost Hear You Sigh    Steel Wheels    9

How I Wish    Talk is Cheap    7

Wish I'd Never Met You    Rarities 1971-2003    8

Slipping Away   Steel Wheels    12

I found the inner sleeve from Primitive Cool, again like the One Hit single illustrated by Francesco Clemente, had a circular motif, so I took this side of it and overlayed the Steel Wheels pattern from 2020 RSD picture disc for some art