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
Carly Simon
Why
(Mirage/WEA 12", 1982)
The memory of a great night out
Although the MOJO team are all tucked up in bed by 10pm these days, reading our Somerset Maugham novels and sipping our Ovaltine Original there was a time when we partied largely (is that the correct term?) like the best of them. There are many tales oft told in the office of our normally together staff taking too many Anadin Liquifast at three-day festivals and declaring Level 42 to be the best band ever but listening to the 12" version of this track on the Victoria line the other morning I was reminded of how I spent the eve of the new millennium, actually dancing, with thousands of others, in one of the crumbling sound stages at the old Gainsborough studios, and announcing to complete strangers that it was undoubtedly the best thing I'd ever heard, ever. Part of the responsibility must be placed at the feet of the DJ for that part of the evening, Saint Etienne's Pete Wiggs. I vaguely remember he'd previously played some Chairman Of The Board and maybe even Pam, by Crazy Elephant but this was the track of the evening. Produced by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers for flop movie, Soup For One, Why (no question mark, Strokes fans) is one of those great club tracks that feels like it could and should go on forever. Riding on an hypnotically simple piano hook and hissing drum machine rhythm its genius is bound up in the way Simon's twin refrains ("Why does your love hurt so much" and "Ladidadida") continually swap places with each other, bouncing back and forth like piano and drums, a call-and-response chorus between Grief Stage One and Acceptance And Hope, two halves of one big romantic heartbreak. It couldn't have got much better. Then, for the last record of the evening, they played this! I walked home from Hoxton to Finsbury Park. Best night ever!
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 13/04/2010
Further Listening
George McCrae - It’s Been So Long (TK Records, 1975)
Grace Jones - Living My Life (Island 12” 1983)
The Flirtations - Nothing But A Heartache (Deram, 1968)
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An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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Inedible muck!
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And there wasn't enough of it.
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