OP10: Rod Stewart

you can't forget his amazing cover of carole king's "so far away" !

Anthony's list is basically OTM. I really don't like Rod Stewart much though. What's the one that goes "You're in my heart, you're in my soul...." in the chorus? It's probably either on his list or called Heart & Soul, I like that one. God I really know nothing about Rod Stewart.

If we don't like POx/OP10, then why don't we just keep doing them but have discussions about things on the thread? I don't understand why list threads are JUST list threads, lists are good discussion openers.

So as such I'd like to say that I think D'Ya Think I'm Sexy is the greatest thing Rod Stewart did period, musically or non-musically, even better than bagging Rachel Hunter. That's a GREAT song, the chorus is deathless.

that song is called You're In My Heart, Ally. And I think you'd love it if you saw the video. It opens with Rod singing straight to the camera in a fancy restaurant, ordering champagne. Then he plays peek-a-boo behind a fancy chair. Then during the final chori (choruses?) stock footage of the Scottish football team appears behind him.

actually, it's You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim).

I have to do it. Here's the lyrics to his unheralded piece of fantastic melodrama, "Crazy About Her."

*swanky Miami Vice saxophones*

I walk the streets at night
until the morning light comes shining through
Can't get a good night's sleep
Ain't been to work in weeks
What am I gonna do
*whispered* Help me

*saxophones again*

Can't get her off my mind
I'm drinking too much wine
I'm burning up inside
If I could touch her face
or take her out some place I'd be satisfied

Hey, I'm a loaded gun
I'm crazy about her, crazy about her
Hey, I'm a lovesick son
I'm crazy about her

*then he RAPS! or at least talks really fast*
I see her jogging in Central Park
with one of them Walkman's on her head.
She was hot! young! beautiful!
and I said to myself
*dramatic pause*
She's destined to be mine

*SLEAZY SAXOPHONES!*

I see her every day
in rush hour or subway, in a grocery store
She don't notice me,
I might as well just be a cockroach on the floor

If she belonged to me I'd give her everything
I'd never cheat or lie
I'd treat her with respect, not just A! SEX! OBJECT!
I ain't that kind of guy

Hey, I'm a loaded gun
I'm crazy about her, crazy about her
Hey, I'm a lovesick son
I'm crazy about her

*rappin'*
I was standing outside the Met one day
when she drove by in a black Corvette
I said heyyyy baby!
I could've died, she looked straight through me
But I know *pause* she's destined to be mine

Every night I stand around her door and wait for her to come by
She lives in one of those brown-stones with the guard outside
and the limousines and the Rolls Royces coming and going
My friends all say she's way outta my class
but I know if she'd just get to KNOW me
I could give her something all those rich guy ain't GOT!

Yeahhhhhhhhhhoooo!

Ain't gonna bide my time ain't gonna stand in line
Somebody gonna get burned
But, oh the problem is I think my loves at risk
She's the boss's girl
Oh NO!

*then comes the most baffling, outrageous, embarassing shrieks a grown man has ever put on a top 40 single*

the black and white video involves Rod humpin' a chair in a smoky, sweaty bar in front of a white tuxedoed band while women squeeze water out of dishrags and onto their bodies. Cuz they're DESTINED TO BE HIS!

Gasoline Alley
Tonight's the Night (love the 'when's the song gonna start already' opening)
I Was Only Joking
Hot Legs (love those stoopid 'aha aha' root-fifth chords at the end of each chorus)
D'Ya Think I'm Sexy
You're in My Heart
First Cut is the Deepest
Attractive Female Wanted ("tired of buying Penthouse and Hustler...all my family think I'm gay" !!!)
Ooh La La (I don't have a TV, the concept of 'overexposure' is beyond me)
Some Guys Have All the Luck (what a fuckin' voice that guy's got, eh?)

Oh my god, that video sounds like the greatest thing ever. FOOTBALLERS?!