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

Wot no In A Broken Dream?

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Unusually for me, I didn't tick the full compliment today... There's just too much off-the-shelf dross in there. It's also telling that a load of his best records - Reason to Believe, Downtown Train, The First Cut is the Deepest - are covers that fall well short of the originals.

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?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Because 1) he wasn't credited separately on everyhit 2) I am lazy and only knew that he was in the Faces not PLJ :-)

Re: Wot no In A Broken Dream?

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha! AS long as it was the lazy and not the pressure of the myriad PLJ-hataz, that's okay. But everyone who wants to know how great Rod can sound should track down In a Broken Dream forthwith.

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.