Some guilty pleasure sh*t going on here. It's a 70s song, not 80s. No one wants to admit they enjoy this disco-era tune. It's like that with some Bee Gees songs, too. That said, what in Holy Hell possessed you to react to this??
This song was '78, guys, right during the height of the whole post-Saturday Night Fever disco craze when EVERYONE was doing a disco song. This one got so much radio airplay that it grew irritating quickly... and it just wouldn't go away. It. Just. Wouldn't. Go. Away.
Rod has quite the sense of humor, this whole song is tongue in cheek. After all, he was named Sexiest Man Alive by People Magazine, how else could you handle such a thing, except to make light of it?
I never thought Rod Stewart was attractive, but I did see an interview with him and I think Barbara Walters, and he has charisma up the wazu... I had never seen anything I like it. I get why women totally fell for him.
This song was to Rod Stewart, what “I Was Made For Loving You” was to KISS, and “Miss You” was to the Stones. The closest each of them would come to disco
@@bodhisattva3774 you may be right. I haven’t listened to ‘hot stuff’ in years - and that had been a deliberate choice. I love ‘miss you’ though. One of my all-time favorite stones tracks.
"Every Picture Tells A Story," not sure if you guys did "I Know (I'm Losing You)," "The First Cut Is The Deepest," "Handbags & Gladrags," "Tomorrow Is A Long Time," "Mandolin Wind"...one of those should be pretty good. "I Know (I'm Losing You)" is awesome.
He just has a southern accent. Even college professors in the south speak like that, at least some of them. I’m from Tennessee, with a Master’s Degree, and I know from experience. Lol.
Way back in the 50s there was a radio host named Arthur Godfrey who later was on TV. He had a guest who created stories where every word was replaced by other words that sound close but are totally different.. A book was published with some of the stories and poems, called Anguish Languish (English language). He started a couple of fairy tales (furry tells) with “Wants pawn term” (Once upon a time…)…dare worsted ladle gull hoe left wetter murder inner ladle cordage inner muddle offer lodge dock florist. (….There was a little girl who lived with her mother in a little cottage in the middle of a large dark forest.)… anyway, once/wants is indeed close!
This came out in 1978. It’s a great song. In 1988, my boss and I, a dude who loved to party as much as I did, went to a bar and then smoked way too much weed the night before we had to do store inventory at 7am. We crashed at my house, barely made it to work on time and this came on the boom box. We sang and danced it, cuz when you’re born in ‘65, you know all the fucking words to this. Little did we know, the two 16 years old who worked for us quietly watched us. We were stoked and ready to go when Rod was done. One kid said to the other- “Jesus! Old people!”
Actually, disco survived into the 80s. In Europe, there was no backlash against disco like in the states and it continued to evolve. Essentially, New Wave of the 80s was just updated disco with a new name to keep US buyers from realizing it.
Back then I was all about dive bars and rock and roll. Problem was, all the hot girls wanted to get dressed up and go dancing. So a couple times a month my buddies and I would do our best to re-imagine ourselves and head to the clubs. As much as I despised disco, I must say it turned out to the best thing that ever happened to me in my life. I met my future wife on the dance floor. Now all these years later, even though we can still dance, both of us are still rockers to the core.
@@ssmodk you are absolutely right once and dunce rhyme. But, wants, fonts, and nonce rhyme with each other, but they don't rhyme with Flaunt, haunt, jaunt, taunt, and gaunt.
The song is fun. The melody is catchy and the singer is flat out awesome! It has stood the test of time. I still hear it played on the radio four decades after coming out and kids are still dancing and having fun to it.
He did NOT sell out. This song is extremely true and organic to who Rod is. His spirit was always flamboyant and flirtatious and sensual, very aligned with the glammy disco spirit and lifestyle of the 70s. If he had just rigidly adhered to the salt of the earth, everyman rock thing when his actual tastes and lifestyle and spirit were on the same page as the 70s campy aesthetic, THAT would have been selling out for him. The whole concept of selling out is bullshit anyway. If the music’s great it’s great, whether or not it achieves mainstream success. In this case the music is great.
It's not his attitude or sprit. It's the sound. Maybe he was trying something new. Maybe it was "hey let's try this disco thing". It ended up his #2 best seller, and comparing it to everything else, it just seems like an outlier. Either it was an experiment that took off unintentionally, or he tried to strike while the iron was hot. For the record, I hold a grudge against all things Rod ever since my parents drove that stupid Vagabond Heart album into the ground in Jr High with that awful Motown Song.
@@bryancue2238 The sound, what you’re reacting to, IS an attitude and a spirit. Music is an expression of attitude and spirit. This is totally organic to who and what Rod is. Read his autobiography. He was living it up in the 70s, enjoying all the campy, theatrical excess of the period, hobnobbing at glitzy celebrity parties, etc. And he wasn’t just partaking, he was one of the influencers who shaped the zeitgeist of the time. This sound was an organic expression of the spirit and lifestyle of the people who made it, and he was one of them, not an outsider.
Dude can record whatever the hell he wants. Who the hell is anybody to call someone a sellout for doing what they want to do with their lives or their careers? I love Neil Peart, but the dude was a bigtime admirer of Ayn Rand at one point in his life. Talk about an illusion of integrity...
This song was meant to be heard in a disco - really worked in the right environment - everyone sang the chorus to their dance partner OF COURSE. Super fun.
I remember how way back then, there was no such thing as remixes or extended versions of songs. So at discos they would just play the song over and over again. The entire place would be fired up.
This is Stewart mocking the disco scene and making $$$$ off it. He sang a lot of styles, never limited himself. In the disco era even the rockers wanted to dance.
Guys, you gave this song an A, and you gave "Eight Miles High," by the Byrds, a C. I will admit, I don't think this is Rod's worst song. For a disco song, I think he actually does well with it. I'm *definitely* more of a fan of rock, and metal, and progressive rock, and soul, and funk, and jazz, than I am of disco, but I don't *hate* this song. There is still no way, at all, though, that it is a better song than "Eight Miles High!"
@@bobbybobbatunday9959 When it was released, "Eight Miles High" literally helped to change the sound of popular music. It's a complex song, influenced by Indian music and experimental jazz. It makes much more of a demand of the listener than a Rod Stewart disco song. "Eight Miles High" isn't a fun, pleasant, hummable pop song, but it is a groundbreaking classic musically.
8 Miles High is an overrated bunch of noise. Trying to ride the Beatles excursions into Eastern music. Rod's song was cowritten by drummer Carmine Apple as a tongue in cheek discovered romp. Hell yes this song is better. Go drop your acid and cue up your Byrds.
@@JimGeigerMusic I've never dropped acid. I've never done any drugs. I have no interest in them. I *do* love music, from rock, to classical music, to jazz, to Eastern sitar pieces. "Eight Miles High" is not noise. You don't like it, clearly, but it's not noise. Speaking of dropping something, drop the personal insults. I didn't insult *anyone here* for liking Rod's disco song. I clearly said he did well with it.
At the time that "Eight Miles High" was released, the closest the Beatles had come to an excursion into Eastern music was the use of a sitar in "Norwegian Wood".
Omg. Flashback. My mom and her friend in a Terry shorts strapless onesie belting this out on a balcony in Ft. Lauderdale FL. I’m 10 and mortified. 😂😂😂 A forever memory attached to this song.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver my mother had one also, if I'm thinking of the same garment. I think it's basically a woman's one-piece garment that covers from the chest to the thighs and that's it.
Love how open minded yall are about this song! Straight up disco. Disco gets so much hate, but really there's so much to love about it. Yalls should do some Bee Gees! Straight fire! 🔥
Just as many people liked disco I was there And the DANCE FLOORS WERE PACKED IN THE 70s NATION WIDE , DISCO WAS HUGE At the same time so was 70s ROCK , The Cars The Police , Van Helen ToTO Had huge Lps in the late 70s , The Stones had a huge lp in 1978 Rumors By Fleet wood mac 1977 Was HUGE Bostons Boston 1976 WAS SPECTACKULAR , The Clash Were just getting started , The B52s Were Just getting started The late 70s were FANTASTIC ,, Just not Disco
@@kmorri9 Let's rally around one Bee Gees song we want to get them to listen to. My initial instinct is How Deep is Your Love but I'm open to suggestions…
The great Carmine Appice played drums and co-wrote this song. This was a HUGE hit for Rod back in 1979. It is a very disco song in the time of disco, but even though I was not a huge disco fan, there were a few disco songs along the way that I really liked, and this was one of them. And Hot Legs is another excellent song. And it is a bit more rock and roll and less disco.
@Geo Dio It's all about taste. Personally, I find Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan monotonous but some people can't live without 'em. I'd listen to Rod Stewart's worst over any "Best Of" from Bruce and Bob.
This is every bit as good as the earlier stuff. You just don’t like the style he’s exploring here. The quality of songwriting and performance is as high here as the earlier hits.
@@rainbowgames1 nope, it's trash all around. There are some gems to be found in the disco style that I like but this isn't one of them but thanks for telling me all about my motivations. Lol. And that lame octave walk up and down in half steps bass line is in dozens of disco songs. The unoriginal "songwriting" was just pandering to what was selling at the time.
I disagree, this is not trash. Disco dudes got money too and if they want to lay that money down in the middle of the Disco Era, Rod will take that bet, take that money and you will enjoy it! 🎵 Lol. 🎶 It still rocks...c'mon...or don't. 😋
@@bodhisattva3774 The octave bass walk up is cool as hell, not lame at all. I’m a bass player. The octave walk up is simply a staple feature of the genre. Are you going to equally argue that the songs of the Stones or Led Zeppelin are trash on the basis that nearly all of them incorporate the Chuck Berry riff that is a staple stylistic motif of the rock n roll genre? Most blues songs not only incorporate the same hallmark licks, but the same chord progression! Does that mean all blues songs are trash on that basis? You’re confusing “unoriginal songwriting” with “characteristic stylistic features.” The songwriting itself is original. And it was a fusion of styles, not pure disco anyway. Not that that matters though; it could have been pure disco and still been as great as anything. There are many disco and disco fusion masterpieces, and this is one of them. You just don’t like disco.
THis is full blown 70s disco! I just checked, it came out in 1978. I seem to remember a lot of people complaining that he was doing disco music because rockers were so against it. He's one of the few who I think did it successfully. Disco is all about cockiness.
I mean, thousands of ladies throwing their panties at him and he's still wondering if they think he's sexy. It's a crazy stewing pot of humility and hubris.
@Abbie VanDenBerg Except that the "Some Girls" album came out in June of 1978, while "Blondes have more Fun" came out in December of 1978. Also, "Miss You" was a complete departure from the rest of the album, which was raw pseudo-punk. "Standing in the Shadows of Love" from 'BHMF' has the same stereotypical "4-on-the-floor" disco beat as "Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?".
I'm not deeply disturbed that I enjoyed this song, l loved it. This song stayed at # 1 on the Billboard chart for 4 weeks in February 1979 and Billboard later ranked it at # 4 on its top singles of the 1979 year- end chart. The video got a lot of attention especially the scene involving Rod and his microphone 🎤. Don't feel guilty guys, it was a great song.
Rod was cool early on, one of the best. This though is him beginning to sell out to disco or whatever he thought would sell some records. Interesting that you go on to rate Neil Young, who refused to sell out and laid out his soul on his songs, lower than this drivel.
You need to hear 'Every Picture Tells a Story' and 'Mandolin Wind'. The latter is one of the best deeper cuts ever. It was the B side of 'Maggie May' but got no radio play. Correction: It was B side to 'I'm Losing You' .
These guys thought the song was about Rod? No wonder they had low expectations. It's about people meeting up in bars....building up their own confidence. That feeling you get when the girl at the club smiles at you and you start walking over.
Ya gotta love Rod! Pure charisma. I’m a Rocker, however I’ve always loved Rod’s version of Dance music. Speaking of…this is the closest I’ve seen both of you to dancing. ;)
Alex, Co writer Carmine Appice (Aah-Piece) was a member of the very experimental group, Vanilla Fudge. If you want some extreme interpretation covers of other people's hits, Vanilla Fudge had the psychedelic treatment for all.
Totally,their version of you keep me hangin' on is legendary,I can claim to have shook carmine's appice's hand many years ago in Christchurch, New Zealand, lovely guy,very humble
@@scottgalloway9903 As A&A have heard She's Not There by the Zombies, hearing Vanilla Fudge's treatment would be more relatable for them. (They also really need to hear the Santana version of She's Not There, off of Moonflower!)
It was pretty cringey in 1978, maybe a little less so now. Lots of rock bands then tried their hands at a disco song; I think this is a notch below the Stones' "Miss You." There's a slew of great Rod Stewart songs you should look at: "The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)," "Handbags and Gladrags," "The First Cut Is the Deepest," "Every Picture Tells a Story"
Does have the disco element like the stones and practically everyone else had once at least. Especially Miss You "It's just some friends of mine that say, Hey what's the matter man? We're going to come around at 12:00 with some Puerto Rican girls that's just dyin' to meet you. We're gonna bring a case of wine hey let's go mess and fool around you know, like we used to... "
I loved that song. And make no mistake. "Another Brick in the Wall- 2" was Pink Floyd's concession to the times. And they did it a whole lot better imo.
@@skiprockjr.6881 Gotcha, but I was kinda referring to the beginning when Alex mentioned it kind of sounds like the Stones. Mainly that line in Miss You is what I heard when he said that. ✌️
@@skiprockjr.6881 lol that's knowing your Stones. I couldn't ever listen to Emotional Rescue. Hurts my disco sensitive ears. Bags too. I'm a the rock guy that wore the t-shirt in the day that said Disco Sucks!
This was a monster disco hit in the late 70s. The reason why there wasn't much saxophone was because synth & bass drove a lot of these disco songs. If you think you escaped cringe with this song, you haven't seen the video yet. It's super ultra Mega cringe
We need disco back again!💯 I know so many people like me that hated disco; it was anti rock!👎😩 30 years after disco died I started realizing that disco was fun to listen to and sing along and dance!🤭 Long live disco!🤗🤣✌❤
@@gbsailing9436 Unfortunately like a lot of UA-cam reactors they have fallen into the trap of looking for how many views the original song gets so they think they will get more views on their upload, hence they only do deep cuts on the live streams, sad really as it stops being about new music and more about popularity
@@simply_psi I see. I never considered it from the marketing perspective. So it's all about building a channel. I must admit I believed what they said about educating themselves about what made older music from the '60's, '70's and 80's great compared with modern music. Silly me to believe what someone tells me is actually true when it isn't.
👆👆👆what this guy said. If it’s not punk, tread carefully around 1976-1978. That’s a hard and fast rule. Also, NOBODY was listening to this in the 80s. Disco was a moldering corpse after 1979, and AOR was king.
Rod goes disco with lycra pants and the whole band look like idiots- but shows that a classic rocker can do disco better than any disco person. Stones were doing pseudo disco at the same time...same thing better than any "regular disco".
True about the costumes during that era but the tight band and great riffs overall are still gonna do ut for ya. Rem, managers and agents push a lot of stupid junk for commercialism cash...it's not always the way the band wants to go. Same with album covers, album names, outfits, tour schedules, blah blah blah.
Totally late ‘70’s Disco. I was in my early 30’s and Vibing on this! My 66 yr. old Mother was all in love with this song and Rod Stewart. I’m saying to her…”Mom, that’s Scandalous!”…..Mom, “ I don’t care, I like him!” You go Mom, stand your ground!.. SanJoséBob
I’m 55 years old and a little embarrassed that I know every word to this song….loved it when I was a lot younger but now…not so much.kind of cringeworthy honestly.
Disco angered a lot of people, mostly straight men, in the 70s…if that tells you anything. There was a whole ridiculous rock vs. disco mindset…god forbid people love to dance and dance music. Kudos to Rod and the Stones (Miss You, Emotional Rescue, etc) for doing it well.
Totally agree! I wasn't alive then, but I totally thought as a kid in the 90s that since I loved the Beatles and rock music, I was somehow going against myself listening to "frivolous" music and hated disco (and Doo wop, for that matter.) When I was older I realized it all serves a purpose and I'm convinced that disco haters just can't dance.
So many people said.....and still say....."Disco sucks"....and I could never figure out why.... I've never been a fan...but it did seem to be all about folks having a good time....partying and dancing and doing lines with a straw.... What was there to hate so much?
He was ridiculed to a degree when this came out. It was during his fairly fallow Britt Ekland period. But it was a massive hit, has a killer beat and he still does it live. Has a real get down hook. The lad really can do no wrong It’s a great single and milions can’t be wrong. No shame in enjoying a bit of fun. Well done for doing this and yet again an honest review.
@@michaelanderson2881 Mixing the wrong analogy my friend. You just chose the losing side. It’s called democracy whatever conspiracy theory you believe. I don’t like lots of music but respect others tastes with good grace. But I’ll consider your pun as parody so 😂😂 But this is a music channel. Worth remembering that
Millions CAN be wrong. The millions who thought Hitler would be good for Germany is a great example. This is just pop crap fueled by cocaine and pre-AIDS promiscuity and an over inflated ego.
It helps to know that this came out at the height of disco. Even the Stones did a disco-influenced album called Emotional Rescue. That said, that bassline is pretty awesome. I think they're doubling it on bass guitar and synth-bass.
@@DreamsSketcher I keep asking for Hot Stuff, which was way early, in 76. I remember working, scraping ceiling plaster when it came on the radio, and wow!
No, neither of those. It was the Rolling Stones original, Hot Stuff. It's a bit of a rap over a disco-funk rhythm, kind of like Shattered. And it has a chorus which ends, "Can't get enough."
having grown up in the 60's and 70's I can tell you the girls I dated would have rather made out to a 20 min song than 2 min song. Also Rush gives you a lot of timing changes which work well when making out.
This was done November 10, 1978. it was at a time when Disco was sweeping America and Europe. I was a big Disco fan (don't shoot me people) My husband and I were dancers and Disco music was one genre where dancers could really show off their choreography. Disco, was also on the flip side, one of the most hated genres of music. People would actually have bonfires to burn disco albums. It was a crazy time for music and no music has ever been as hated as Disco. This song though was what is called a guilty pleasure. I saw several people who hated and I mean hated with a capital H Disco, secretly love this song. It would suck the listener in, get a hold of them and not let go till the last note. When you said what you did before listening to it, I just sat back and smiled and said to myself. "Boys, you are in for a surprise and a treat. I am so glad you enjoyed it. As always a great reaction. Stay safe and keep on discovering.
I remember listening as a young kid back in the 80s and being creeped out. The video was also creepy kinda of with the pretty girl with the high shine lipgloss with the straw in her mouth Rod is cool but back in the day ..totally too much
It’s not creepy if you understand what he’s doing lyrically. He’s telling a fictional story, as with so many of his other songs. Alex and Andy were bright enough to pick up on that. Most people just hear the chorus and make false assumptions about what he’s doing with the song.
This is one of my guilty pleasures... along with the other disco songs by rock artists, like "Miss You" by the Stones and "Goodnight Tonight" by McCartney.
They played this song to death back in the 70s. Rod Stewart was on fire at that time. We would hear it as last call at the disco so guys would know it's now or never!
We’re deeply disturbed how much we enjoyed this song, what do you guys think?! Is it just us?! 😂🔥
Well, it was a huge hit, so someone liked it!
Once and Wants are homophones. I believe the homophone with the most meanings is bear. You are welcome. Next week: Homonyms.
I'll see myself out then?
This is the song where a lot of us die hard fans thought he totally sold out. I still loath this song.
Some guilty pleasure sh*t going on here. It's a 70s song, not 80s. No one wants to admit they enjoy this disco-era tune. It's like that with some Bee Gees songs, too. That said, what in Holy Hell possessed you to react to this??
Pure disco cringe. It's like a come-on from a coked-up STD.
Ironically, the industrial party jam cover of this song by the Revolting Cocks is amazing.
Incidentally, there is nothing at all ‘80s about this song. It is 100% ‘70s disco.
Yep
One. Hundred. Percent.
Spot on.
Didn't this come out in the late 70"s?? Me and the gals loved it.
Exactly! This came out in 1978!! I still remember the giant album cover poster at local record store! Still rocks!
This song was '78, guys, right during the height of the whole post-Saturday Night Fever disco craze when EVERYONE was doing a disco song. This one got so much radio airplay that it grew irritating quickly... and it just wouldn't go away.
It. Just. Wouldn't. Go. Away.
It was right around this time that I started to listen to the radio less and less.
Couldn't escape it...it's when we stopped going to clubs, cuz it all turned disco. 🥴😕
The Ramones weren’t doing disco in ‘78.
Even KISS succumbed to the craze and released the "disco" flavored song "I Was Made For Lovin' You"
@@vision000001 Blondie was, though. That's almost the same thing.
Rod has quite the sense of humor, this whole song is tongue in cheek. After all, he was named Sexiest Man Alive by People Magazine, how else could you handle such a thing, except to make light of it?
And this song was a panty-dropper back in its day. Love Rod Stewart from this era.
I never thought Rod Stewart was attractive, but I did see an interview with him and I think Barbara Walters, and he has charisma up the wazu... I had never seen anything I like it. I get why women totally fell for him.
As an elementary school kid in the 70s, I'd hear this song and imagine myself taking Cheryl Ladd to my treehouse for a night of smooching
This song was to Rod Stewart, what “I Was Made For Loving You” was to KISS, and “Miss You” was to the Stones. The closest each of them would come to disco
So contraire, the Stones’ ‘Hot Stuff’ was full on disco
@@edvonblue disagree. Hot stuff is more funk than disco.
@@bodhisattva3774 you may be right. I haven’t listened to ‘hot stuff’ in years - and that had been a deliberate choice.
I love ‘miss you’ though. One of my all-time favorite stones tracks.
Rod Stewart won that battle
@@MrFrendan when they're battling in the gutter no one wins.
"Every Picture Tells A Story," not sure if you guys did "I Know (I'm Losing You)," "The First Cut Is The Deepest," "Handbags & Gladrags," "Tomorrow Is A Long Time," "Mandolin Wind"...one of those should be pretty good. "I Know (I'm Losing You)" is awesome.
Absolutely!! Don't forget Maggie May, the album version, of course.
@@tracid3877 I believe they have already reviewed "Maggie May."
@@chrisdelisle3954 That's right! I think they did.
First cut and I'm losing you are GREAT!! They did I'm losing you before.
@@LoriCurl It's so hard to keep track.
Andy, your college just called. They watched the opening two minutes and want their degree back.
😂😂😂😂
LOL
He just has a southern accent. Even college professors in the south speak like that, at least some of them. I’m from Tennessee, with a Master’s Degree, and I know from experience. Lol.
YOU NEEDED TO SEE THE VIDEO to really appreciate the humour and "tongue-in-cheek" behaviour with rod on stage and acting with a Super Model.
Bahajahaha..very funny.
This song was made for the dance floor. As a dance tune, it is just about perfect.
Way back in the 50s there was a radio host named Arthur Godfrey who later was on TV. He had a guest who created stories where every word was replaced by other words that sound close but are totally different.. A book was published with some of the stories and poems, called Anguish Languish (English language). He started a couple of fairy tales (furry tells) with “Wants pawn term” (Once upon a time…)…dare worsted ladle gull hoe left wetter murder inner ladle cordage inner muddle offer lodge dock florist. (….There was a little girl who lived with her mother in a little cottage in the middle of a large dark forest.)… anyway, once/wants is indeed close!
This came out in 1978. It’s a great song. In 1988, my boss and I, a dude who loved to party as much as I did, went to a bar and then smoked way too much weed the night before we had to do store inventory at 7am. We crashed at my house, barely made it to work on time and this came on the boom box. We sang and danced it, cuz when you’re born in ‘65, you know all the fucking words to this. Little did we know, the two 16 years old who worked for us quietly watched us. We were stoked and ready to go when Rod was done. One kid said to the other- “Jesus! Old people!”
seriously, you can't carry Rod Stewart's swag in a dump truck.
Rod could and did!
Alex, this isn't the 80s. This is pure late 70s disco. Synth survived, but disco was dead in the 80s.
Came to say just that. Synthesizers may have been heavy in the 80s but they weren’t unheard of in the 70s. Disco all but ended at the decade’s end.
Disco- the thing that dared not be named in the 80s. But it was fun while it lasted!
Actually, disco survived into the 80s. In Europe, there was no backlash against disco like in the states and it continued to evolve. Essentially, New Wave of the 80s was just updated disco with a new name to keep US buyers from realizing it.
@@bsanderfer evolved disco ? that's kinda like saying "evolved garbage". that would explain why it totally sucks.
@@nonrepublicrat I'm super glad I'm not as close-minded as you appear to be.
Most of us - "Ugh - what was he thinking?". Rod Stewart - "I'm thinking I'm making a fortune from this song".
Definitely your accent Andy! This has NEVER been an issue until today.
Wawnts (wants) vs wunce (once).
Whiskey
Back then I was all about dive bars and rock and roll. Problem was, all the hot girls wanted to get dressed up and go dancing. So a couple times a month my buddies and I would do our best to re-imagine ourselves and head to the clubs. As much as I despised disco, I must say it turned out to the best thing that ever happened to me in my life. I met my future wife on the dance floor. Now all these years later, even though we can still dance, both of us are still rockers to the core.
Well said..rock n roll was the soundtrack of my teenage years..but when I wanted to dance..it was Disco baby..
I really didn't listen to much disco outside the clubs. Loved it and taking that little piece of history home
I'm thinkin' that in 1978 if you're taking a shot at The Mighty Brothers Gibb, you're gonna want those synths.
"No one says wAnts."
Literally everyone says that 😂
right? that was hilarious.
Wants, flaunts, taunts, haunts.
Once, dunce.
@@ssmodk you are absolutely right once and dunce rhyme.
But, wants, fonts, and nonce rhyme with each other, but they don't rhyme with
Flaunt, haunt, jaunt, taunt, and gaunt.
im not every one the 80s started JAN 1ST 1980
DID THE 90s START IN 1987 ? LOL
This is definitely a guilty pleasure. Those who respected Rod in the early 70's had a LOT of trouble with this song when it hit in the late 70's.
The song is fun. The melody is catchy and the singer is flat out awesome! It has stood the test of time. I still hear it played on the radio four decades after coming out and kids are still dancing and having fun to it.
"The Killing of Georgie" is a mesmerizing song by Rod. It's a storyteller's masterpeice.
Should definitely do 'The Killing of Georgie'. A great song, but, sadly, a true story 😢
Agree!
Absolutely
Rod's attempt at Disco. Everyone was doing it, even the Stones.
Woo-oo-hoo-oo-oo-oo-hoo! Lawd, I miss ya! 🎵 👅
Even Kiss.
"Dance Part 1" freakin' GROOVES
"Glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity..." Neil had it right.
Timely comment. And I admit I've sold out a time or two for double my money.
He did NOT sell out. This song is extremely true and organic to who Rod is. His spirit was always flamboyant and flirtatious and sensual, very aligned with the glammy disco spirit and lifestyle of the 70s.
If he had just rigidly adhered to the salt of the earth, everyman rock thing when his actual tastes and lifestyle and spirit were on the same page as the 70s campy aesthetic, THAT would have been selling out for him.
The whole concept of selling out is bullshit anyway. If the music’s great it’s great, whether or not it achieves mainstream success. In this case the music is great.
It's not his attitude or sprit. It's the sound. Maybe he was trying something new. Maybe it was "hey let's try this disco thing". It ended up his #2 best seller, and comparing it to everything else, it just seems like an outlier. Either it was an experiment that took off unintentionally, or he tried to strike while the iron was hot. For the record, I hold a grudge against all things Rod ever since my parents drove that stupid Vagabond Heart album into the ground in Jr High with that awful Motown Song.
@@bryancue2238 The sound, what you’re reacting to, IS an attitude and a spirit. Music is an expression of attitude and spirit.
This is totally organic to who and what Rod is. Read his autobiography. He was living it up in the 70s, enjoying all the campy, theatrical excess of the period, hobnobbing at glitzy celebrity parties, etc. And he wasn’t just partaking, he was one of the influencers who shaped the zeitgeist of the time.
This sound was an organic expression of the spirit and lifestyle of the people who made it, and he was one of them, not an outsider.
Dude can record whatever the hell he wants. Who the hell is anybody to call someone a sellout for doing what they want to do with their lives or their careers? I love Neil Peart, but the dude was a bigtime admirer of Ayn Rand at one point in his life. Talk about an illusion of integrity...
A critic once said about Rod,”Seldom has an artist had such talent.And few have betrayed it so completely.”
This is a guilty pleasure. I had this album as a kid in my collection with all my rock albums and I loved it. It is a snapshot in time.
This song was meant to be heard in a disco - really worked in the right environment - everyone sang the chorus to their dance partner OF COURSE. Super fun.
I remember how way back then, there was no such thing as remixes or extended versions of songs. So at discos they would just play the song over and over again. The entire place would be fired up.
This is Stewart mocking the disco scene and making $$$$ off it. He sang a lot of styles, never limited himself. In the disco era even the rockers wanted to dance.
I think he was just cashing in.I also thought his other stuff from that period sucked.
Guys, you gave this song an A, and you gave "Eight Miles High," by the Byrds, a C. I will admit, I don't think this is Rod's worst song. For a disco song, I think he actually does well with it. I'm *definitely* more of a fan of rock, and metal, and progressive rock, and soul, and funk, and jazz, than I am of disco, but I don't *hate* this song. There is still no way, at all, though, that it is a better song than "Eight Miles High!"
I agree that they weren't fair to the Byrds on that one,but this still more enjoyable. A- compared to B is where I rank them.
@@bobbybobbatunday9959 When it was released, "Eight Miles High" literally helped to change the sound of popular music. It's a complex song, influenced by Indian music and experimental jazz. It makes much more of a demand of the listener than a Rod Stewart disco song. "Eight Miles High" isn't a fun, pleasant, hummable pop song, but it is a groundbreaking classic musically.
8 Miles High is an overrated bunch of noise. Trying to ride the Beatles excursions into Eastern music.
Rod's song was cowritten by drummer Carmine Apple as a tongue in cheek discovered romp.
Hell yes this song is better.
Go drop your acid and cue up your Byrds.
@@JimGeigerMusic I've never dropped acid. I've never done any drugs. I have no interest in them. I *do* love music, from rock, to classical music, to jazz, to Eastern sitar pieces. "Eight Miles High" is not noise. You don't like it, clearly, but it's not noise. Speaking of dropping something, drop the personal insults. I didn't insult *anyone here* for liking Rod's disco song. I clearly said he did well with it.
At the time that "Eight Miles High" was released, the closest the Beatles had come to an excursion into Eastern music was the use of a sitar in "Norwegian Wood".
Check out The Rolling Stones - "Miss You" and The Grateful Dead - "Shakedown Street", both from the same time period.
That bass line on “Miss You” is 🔥🔥🔥
And the Roxy Music song "Love is the Drug"
The dark period when disco was so prevalent that even Rock acts were doing it.
Didn't Kiss even do disco? Unless you want to count "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", I think "Miss You" is the only rock gone disco song I like.
Disco mania
Omg. Flashback. My mom and her friend in a Terry shorts strapless onesie belting this out on a balcony in Ft. Lauderdale FL. I’m 10 and mortified. 😂😂😂 A forever memory attached to this song.
Okay, I'll be dumb and ask--what's a "Terry shorts strapless onesie"?
@@RideAcrossTheRiver my mother had one also, if I'm thinking of the same garment. I think it's basically a woman's one-piece garment that covers from the chest to the thighs and that's it.
@@shack8110 yes!! With elastic at the chest and waist!!
@@RideAcrossTheRiver lmao. Wish I could post a pix.
Dear God, my Mom wore the hell out of those damn terry shorts strapless onesies. Kill me.
No one escaped this song. No one could run away from this song. IT WAS EVERYWHERE!!! AHHHH
Rod Stewart's descent into disco hell. We OG rock n rollers really hated this.
One of the very worst tracks from the 70's, no doubt.
Not this one 😁
@@BrianR. Disco Duck, anyone?
Love how open minded yall are about this song! Straight up disco. Disco gets so much hate, but really there's so much to love about it. Yalls should do some Bee Gees! Straight fire! 🔥
Nobody harmonized like the Bee Gees! I'm convinced disco haters just can't dance.
Or “I’m Your Boogie Man” by K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Lots of funky disco sauce. Those horns! 🎺🔥
Just as many people liked disco I was there And the DANCE FLOORS WERE PACKED IN THE 70s NATION WIDE , DISCO WAS HUGE At the same time so was 70s ROCK , The Cars The Police , Van Helen ToTO Had huge Lps in the late 70s , The Stones had a huge lp in 1978 Rumors By Fleet wood mac 1977 Was HUGE Bostons Boston 1976 WAS SPECTACKULAR , The Clash Were just getting started , The B52s Were Just getting started The late 70s were FANTASTIC ,, Just not Disco
Big time straight fire with Bee Gees suggestion!!
@@kmorri9 Let's rally around one Bee Gees song we want to get them to listen to. My initial instinct is How Deep is Your Love but I'm open to suggestions…
The great Carmine Appice played drums and co-wrote this song. This was a HUGE hit for Rod back in 1979. It is a very disco song in the time of disco, but even though I was not a huge disco fan, there were a few disco songs along the way that I really liked, and this was one of them.
And Hot Legs is another excellent song. And it is a bit more rock and roll and less disco.
Carmine is misrepresented in that “Great” convo
LOVE Carmine!! Second fave drummer. Charlie Watts is #1 but Carmine's drumming is definitely the sexiest.
This gets the same score as "Born To Run". "Satisfaction" gets a "B". The universe has undoubtedly spun out of control.
@Geo Dio It's all about taste. Personally, I find Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan monotonous but some people can't live without 'em. I'd listen to Rod Stewart's worst over any "Best Of" from Bruce and Bob.
@Geo Dio AND I didn't go look for the best of Dylan or Bruce, either! I'd rather listen to Rick Springfield than Bruce Springsteen.
"Satisfaction" gets a "B". -- The Sun has begun its red giant phase
This song is on a lot of people’s unwritten guilty pleasure lists
‘A-half-plus’ for this…. and ‘B’ for the Stone’s Satisfaction? Interesting rating system. Maybe you had to be there.
This is the song where a lot of us die hard fans thought he totally sold out. I still loath this song. His earlier work is so much better.
This is every bit as good as the earlier stuff. You just don’t like the style he’s exploring here. The quality of songwriting and performance is as high here as the earlier hits.
@@rainbowgames1 nope, it's trash all around. There are some gems to be found in the disco style that I like but this isn't one of them but thanks for telling me all about my motivations. Lol. And that lame octave walk up and down in half steps bass line is in dozens of disco songs. The unoriginal "songwriting" was just pandering to what was selling at the time.
I disagree, this is not trash. Disco dudes got money too and if they want to lay that money down in the middle of the Disco Era, Rod will take that bet, take that money and you will enjoy it! 🎵 Lol. 🎶 It still rocks...c'mon...or don't. 😋
@@bodhisattva3774 The octave bass walk up is cool as hell, not lame at all. I’m a bass player. The octave walk up is simply a staple feature of the genre.
Are you going to equally argue that the songs of the Stones or Led Zeppelin are trash on the basis that nearly all of them incorporate the Chuck Berry riff that is a staple stylistic motif of the rock n roll genre?
Most blues songs not only incorporate the same hallmark licks, but the same chord progression! Does that mean all blues songs are trash on that basis?
You’re confusing “unoriginal songwriting” with “characteristic stylistic features.” The songwriting itself is original. And it was a fusion of styles, not pure disco anyway. Not that that matters though; it could have been pure disco and still been as great as anything. There are many disco and disco fusion masterpieces, and this is one of them. You just don’t like disco.
@@rainbowgames1 Yes! You said it right. And yeah, fusion. 😎👍🎶
It definitely is Andy's accent. At least to this Canadian
...and to this Brit.
To this Canadian too, lol
A third Canadian in agreement
Yup.
And to this Marylander.
This is the disco faze that caught the Stones, R Stewart, Kiss, Blondie, etc. To clean the palette go to R Stewart's "Hot Legs" a '70s banger!!
Love the synth. The sax comes in and adds a new dimension and builds the song.
If you like disco rod, the song you need to hear is “ young Turks”.
Young Turks waaaay better than this.
Not disco at all.
@@themoviedealers That album was produced by Andy Taylor, the guitarist from Duran Duran
That's hardly disco...
@@markallen2984 Ummm, no, he didn't. Tonight I'm Yours was produced by Jim Cregan and RS. Andy Taylor doesn't even play on the record.
THis is full blown 70s disco! I just checked, it came out in 1978. I seem to remember a lot of people complaining that he was doing disco music because rockers were so against it. He's one of the few who I think did it successfully. Disco is all about cockiness.
Yup, SWAGGER. The Rolling Stones totally rocked disco…Miss You and Emotional Rescue. Fabulous songs!
You don’t know Rod Stewart. He was singing about himself. Enough said.
Baahaa
True 😂
I mean, thousands of ladies throwing their panties at him and he's still wondering if they think he's sexy. It's a crazy stewing pot of humility and hubris.
80s would be Hot Legs by Rod its more of a rocker this is pure disco.
So funny! Was listening to this song on the radio yesterday and was wondering how it would play on your channel. So freakin weird!
For sure the Rolling Stones "Miss You" is their version of this sound.
Except MIss You was really good.
Thanks for saving me from having to figure it out myself.
Especially the full 8 and 1/2 minute version of Miss You.
Except Miss You came out a year earlier. Rod's record company wanted him to do what the Stones did. He fell short.
@Abbie VanDenBerg Except that the "Some Girls" album came out in June of 1978, while "Blondes have more Fun" came out in December of 1978. Also, "Miss You" was a complete departure from the rest of the album, which was raw pseudo-punk. "Standing in the Shadows of Love" from 'BHMF' has the same stereotypical "4-on-the-floor" disco beat as "Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?".
This is one of those songs that I will forever associate with "all skate" at the local roller rink when I was a kid.
Lol for me it’s the funfair
This song was universally loathed by rock n roll fans at the time
But I still went to see him when he came to town😊
I'm not deeply disturbed that I enjoyed this song, l loved it. This song stayed at # 1 on the Billboard chart for 4 weeks in February 1979 and Billboard later ranked it at # 4 on its top singles of the 1979 year- end chart. The video got a lot of attention especially the scene involving Rod and his microphone 🎤. Don't feel guilty guys, it was a great song.
As a teenager I was in the 3rd row seeing Rod Stewart on the Do You Think I’m Sexy tour in Denver, CO. Spandex pants and all! He was a hotty!!!
This is the song where the sentence "I remember when Rod Stewart was cool" was first uttered.
some crazy people think they remember what never was.
@@nonrepublicrat not crazy. His first four solo albums and his work with Faces were outstanding. There was a window where Rod Stewart was cool.
Rod was cool early on, one of the best. This though is him beginning to sell out to disco or whatever he thought would sell some records. Interesting that you go on to rate Neil Young, who refused to sell out and laid out his soul on his songs, lower than this drivel.
You need to hear 'Every Picture Tells a Story' and 'Mandolin Wind'. The latter is one of the best deeper cuts ever. It was the B side of 'Maggie May' but got no radio play.
Correction: It was B side to 'I'm Losing You' .
Disco Rod … can’t be denied that this was a hit for him but it’s also a low point compared to his early library of songs
Too bad he would go on to reach even lower points.
God, I hated this shit !
It wasn’t too bad. Everybody did the disco thing back in the 70’s, even Kiss.
It’s a high point. Every bit as great as his earlier hits. You just don’t like the style.
@@mrbill250 AC DC didn't. I'm not really a fan of theirs but just saying.
These guys thought the song was about Rod? No wonder they had low expectations. It's about people meeting up in bars....building up their own confidence. That feeling you get when the girl at the club smiles at you and you start walking over.
@thomasluttkus9956 They don't talk to girls at bars either.
Ya gotta love Rod! Pure charisma.
I’m a Rocker, however I’ve always loved Rod’s version of Dance music.
Speaking of…this is the closest I’ve seen both of you to dancing. ;)
Alex, Co writer Carmine Appice (Aah-Piece) was a member of the very experimental group, Vanilla Fudge. If you want some extreme interpretation covers of other people's hits, Vanilla Fudge had the psychedelic treatment for all.
Totally,their version of you keep me hangin' on is legendary,I can claim to have shook carmine's appice's hand many years ago in Christchurch, New Zealand, lovely guy,very humble
@@scottgalloway9903 As A&A have heard She's Not There by the Zombies, hearing Vanilla Fudge's treatment would be more relatable for them. (They also really need to hear the Santana version of She's Not There, off of Moonflower!)
Vanilla Fudge was a huge influence on Deep Purple mk1 when they did a lot of cover songs. Then Ian Gillan came onboard
It was pretty cringey in 1978, maybe a little less so now. Lots of rock bands then tried their hands at a disco song; I think this is a notch below the Stones' "Miss You." There's a slew of great Rod Stewart songs you should look at: "The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)," "Handbags and Gladrags," "The First Cut Is the Deepest," "Every Picture Tells a Story"
The Killing of Georgie (Part I & II) is brilliant. One of my all time favorites.
Here on the west coast "once" rhymes with "grunts" and "wants" rhymes with "haunts."
Same in the Midwest.
Same in the Northeast.
This song just shows Rod can sing anything lol adapts to the times now he does covers of classics this song was huge so good for him!!!
This song escaped my usual derision for disco.......it was campy fun, well done.
Does have the disco element like the stones and practically everyone else had once at least. Especially Miss You
"It's just some friends of mine that say, Hey what's the matter man? We're going to come around at 12:00 with some Puerto Rican girls that's just dyin' to meet you. We're gonna bring a case of wine hey let's go mess and fool around you know, like we used to... "
I loved that song. And make no mistake. "Another Brick in the Wall- 2" was Pink Floyd's concession to the times. And they did it a whole lot better imo.
Emotional Rescue is closer to disco than Miss You.
@@skiprockjr.6881 Gotcha, but I was kinda referring to the beginning when Alex mentioned it kind of sounds like the Stones. Mainly that line in Miss You is what I heard when he said that. ✌️
@@rustytime LOL. I was referring to the exact same part as you except I was matching up the 2 bass lines in the songs in my head.
@@skiprockjr.6881 lol that's knowing your Stones. I couldn't ever listen to Emotional Rescue. Hurts my disco sensitive ears. Bags too. I'm a the rock guy that wore the t-shirt in the day that said Disco Sucks!
This was a monster disco hit in the late 70s. The reason why there wasn't much saxophone was because synth & bass drove a lot of these disco songs. If you think you escaped cringe with this song, you haven't seen the video yet. It's super ultra Mega cringe
We need disco back again!💯 I know so many people like me that hated disco; it was anti rock!👎😩 30 years after disco died I started realizing that disco was fun to listen to and sing along and dance!🤭 Long live disco!🤗🤣✌❤
I remember being embarrassed as a kid whenever this song came on.
OMG me too!
I did The Bump to it with my sister!
And Rod gyrating to it 🙈
It was probably just because of your face.
Just to clarify, Rod Stewart can do anything!
You have to remember that back in those days we spent half our lives on the dancefloor! 💃
I'm glad that Rod made the records he wanted to instead of worrying about critics and fans with narrow tastes.
Fans with GOOD taste..
"The Killing Of Georgie Parts 1&2" ..A must listen of his...
Agree. What a sad song 😭
Yess so good great shout, definately his best work by a mile they are both stunning and better for the fact they are based on real events
@@simply_psi Yes It's a shame Andy and Alex seem oblivious to suggestions to clear bangers frothier audience!
@@gbsailing9436 Unfortunately like a lot of UA-cam reactors they have fallen into the trap of looking for how many views the original song gets so they think they will get more views on their upload, hence they only do deep cuts on the live streams, sad really as it stops being about new music and more about popularity
@@simply_psi I see. I never considered it from the marketing perspective. So it's all about building a channel. I must admit I believed what they said about educating themselves about what made older music from the '60's, '70's and 80's great compared with modern music. Silly me to believe what someone tells me is actually true when it isn't.
Tragically Hip for Canada Day. July 1st. Lets go !!!!!
It would blow there minds!!!
I would suggest April Wine - I Want To Rock. There's a lot of great Canadian Rock the boys would enjoy.
Fully... And completely!!
The Hipp. Fully...and completely!!
Not liking Rod as much after Faces. Still a great voice.
Congratulations guys, you just highly approved your first "disco" tune!
He’s basically telling the story of a one night stand during the 70’s.
This is what happens when you listen to people who listen to the radio.
👆👆👆what this guy said. If it’s not punk, tread carefully around 1976-1978. That’s a hard and fast rule. Also, NOBODY was listening to this in the 80s. Disco was a moldering corpse after 1979, and AOR was king.
Last disco bonafide hit was Funkytown in early 1980.
@@themoviedealers ~ Yup, you're right. After that, Disco was done. Then came "Freestyle" in '83 which was a more synthesized version of dance music...
Rod goes disco with lycra pants and the whole band look like idiots- but shows that a classic rocker can do disco better than any disco person. Stones were doing pseudo disco at the same time...same thing better than any "regular disco".
I have to admit I love me some Stones pseudo-disco in the form of Miss You. "What's the matter with you boy?"
True about the costumes during that era but the tight band and great riffs overall are still gonna do ut for ya. Rem, managers and agents push a lot of stupid junk for commercialism cash...it's not always the way the band wants to go. Same with album covers, album names, outfits, tour schedules, blah blah blah.
@@tjtampa214 That why the movie Spinal Tap is genius
Also, KISS, "I Was Made for Lovin You"
Have you actually listened to Donna Summer, George McCrae, Thelma Houston, Bell and James, Cheryl Lynn, etc?
Infatuation is one of his only bangers with Jeff Beck on lead guitar. A must play!
Ain't Superstitious was a great one with Beck too
I LOVE Infatuation!
“Mandolin Wind”. A songwriting masterpiece. His best. Listen to the album version. ❤️
Totally late ‘70’s Disco. I was in my early 30’s and Vibing on this! My 66 yr. old Mother was all in love with this song and Rod Stewart. I’m saying to her…”Mom, that’s Scandalous!”…..Mom, “ I don’t care, I like him!” You go Mom, stand your ground!.. SanJoséBob
I’m 55 years old and a little embarrassed that I know every word to this song….loved it when I was a lot younger but now…not so much.kind of cringeworthy honestly.
Also 55 and had to endure this in my early teens...it is ear-worm, goes on you whether you want it to do or not
I’m not ashamed. It’s a fun song. :)
Ha ha - the lyrics are a bit cringy now for our age but still, you can remember how you felt as a teen dancing to this. Fond forever memories.
To me the only thing that saves it is the insecurity angle. If it was straightforward macho I think I'd hate it.
Do you know what was cringe worthy? When Martha Raye sang it on the sitcom Alice.
Oh nooooooooo!
Edit….ok it is a fun song. Brought back memories of good disco pick up places.
Disco angered a lot of people, mostly straight men, in the 70s…if that tells you anything. There was a whole ridiculous rock vs. disco mindset…god forbid people love to dance and dance music. Kudos to Rod and the Stones (Miss You, Emotional Rescue, etc) for doing it well.
Totally agree! I wasn't alive then, but I totally thought as a kid in the 90s that since I loved the Beatles and rock music, I was somehow going against myself listening to "frivolous" music and hated disco (and Doo wop, for that matter.) When I was older I realized it all serves a purpose and I'm convinced that disco haters just can't dance.
Thank you!!!
I was in grade school when this song was on the radio ALOT! I just remember that this song was HILARIOUS to 5th grade boys in the 70's! 😎
Good God nostalgia just knocked me down. I bought this album when I was in 8th grade.
So many people said.....and still say....."Disco sucks"....and I could never figure out why....
I've never been a fan...but it did seem to be all about folks having a good time....partying and dancing and doing lines with a straw....
What was there to hate so much?
But at the same time just as many people liked DISCO
He was ridiculed to a degree when this came out. It was during his fairly fallow Britt Ekland period. But it was a massive hit, has a killer beat and he still does it live. Has a real get down hook. The lad really can do no wrong
It’s a great single and milions can’t be wrong. No shame in enjoying a bit of fun. Well done for doing this and yet again an honest review.
"Millions can't be wrong" and "Joe Biden is President" prove the first one isn't accurate.
@@michaelanderson2881
Mixing the wrong analogy my friend. You just chose the losing side. It’s called democracy whatever conspiracy theory you believe.
I don’t like lots of music but respect others tastes with good grace. But I’ll consider your pun as parody so 😂😂
But this is a music channel. Worth remembering that
Right on topgazza. I had a similar comment.
Millions CAN be wrong. The millions who thought Hitler would be good for Germany is a great example. This is just pop crap fueled by cocaine and pre-AIDS promiscuity and an over inflated ego.
@@magicbrownie1357
Chill out. Sheesh
It helps to know that this came out at the height of disco. Even the Stones did a disco-influenced album called Emotional Rescue. That said, that bassline is pretty awesome. I think they're doubling it on bass guitar and synth-bass.
The Stones did disco rock even better
@@DreamsSketcher I keep asking for Hot Stuff, which was way early, in 76. I remember working, scraping ceiling plaster when it came on the radio, and wow!
Emotional Rescue...good stuff! 💕
@@stevenmix3723 Do you mean Donna Summer's Hot Stuff, or Rod Stewart's Hot Legs?
No, neither of those. It was the Rolling Stones original, Hot Stuff. It's a bit of a rap over a disco-funk rhythm, kind of like Shattered. And it has a chorus which ends, "Can't get enough."
The ultimate disco song!
I love Rod Stewart, but this song makes my skin crawl - from the first time I heard it when it was released. ICK!
GOOOOOOD MORNING A&A FAMILY!
☮❤♾
Look at this way - what song will get you laid faster, this or a 20 minute Rush song about the rotation cycles of the moons of Jupiter? 😆 😆
It all depends on who you're with.
LMAO
@@Befuddled_Ostrich Playing the averages! 👍
having grown up in the 60's and 70's I can tell you the girls I dated would have rather made out to a 20 min song than 2 min song. Also Rush gives you a lot of timing changes which work well when making out.
Definitely Rush.😉
With the release of this song, I finally gave up on Rod Stewart.
Me too.
I'm sure he missed ya
Funny, this song hooked me on Rod Stewart. It's in the timing and what you hear first.
This was done November 10, 1978. it was at a time when Disco was sweeping America and Europe. I was a big Disco fan (don't shoot me people) My husband and I were dancers and Disco music was one genre where dancers could really show off their choreography. Disco, was also on the flip side, one of the most hated genres of music. People would actually have bonfires to burn disco albums. It was a crazy time for music and no music has ever been as hated as Disco. This song though was what is called a guilty pleasure. I saw several people who hated and I mean hated with a capital H Disco, secretly love this song. It would suck the listener in, get a hold of them and not let go till the last note. When you said what you did before listening to it, I just sat back and smiled and said to myself. "Boys, you are in for a surprise and a treat. I am so glad you enjoyed it. As always a great reaction. Stay safe and keep on discovering.
A child form the 70's. Don't care what you youngsters say! A classic!!!!!
And as amazing as this might sound, it's only Rod's second creepiest song after 'Tonight's the Night'!
I remember listening as a young kid back in the 80s and being creeped out. The video was also creepy kinda of with the pretty girl with the high shine lipgloss with the straw in her mouth Rod is cool but back in the day ..totally too much
@Randy Gibson Oh my god you are so right!!! 😂😂😂
It’s not creepy if you understand what he’s doing lyrically. He’s telling a fictional story, as with so many of his other songs. Alex and Andy were bright enough to pick up on that. Most people just hear the chorus and make false assumptions about what he’s doing with the song.
That's so true!!! I'd forgotten....eww! That song was ridiculous, and i was so disappointed in his sleazy choices at the time.
Oh, that's right! Yuck.
I don't get the hate, I mean, I get that it's cheesy and not great, but did people forget about fun? It's sooo much fun.
Now, years later, it sounds great. Maybe not hearing it 10 times a day made me appreciate it more.
If you want a song in a similar vein from the same time period that is not so odiously disco, play Love is the Drug by Roxy Music!
While I wholeheartedly agree with the recommendation, I do not agree that the songs are in the same vein at all.
Fond memories roller skating to this in the 70s.
A Great Tune For Back In The Day
the legend Carmine Appice on drums (he also co-wrote it)
This is one of my guilty pleasures... along with the other disco songs by rock artists, like "Miss You" by the Stones and "Goodnight Tonight" by McCartney.
I can’t believe you did this and not “Hot Legs” the best guitar sauce!
Fun 1978 disco attempt by Rod Stewart. And he nails it!
They played this song to death back in the 70s. Rod Stewart was on fire at that time. We would hear it as last call at the disco so guys would know it's now or never!