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Storyteller: Complete Anthology 1964-1990 (4CD) [Box set]

~ Rod Stewart
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Product details

  • Audio CD (3 Nov 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Warner
  • ASIN: B000002LIR
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 89,086 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
2. Can I Get A Witness
3. Shake
4. So Much To Say
5. Little Miss Understood
6. I've Been Drinking
7. I Ain't Superstitious
8. Shapes Of Things
9. In A Broken Dream
10. Street Fighting Man
11. Handbags And Gladrags
12. Gasoline Alley
13. Cut Across Shorty
14. Country Comfort
15. It's All Over Now
16. Sweet Lady Mary
17. Had Me A Real Good Time
18. Maggie May
19. Mandolin Wind
20. I Know I'm Losing You
See all 66 tracks on this disc

Product Description

CD Description
This appropriately named 4-CD box set follows all the highsand lows of Rod Stewart's career, featuring song-by-song annotations provided by the man himself. Starting back in 1964with a cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning LittleSchoolgirl", Stewart spent most of the '60s looking for a break in the music business. With his raspy voice and emotional delivery, it made perfect sense that some of his earliestsongs were soul covers ("Shake", "Can I Get A Witness".). After singing with former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck and sowing the seeds of heavy metal, Stewart fronted the Faces, all the while forging a distinctive sound thanks to his melding of soul, country, blues & rock and roll.
In the late '70s, Stewart's music slowly gravitated towards disco, leading to "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?", the song many point to as his nadir. For all the gripes, Stewart continued pouring his allinto whatever he sang, whether it was a great cover (Tom Waits' "Downtown Train") or a storytelling original ("Young Turks"). STORYTELLER offers all this and a number of previously unreleased songs that include a session featuring Stewart fronting Booker T. & The MG s right before drummer Al Jackson's tragic death ("To Love Somebody").

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tells the man's story quite well., 15 Feb 2008
By Mr. P. B. Koeb (Geneva, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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Okay, it isn't cheap. Okay, it's another honker of a box-set. But this one also tells Rod's story very well, drawing on material from the various stages of his career. (Not much in the way of obscure rarities, however.) I don't know if it's now done in a "cost-reduced" form, like the "Beckology" set, but my (secondhand) copy comes in an LP-size box with a huge booklet. Not sure whether it's been remastered or not, as the sound quality is a bit patchy in places. Some of the early stuff would benefit from being freshened up.

The first cd starts off with a few early recordings, before moving on to three excellent Jeff Beck Group selections. Up next are the non-album(?) "In A Broken Dream", followed by "Street Fighting Man" and "Handbags & Gladrags" from the first solo album. "Gasoline Alley" is represented by four tracks, with things brought to a close with "Sweet Lady Mary" and "Had Me A Real Good Time" by the Faces.

The second cd features a generous selection from "Every Picture Tells A Story", including five of the eight tracks. Then it's back to the Faces for "Stay With Me", before a whopping chunk of "Never A Dull Moment". Then come a couple of tracks from the less-than-essential "Smiler" album, and the Faces' "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything" to close the second disc.

From here on, the collection does become a bit more patchy. Rod had, arguably, passed his creative peak but was about to enjoy bigger commercial success. The third cd takes material from those albums recorded after his relocation to the USA. "Atlantic Crossing" yields three cuts, including the inevitable "Sailing". Then comes a relative rarity, in the shape of "To Love Somebody". This is a collaboration with Booker T & The MG's, who helped out on his first two American albums. Up next are the best-known tracks from "A Night On The Town", his decent cover of "Get Back" and three cuts from "Footloose And Fancy Free". Unfortunately, we're given the cringe-inducing "You're In My Heart" rather than the excellent covers of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" or "If Loving You Is Wrong....". But that's kinda understandable. Much like the inclusion of "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?". But this was always a good bit of fun, in spite of its lascivious lyrical content.

Thereafter, just about all of us would agree that Rod's albums become distinctly hit and miss. The remainder of this box-set manages to be a decent trawl through this period, including all the stuff you'd expect. Some of the tracks are okay ("What Am I Gonna Do?", "Love Touch", "Forever Young") and some even very good ("People Get Ready", "This Old Heart Of Mine" and "Downtown Train"). But the quality does, inevitably, dip quite markedly.

Even so, this remains a pleasing retrospective of Rod Stewart's career, up to 1990. A few more Faces tracks and a bit less of his eighties output would have been appreciated. As we all know, however, it's extremely rare for ANY four-cd box set to maintain the highest quality all the way through to the end.
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