Stay With Me

Stay With Me by Faces

We're just going to let Chuck Klosterman take this one for us:
"The single-greatest male singing voice of the rock era belongs to Rod Stewart. Nobody at Spin believes me when I make this argument, and many of my coworkers assume I am trying to be ironic when I insist that Rod Stewart's whiskey-soaked throat is more moving that Sinatra's... "Stay with Me," a Faces tune where Rod convinces a woman to have sex with him, only to beg her to leave his flat before he wakes up the following morning (although he does offer cab fare and cologne). That's the second component of Rod's persona: He is a male tart and a bad boyfriend, probably because he makes a lot of decisions when he's drunk... If all you ever do is drink brandy and chase women and miss those women when they leave (and then question why they were even there in the first place), that becomes the way you understand existence; consequently, that's how you try to understand everything else. And that's completely valid, if not necessarily universal. Rod Stewart may be a blond clown with bad judgement, but everything he says is true." - From Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story which you can buy here.

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