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

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Couldn't get close to 16 here. I am guessing very few people will tick "Rhythm Of My Heart" but I have to confess I rather adore it. Heard it on the radio just the other day and I sang along quite obnoxiously.

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.

Fact fans:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

"You Can Make Me Dance Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)" is the longest title of any UK top 40 hit!

Sailing

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

One of the worst songs ever.

Sailing

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Just managed 16 ticks, although a couple of them were based on the song titles alone.

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.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

49 is a bit of a shock, isn't it? I know he's been around forever but at the back of my mind I always assumed he'd have more famous singles than that. A lot of the time he's famous for just being Rod Stewart, obviously.

His handful of best records are incredible though - the absolute apogee of sentimental laddism.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I can only recognise about 12 of these, and I only ticked about 9. 'Young Turks' is the best thing here by a bloody mile. Driving around Los Santos or San Fierro in a convertible, doing drive-bys, with 'Young Turks' blaring out the stereo is one of my favourite pasttimes.

And if you didn't understand that, you clearly don't play enough games consoles!

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.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

gr31l m4rcus's emp paper wz all about rod -- i forget the song tho, an early LP track i think

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge fan of Rod back in his Faces days - his early solo albums are great. I'm very disappointed at the low tick-rate for my favourite, his version of 'Reason To Believe', which I think is really beautiful.

Was it Lester Bangs who said that Micky Waller should have won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his drumming on Stay With Me?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Who did the original of 'Ruby Tuesday?' I am guessing it was not The Rod.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I got up to 10 ticks, but some were extremely marginal. But "Maggie May", "D'Ya Think I'm Sexy", "Young Turks" -- That's some great stuff there. I ticked the 1998 recording of "Ooh La La" based entirely on fond memories of the original.

Bon Jovi canon next?

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

'You Can Make Me Dance Sing Or Anything' is being robbed !!!

It's because N1ck H0rnBY picked it as one of his favourite songs isn't it...

Repping for the Faces

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

There really are a few great ones buried in here, people, esp:

"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?

[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?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I was tempted to tick 'All For Love' all for roffles