Rod Stewart has one of the craziest career trajectories in…
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Rod Stewart has one of the craziest career trajectories in music
Everyone over the age of 20 has probably heard his great American songbook albums (usually involuntarily) and assumes he’s just your typical Burt Bacharach-esque old time crooner, but wow, this guy has had such a wild career leading up to that.
He’s one of my favorite rock and roll frontmen of all time, Faces is one of my favorite bands. I once heard someone say that all of their songs always sound like they’re about to fall apart but somehow never do. That’s some serious rock and roll.
His first few solo albums are somewhat in the same vein and have the faces on a lot of tracks, but they also have great folksy, roots vibes, often mixed in with rock.
Then the dude throws all that away and goes full disco, which sounds bad, but even in his late 70s disco era he still knows how to write good hooks and his voice still carries that rock spirit (hell, even do ya think I’m sexy is a song I can absolutely see a rock band frontman doing in the disco era)
Then the 80s hit, and this is where he really diverges. Some amazing songs from the era, some of his best even (young Turks) everything looks like he’s straight following the road every artist went through from early 70s to 80s.
And then suddenly late 80s-early 90s, full on nothing like anything that he did before, but not in the “revolutionary” way, no, dude straight up goes crooner out of nowhere and never goes back. By far the best thing to come from this time was his MTV unplugged, it was almost a send off to his defining era, soon to enter into his other defining era: grandparent background music.
I love his early stuff, like some of his mid stuff, don’t like his 90s on stuff at all, but it’s hard not to be in awe at how the very image of a mod rocker that could go toe to toe with mick jagger in a frontman competition became the rod stewart we saw albums of being sold on 3 AM infomercials (NEW albums!)
What’s your thoughts on his trajectory, and what’s your favorite songs or periods of his?
#music #audio
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Everyone over the age of 20 has probably heard his great American songbook albums (usually involuntarily) and assumes he’s just your typical Burt Bacharach-esque old time crooner, but wow, this guy has had such a wild career leading up to that.
He’s one of my favorite rock and roll frontmen of all time, Faces is one of my favorite bands. I once heard someone say that all of their songs always sound like they’re about to fall apart but somehow never do. That’s some serious rock and roll.
His first few solo albums are somewhat in the same vein and have the faces on a lot of tracks, but they also have great folksy, roots vibes, often mixed in with rock.
Then the dude throws all that away and goes full disco, which sounds bad, but even in his late 70s disco era he still knows how to write good hooks and his voice still carries that rock spirit (hell, even do ya think I’m sexy is a song I can absolutely see a rock band frontman doing in the disco era)
Then the 80s hit, and this is where he really diverges. Some amazing songs from the era, some of his best even (young Turks) everything looks like he’s straight following the road every artist went through from early 70s to 80s.
And then suddenly late 80s-early 90s, full on nothing like anything that he did before, but not in the “revolutionary” way, no, dude straight up goes crooner out of nowhere and never goes back. By far the best thing to come from this time was his MTV unplugged, it was almost a send off to his defining era, soon to enter into his other defining era: grandparent background music.
I love his early stuff, like some of his mid stuff, don’t like his 90s on stuff at all, but it’s hard not to be in awe at how the very image of a mod rocker that could go toe to toe with mick jagger in a frontman competition became the rod stewart we saw albums of being sold on 3 AM infomercials (NEW albums!)
What’s your thoughts on his trajectory, and what’s your favorite songs or periods of his?
#music #audio
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