Rod Stewart - Sailing - yea or nay?

[billy]

The 'Fast Half' off that album is fucking great

[Pool Hall Richard]

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.

[Diamond Dog]

I agree with Billy!

[The Modernist]

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.

[The Modernist]

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!

[Belle Lettre]

Awful. My mum loves it

[ChrisB]

Bookends perfectly with Mull Of Kintyre.

Was going to say the exact same thing

[The Prof]

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.

[Deebank]

Wasn't it re-released during the Falklands or something?
Just for that (whether I imagined it or not) it's a no from me

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.

[Your Friendly Neighbourhood Postman]

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.

[Davey the Fat Boy]

Just listened. Better than I'd remembered.

[fange]

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.

[Neige]

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.

[Neige]

double post

[clive gash]

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?

[fange]

It's no 'Nuthanger City Limits'.

[steadyeddie]

is that Booker T & MGs on backing?

[The Slider]

Steve Cropper plays on the album for sure.
I don't know about the other three,

[Brickyard Jack]

I quite like it, but do not claim it is great.

[steadyeddie]

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