You'll have to admit that Rod Stewart has written some awesome songs: Forever Young, The First Cut is the Deepest, Have I Told You Lately, Downtown Train . . .
"Rarely has a singer had as full and unique a talent as Rod Stewart; rarely has anyone betrayed his talent so completely. Once the most compassionate presence in music, he has become a bilious self-parody—and sells more records than ever."
Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'n' Roll, 1980:
I don't have to admit any such thing. As 8:44 points out, Tom Waits wrote "Downtown Train." Cat Stevens wrote "The First Cut …" "Forever Young" is a rewrite of a Bob Dylan song, and "Have I Told You…" was written by Van Morrison. Even without Wikipedia, most of those should have been kind of obvious.
Q: If you, (late) Rod Stewart, and Billy Joel were the only three people left on earth and you had a gun with only one bullet, whom should you shoot? A: Yourself.
My brother and I have a complex history together that involves his resentment over the fact that I was raised by our mother while he was raised by our grandparents, my utter disdain for his first wife, the godawful comportment of his hellspawn children, and so on. The most frequent topic of argument between us? By a landslide, his insistence that Rod Stewart is a good musician.
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You can't stop stop Rod "Hot Legs" Stewart
You'll have to admit that Rod Stewart has written some awesome songs: Forever Young, The First Cut is the Deepest, Have I Told You Lately, Downtown Train . . .
"Rarely has a singer had as full and unique a talent as Rod Stewart; rarely has anyone betrayed his talent so completely. Once the most compassionate presence in music, he has become a bilious self-parody—and sells more records than ever."
Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'n' Roll, 1980:
@ anon 5:28
Rod Stewart's "Downtown Train" was a Tom Waits cover. And the original was far superior.
5:28,
I don't have to admit any such thing. As 8:44 points out, Tom Waits wrote "Downtown Train." Cat Stevens wrote "The First Cut …" "Forever Young" is a rewrite of a Bob Dylan song, and "Have I Told You…" was written by Van Morrison. Even without Wikipedia, most of those should have been kind of obvious.
Q: If you, (late) Rod Stewart, and Billy Joel were the only three people left on earth and you had a gun with only one bullet, whom should you shoot?
A: Yourself.
No ear for irony, you guys.
No ear for irony, you guys.
No ear for irony, you guys.
I'm pretty sure you guys have no ear for irony.
Was that irony or sarcasm?
My brother and I have a complex history together that involves his resentment over the fact that I was raised by our mother while he was raised by our grandparents, my utter disdain for his first wife, the godawful comportment of his hellspawn children, and so on. The most frequent topic of argument between us? By a landslide, his insistence that Rod Stewart is a good musician.
More Billy Joel/ Rod Stewart posts; less Leiter ass kissing posts :-)
Apparently any post mentioning Leiter that's not overtly scornful is "ass kissing"
Is this thread a meta-level reductio of aesthetic axiology or merely of blogging about it?
I won't post this three times.
9:25: yes.
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