Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2015

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian get together to discuss Rod Stewart's third in a series of five wonderful solo albums for Mercury records that he released early in his career, Every Picture Tells a Story (1971, Mercury). After working with the Jeff Beck Group and running concurrent to his output with the Faces, Stewart found success with the b-side "Maggie May." With a unique rock-and-roll-meets-folk-with-a-little-soul songwriting and production style, this album stands out. Brian and Bill discuss how they were able to move past their own prejudices toward Stewart, why more people don't discuss the importance of Rod's early solo career, why unique sounds and instrumentation sound so good, and a track by track review of the entire album!

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0:00.0	Take on time feeling inferior standing in front of my mirror
0:23.9	cold my hair in a thousand ways
0:28.6	but I came out looking just the same
0:33.2	Daddy said son you better see the world I wouldn't blame me if you wanted to need
0:42.3	But remember one thing, don't lose your head
0:46.3	Do a woman that'll spanned your bread
0:50.3	So I got out
0:53.3	Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast.
0:59.8	I'm Bill.
1:00.3	And I'm Brian.
1:01.1	And today we do not have a guest with us.
1:03.5	That is just the two of us.
1:05.2	With special guests, Bill and Brian.
1:08.6	And today we're going to be talking about Rod Stewart's
1:11.6	every picture tells a story,
1:14.0	which some people might be questioning our sanity right now.
1:20.4	But the factor of the matter is,
1:22.1	when you give it a chance, when you give old Rod a deep dive listen,
1:26.7	he's really good. Yeah, yeah, especially this period in his career.
1:31.8	Yeah. If you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do is each week we take a different
1:37.8	album of music and talk about what makes it great. We're going to talk a little bit about our own
1:43.1	personal connections with the music. We're going to talk about a little bit of what went into the
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