If you don't know who Buddy Guy is, I'm sure someone in the comments will tell you.
Rod Stewart? What about him? What’s the point of him? See, when I have conversations with people about music things always end up coming down to comparisons. This person is good and this person isn’t. These people empirically suck and this one guy is better than everyone else…essentially, every conversation you had while you laid on the raft in the lake or sat in someone’s room in college. There always needs to be a list. There always has to be buckets you can put people in. And then you make buckets within the buckets and you find something redeeming about pretty much everyone except for Milli Vanilli and Baby Spice.
But what about Rod Stewart? What’s his deal? What bucket does he fit in? I can make my vote right here right now and not bat an eyelash. Rod Stewart’s voice kicked ass. I can see him singing other people’s songs and making them better. Think of the people who just sang over the years. Robert Plant, Freddie Mercury, that guy I just thought of but forgot. Oh, derh, Jim Morrison. It takes a special breed to only be able to like, shake some maracas or hit a tambourine and still call yourself part of the band. but they were SPECIAL!
So I ask you people. What about Rod Stewart? What’s your favorite Rod Stewart song? And if you think he sucks, what do you think his best song is? And am I the only who thinks his voice rules? Seriously?
PS – if anyone says he has no good songs cause he just sucks, then you’re a loser. I’m just putting that out there now. Because if you cannot look at something objectively and judge it, then you really are a big fat loser. I’m only asking you to pick from within the closed set of Rod Stewart songs. It’s like I gave you a bag of Halloween Candy. It might be 98% Necco Wafers in your view, but there is gonna be at least one peanut butter cup in there. My fave Rod Stewart song is Baby Jane. Except I wish it was just verses and no chorus, or the chorus was different. Or something. Anyway – start talking about Rod Stewart. Losers can go first if you want. Oh, and that thing at the beginning, that’s what MTV used to be like. Commercial, Promo, Video. Then some person talking in a room. Then more videos. Shit, that’s boring. No wonder they changed it.
My favorites are “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You”, “Forever Young” and “Maggie May”.
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Maggie May.
Rod was never a favourite, but there was aways something just so awesome and ballsy about “If You Think I’m Sexy”
Also, Young Turks was one of my favourite songs when I was a kid and too young to know what it was about.
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Maggie May.. and he is okay.. not the worse, not the best. His crooner stuff is pretty good.
Nothing against Rod Stewart, but Buddy Guy is a legendary blues guitarist. Dude is just wicked… even now when he’s seriously geez’in.
I’ll always remember Rod Stewart best for Do Ya Think I’m Sexy, which was the soundtrack to our horndog activities back when it came out…
Yes yes, I know… I’m old.
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I can’t believe I forgot “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?”. I love that song too.
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I Don’t Want To Talk About It!
Not really a fan of Rod Stewart. Just love this song from the first time I heard it, even though at that time I was only a kid and didn’t understand English.
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I do not love Rod Stewart; he just comes off as this skeezy bohunk. I even tried searching for something to claim as a fave but nothing really jumped out. http://www.poemhunter.com/lyrics/rod-stewart/songs/page-1/
I’m sorry; I tried!
Buddy Guy, on the other hand…. The best part of the Chicago Crossroads show was Buddy Guy closing it out with “Sweet Home Chicago” and everyone, artists and crowd, joined in. It was absolutely perfect.
Faces-era Rod Stewart was fucking incredible! Plus his first couple of solo albums. Not fond of his later stuff (i.e., “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” onward) – I think he became cheesy self-parody after that. Thinking about Rod Stewart’s early stuff just gave me chills. People who don’t dig that far back into his career just don’t know.
P.S. Buddy Guy is beyond great, and totally underrated by the majority of music listeners. I saw him open for the Stones in the 1990s. Fucking incredible.
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And yes, I do know I used fucking incredible twice in the same comment. So fuck off, anyone who chooses to point this out/ complain.
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I do NOT love Rod Stewart, and am a horrific loser, but at least I’m in good company with Vange.
Hey Vange, let’s go get some ice cream and NOT share with Acadia. Cos he’s mean.
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Oh… and if you’d asked, “Why not Bryan Adams?” Or “Why not David Bowie?” even “Why not Sting,” Oh… how I could have answered THAT question.
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JB and me, that’s how it should be, eatin’ ice cream & taunting Acadia.
I don’t see how you falling into my Loser trap (which was laid for Talen, actually) is you taunting me. It’s like I went looking for a bear in my bear trap and caught a one eyed squirrel and a disoriented rabbit.
I love Rod Stewart and have seen him in concert a bunch of times. My favorite song of his was “The First Cut Is the Deepest”
I actually enjoyed this string of comments more than most Rod Stewart songs I’ve heard. I also enjoy some of his songs, so this is actually a compliment as opposed to an insult.
Sadly, I’m not really that familiar with Rod Stewart’s stuff. I don’t have anything against him, though. I’ve probably heard his songs and not realized it. So, that said, my answer is… that one song I heard that one time. That one’s his best, in my opinion. 😉
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Which one of us has one eye? I don’t want to be a squirrel. This ice cream is delicious. Too bad there’s only one bite left and I saved it for Vange and NOT Acadia… who is mean.
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Rabbits & squirrels do love them some frosty frozen treats. Ice cream drought for you, skeezy bohunk loving Acadia!
This is going wonderfully. Better than I could have hoped.
I do not like Rod Stewart’s songs. I do, however, like his voice. Sorta.
@ Cornmeal:
Name a song or suffer loser ice cream!
I have loser ice cream all the time. It tastes like bacon. I like it.
@ vange:
Stop trying to be unhelpful AND recruit more people to your side. You know nothing about Rod Stewart (my uncle) other than spiky hair and the 1980’s. Oh, and probably Maggie May.
MY POOR UNCLE
JB and I have ice cream and you have a washed up sleezeball with a good voice singing shitty songs. Hmmm…I don’t think I have to work too hard on the recruiting.
Honestly, how was this ever considered attractive?
http://rgcred.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/rod-stewart2.jpg
Yeah, so how was it that he could have possibly been popular? Maybe he had talent? Maybe people wanted to go hear him rather than see him?
http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/big_node_view/files/images/thefaces.jpg
@ Acadia
If Rod Stewart (your uncle) could beat up Sting (my father) that would be something, but I bet Rod Stewart would chicken out. Because he knows he sucks, and the power of Sting terrifies him so much he won’t even show his face at your family reunions anymore.
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Paul McCartney is my grandpa so hah! More ice cream.