Hey guys! Excited to finally be checking out Rod Stewart!! Have heard a lot about him! Where do we go next with him?! Make sure to vote in this week’s poll on the community tab on the channel! Cheers all have a great weekend!! 🔥
Handbags and Gladrags. And then you should do a cut off "Forever Changes" by Love. One of my all time favourite albums. "Alone Again Or", "Andmoreagain", "Bummer in the Summer" or "You Set the Scene".
Ok cool can’t wait, I’ve been real curious to see you guy’s reaction to him! I could be the only one that doesn’t care for him/I don’t get all the hoopla?🤷🏻♀️ Glad you’re hitting this!
Definitely one of the greats as far as opening lines go, as far as the greatest? I have to throw one at you that’s a pretty close tie to me, “if I leave here tomorrow” from Skynyrd’s free bird. Kind of apples an oranges comparison but I can’t let there be a talk about the greatest opening line without mentioning free bird lol
You guys absolutely have to do “Stay With Me” by The Faces with Rod Stewart. A definite banger with Ronnie Wood on guitar, Ronnie Lane on bass, Ian McClaghan on keys and Kenney Jones on drums
Agree, the live version of the cover of Paul Macartney’s Maybe I’m Amazed is brilliant. The late great Ronnie Lane on bass, Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones) lead guitar and Kenny Jones (replaced Keith Moon as drummer for The Who) and Ian McGlagan on Keyboards.
Gents, I would react to "Stay With Me" by The Faces, with Rod on lead vocals, before doing any more solo Stewart. It did well in one of your polls, has shown a lot of support from subscribers, and I think it's a good song as well. Then I would return to solo Stewart with "You Wear It Well", his 2nd best known solo song from his classic early '70s period, and I think rightfully so; it's a great song. I'm writing this before seeing your reaction to "Maggie May", and will reply to this comment if I think there's anything I should add or change after seeing your reaction. I'm glad that you're hearing "Maggie May". It's a mega-classic that anyone who wants to learn about '70s rock should hear, if they haven't already.
"Every Picture Tells a Story," don't it? Epic story-telling song. Slashing Ronnie Wood guitar work. "Stay With Me," "Oh La La" "Hot Legs" "You Wear It Well" are all worthy. If you want a ballad, "Gasoline Alley" or "Mandolin Wind."
@@TheBajoman oh la la is actually Ronnie Lane singing, Every Picture Tells A Story is one of the greatest albums ever imo. Mandolin Wind is one of the best songs I've ever heard in my life. Ronnie Wood has a few albums out, my favorite Ronnie Wood song is Breathe On Me, one of the most overlooked songs in music.
Must've heard Maggie May on the radio thousand times....but never get tired of it...each time I get swept away by the story & Rod's emotional telling of it. Classic rock love song...with mandolin 😍
Nearly FIFTY years later, still sounds wonderful. Easy to forget how brilliant Rod’s voice was and how evocative and skilled his song writing still is.
Really good vocal performance from Rod on "People Get Ready" and an incredible guitar solo, really lush and soulful from Jeff. This shows why they are both two of the most revered artists ever.
"Jeff Beck Group" album with Rod. "Ain"t Superstitious" People get Ready (Curtis Mayfield cover). 80's pop crossove video. It's ok. Honestly prefer original. The previous mentioned also a Howlin Wolf cover though Epic. The prior is
Never going to hear him better than when he was with Faces. "Stay With Me", "I'm Losing You", "You Wear It Well" and "Reason To Believe" are just a few of the great songs by Faces.
You have no idea what a hit this album was in our time. But there so many others on the charts. But rod and his hair was killer. We had every picture tells a story, sticky finger, neil young after the gold rush on and on
Those of us who were around during that period found this to be a part of our psyche that would stay with us as we aged. I had just gotten out of the Army and was in college. I remember dancing in a bar to this....good memories for sure. Thanks Rod!
The only reason I never suggested this great song is I can't believe nobody hasn't heard it. Stay With Me by Rod Stewart and Faces, straight up banger! Waiting for Cowgirl in the Sand. Don't leave me hanging!!
Yeah it's amazing how we as older folks can't believe how some people have never some of these classic. Its like saying you never heard Margaritaville....It is that popular across the board
@@LizJasonHEA maybe if they watched the video it would help.I always knew it was the girl making the teacher uncomfortable.Maybe the fact that they are young students themselves they haven’t been put in that awkward position of being chased by an underage girl.It happened to me in my very early 20’s,a girl told me she was 19 but turned out to be 16. Lucky for me,I was a little wary and it didn’t get into a legal situation.
Sting said this about writing the song: “Then there was my love for Lolita, which I think is a brilliant novel. That opened the gates, and out it came: the teacher, the open page, the virgin, the rape in the car, getting the sack, Nabakov, all that." Art is open to interpretation, but I'd say A&A's take on it is accurate to how Sting intended.
More Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story, The First Cut is the Deepest (ballad), You Wear it Well, Stay with Me (total rocker & one of my faves), Hot Legs.
OMG I love that madrigal part at the beginning! It almost never gets played on the radio. "Every Picture Tells A Story" was a great album. Every cut is classic!
1971 was a humongous year for music. Dozens of classic albums came out including EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY. MAGGIE MAY was huge. Everyone owned the album . A memorable collection of songs. They don't do this anymore.They can't do this anymore.
Rod’s vocals from this era are my favorite vocals of any artist, ever. “You Wear It Well” has a similar sound and vibe to this. Can’t await for your Faces reaction too absolute heater
I agree with the “Stay With Me” crowd. FWIW, my favorites are Handbags & Gladrags, Reason to Believe, and the cover of People Get Ready (with Jeff Beck).
I'd love to see you review The Killing of Georgie, one of the first rock songs to address homophobia, in the mid-'70s, when it was risky to take such a stand . And a very moving song at that
yes!!!! I was scrolling through the comments wondering if I was the only person in the world who knew about the Killing of Georgie. Such an awesome song.
Guys, Nov. 10 will be the 45th anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Maybe as a tribute to the 29 men who died that day you could finally react to the Gordon Lightfoot classic. S-Tier for sure!
Now you’re talking. The farther back you go with Stewart...the better the music gets. I’m hardcore. “Truth” is Rod Stewart personified for me. Sadly, (IMO) anything after “Never A Dull Moment” is a whitewashed version of the artist I love.
In Springsteen’s book he writes, “If you were lucky enough to be born with an instrument & the instinctive knowledge to know what to do with it, you are blessed indeed. Even after all my success I sit in envy of Rod Stewart, Bob Seger,, Sam Moore and many other greats who can sing magnificently and know what to do with it. My vocal imperfections made me work harder on my writing, my band leading, my performing and my singing. I learned to excel at those elements of my craft in a way I might otherwise never had if I had a more perfect instrument.” If you haven’t read his autobiography, Born to Run, I highly recommend it!
I agree with you Andy, “S”. Rod Stewart has many more like this. Check out Every Picture Tells A Story, Stay With Me, Hot Legs or Forever Young. Peace and love from Toronto!
Back then it was more about a song including profanity or drug references which got it banned. There are several songs with adult themes that got through.
Man, Ronnie Wood is a player. The song's melody is beautiful in its own right but his guitar solos and bass playing on this track are perfect compliments.
Happy Friday!🌞 "Sir Roderick David Stewart", or as we know him, Rod Stewart, is one of the biggest selling artists of all time. He was in several bands before making it big in FACES in 1969 with his buddy, Ron Wood. From '67 to '69 he sang with the Jeff Beck Group. Rod was also known to play his harmonica, but it was his soulful, raspy vocals that shot him to stardom with the chart topping single ( from the album, Every Picture Tells A Story, '71) "Maggie May". Rod cowrote this song about losing his virginity at 16 to an older woman. Such a great track. He continues to make new music and new fans. Check out "Tonights The Night", and "Forever Young", and a faster pace song, "Hot Legs". His big hit "Do ya think I'm Sexy", had plenty of Women ( and lots of Men) say "Yes, we do!" to Rod in the late 70's. What a career, what a voice...can you tell I'm a fan? Lol. Cheers!😉
"you turned into a lover and, mother! what a lover you wore me out." He is not saying she turned into a lover and mother. He is using mother as an exclamation like damn!
I was 17 and this man was my musical hero. That voice is sublime. Maggie May was where it all started big time for him. But this was his own story of being 15. Ps. Listen to The Faces (his band)" Had me a real good time" . You'll love that one. Good time party music.
You need to listen to the songs he did when he was on Mercury Records: Stay With Me, (I Know) I'm Losing You, Every Picture Tells a Story, You Wear It Well, Reason To Believe, Gasoline Alley...all great. Rod has a fantastic voice, one of the best of all time...
Born in London of a Scots father. A fiercely proud Scot. Once saw him at Wales v Scotland walking to match with the supporters, couple of yards in front of me. I think the clue is in the surname.
Lyndon Brown technically he's not a Scot as he was Nairn in London to a Scottish father. That being said he is a massive Scotland and Celtic football fan. Rod was a pretty good footballer in his youth and could have gone professional. He still kicks footballs into the audience at his gigs.
The title song from the album - Every Picture Tells a Story - is another great song with some of the best drumming you'll ever hear. Also from that album is Mandolin Wind,drop dead lovely. Incidently, Maggae Mae came out in around Sept. 1971 and the Faces Stay with Me came out at the end of 1971.
“Mandolin Wind”, “Gasoline Alley”, “Hand Bags and Gladrags” , “You Wear It Well” are the better young Rod Stewart Tunes, Later in career with Jeff Beck “People Get Ready”. Songs like “Hot Legs” and “Stay with Me’ received more airplay but are not all that great, more radio/dance tunes, not anything I would listen to, if I never heard them again I would not be missing anything.
My Rod Stewart story involves my mom! I was a freshman at N. Texas State in fall of 1973. Mom, in her late 40s at this time, was an Austin, TX-based entertainment booking agent who booked singles and bands at clubs and conventions nationwide. One day in early October, '73, while visiting one of her clients in Albuquerque, NM (Holiday Inn, where an act she booked was playing), she saw a huge, black limo pull up in front of the hotel. Piling out of the limo, to hear her tell it, unfolded several "scraggly," skinny, long-haired guys in pink and green satin pants (opening in town for Rory Gallagher at the U of NM on their US tour). "These look like musicians Brad (me) would know," she said to herself, and true to her nature, boldly asked the perfect gentlemen, "OK, which one of you is the leader?" Rod quickly stepped up, her account continues, and kindly autographed a yellow business pad sheet to me, which Mom surprised me with in a "care package" from home the next week! Thanks, Rod and lads, for being nice to me Mum!
I've heard these songs 1000s of times, but putting my headphones on and listening to them with you guys is like they're brand new for me too. Total joy, dudes
Good introduction to the gravel-voiced rocker. Stay with his early songs and avoid his disco pop stuff from late 70s/early 80s. “EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY” and “REASON TO BELIEVE” are personal favorites!
YEs on the "Stay With Me" which is an early song done with the band, Faces. My other suggestion is for an incredibly moving song that tells a great story entitled "I Was Only Joking".
I'd also never heard that intro before, and didn't know it existed, let alone as part of that song. Like "California Girls" by the Beach Boys, that intro is not indicative of the rest of the song. But "Maggie May" is amazing, especially the ending bell choir. S.
I was a senior in high. School that year. Some great music was playing on AM radio including the lovely Maggie May. We could not get enough of her. Memories.
Tony Aguanno Any Dylan will be flagged. That’s why you never see anyone reacting to him. It’s a shame. I’d really like to see this generation be exposed to him. Some channel like Twinsthenewtrend or JamelAKAjamal would get him out there to tens of thousands of new listeners. I wonder when they’re finally gonna get it. I would’ve thought seeing Phil Collins & Fleetwood Mac both blow up when their music was reacted to or used in a TikTok video would get these lawyers, record companies or artists to finally wake up.
"You Wear It Well" would be good next. Andy's analysis is pretty much spot on and Alex is really good at getting close to how the writer's were feeling or what they may have been going thru in his "makes me feel like" moments. Cracks me up 😅 Good stuff.
When Rod tours these days he actually has a model train set up in his dressing room. A buddy of mine's father met him because he had a train that Rod wanted and while touring he was in town and came to his house to buy the train. He got back stage passes out of the deal.
Summer of 71 had some great songs released. American Pie, Tiny Dancer, LA Woman, Horse With No Name, and the mother of all rock songs-Stairway to Heaven, plus, many more great rock songs were also released that year. And, Rod's song was huge. A monster f****n hit. I'm old as shit now, but I lived during a period when the greatest rock n roll music ever recorded was released. I was one of those who stood proudly with my-Disco Sucks sign, blasting that inane s****y music into oblivion. It took the 'Chicago White Sox and their game on July 12, 1979, during their Disco Demolition Night promotion to finally put an end to that pathetic era of music. I've been playing guitar since my parents bought me my first guitar after seeing the Beatles on Ed's show. I love listening to and playing rock music. It's guided and inspired me throughout my entire life. You guys are great. Love you both for embracing the music of my youth. I salute you. 😊
I think it did. I read somewhere that KISS offered the song to Rod but he wasn’t having any of it. So Peter Criss sang with his scratchy voice and the rest is history.
Guys, please play "Reason to Believe" and " Every Picture Tells A Story" by Rod Stewart with his Band (Faces). You'll Love it!!! Mike C. Clarksville VA.
I'm glad this will be your "debut" for Sir Rod Stewart. It's an excellent song and will give you a nice base to judge his less popular but probably better songs. You Wear it Well is one of my favs. I'm excited to see your reactions!
According to Rod's biography, this song was based on a real encounter he had when he was young. He didn't think it was a good song and it was only included on the album because the album needed one more number. It was originally released as the 'B' side to the single 'Reason to Believe', but...... the rest is history. Brilliant melancholy song with no chorus and no hooks.
