The Friday Canon: ROD STEWART
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With one of the most consistently rubbish haircuts in pop, Rod Stewart has been bothering the charts for 36 years! What has he got to show for it? You have 16 ticks over Rod's FORTY-NINE UK Top 40 appearances to find out.
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1. Lose Yourself
2. The Real Slim Shady
=3. My Name Is
=3. Stan
5. Without Me
6. Forgot About Dre [w/Dr Dre]
7. The Way I Am
8. Guilty Conscience [ft Dr Dre]
9. Cleanin' Out My Closet
10. Like Toy Soldiers
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1. Live Forever
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=2. Supersonic
4. Some Might Say
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7. Whatever
8. Shakermaker
9. Roll With It
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Date: 2007-05-04 11:28 am (UTC)A guy I know said that he once broke down and RS helped change his tyre. Like, got out of his limo that was going past and actually helped. I don't know if I believe that.
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Date: 2007-05-04 11:38 am (UTC)I've been mulling over the canons recently - the mere fact that Rod has had nearly 50 UK hit singles makes him canon-worthy, even though lots of those 50 were probably bobbins. I feel I have a duty to spotlight pop stars who keep plugging away regardless, as well as the ones that are brilliant but less prolific.
Re: Quorum
Date: 2007-05-04 11:57 am (UTC)Even if it'll nearly always be the "older, funny" songs that get the ticks.
Re: Quorum
Date: 2007-05-04 12:56 pm (UTC)Fact fans:
Date: 2007-05-04 11:39 am (UTC)Sailing
Date: 2007-05-04 11:41 am (UTC)Re: Sailing
Date: 2007-05-04 11:44 am (UTC)"We are sitting
we are sitting
on the floor
outside the pub"
I'm surprised (and happy) that it's Stewartcanon, rather than the promised Hucknallcanon!
Re: Sailing
Date: 2007-05-04 11:46 am (UTC)Re: Sailing
Date: 2007-05-04 11:45 am (UTC)Re: Sailing
Date: 2007-05-04 12:57 pm (UTC)Sailing
Date: 2007-05-04 11:41 am (UTC)Please to note and d/l: the version of "Sailing" by The Sutherland Brothers Band, which pre-dates Rod's I think. It is grebt: slightly spooky-sounding (contains moog!) but still anthemic enough, whereas Rod's version overdoes the swaying-on-the-terraces-with-your-scarf-held-aloft thing IMHO.
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Date: 2007-05-04 11:44 am (UTC)His handful of best records are incredible though - the absolute apogee of sentimental laddism.
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Date: 2007-05-04 11:46 am (UTC)Rod Stewart makes me feel very queasy.
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Date: 2007-05-04 11:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-04 11:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-04 11:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-04 11:49 am (UTC)And if you didn't understand that, you clearly don't play enough games consoles!
Great Things About "Young Turks"
Date: 2007-05-04 11:51 am (UTC)2. I liked it so much that I started an ILM thread about it. And then three years later I liked it so much I started a SECOND ILM thread about it having forgotten I'd started the first one.
3. "As expected." - very nicely taken.
4. He doesn't say the word "turks" anywhere in it!
5. He was only, what, early 30s when this came out and I love the way he sings it as an avuncular old hellraiser watching Ver Kids from a distance! You wouldn't get any of today's popsters showing such humility.
Re: Great Things About "Young Turks"
Date: 2007-05-04 11:56 am (UTC)Re: Great Things About "Young Turks"
Date: 2007-05-04 11:58 am (UTC)Re: Great Things About "Young Turks"
Date: 2007-05-04 12:01 pm (UTC)*checks wiki hurriedly*
In the spring of 1962, he helped to found The Ray Davies Quartet, later known as the successful British band The Kinks, as their lead singer. He performed with the group on at least one occasion, but was soon dropped due to complaints about his voice from then-drummer John Start's mother as well as musical and personality differences with the rest of the band.
Rod was 17 in 1962.
(And 36 when he recorded 'Young Turks')
Re: Great Things About "Young Turks"
Date: 2007-05-04 12:34 pm (UTC)Rod Stewart - Young Turks
Danzig - Mother
Gap Band - You Dropped A Bomb On Me
Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul
Too $hort - The Ghetto
Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn - Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
Ed Bruce - Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Whitey Shafer - All My Ex's Live In Texas
En Vogue - My Lovin' (Never Gonna Get It)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
America - A Horse With No Name
Eddie Money - Two Tickets To Paradise
L7 - Pretend We're Dead
808 State - Pacific
Quite definitely the best computer game soundtrack of all time, although FIFA 2007 has some pretty awesome tunes too!
Re: Great Things About "Young Turks"
Date: 2007-05-04 02:09 pm (UTC)Re: Great Things About "Young Turks"
Date: 2007-05-04 02:26 pm (UTC)More info on the soundtrack on the Wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_San_Andreas_soundtrack).
Re: Great Things About "Young Turks"
Date: 2007-05-04 12:44 pm (UTC)Re: Great Things About "Young Turks"
Date: 2007-05-05 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-04 11:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-04 11:59 am (UTC)Was it Lester Bangs who said that Micky Waller should have won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his drumming on Stay With Me?
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Date: 2007-05-04 12:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-04 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-04 01:04 pm (UTC)"accepted as the darling of the contemporary peace'n'love movement, the champion of the spiritually undernourished", sez the NME book of rock rather sarcastically
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Date: 2007-05-04 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-04 02:55 pm (UTC)Ooh, that reminds me, the Wurzels re-released "I've Got A Brand New Combine Harvester" last week as the bonus track on their "I Am A Cider Drinker 2007" collab with Tony Blackburn!
*tumbleweeds*
I'll get me coat.
Try in vain to follow my train of thought
Date: 2007-05-04 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-04 04:54 pm (UTC)Plus, she (probably) inspired the Wurzels by accident, surely she gets points for that?
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Date: 2007-05-04 12:46 pm (UTC)Bon Jovi canon next?
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Date: 2007-05-04 12:53 pm (UTC)I am sad that Public Enemy are 1 single short of qualifying for a canon of their own. Perhaps I can dig up some tenuous side projects to beef up the numbers...
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Date: 2007-05-04 12:59 pm (UTC)How about 'Climie Fisher canon - you have 1 (one) tick' ?
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Date: 2007-05-04 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-04 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-04 12:57 pm (UTC)It's because N1ck H0rnBY picked it as one of his favourite songs isn't it...
Repping for the Faces
Date: 2007-05-04 01:01 pm (UTC)"Stay With Me" - Perfect? Possibly. Certainly the inspiration for god knows how many bands.
Also "Cindy Incidentally" is GRATE!
Wot no In A Broken Dream?
Date: 2007-05-04 01:07 pm (UTC)But there's that voice, isn't there? Cracked, seemingly a pitch higher than his contemporaries, that just lends a shade of wistfulness to his best work. I agree entirely about the wonderful Young Turks, but wonder why Python Lee Jackson's In a Broken Dream - a Rod-sung hit of epic scale and drama - has been left off if the Faces tracks are on here?
Re: Wot no In A Broken Dream?
Date: 2007-05-04 01:17 pm (UTC)Re: Wot no In A Broken Dream?
Date: 2007-05-04 02:30 pm (UTC)Apparently his vocal was only meant to be a guide for whoever PLJ recruited as a singer but they left the Rod vocal in when they realized they'd never equal it, and legend has it that they paid him in leopard-skin print car seat covers.
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Date: 2007-05-04 02:07 pm (UTC)