# Help keep Rod Stewart away from the firing squad. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266 "2008-07-04T04:16:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/21 "2008-07-04T15:14:53Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] None taken. 🙂 But I would ask if your dislike is for the song itself, or is it the result of too much radio play? [/QUOTE] Maybe. There was a period of my life, before I discovered public radio, when I heard the song about every other day. Maybe if I had been wiser in those years, I’d still have some appreciation for the song. Naaah. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/22 "2008-07-04T16:36:45Z")
Such a waste of talent. \*\*Truth \*\*by the Jeff Beck Group is one of my top few albums. Some of his other stuff, like Maggie May, is brilliant. But he does need to be shot for some of the other stuff - can we just wing him? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/23 "2008-07-04T17:12:14Z")
Thanks **Bayard**. Also ( **WordMan** , too) for reminding me that it’s _Maggie May_, not _Maggie Mae_. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/24 "2008-07-04T19:58:30Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] But I would ask if your dislike is for the song itself, or is it the result of too much radio play? [/QUOTE] His voice. It’s actively unpleasant. I have a feeling there’s a good song there, somewhere. But I doubt he’s going to be the one singing it. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/25 "2008-07-04T20:13:22Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] and heard Blur’s cover on their B-sides album… and realized what a great song it was. [/QUOTE] I was on a self-imposed mini-hiatus\* from the boards until I read this line. So, **Hippy Hollow** , I have to say: You are awesome and I love you. 😛 **Blur** fan for 15 years. - - Personal reasons, busy RL crap. Christ, how long did I make it? A week? _Lawd_. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/26 "2008-07-04T20:50:37Z")
No mention of “You Wear It Well?” A little old fashioned, but that’s all right. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/27 "2008-07-04T21:07:54Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] He’s become an old woman singing Broadway standards It would be a kindness. [/QUOTE] Amen to that! He has officially joined Clapton in the Rock-Musician-Turned-Boring-Old-Fart Hall of Fame. However, his pre-disco work should earn him some sort of commutation. Perhaps 10 years in solitary forced to listen to his own tribute albums 24/7. With any luck, within 2 weeks he’ll be begging for that firing squad! ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/28 "2008-07-04T21:13:51Z")
Naw, his Faces stuff gets him an automatic reprieve. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/29 "2008-07-04T21:37:25Z")
[QUOTE=Manduck] Actually rather than save him from the firing squad, we should invent a time machine and go and shoot him about, oh, 1974. Think of what his reputation would be then! No Tonight’s the Night, no disco, no (barf) American Songbook. I’ve convinced myself - let’s do it! [/QUOTE] And if we fail at shooting him, at least try to prevent him from meeting Britt Ekland. I’m not necessarily saying there’s some sort of connection but if you examine Rod Stewart’s career, you’ll find that his steady slide into suck began at the time he hooked up with her. (Then again, now that I think about it, Peter Sellers almost died of a heart attack and also went into a creative rough patch around the time he married Ekland. Hmmmmm…) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/30 "2008-07-05T07:06:32Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] I’m not necessarily saying there’s some sort of connection but if you examine Rod Stewart’s career, you’ll find that his steady slide into suck began at the time he hooked up with her. (Then again, now that I think about it, Peter Sellers almost died of a heart attack and also went into a creative rough patch around the time he married Ekland. Hmmmmm…) [/QUOTE] True all dat, though in their favor Ms Eklund was SMOKIN’ HOT and few of us could resist her charms. Hmmm, be brilliant or screw Brit Eklund? It’s a choice we’d all like to make and, as hetero guys, the choice is depressingly clear. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/31 "2008-07-05T07:54:19Z")
Back in the day, “Tonight’s the Night” is responsible for more ladies being laid (& maybe more pregnacies?), so adding to the general US population.d My proposal for UATWMF (up against the wall, MF): Boy George. Except for a minor piece of disco nonsense, why bother? Love, Phil ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/32 "2008-07-05T19:40:23Z")
Sorry. My home and car are Rod Stewart-free zones. Out he goes. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/33 "2008-07-05T19:42:41Z")
I know this is probably even the cheesiest Rod Stewart song, but I have a soft spot for “Forever Young”. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/34 "2008-07-05T19:50:20Z")
If we spare Rod Stewart because of his early work, then we also have to spare Paul McCartney. This is no time for half-measures, people! To the wall with them both! ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/35 "2008-07-05T20:27:08Z")
Save the first 40 bullets for Michael McDonald. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/36 "2008-07-05T21:20:21Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] If we spare Rod Stewart because of his early work, then we also have to spare Paul McCartney. This is no time for half-measures, people! To the wall with them both! [/QUOTE] You make a compelling argument. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/37 "2008-07-05T21:41:29Z")
[QUOTE=dropzone] True all dat, though in their favor Ms Eklund was SMOKIN’ HOT and few of us could resist her charms. Hmmm, be brilliant or screw Brit Eklund? It’s a choice we’d all like to make and, as hetero guys, the choice is depressingly clear. ☹ [/QUOTE] that just means that she is a proto cylon and they have a plan remember, if this was BSG , RS would be a male cylon familiar and should be spaced. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/38 "2008-07-05T21:59:05Z")
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon] I was on a self-imposed mini-hiatus\* from the boards until I read this line. So, **Hippy Hollow** , I have to say: You are awesome and I love you. 😛 **Blur** fan for 15 years. - - Personal reasons, busy RL crap. Christ, how long did I make it? A week? _Lawd_. [/QUOTE] High five!!! I’ve seen Blur twice - once for the tour supporting the Blur album (Song 2) and the last time supporting Think Tank (no Graham Coxon, sadly). As you probably know the “Maggie May” track was a B-side and is on the “Special Collectors Edition” CD, which ws Japan only, I believe. Definitely worthwhile, especially to sample the wigginess of Blur that was buried slightly beneath the Britpop surface. Welcome back **Anastasaeon** and whenever you’re up for a Blur thread I’m there… ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/39 "2008-07-05T22:41:01Z")
In _mitigation_ of Mr. Stewart’s crimes, the defense offers the following clips: [I Was Only Joking](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0FDK-Zl3bw) [I Don’t Want to Talk About It](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBPtMlQui5s&feature=related) [The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsHnEHf0sW0) [Stay With Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pXQARDNjR4&feature=related) His cover of [First Cut Is the Deepest](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP52cgknJUU&feature=related) I say we let him off with a warning. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266/40 "2008-07-05T22:46:23Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] I say we let him off with a warning… [/QUOTE] …shot to the groin? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-keep-rod-stewart-away-from-the-firing-squad/455266.md?page=3)