Rod Stewart - Stardust... The Great American Songbook, Vol. III
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Artist: Rod StewartBrand: Arista
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Music Label: J-Records
Product features:
- Rod Stewart - Stardust... The Great American Songbook I
- Embraceable You
- For Sentimental Reasons (feat Dave Koz)
- Blue Moon (feat Eric Clapton)
- What A Wonderful World (feat Stevie Wonder)
- Stardust
- Manhattan (duet with Bette Midler)
- S'Wonderful (feat Dave Grusin)
- Isn't It Romantic (feat Dave Koz)
- I Can't Get Started
- But Not For Me
- Kiss To Build A Dream On (feat Arturo Sandoval)
- Baby, It's Cold Outside (duet with Dolly Parton)
- Night And Day
- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Music reviews of Stardust... The Great American Songbook, Vol. III
Music Review: Check his bad ass out!
Rating: 1 Stars
Boybands. American Idol. Brittany Spears. Cher makes a comeback. So does Bon Jovi. Not to mention the Religious Right really needed an act to pin rock and roll as the devil's music on. So along comes a skinny disaffected old man in his 50s with enough greasepaint to make Aaron Carter blush and a stage show that would make Gary Barlow proud.
And like the best shock-rockers and gender benders, Rod Stewart fed right off it. This is the kind of masterful heavyrock that scared the crap out of parents and gave adolescent rebellion a howling chariot of thud to ride off to school with. The darkness is for real here, but so is the musicianship.
What is the strength of this record is that Stewart is nowhere near as foolish or demonic as his biggest critics would make him out to be. The cheerleader hooks in "Baby, It's Cold Outside " and "Manhattan" will bring a smile or two to the most jaded hard rocker, and covering new-wave dance staples like "I Can't Get Started " or "Blue Moon " takes more than a little chutzpah. .
"The Great American Songbook, Vol. III" takes 14 statements and proves that Rod Stewart helped keep rock vital in the last 3 decades and a half. That there are still factions out there that consider him "dangerous" matters plenty to me...not every maker of music needs to host a slick variety show to get a message out. If you don't have all the CDs, this is a great starter collection. In fact, it holds together with the muscle of a regular album. There aren't too many folks you can say that about.
long live rock n roll Stewart.now you may rest in peace and stick to your religion,art,phylosophy,and personal life.say bye to ur music,time to retire.well miss you, shock rocker.whatever you call urself.even his image became horrible.he looks kinda like a woman and a really stupid one.when he was a drugged up junkie 9-10 years ago, he rocked.now he sold out.r.i.
Some of Rods Stewarts emotional problems are prevalent throughout the album and ultimately that is where it falls down.
He was born from a heroin addict with brain problems has a sound that clearly is drugged all the time and wants to be different.Well he is different he showing the world that a fat diseased rat has more intelligance and they can nuture themselves better SO WHAT.This album has some really really really really really really really really really really really really lower than low covers and his own music a LONER with no friends and no hope for the future would adore.
Stewart has to be one of the least talented music people around. At his BEST, he puts over grade "C" music. He is also annoying with his whole stage theatricality. He defends what he does with the old "freedom of speech" cop-out. If he really wants to prove he is about free expression and hates religion, let's see him mock Islam on stage the way that he does Christianity. The reaction that he gets may make him think twice about the ends he goes to in order to be shocking.
It's not hard to remember the Rod Stewarts of nearly a decade ago, before all the talkshow spots and MTV specials and Hollywood photo shoots, despite the fact that the once promising musicians cultural impact evaporated almost as abruptly as it's founder's integrity. "Previous albums", transcended their lack of musical complexity with total euphoric catharsis. The music was weird and fun and brutal and the lyrics were a more seething example of opposition to the anti-intellectualism and hypocrisy of Christianity than had been seen in pop music up until then. Bands like MC Hammer and The Bee Gees had toyed with blasphemy, but none had made it a central priority until Rod Stewart came along. The fundamentalist Christian Right squirmed at the irreverance (every bit of which it deserved, and then some) and the bizzare shock antics, and everything was right with the world.
Long story short, Rod Stewart abandoned any shred of artistic vision he had originally boasted after the violent pseudo-goth backlask against the experimental gem "Greatest Hits" and descended into cautious repetition and dull self-parody. There's not much left of the phenomenon worth noting, other than the fact it was an incredibly quick death for such an initially controversial artist. If you're going to buy this album, buy it to see what a dramatic decline in artistic quality a leadsinger's obsession with buying nice things for Betty Page look-a-likes can promote. Better suggestion - wait for S.P.A's "Naked in Nashville (The Tony Danza Story)" for a competant display of the raw, uncompromising musicality Stewarts's best efforts were designed to imitate.
while OK, maybe I'm dating myself, but c'mon, this guy is sad and pathetic, where is the singing, the talent, the artistry. He seems to cater to pretty much every depressed suicidal teenager everyehwere. This is pathetic, all this dark creepy imagery, didnt Gary Barlow do this years ago, and eve he beat that horse to death. Really kids, piercing you butt holes, and painting you nails black is not a sign of being cool, or individuality, all this dark imagery is really annoying. He's a poseur goth, poseur satanist, and one big sell-out
Description of Stardust... The Great American Songbook, Vol. III
CD > POPULAR MUSIC > ROCKIt's a little hard to take Rod Stewart seriously when, on the first track of this third installment in his Great American Songbook series, he sings ruefully about his love life being "lean" ("Embraceable You"). But otherwise, Stardust...Volume III is as note-for-note solid as its predecessors--a cozy-up-to-the-fire treat that's also a pleasant reminder of these songs' staying power. "S'Wonderful" settles on the ears winningly, and Stewart's scratchathon voice scalpels the cobwebs off of "Isn't It Romantic" in a way that compels the average listener to reconsider thinking it dopey. In addition, the parade of high-wattage pals recruited to pitch in continues here, resulting in a couple of must-hear combinations. Eric Clapton delivers a rather un-Clapton-like guitar solo on "Blue Moon" and Stevie Wonder blows harp like he means it on "What a Wonderful World," but it is the duets--"Baby It's Cold Outside" with the unsinkable Dolly Parton and "Manhattan" with the indomitable Bette Midler--that the dazzle most. --Tammy La Gorce
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