"Wheels of Fire" is Cream's best album. The follow-up to "Disraeli Gears", this offering reveals Cream at the peak of their studio and live powers.  Their songwriting chops had improved significantly since "Disreali", and songs like "Those Were the Days", "Pressed Rat and Warthog" and "Deserted Cities of the Heart" were like nothing they had ever written or recorded previously. On the original album release, this was a double LP, with record one being the studio album and record two being a live album recorded at the Fillmore. "Wheels" seduces the listener with a great mix of Classical Rock, Psychedelic Power Pop Rock, Blues Rock and Instrumental Music. Great instrumentation on the studio cuts like Glockenspiel and Cornet and incredible improv on the live side make this one of the decade's (60's) great works. I recently heard Clapton say that when he heard the solos in "Crossroads" on the live side of the record, he winced at how bad he thought that they were. Don't believe it. Those two solos are still among the greatest live improvs dedicated to vinyl in all of rock history(Others that comes to mind are Jimi Hendrix's solos in "Little Wing" off of the "Hendrix in the West" release and Duane Allman's final solos in "Mountain Jam" on "The Allman Bros. Live at the Fillmore East." A must for 60's music lovers and truly a record of the era.