The Friday Canon: ROD STEWART

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

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.

[Poll #978503]

Eminem: (link)
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

Wasis: (link)
1. Live Forever
=2. Cigarettes And Alcohol
=2. Supersonic
4. Some Might Say
5. Don't Look Back In Anger
6. Wonderwall
7. Whatever
8. Shakermaker
9. Roll With It
10. D'You Know What I Mean?

Comments

Great Things About "Young Turks"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1. It's the best Springsteen song not by Springsteen.
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"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i'm not sure he EVER really played "i am ver kidz" card -- even tho he wz super-young when he started out (like 15 or something) (jeff am i right abt that?)

Re: Great Things About "Young Turks"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Born 1945. Got kicked out of Ray Davies Quartet in 1962 for having a rubbish voice :-)

Re: Great Things About "Young Turks"

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

erm erm yes I think you are

*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"

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Best songs on the GTA: San Andreas soundtrack...

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"

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

why on earth are any of those songs on the soundtrack? esp. 'Pacific' - it just seems weird (but then i do not understand GTA thangs)

Re: Great Things About "Young Turks"

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

The point about GTA games is that you spend a large amount of game time driving around. In San Andreas, the latest version of the game, you had the choice of about 12 or 14 different radio stations. Each radio station essentially had one CD's worth of music playing on rotation, and as you drive around, you can channel hop. I generally preferred the classic rock station (K-DST) for long motorway driving, the country and western station (K-ROSE) when I was in rural areas, and the hip-hop station (Radio Los Santos) if I was going to shoot up some gang members!

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"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The video has kidz-from-fame style dancing in it! This always makes me happy.

Re: Great Things About "Young Turks"

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Not the right place to post this I know, but just wanted to let you know I have submitted a track (very last minute). Hope that's ok!