Every Generation [Remastered] - Ronnie Laws

Advantages: Another Great Rod Stewart Album
Disadvantages: Possibly His Last Great Album

...This was the follow up to "Every Picture Tells A Story" and while it was not as commercially successful , it is still a great album. Keeping the same line up and a similar mix of songs to it's predecessor , Rod Stewart managed to produce another gem of an album. The title of the album is very descritive of the content , although , with deliberate irony, the cover features a painting of Mr Stewart, slumped in an armchair looking more than a little bored. The Album opens with the upbeat self-deprecatory "True Blue", before launching into the gorgeous "Lost (sic) Paraguayos", keeping the same folksy / Faces hybrid sound of "Every Picture Tells A Story". The album slows don for the first cover , Bob Dylan's "Mama You Been On My Mind". Things pick up with "Italian Girls" before slowing down with another cover, this time Jimi Hendrix... Read review

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Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: Nothing

...The title track on this album has to be my all time favourite song. It is a 20 minute exploration opening with a grand build up, taking a transition throguh a mellow middle and then ending with a massive crescendo! The musical aspect of the whole album is fenomenal and there is not a moment at which the quality dips! Every song is an instant favourite as you listen to it including the adventurous Xanadu and the semi-apocalyptic Cygnus X-1. The whole journey of the album takes you through almsot every chord, scale and rythmn known to man and makes use of effects and timings to great effect. I think personally that it should be the law to own at least one copy of this album! The sleave also has some interesting stuff in but just put it in and crank it up!... Read review

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Advantages: Unerringly good songs and playing
Disadvantages: Total playing time a little on the short side

...When Rod Stewart returned to the studio to follow up the massively successful "Every Picture Tells a Story", he had a lot to live up to. Wisely he stuck to the tried and tested formula, switching from acoustic folksy ballads to good-time rock'n'roll with ease, sometimes in the same song. While "Moment" didn't have quite the same impact as "EPTAS" - expectations were sky-high, after all - it was just as good, and certainly fulfilled its swaggering title. Rod had immaculate taste when it came to cover versions, taking on Hendrix's love-lorn "Angel" with ease, going into roistering party mode with Sam Cooke's "Twistin' The Night Away", a version which for a while became even better-known than the original, and best of all treating us to a beautiful reading of the obscure Dylan song "Mama You Been On My Mind", making skilful use... Read review

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