Vinyl Record
Steve Miller Band - Circle Of Love
Steve Miller Band - Circle Of Love on LP vinyl. A 1981 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 1981
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1981 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Circle Of Love is Steve Miller Band in 1981, returning after the huge late-1970s run of Fly Like An Eagle and Book Of Dreams with a stranger, leaner record than casual listeners might expect. Its reputation lives in two halves. The first side keeps Miller's melodic rock craft in view: Heart Like A Wheel, Get On Home, Baby Wanna Dance and the title track still carry the relaxed vocal ease and blues-pop shape that made his radio period so durable. Then Macho City takes over the second side and turns the album into something more curious: an extended groove with political muttering, disco-funk bass movement, studio effects and a nocturnal urban pulse far removed from Take The Money And Run familiarity. Circle Of Love is not the obvious first Steve Miller Band album, but that makes it useful. It catches Miller testing what a post-blockbuster 1980s record could be, half comfort zone and half oddball late-night experiment.
Circle Of Love matters because it complicates the idea of Steve Miller as only a 1970s hitmaker. Released after a long gap from new band material, it keeps the concise rock-song craft but lets Macho City stretch into a left-field 1980s groove that later became the album's cult talking point.
For collectors, Circle Of Love is the interesting post-Book Of Dreams return rather than a greatest-hits substitute. The draw is the contrast between Miller's smooth, familiar songcraft and the full-side Macho City experiment, which gives the record its distinctive shelf identity.
Early-1980s rock with blues-pop smoothness, clipped dance rhythms, clean guitar lines, relaxed vocals, occasional new-wave polish and an extended funk-disco studio groove on Macho City.
Recommended for: Collectors exploring Steve Miller Band beyond the big 1970s albums; Listeners interested in classic-rock artists adjusting to the early 1980s; Fans curious about Macho City and Miller's more experimental side.
When was Circle Of Love released? Circle Of Love was released in 1981, after Steve Miller Band's late-1970s commercial peak. Why is Macho City often discussed with this album? Macho City occupies the original album's second side and pushes into a long, groove-based studio piece rather than a standard short rock single. Is Circle Of Love a typical Steve Miller Band album? Only partly. It has Miller's relaxed rock writing, but its extended 1980s funk experiment makes it more unusual than the best-known 1970s records.