Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
The Black Crowes
Amorica
(American, 1994)
Never mind the "clocksprings", here's rock'n'roll at its most stupendously unmoored.
Rarely can a record's commercial potential have been more poorly served by its cover, as the furore over its sexism ("What's wrong with being sexy?") or otherwise, utterly overshadowed the merits, or otherwise, of the music within. Although, "commercial potential" seemed the last thing on the minds of Atlanta's finest as they followed their mainstream-goosing neo-boogie opus, The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion, with a record designed to blow their own minds, and damn the torpedoes. Gone sets the tone with its Santana-funk intro and blazing lead break by gouched out axe-prodigy Marc Ford. It's ravished, drugged, gone, teetering between good trip and bad as Chris Robinson lies "blind, naked and scared", delivering the hippest, weirdest vocal performance of his career. From top-to-bottom, this is a glorious exercise in too-muchness, raising the bar for all that follows. Luckily, what follows includes the epicly low-slung A Conspiracy, latin crush-groove High Head Blues and all manner of super-groovy jams, wherein drummer Steve Gorman epitomises the seemingly-oxymoronic "precision drag" of all great blitzed rock while Robinson wades dizzily through a swamp of poison, sex and paranoia, his "divine spark" flashing as clouds conspire above his head ("I overheard them say, 'I wish he was dead'"). Whether out of guilt or fear or drugs or hubris or all of the above, rock bands always go mad after their big hit, and the record that follows is invariably the most interesting of their career. Amorica is one of those, with bells on.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 30/03/2009
Further Listening
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion (Def American, 1992)
Santana - Abraxas (Columbia, 1970)
Masters Of Reality - Sunrise On The Sufferbus (Chrysalis, 1992)
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I had this album once. It was total shit...
Posted by simon F at 8:52 AM GMT 30/03/2009 Report Abuse
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I have this album 5 times...its total ly brilliant
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RE: simon F
Great album...maybe not to your taste but no where near shit.
Posted by Grov at 6:00 PM GMT 31/03/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: simon F
Great album...maybe not to your taste but no where near shit.
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