Pumping Iron & Sweating Steel: The Best of the Iron City Houserockers is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by the Iron City Houserockers

Iron City Houserockers

The Iron City Houserockers were an American rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, led by singer/guitarist Joe Grushecky, that existed from 1976 until 1984...

. Released in 1992 under Rhino Records, it was at that time the only Iron City Houserockers material available on compact disc (Love's So Tough and Have a Good Time but Get out Alive! would not be reissued on CD for another seven years after this compilation appeared). The disc covers all four of the Iron City Houserockers albums from the late seventies and early eighties and places them in chronological order with a few extra tracks thrown in to make it a worthy buy for collectors. Tracks 1-5 were taken from Love's So Tough

Love's So Tough

Love's So Tough is a studio album by the Iron City Houserockers. Released in 1979, the Iron City Houserocker's first album attempts to capture the presence of what was essentially a Pittsburgh bar band playing to a blue collar crowd every night...

, with "School Days

School Days (song)

"School Days" is a song written and recorded by rock and roll icon Chuck Berry, released by the Chess record label as a single in March 1957, and released on the LP After School Session two months later . It is one of his best known songs and is often considered a rock and roll anthem...

", a Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...

 cover, being an unreleased outtake from that album. Tracks 6-11 were taken from Have a Good Time but Get out Alive!

Have a Good Time but Get out Alive!

Have a Good Time but Get out Alive! is a studio album by the Iron City Houserockers. Something of a heartland rock masterpiece, Have a Good Time but Get out Alive! was where the Iron City Houserockers showed just how good they could be with the right songs and producers...

, but with the single edit version of "Junior's Bar". Tracks 12-15 were taken from Blood on the Bricks

Blood on the Bricks (Iron City Houserockers album)

Blood on the Bricks is a studio album by the Iron City Houserockers. A more restrained album than their previous two efforts, the album was produced by Steve Cropper instead of hard rock producers like Have a Good Time but Get out Alive!...

, tracks 16-17 from Cracking Under Pressure

Cracking Under Pressure

Cracking Under Pressure is a studio album by the Iron City Houserockers. Cracking Under Pressure was the Iron City Houserockers' fourth and final album under the moniker and also their final album released under MCA. Veterans Ned E. Rankin and Marc Reisman had left the band and in their place...

and "Goodbye Steeltown", a Joe Grushecky

Joe Grushecky

Joe Grushecky is an American rock musician known for his work with the Iron City Houserockers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and for his works since the late the 1980s with his act Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers and his solo career...

 single released in August of 1984 (after the band had broken up), was included as the final song. The songs were remastered for compact disc by Bill Inglot.

Track listing

1. "I Can't Take It" (Joe Grushecky) - 3:55
2. "Dance With Me" (Joe Grushecky, Art Nardini) - 4:47
3. "Love So Tough" (Joe Grushecky, Gil Snyder) - 3:43
4. "Heroes Are Hard to Find" (Joe Grushecky, Art Nardini, Gary Scalese) - 2:57
5. "School Days (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)
   School Days (song)
   "School Days" is a song written and recorded by rock and roll icon Chuck Berry, released by the Chess record label as a single in March 1957, and released on the LP After School Session two months later . It is one of his best known songs and is often considered a rock and roll anthem...
   
   " (Chuck Berry
   Chuck Berry
   Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
   
   ) - 3:23
6. "Have a Good Time (But Get Out Alive)" (Joe Grushecky) - 3:52
7. "Blondie" (Joe Grushecky) - 2:46
8. "Pumping Iron" (Eddie Britt, Joe Grushecky) - 3:56
9. "Old Man Bar" (Bob Boyer, Eddie Britt, Gil Snyder) - 3:17
10. "Junior's Bar" (Single Edit) (Eddie Britt, Gil Snyder, Joe Grushecky) - 3:55
11. "Rock Ola" (Joe Grushecky) - 2:57
12. "Blood on the Bricks" (Joe Grushecky) - 4:20
13. "Fool's Advice" (Joe Grushecky) - 5:12
14. "Saints and Sinners" (Joe Grushecky) - 4:26
15. "Be My Friend" (Joe Grushecky) - 4:22
16. "There'll Never Be Enough Time" (Joe Grushecky) - 4:52
17. "Angels" (Eddie Britt, Joe Grushecky) - 3:40
18. "Goodbye Steeltown" (Joe Grushecky) - 4:17