A Nod Is as Good as a Wink… to a Blind Horse

The songs where Rod Stewart has lead vocals are significantly more interesting to me. Mostly standard blues rock fare otherwise. Favorites were Miss Judy’s Farm, Stay With Me, and Too Bad.

Aika kova pitää rock-levyn olla että tässä vaiheessa listaa pääsisi neloseen. Tämä ei sitä ollut.

Second Rod Stewart project in a week. His voice sounds better and more unique the more you listen to him. Never listened to this full album before and I can say I like it more than his solo work. It's quite a generic blues album, with some less inspiring covers like Memphis in there. But I'm a sucker for blues rock, so I don't really mind. Stay With Me is an amazing song and the rest of the album is enjpoyable as well. It sounds a lot like what the Black Crowes would go on to copy 20 years later.

So sick of Rod Stewart. Glad there was another singer to balance him out.

Pretty nice

Some decent old rock. Nothing that stood out to me. Nothing I would seek out in the future. Also, nothing I would mind having on in the background.

Anyone else think this list is a little heavy on the "white dudes do R&B / rock". Sadly, other bands (a) did it better and (b) didn't have Rod's voice ruining everything.

Rod Stewart has terrible hair. This has nothing to do with the album or how it sounds, but I needed to get that off my chest. It's almost painful to look at him, his hairstyle is SO BAD.

Luckily, I only had to listen to him with this album!

It's pretty solid rock music. Not a stand out favorite, but good enough to add to genre playlists. Not bad, not bad at all.

Ik lees over verdrietige en angstige gezichten toen Steward en Wood aanklopten. Daarbij vallen wij toch helemaal weg? De samenwerking is toch ontstaan. En misschien lullig om te schrijven. De heren kregen hun gelijk. Er draait een leuk rockend plaatje, niet mis mee, maar op veel vlakken ook niet opvallend. Het verschil wordt echt gemaakt door Steward. De aandacht wordt daadwerkelijk naar de ruwe zang getrokken. Toch ben ik blij dat ze de keuze hebben gemaakt. Ondanks dat de zang de boventoon voert, gaan zang en muziek heel fijn samen. Lane kan er als zanger niet aan tippen, maar als je bijvoorbeeld naar de mooi verdraaiende accenten van You're so rude luistert, hoor je dat dat ook slecht relatief is.

It’s forgettable and there’s nothing much else to say.

This is actually a decent album and I was not expecting that. But I don't think he's sexy.

A cracker of an album, with a stand-out track (Stay with Me) which is almost deserving of five stars on its own.

Meh. Not for me. I am impressed he made it as far as he did with his level of rasp. It’s like the more rock n’ rolly Bowie tunes which are my least favorite to begin with , but without any of the stuff that makes those songs kinda interesting. Like Bowie’s Dylan impression but not as good.

A super solid early 70s rock album. Straightforward, no weird recording effects, nothing special about how it was recorded, nothing novel in terms of instrumentation or production. It kind of makes you wonder why it was included in this list. But whatever the reason I'm glad it was. It was fun to listen to and I love how it isn't perfect by any means. I do wish that Rod Stewart had been the singer for all the songs, I wonder about the fights they must have had around that descision. Not much else to say about this one, solidly middle of the road. 3/5

Pretty dependable rock and roll. Rod’s songs definitely better than Ronnie’s. Not up to the level of the other greats from this time period, but still very good.

3.5/5

This really wasn't a bad album, but it also really never blew me away.

A fun 70s rock one. The first song is insane but I was a little let down after that

HL: "Stay With Me", "Debris", "That's All You Need"

December 7, 2023

Average 3 per track. Pretty decent but didn’t seem to groundbreaking.

Cool album, side 2 is especially good. Ronnie Lane doesn’t need to sing when you have Rod Stewart in your band. I liked it more than I thought I would. Love the guitar.