Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
The 'Fast Half' off that album is fucking great
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
Its wonderful, was listening to pick of the pops over the weekend, 1975, Gambaccini played this, sounds superb. Production, song, Rod's voice. Essential. The naysayers are wrong.
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
I agree with Billy!
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
Pool Hall Richard wrote:Its wonderful, was listening to pick of the pops over the weekend, 1975, Gambaccini played this, sounds superb. Production, song, Rod's voice. Essential. The naysayers are wrong.
I don't think so.
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Pat O'Banton wrote:Diamond Dog wrote:Bookends perfectly with Mull Of Kintyre.
A fabulously pertinent point. But I'd much rather Rod's dreck than Macca's....
They're practically the same melody aren't they? Macca's seems more sincere somehow - not that I'd want to hear it!
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
Awful. My mum loves it
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
Was going to say the exact same thingDiamond Dog wrote:Bookends perfectly with Mull Of Kintyre.
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It was used as the theme tune from some fly-on-the-wall documentary about life in the Navy IIRC and played to death on the BBC.
Horrible.
Horrible.
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Moleskin wrote:Deebank wrote:Wasn't it re-released during the Falklands or something?
Just for that (whether I imagined it or not) it's a no from mewiki wrote:As the British task-force sailed out of Portsmouth Harbour on 5 April 1982 - the third day of the Falklands War - the recording of Rod Stewart's "Sailing" was broadcast from the quay's public address system
In 1987 Rod Stewart's "Sailing" was reissued as a charity single after the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster off the Flemish port of Zeebrugge,becoming a moderate hit in Belgium's Flemish Region (#24) and also the British Isles (#41 UK/ #30 Ireland)
Right. I knew there was some horrible mawkish Falklands connection that made me queasy.
I also remember that series about the Ark Royal that Prof mentions too, now he comes to mention it.
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
I gave it the Woo Yeah rating -
I never listen to it. It doesn't mean anything to me, either positively or negatively.
But I know that a gazillion people hold it dear to their hearts.
That's enough.
I never listen to it. It doesn't mean anything to me, either positively or negatively.
But I know that a gazillion people hold it dear to their hearts.
That's enough.
On the whole, I'd rather be in Wallenpaupack.
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
Just listened. Better than I'd remembered.
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
Nah, it's pap. It's the kind of thing that people that loved 'Bright Eyes' also loved.
I say this as a person who absolute adores many of Rod's melodramatic tunes, 'I Was Only Joking' and 'The Killing of Georgie' say. But 'Sailing' is a bridge too far.
I say this as a person who absolute adores many of Rod's melodramatic tunes, 'I Was Only Joking' and 'The Killing of Georgie' say. But 'Sailing' is a bridge too far.
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
It's a hm from me, in homage to the pimply teens who could dance close together to it.
I loved songs like this when I was 14-15.
I loved songs like this when I was 14-15.
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
fange wrote:Nah, it's pap. It's the kind of thing that people that loved 'Bright Eyes' also loved.
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
It's no 'Nuthanger City Limits'.
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
Steve Cropper plays on the album for sure.
I don't know about the other three,
I don't know about the other three,
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Re: Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?
I quite like it, but do not claim it is great.
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The Slider wrote:Steve Cropper plays on the album for sure.
I don't know about the other three,
Booker T, Duck and Al all there in the LP credits too
...that soothing Hammond could well be Booker T (to these ears)
Got you all wondering now, eh
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