Donāt really have much of an option on Rod. I think heās got some bangers (Maggie May, Young Turks, Do Ya Think Iām Sexy, probably others I canāt remember) but Iāve never listened to any of his albums. Heās got far too much material that Iāve never heard for me to provide a rating. If I had to Iād say 3, but Iāll abstain.
Bit strange how few videos spring to mind where young artists make the elderly a central feature - perhaps Fire Water Burn by the Bloodhound Gang and Girls and Boys by Good Charlotte (the latter of which still makes me smile and cracks me up. Dudes, do you wanna crash the mall?)
However we should save further discussion of these bands until their respective HGATR threads where they get a 4.98
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I gave him a charitable 3 btw just because I always think heās good entertainment when it comes to Scottish fitba
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gotta give the ol hot rod at least a 3 for his 70s output. i pretty much ignore his existence after that (minus this obv heater). i dont have strong opinions tho. around 10-15 years ago i heard young turks at a gas station and decided i liked him and wanted to check out more.
funk rock rod? why not
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Incredible
This Vanilla Fudge cover of Do Ya Think Iām Sexy is grotesque, ridiculous and quite good, I love that hook
I enjoy Rodās original too, of course, got a soft spot for the verse melody of Baby Jane and Young Turks is fine too, for such a long career though thatās some slight wins. I donāt like the texture of his voice, or at least canāt take it in any way seriously, take Downtown Train, adore the Tom original, Rod smugly rasps all the beauty out of it. His music was an ever present companion in the family car on long car journeys when I was a kid, itās synonymous with parents smoking on never ending motorways with the windows up, I just have to see the cover of Tonight Iām Yours and I can smell Benson & Hedges.
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This from that a.i image generator site aye
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Not got much to add, except that in my hometown (a mid sized city in Poland) they used to invite surprisingly big rock stars to play concert here in the summer. Bryan Adams was the first, but Guns nā Roses, Linkin Park, 30 Seconds to Mars and Rod Stewart also performed at the stadium. So I like to think that at some point Rod Stewart at least thought about, or remembers performing at a concert in Rybnik, Poland.
I remember hearing this song on the Evening Session with Steve Lamacq and thinking it was kind of good. Like Spiritualized but not quite.
A couple of years later, Rod covered it
In my mind, this is one of those Johnny Cash / Neil Diamond / Glenn Campbell / Paul Anka 'What ifā¦ someone famous covered one of āourā songs. Rod was doing this long ago.
Despite all of the above, still a 1.
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Rod Stewartās Model Railway will be the new honorary leader, the post is purely ceremonial.
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Honestly, anyone rating it lower than a 5, I wanna see their train set.
Well done Rod. You did it
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HGATR stands for How Good Are Their Railways, right?
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Good vocalist when he started out. Laddo from Walkman proper rips him off.
1/5 though obv
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His first five years or so deserve a massive public re-evaluation - the soul and bluesy stuff are excellent. In A Broken Dream with Python Lee Jackson; Cindy Incidentally, Stay With Me and Miss Judyās Farm with Faces; the early solo hits like Maggie May and You Wear It Well are better than the constant rotation on dad-rock radio would instinctively have you thinkā¦
Everything else can go fuck itself though.
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You have to vote a minimum of 3 for Young Turks alone. Itās that good.
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