Rod Stewart - As Time Goes By...The Great American Songbook: Volume II
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Artist: Rod StewartEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-10-21
Music Label: J-Records
Soundtracks:
- Time After Time
- I?m In The Mood For Love
- Don?t Get Around Much Anymore
- Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered (Duet with Cher)
- 'Till There Was You
- Until The Real Thing Comes Along
- Where Or When
- Smile
- My Heart Stood Still
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- As Time Goes By (Duet with Queen Latifah)
- I Only Have Eyes For You
- Crazy She Calls Me
- Our Love Is Here To Stay
Music reviews of As Time Goes By...The Great American Songbook: Volume II
Music Review: Mr. Phlegm-In-His-Throat Singing Cole Porter?
Rating: 1 Stars
The world really is upside down. I listen to Tony Bennett sing "I Left My Heart In San Francisco;" Mel Torme sing "Autumn In New York;" Peggy Lee sing "My Old Flame;" Bobby Darin sing "Beyond the Sea;" and then I hear Rod Stewart screech "It Had To Be You." Am I crazy or is something not right here? I guess the same menial mentalities who really believe that Bob Dylan and Warran Zevon are superior songwriters to Rogers and Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, and Cole Porter would indeed think Rod has a great voice. Bob Dylan a great American songwriter? Is that when he's on Meth or Coke? With his three chord, twelve barre, off-key pseudo-intellectual "social commentary" tunes that are rife with totured rhymes, double negatives and the whining syntax of a constipated Tarzan? Yeah, that's about right. Anyone sufficiently unsophisticated to even think that Bob "somebody please tell me where I am" Dylan was the songwriting equal of these giants of musicality and verse would also believe Rod Stewart can sing. The truth is, you can count on one hand the rock singers who are talented enough to put over classic pop and jazz, and Rod Stewart certainly isn't one of them. His vocal range is equal to Dylan's vocabulary. Starting in the late 1960s in the drug-induced world of rock and roll screaming and blaring "singers" and guitarists who knew three chords at best, no-talents like Stewart and Dylan---- became "icons." Just as these same juvenile minds probably think Eric Clapton is a great guitarist----ever hear Joe Pass, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery or Django Reinhardt? They could play with their feet better than Claption can play with his hands. But today's typical music fan has probably never even heard of these truly brilliant guitarists. For the past four decades pop music has become a joke, really. Currently it appears to be at its nadir----deafening volume, incoherent lyrics, and allusions to sex, sex and more sex. At least Ol' Rooster Head had the good taste to select classical tunes----but his vocals are atrocious. "Vocalists," as we once knew the term, no longer exist. All we have today are old, leftover hippies who still think Timothy Leary, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman are going to transform society into a druggy sex-fest, replete with blaring, mindless, redoundant rock music to ensure that going deaf will precede overdosing. They think Dylan and Clapton and the Beatles are "geniuses." On the other hand we have industry-promoted kiddy-pop performers who wouldn't know a key modulation if it hit them in the face. Just scream into the microphone and turn up your Fender guitar until everyone in the room is deaf. Yep---this is the mentality that would believe Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, and Peggy Lee are "square" or "old-fashioned." Go ahead---keep listening to Rod Stewart massacre great music with his complete lack of breath control, off-key screeching, and inability to even sing in one octave without sounding like a sandpapered foghorn.... and ....and keep worshipping at the alter of Dylan----a drug addicted, nasally cartoon who became a "great songwriter" in an age when everyone was too stoned to realize he was nothing but a dirty-looking lowlife----out of his mind on drugs--- who wrote inane lyrics while playing the same three chords on his guitar. "Wow, those lyrics sound deep, man...I can't understand them so I guess he must be saying something profound...!" Most blatantly hypocritical of all was the fact that this whiney noisemaking nitwit became a multimillionaire even as he moaned and groaned about the evils of the capitalist system. Like most limousine liberals with a dearth of genuine talent, I suppose his mantra is "do as I say, not as I do." Class, sophistication, subtlety, and genuine musicality have been replaced by cookie-cutter "artists" whose greatest claim to fame is likely to be his or her having slept with three hundred groupies or surviving an all-night crack party. Wow, Man! Now that's cool. See you in the cemetary, you deaf and dumb nitwits.
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