also: ridiculous
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 December 2016 12:36 (seven years ago) link
the last ridiculous trashy pop Rod moment. yeah, "Miss You" is the obvious influence on the "spoken" section but he's been using this sort of phrasing throughout Out of Order, and you wonder if it was his spin on rap, encouraged by a drunk Andy Taylor.
Rod with straightened combed hair in video is a fright---like GE Smith with thicker locks
― col, Saturday, 10 December 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
@nthony miccio is a big fan of this one
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
Forgetable, but vastly better than the worst version ever of "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" from yesterday
― Lee626, Saturday, 10 December 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
I never forgot it.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 December 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
Another cover!
"Try a Little Tenderness" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry M. Woods)
https://youtu.be/g1d3Kxtl8us
https://cbs1059sunnyfm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/51129323_8.jpg?w=594
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 December 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
was bracing for the "Nobody Knows You When Yr Down & Out" treatment but no, erring on the side of taste
― col, Monday, 12 December 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
"When I Was Your Man" (K. Savigar, Stewart)
https://youtu.be/e1yoASj2TjE
http://davidmcgough.com/photos/thumbs/Rod%20Stewart%201988,%20NY%207.jpg
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 December 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
Faceless ballad, sung with feeling.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 December 2016 17:37 (seven years ago) link
Savigar really stuck around, eh? their collaboration lasted longer than Lennon/McCartney's.
"When I Was Your Man": nicely maintains the wine bar backing music mood of previous track
― col, Monday, 12 December 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
I shuddered at this title...
"Almost Illegal" (R. Stewart, A. Taylor)
https://youtu.be/szEjiCyxLmU
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dXvGSWAPHOE/TQmnSFqb9HI/AAAAAAAACPc/L4rc8fZ7G1U/s1600/RodStewart-RachelHunter.jpg
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
yeah was ready for the worst but this is...sort of heartfelt? in a very gross way? so I suppose it's a fitting end to the cycle. "She's not a radical, but she's mine" hail & farewell Rod
― col, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 01:26 (seven years ago) link
"She's a radical but she's mine" -- my response to Rod.
Gonna wrap this up with some odds and ends: two of his biggest '80s tracks.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
"Downtown Train" (Tom Waits)
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q6yk9wWNB08/hqdefault.jpg
https://youtu.be/q6yk9wWNB08
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
Once a year I pick a fight with a Waitsphile who despises what Stewart did to make his idol a richer man. I love this cover, produced by Trevor Horn. Rod's in good form, and he sings the verses as if he still remembered that he can empathize with the scenario.
it's tough: orig. has some of Waits' best idiosyncratic phrasings & Ribot's guitar. and the Horn production does the job a bit too well in smoothing out the edges (has a weaker beat than Waits' too, and the Waits track sounds like a guy slapping a crate at times). But as you said Rod comes through and sells it---one of his best vocals of the period
― col, Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
"This Old Heart of Mine" (Holland–Dozier–Holland-Sylvia Moy)
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sVoa8S-7BrM/maxresdefault.jpg
https://youtu.be/N9eQShsxkj4
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 December 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
"oh mama, can this really be the end?" hell, there have been much worse endings. It doesn't really work as a duet, but what the hell: Rod still seems in awe of Isley, and happy to be on stage with him. A traditionalist to the end
― col, Friday, 16 December 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
I love their camaraderie – one of the few '80s duets where the pair sparks off each other.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 December 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
last thoughts? among my vague ones
Rod doing sloppy 2nd rate Stones rockers lasted much longer than I figured. it takes until "Body Wishes" to finally change the formula, with "Camouflage" the first "80s" album.
not *that* many flat-out awful tracks, even the fillers. a genial (or gross) mediocrity fills most of these albums.
biggest disappointment: Blondes Have More Fun, which I really thought was going to be a disco album but was just disco single + crap.
― col, Friday, 16 December 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
Atlantic Crossing = "I'm still working on songs alone or with mates, reward myself with trip to the pub"ANOTT and FL&FF = "Let's drink and play in the studio."BHMF = "Hm. I should remember to write some tunes."FB = "Erm...what are we doing here?"TIY = "These 'ere synths ain't half bad then..."BW = "Program these 'ere things, mates. I'll be back in a jif."Camouflage = "Oh! We ARE recordin' today."RSA = "Guess we need some more tunes to accompany that movie thing."OOO = "Sit here, Andy. You look a bit like Woody."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 December 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
lol, i missed this was set to end in 88 and thought "well i contribute once they get past the stuff i coincidentally blogged about concurrently
anyway, here's my pairs of cents on these albums
http://anthonyisright.tumblr.com/post/150076632299/rod-stewart-albums-rated-pt-1
― da croupier, Saturday, 17 December 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
(and the preceding solo albums). an "on beyond train" thread would probably be a slog but i'd contribute if alfred or somebody kept it chugging
― da croupier, Saturday, 17 December 2016 01:32 (seven years ago) link
I found your part two: http://anthonyisright.tumblr.com/post/150123799389/rod-stewart-albums-rated-pt-2
Tonight I'm Yours is almost as good as I imagined. He's such a whore that he fully commits to the synth pop. I agree that Foolish Behavior and Camouflage are way better than I expected, and BHMF is way worse.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 December 2016 01:37 (seven years ago) link
"Tonight I'm Yours" at CVS.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link
don't hurt meh, don't hurt meh
― veronica moser, Thursday, 29 June 2017 02:30 (six years ago) link
Hearing a certain gross single in the wild inspired this post.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 November 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link
Let's rank the seventies.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 October 2018 01:46 (five years ago) link
and of course I just heard "Hot Legs" at CVS.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 October 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
THE version of "Young Turks"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvHGW468n44
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 00:53 (five years ago) link
This was like panning for gold in a mountainous wasteland. "Atlantic Crossing" and "A Night on the Town" weren't on the same level as his best work (the first four Mercury albums, the best from Faces), but they were respectable albums. Things went downhill fast and the '80s were pretty much a complete waste.
Made this a while back, it collects everything I'd want to listen to post-Mercury and before the "Unplugged" special (a surprisingly charming reunion between Rod and Ronnie Wood).
1 Three Time Loser 04:052 Drift Away 03:433 Stone Cold Sober 04:124 I Don't Want to Talk About It 04:485 Still Love You 05:116 Sailing 04:377 To Love Somebody 04:148 Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright) 03:559 The First Cut Is The Deepest 04:3110 Fool For You 03:4911 The Killing Of Georgie (Part I And II) 06:2812 The Balltrap 04:3713 You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim) 04:3014 You Got A Nerve 04:5915 I Was Only Joking 06:0716 Scarred And Scared 04:5117 Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight 05:04
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
no "Young Turks" or "Tonight I'm Yours"?!?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
From the 'comeback' album, which to be fair, did break the downward slide - it's better than the previous two. But if it was ever that good, it's aged poorly. The title track was a hit, but it does nothing for me. It's not a terrible song, but like most of the album, it's a cluttered sounding record. "Young Turks" and "Only a Boy" are potentially good songs - it's encouraging that Rod wrote the lyrics to both, but "Only a Boy" has too much '80s bombast, with Rod shouting over the drums, and "Young Turks" sounds like it was sung over a Dire Straits outtake. I also like the vocal on "Jealous" which otherwise sounds a bit derivative of the Rolling Stones' SOME GIRLS.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
I think I what you mean about “young Turks” and dire straits, but to me the production on YT is so gentle and twee and warm and genuinely wavey. “walk on life” is such cold sonic horseshit, especially compared to the rest of Brothers In Arms, it’s like born in the USA never happened.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
The general warmth pervading "Young Turks," coupled with his exuberant performance, is a poem.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
it's aged poorly.
Soto alarm sounded
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
Watched only 20 minutes of that so far, we're really going to miss that guy when he's gone. There will be a giant David Lee Roth sized hole in the universe, and we're all going to feel it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, July 22, 2019 5:48 PM (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I think we are really going to miss Rod Stewart when he's gone as well. There's gonna be a giant Rod Stewart's hair sized hole in the universe, etc.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 02:42 (four years ago) link
"The Killing of Georgie" hit me tonight.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 March 2024 02:17 (three months ago) link
"Move Me" (Stewart, Tony Brock, Jay Davis, Wally Stocker, Kevin Savior)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfUZDye75QI― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, November 3, 2016 7:47 AM (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfUZDye75QI
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, November 3, 2016 7:47 AM (seven years ago)
Maybe this should be in 'post a controversial music opinion', but when Rod went Full Disco or New Wave, he was a god-damn beast that rose above even his epochal 'Every Picture Tells A Story' album. That voice in a new wave/disco idiom was fucking fantastic.
I remember being told by Important People (including my 8th-grade english teacher, who chastised me for liking 'Infatuation' more than 'Maggie Mae') that Rod sold out with his disco/new wave turn on "Blondes Have More Fun", but then I listened to that cassette, hoping for more of that vibe, only to get (fun, I'll admit) bloooz like 'Dirty Weekend' and (also good, god damnit Rod you bastard) folky stuff like 'Ain't Love A Bitch'. What the hell, Rod? You totally misled us. Where's the disco?
Thankfully, we get 'Body Wishes', and the full-on FUCKYEAH harmonized guitars track 'Move Me', which is god-damn 10.0 Rod, ripping off 'Billie Jean' better than (also awesome) 'Caribbean Queen' or Cee-Lo's 'Bright Lights, Bigger City'. Is he saying 'punch me in the bible (Ezekiel 23!?), please'? Because, I don't care, that's what he's saying. And that extra measure he makes us wait before the last chorus? Damn, it's one of the reasons I love music.
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Monday, 4 March 2024 04:17 (three months ago) link
I'm enjoying the hell out of this record.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, November 3, 2016 5:30 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is the fun trashy Rod record I've been hoping for since this thing started
― col, Thursday, November 3, 2016 6:24 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglin
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 March 2024 10:33 (three months ago) link
I heard "Lost in You" at CVS this morning.
And how the hell did "Every Beat of My Heart" go #2 in England?!
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 March 2024 15:17 (two months ago) link