Rod Stewart: HOF or Compiler (2 Viewers)

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Rod was never the guy, but he has built a long career. 

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

You Wear It Well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQqNUwNNkTo

Young Turks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk

Maggie May: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD_6KqP7K0g

Do You Think I'm Sexy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy2BBkzFU8U

Forever Young: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T9apksOv6k

Some Guys Have All The Luck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY2WIFGQttE

Killing Of Georgie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95zxtaKQBBc

You're In My Heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZTwASoqkns

Every Picture Tells A Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9GaFZw-czY

Tonight's The Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF1px6EgLiU

Reason To Believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJylcQ7CGfI

Have I Told You Lately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ4NAZPi2js

Downtown Train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6yk9wWNB08

My Heart Can't Tell You No: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWugD3jlFts

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

HOF.

As a solo artist I chose Maggie May, but for my money you can't beat Stay With Me by Faces.

 

[Anarchy99]

Back in the day (early 70's), any song with Stewart and an organ = $$$.

 

[timschochet]

HOF-His first 3-4 albums was as good as rock gets in the early 1970s, as since that's rock's finest era IMO, that's pretty damn good indeed. Add in his stuff with the Faces and Jeff Beck, and he's a lock. The sell out came later. 

His 3rd album, Every Picture Tells A Story, is a masterpiece. Nearly flawless. 

 

[timschochet]

Best song: "Mandolin Wind"

 

[rockaction]

Bruce Hornsby? 

 

[Mister CIA]

HOFer easily. It helps that he surrounded himself with some of the greatest talent ever.

Gasoline Alley
I'm Losing You
Stay With Me
I Ain't Superstitious
Morning Dew

Shapes of Things

Three Button Hand Me Down

 

[timschochet]

Bruce Hornsby? 

 You're thinking "Mandolin Rain". "Mandolin Wind" is a very different song! 

 

[Mister CIA]

 You're thinking "Mandolin Rain". "Mandolin Wind" is a very different song! 

I thought that was Barry Mandilow.

 

[[scooter]]

Talk about a perfect addition to the "Musicians Who Sold Out" thread. From the Jeff Beck Group to "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" in 10 years.

 

[General Malaise]

HOF.

As a solo artist I chose Maggie May, but for my money you can't beat Stay With Me by Faces.

Yeah, Stay With Me is my favorite Rod song.  Like the harder stuff.

 

[Koya]

Hall of Very Good.  Very very perhaps, and better than the diluted "hall of fame" class we seem to have today.

He's not Floyd, Zep, Beetles, Zappa, Dylan.  That's HoF.    

Stewart had HoF years, but overall his dip occurred too soon to sustain a true HoF trajectory.  It does not help that Small Faces, prior to Stewart and Faces, was more influential and innovative.

 

[E Street Brat]

He reminds me of Bowie. In the way he was always adapting to current trends.

 

[Koya]

He reminds me of Bowie. In the way he was always adapting to current trends.

Um, no.

Bowie was a genius on many levels. 

Stewart was a rocker and banged much good tang. And then sold out and banged more good tang.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

 The sell out came later. 

No. Just, no. He didn't sell out. No one else did, either. 

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Um, no.

Bowie was a genius on many levels. 

Stewart was a rocker and banged much good tang. And then sold out and banged more good tang.

I've probably liked more posts by you than anyone else who posts here, but this is just wrong on a bazillion levels.

 

[TripItUp]

Was able to evolve as an artist and matured with grace...something that most recording artists can't or don't do.  There's something to be said for that.

 

[Anarchy99]

Stewart essentially has had three careers. 10 years as a rocker. 15 years as a pop star. And almost 20+ years as an adult contemporary artist. The last one is the problem, as he clearly has been cashing checks playing music for old timers. It's good work if you can get it. 

I will say that the ten years from late 60's up until his foray into disco with Do Ya Think I'm Sexy was one of the greatest stretches of music ever.  I'm not kidding. Every Picture Tells a Story is one of the all time great albums  

I have a mix CD I made of his from the early 70s that I listen to regularly.  

I don't mind his pop stuff from the 80s and early 90s, just have no desire to seek it out or hear the songs more than once in a great while.

He would have made my music HOF a long time ago, and that's ignoring the stuff he's done for years that I can't say I would ever listen to over the last 20+ years.

Realistically, who stays relevant for 50 years? Judge him for his peak years.

 

[timschochet]

No. Just, no. He didn't sell out. No one else did, either. 

I'm sorry to disagree with you. I actually like "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" but what the hell is that if not a sell out of his rock roots to trendy disco of the late 70s? Please explain. 

 

[TripItUp]

Realistically, who stays relevant for 50 years? Judge him for his peak years.

exactly

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I'm sorry to disagree with you. I actually like "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" but what the hell is that if not a sell out of his rock roots to trendy disco of the late 70s? Please explain. 

Explain how exactly how having his biggest hit was "selling out" just because it doesn't fit your definition of what a rock star should be?

Disco (& punk, if you're slobbering on Jann Wenner's knob & wanna still think you're hip) rescued pop music from the indulgent crap it had turned into by the late 70s. 

Rod Stewart (& damned near every pop music act EVER) has always followed trends

 

[timschochet]

I also want to add that in his heyday Rod was the greatest cover of Bob Dylan songs who ever lived. Better than Hendrix, the Byrds, the Band, or even Adele. 

Listen to "Only a Hobo" and "Tommorow Is a Long Time" to see what I mean here. 

 

[comfortably numb]

Yes.

I like do compare musical careers to baseball carrers.

He is John Smoltz.

Never the greatest at his craft but remained relevant in changing times and redefining his music with success in different areas of the music pool.

 

[Anarchy99]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcLlq_DXpY8
In a Broken Dream (Original 1972 version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S9kuSLtupM
In a Broken Dream (1992 re-recording with David Gilmour)

Judge him for stuff like this.