does anyone else recon this is the best rod stewart track ever?

[Dave the OAP]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei-L_AuuaxI


Ps the missus is watching Holby

 

[dougdeep]

It's the best Faces song.

 

[Dave the OAP]

true true...

 

[sams dad]

Mandolin Wind is better

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Easy to forget what a BELTER of a voice Rod Stewart had - The Faces were ACE.

'I'm Losing You' just has the edge tho IMHO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4PXMCCTMwM

And isn't Youtube BRILLIANT!

 

[bn3gunner]

maggie may

 

[dougdeep]

I bought every Rod Stewart album up to but not including Atlantic Crossing. His early stuff with Long John Baldry and Jeff Beck was superb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se8OmYL5br0

 

[Dave the OAP]

do you remember when he was in teh Aussie band Python Lee Jackson -

 

[sams dad]

Easy to forget what a BELTER of a voice Rod Stewart had - The Faces were ACE.

'I'm Losing You' just has the edge tho IMHO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4PXMCCTMwM

And isn't Youtube BRILLIANT!

I prefer The Temptations version

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I bought every Rod Stewart album up to but not including Atlantic Crossing. His early stuff with Long John Baldry and Jeff Beck was superb.

Shame Britt Ekland turned him into a bit of an LA ponce. He never recovered.

 

[Starry]

I don't really like him, but am taking my mother to see him live next week.

 

[NMH]

He did a nice turn on 'Ol Man River' and 'Rock My Plimsoul' (Rock Me Baby) with Jeff Beck. Was a bit of a Steve Marriott/Chris Farlowe wannabe until he found his niche with a good-time boozy band.

My favourite Rod rendition is probably 'I Could Feel The Whole World Turn Round' that he sang with The Shotgun Express. His first ever solo single, had a cool flip side 'Gonna Move To The Outskirts of Town'. Later solo stuff, 'My Heart Can't Tell You No' is decent, and 'People Get Ready' - both marvelous tunes.

 

[NMH]

do you remember when he was in teh Aussie band Python Lee Jackson -

Was that an Aussie band?? I thought it was something to do with the bloke out of The Nice, Keith Emerson's former band.

Strange that he didn't actually want that material released, for some reason.
'In a Broken Dream' was sublime, though 'The Blues' and 'Cloud Nine' did leave a bit to be desired.
I think the world is a better place for hearing that first one though.

Incidentally, he lived for a short period on a houseboat in front of The Lady Jane, over the Shoreham footbridge. I think that was just before he got slung out of France for bad behaviour. The same boat apparently got destroyed by the ob, because the inhabitants were smelly hippies that all the rich beachie types didn't like.

 

[KNC]

Difficult choice. High on my list would be 'Italian Girls'.

But it's true, he lost it with Atlantic Crossing.

 

[Hiney]

'You Wear it Well' was the FIRST single I ever bought

Which is nice.

 

[The Large One]

Prefer Mandolin Wind meself.

He did a pretty reasonable cover of Reason To Believe as well.

Agree with NMH about the Shotgun Express song. Excellent.

 

[Parson Henry]

do you remember when he was in teh Aussie band Python Lee Jackson -

He was never in them but just fronted them for one track..In a broken Dream

 

[unnameable]

The Small Faces were ace.

Surely, Sailing is Rod Stewart's best-ever song. Because it inspired "We are Brighton".

 

[bhaexpress]

do you remember when he was in teh Aussie band Python Lee Jackson -

You forgot to mention 'with Jeff Beck'. Have to say that Every Picture tells a Story was a brilliant album, doesn't sound dated at all to me. Maggie Bell (I think) from Stone the Crows was on the title track.

 

[Icy Gull]

I really liked the 1st two albums after that he tunred into a caricature of himself and camped it to become a bit girly in his appeal.

His early stuff with the Faces was pretty good too if not quite as cool as Stevie Marriot's Small Faces