The Rod Stewart Sessions 1971-1998

Rod Stewart - The Rod Stewart Sessions 1971-1998

The Rod Stewart Sessions 1971-1998
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Artist: Rod Stewart
Brand: Rhino
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2009-09-29
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Maggie May (Early Version)
  2. Seems Like A Long Time (Alternate Version)
  3. Italian Girls (Early Version)
  4. You Wear It Well (Early Version)
  5. Lost Paraguayos (Alternate Version)
  6. I'd Rather Go Blind (Alternate Version)
  7. Angel (Alternate Version)
  8. Think I'll Pack My Bags (Early Version Of 'Mystifies Me')
  9. Farewell (Early Version)
  10. Girl From The North Country (Alternate Version)
  11. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man (Alternate Version)
  12. So Tired (Early Version)
  13. This Old Heart Of Mine (Alternate Version)
  14. To Love Somebody (Early Takes)
  15. Sailing (Alternate Version)
  16. Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright) (Early Take)
Music CD 2
  1. The First Cut Is The Deepest (Alternate Version)
  2. Rosie (Acoustic Version)
  3. Innocent (The Killing Of Georgie Part III)
  4. Hot Legs (Early Take)
  5. You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim) (Acoustic Version)
  6. I Was Only Joking (Early Take 4)
  7. Scarred & Scared (Early Take)
  8. When I'm Away From You
  9. Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight (Early Version)
  10. Time Of My Life
  11. TV Mama
  12. Maybe Baby
  13. Stupid
  14. Guess I'll Always Love You (Alternate Version)
  15. The Great Pretender (Acoustic Version)
Music CD 3
  1. Thunderbird
  2. Dancing Alone (Alternate Version)
  3. I Wish You Would
  4. Sweet Surrender (Alternate Version)
  5. Show Me
  6. Ghetto Blaster (Early Version)
  7. Satisfied (Alternate Version)
  8. Hard Lesson To Learn (Alternate Version)
  9. Heaven
  10. In My Life (Piano Version)
  11. Love Is A Four Letter Word
  12. Forever Young (Piano Version)
  13. My Heart Can't Tell You No (Alternate Version)
  14. I Go To Jail For You
  15. A Good Lover Is Hard To Find
Music CD 4
  1. Let The Day Begin (Alternate Version)
  2. The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar (Alternate Version)
  3. Windy Town (Piano Version)
  4. In A Broken Dream (1992)
  5. This Wheel's On Fire
  6. I Wanna Stay Home
  7. I'm A King Bee
  8. Looking For A Love
  9. Kiss Her For Me
  10. The Long Journey Home
  11. Now That You're On Your Own
  12. Dylan's Day Off
  13. On And On
  14. Rockin' Chair
  15. Sugar Lips
  16. The Changingman
  17. May You Never

Music reviews of The Rod Stewart Sessions 1971-1998

Music Review: What were they thinking???
Rating: 3 Stars

I've been a life long fan of Rod's work going back to the Jeff Beck band and while there are without a doubt substantial, essential gems in this collection - there are some duds and downright embarassments as well. That's really too bad since there are a number of really great b-sides and outtakes I'm sure spanning the same periods which were left off. Additionally, Rod's as much at home on stage as he is in the studio so by limiting this historical collection to "sessions", still unreleased classic live raritie such as fantastic covers of "Dock Of The Bay" or "Sweet Soul Music" are left out. I've seen photos of Rod sharing the stage with one of his idols, David Ruffin. Surely that's been recorded and molding a way in a vault somewhere.
This was an opportunity to put together a portrait of the artist's past that really could have been a jaw dropping listening experience from the first track of disc one to the last track of disc four. Did we really need a demo of "You Wear It Well" where the bulk of the lyric content is "La-la-la" as Rod hadn't had it half written then or a drunken fueled ode to his dad's trousers?
There are some incredible things in this set which are worth the price of admission alone! "Girl From The North Country" is done so well as to be hauntingly addictive and leaves one wondering how it was omitted for the prior release as in so many ways, it's a superior take. "In A Broken Dream" leaves the former Python Lee Jackson version which Rod lent vocals to in the dust! David Gilmour's guitarwork and John Paul Jones helping out with Rod's vocal upgrade bring this right into the present and totally recreate this lamenting ballad into a peice of sheer musical genius. Rod's covers of "Maybe Baby" and "King Bee" are also missed opportunities in my opinion. To have works like this sitting in the vaults seem criminal. "Show Me", "Heaven" and "I Go To Jail For You" will leaving you shaking your head in bewilderment as to how these could have been dropped from any tracklist! "Heaven" has hit single written all over it as does the re-working of the gorgeous ballad, "Sweet Surrender".
To be sure this set has it's share of winners but some of the demo's are lame. Add the comical, though sometimes embarrasing, alcahol-inspired, hidden tracks and you have a lot of disc space which could have been far better utilized had some more imagination gone into this project. According to the liner notes, Arnold Stiefel made the vaults wide open to the producers. I can't imagine that there weren't a vast number of really great moments omitted in favor of the unfinished or mediochre material taking up otherwise precious space. This also makes for an uneven listening experience, when an inferior demo is spaced in between two good tracks or followed by a sloppy inferior performance.
Overall this box set is loaded with tracks that fall into one of three categories...either stunning genius representative of the quality we've come to expect from Rod, material he's only just started working on which is sometimes painful to listen to or drunken silliness that's simply detracting from everything else.
All in all it's a good job that could have been fantastic. What is great earns it three stars and what's not has cost it two.
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