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| 1. Hot Legs [Live Unplugged Version] (2008 Remastered Album Version) | |||
| 2. Tonight's The Night [Live Unplugged Version] (2008 Remastered Album Version) | |||
| 3. Handbags And Gladrags [Live Unplugged Version] (2008 Remastered Album Version) | |||
| 4. Cut Across Shorty [Live Unplugged Version] (2008 Remastered Album Version) | |||
| 5. Every Picture Tells A Story [Live Unplugged Version] (2008 Remastered Album Version) | |||
| 6. Maggie May [Live Unplugged Version] (2008 Remastered Album Version) | |||
| 7. Reason To Believe [Live Unplugged Version] (2008 Remastered Album Version) | |||
| 8. People Get Ready [Live Unplugged Version] (2008 Remastered Album Version) | |||
| 9. Have I Told You Lately [Live Unplugged Version] (2008 Remastered Album Version) | |||
| 10. Tom Traubert's Blues [ Waltzing Matilda] [Live Unplugged Version] (2008 Remastered Album Version) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Hot Legs [Live Unplugged Video] | |||
| 2. Tonight's The Night [Live Unplugged Video] | |||
| 3. Cut Across Shorty [Live Unplugged Video] | |||
| 4. Reason To Believe [Live Unplugged Video] | |||
| 5. Every Picture Tells A Story [Live Unplugged Video] | |||
| 6. Maggie May [Live Unplugged Video] | |||
| 7. People Get Ready [Live Unplugged Video] | |||
| 8. Handbags and Gladrags [Live Unplugged Video] | |||
| 9. Have I Told You Lately [Live Unplugged Video] | |||
| 10. Tom Traubert's Blues [Waltzing Matilda] [Live Unplugged Video] | |||
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
This low-key 1993 live retrospective marked something of a return to form for Rod the Mod, who for many years had more or less abdicated his position as a performer of consequence to pursue a more frivolous pop-star persona. With his former Faces bandmate Ron Wood in tow, Stewart revisits hits like "Hot Legs", "Tonight's the Night", and "Maggie May"--and more adventurous choices like Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready" and Tom Waits's "Tom Traubert's Blues"--with an effortless grace and a renewed expressiveness that makes Unplugged ... And Seated a consistent pleasure. --Scott Schinder
CD Description
Deluxe CD/DVD Collector's Edition of the legendary singer's 1993 MTV Unplugged performance features bonus audio plus the original broadcast on DVD for the first time!
Contains a 20 page booklet with new liner notes by Bud Scoppa.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This excellent album has all the grit and feeling of Stewart's best early-70s LPs.
Accompanied by a great combo which includes former bandmate Ronnie Wood, Stewart returns to the acoustic rock n' roll and folk that marked his greatest recordings, and even if "Unplugged" can't quite match "Gasoline Alley" or the sublime "Every Picture Tells A Story", it's really amazing how close it comes at times.
Rod Stewart sounds fine, if a little bit ragged at first, and the set opens with a wonderfully tough acoustic rendition of the sleazy rocker "Hot Legs", and the unplugged versions of the Faces' only hit, "Stay With Me", and Sam Cooke's "Having A Party" are equally superb.
"The First Cut Is The Deepest" is too saccharine for my taste, and "People Get Ready" never gets off the ground, but everything else is good, and most of it is great, particularly the swinging blues "Highgate Shuffle", the country-rock of "Cut Across Shorty", the melancholy "Handbands And Gladrags", and the classic "Maggie May".
Great sound, great songs, great arrangements and a lot of feeling.
Highly recommended.
Accompanied by a great combo which includes former bandmate Ronnie Wood, Stewart returns to the acoustic rock n' roll and folk that marked his greatest recordings, and even if "Unplugged" can't quite match "Gasoline Alley" or the sublime "Every Picture Tells A Story", it's really amazing how close it comes at times.
Rod Stewart sounds fine, if a little bit ragged at first, and the set opens with a wonderfully tough acoustic rendition of the sleazy rocker "Hot Legs", and the unplugged versions of the Faces' only hit, "Stay With Me", and Sam Cooke's "Having A Party" are equally superb.
"The First Cut Is The Deepest" is too saccharine for my taste, and "People Get Ready" never gets off the ground, but everything else is good, and most of it is great, particularly the swinging blues "Highgate Shuffle", the country-rock of "Cut Across Shorty", the melancholy "Handbands And Gladrags", and the classic "Maggie May".
Great sound, great songs, great arrangements and a lot of feeling.
Highly recommended.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I've never been a Rod Stewart fan, having hated his mid-period 'If you think I'm sexy' stuff and then just gave up on him until I heard this. A superb unplugged session from the early 1990's.
Starting with a fiery version of 'Hot Legs', you know immediately this is Rod Stewart going back to his early 70's rock 'n' roll best. Track three is 'Handbags and Gladrags', now so familiar as the theme to 'The Office' that it came as quite a shock to here somebody sing it. I haven't heard the original version but this must push it close.
Its not a perfect album though. Rod should have left Tom Waits 'Tom Traubert's blues (walting matilda)' well alone. Once you've heard Tom Waits original version nothing else is worth listening to. If you don't know Tom Waits has a voice that makes Rod Stewarts sound like an operatic soprano!
Fortunately Rod saves the best until last and 'Mandolin Wind', 'Highgate Shuffle' and 'Stay with Me' are all rock 'n' roll Rod from the early 70's - absolutely superb. Sadly the DVD of this isn't available, but it was filmed, and hopefully it will be released one day.
Starting with a fiery version of 'Hot Legs', you know immediately this is Rod Stewart going back to his early 70's rock 'n' roll best. Track three is 'Handbags and Gladrags', now so familiar as the theme to 'The Office' that it came as quite a shock to here somebody sing it. I haven't heard the original version but this must push it close.
Its not a perfect album though. Rod should have left Tom Waits 'Tom Traubert's blues (walting matilda)' well alone. Once you've heard Tom Waits original version nothing else is worth listening to. If you don't know Tom Waits has a voice that makes Rod Stewarts sound like an operatic soprano!
Fortunately Rod saves the best until last and 'Mandolin Wind', 'Highgate Shuffle' and 'Stay with Me' are all rock 'n' roll Rod from the early 70's - absolutely superb. Sadly the DVD of this isn't available, but it was filmed, and hopefully it will be released one day.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I had almost forgotten my love for Rod Stewarts music until I recently watched a documentary about his life. I so much enjoyed listening to the old songs such as Reason to Believe and Maggie May that I felt I should get a compliation album. I was a great fan in my early teens, but like many fans I lost interest after the days with the Faces. It was the range of classic early Rod Stewart and Faces materials that appealed to me with this album and the performance with Ronnie Wood gives it an added dimension. I was not disappointed. The arrangements are clearly different with the album being 'unplugged', but the songs are every bit as good as I remembered and Rod's voice is just unique. I particulary like the old Faces songs, Mandolin Wind, Hand Bags and Gladrags, Stay With Me, as well as the classics Maggie May and Reason to Believe. If you are an old Rod Stewart or Faces fan this is a good trip down memory lane.
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Published 17 days ago by Mike
At last have found this gem on DVD!
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This performance must be, obviously..., seated but I think it lacks a minimum
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