Rod Stewart must be immediately stricken from the spacetime continuum

[Orrex]

He may be the only person, living or dead, with less soul than Rick Astley.

And what he did to Downtown Train is criminal at the very least.

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[Bunny]

1. I heard a commercial just this morning where he was singing

Have You Ever Seen the Rain? from CCR. That was pretty pukeful.

[Orrex]

2. He's wretched

He was on Leno last night or the night before, and he performed that piece. I smashed my tv into little bits and buried it in the cinders beside the railroad tracks.

It seemed like the only thing to do.

[Bossy Monkey]

3. He's singing every song by every raspy-voiced singer ever

Umm, Rod? We don't really need your interpretation of Bob Seger and Bonnie Tyler. Just retire, please?

[Orrex]

9. I can't wait for his cover of "Holding on for a Hero"

Bonnie's best work, to be sure...

[kwassa]

4. Shit, the man has bills to pay.

He turned into a whore back in the disco era.

If bad taste kept music off the air ..... there would be lots of available airspace.

[Orrex]

6. Yeah, but he's been wholly awful for four solid decades

If he'd only been awful for two or even three, I could take it. But forty years is just too much.

[kwassa]

7. He was great in the old Jeff Beck group, and early solo work

so, I think he has only been bad for 2.5 decades or so.

I actually, through bizarre coincidence, saw his band in rehearsal on a Hollywood soundstage for a road tour in about '81. I was working on a film crew on the next stage over. The old Desilu complex.
They were really GREAT. He came in later, and was actually a very funny guy.

[LaraMN]

5. I can get on that train.

His voice irritates the shit out of me.

[madinmaryland]

10. There are trains in Minnesota?

:hi:

I used to hear that type of voice on the New York Subway system. Couldn't understand a word they were saying.

[johnnie]

8. I like his singing

I know it's not cool, but I never claimed to be cool. I think he has done some pretty good stuff in his career and he is a very under-rated songwriter in my opinion.

[bif]

11. I liked him with Jeff Beck

& the Faces. But he's sucked ever since.

[Orrex]

12. Yeah--that's one of those "what have you done for me lately" deals

I mean, his solo work makes up better than 99.99% of what he's known for, so any good work he might have done with The Faces is lost in the rest of his career.