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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Ooh La La
Ooh La La by the Faces
To be 100% honest, I don't know how or what I'm suppose to think of Rod Stewart. He's one of the few guys that doesn't really translate - in other words, since I didn't grow up during the Rod Stewart Era, I'm not sure what to think or do with him. Since late 1970s Rod isn't big on the radio and everyone has either forgotten or just makes fun of him during this era, what I get instead is Rod Stewart - Scottish dude who was a good football player turned lead singer of the Faces. That's pretty cool if you ask me... but then like five people will remind me he wore leather pants and sang "Do You Think I'm Sexy". I just pretend that it didn't happen but I think this is why people hate Rod Stewart, but as I said, I sorta missed out on the career of Rod Stewart so I have no real fair opinion of the man. Okay, the song... if you've ever seen Rushmore, this song and movie go hand and hand. And for all of pop music's cliches and lack of intellectualism, you really can't beat "I wish that I knew what I knew now/when I was younger."
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To be 100% honest, I don't know how or what I'm suppose to think of Rod Stewart. He's one of the few guys that doesn't really translate - in other words, since I didn't grow up during the Rod Stewart Era, I'm not sure what to think or do with him. Since late 1970s Rod isn't big on the radio and everyone has either forgotten or just makes fun of him during this era, what I get instead is Rod Stewart - Scottish dude who was a good football player turned lead singer of the Faces. That's pretty cool if you ask me... but then like five people will remind me he wore leather pants and sang "Do You Think I'm Sexy". I just pretend that it didn't happen but I think this is why people hate Rod Stewart, but as I said, I sorta missed out on the career of Rod Stewart so I have no real fair opinion of the man. Okay, the song... if you've ever seen Rushmore, this song and movie go hand and hand. And for all of pop music's cliches and lack of intellectualism, you really can't beat "I wish that I knew what I knew now/when I was younger."
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