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| "Every Flick Tells a Story" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Single by Rod Stewart | ||||
| from the anthology Every Picture Tells a Story | ||||
| B-side | "Reason to Believe" | |||
| Released | 1971 (Kingdom of spain) | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 5:59 | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Rod Stewart and Ronnie Woods | |||
| Producer(due south) | Rod Stewart | |||
| Rod Stewart singles chronology | ||||
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"Every Picture Tells a Story" is a vocal written by Rod Stewart and Ronnie Woods and initially released as the title track of Stewart's 1971 album Every Film Tells a Story. It has since get one of Stewart's signature songs and released on numerous Stewart compilation and live albums, including The Best of Rod Stewart, Storyteller – The Complete Anthology: 1964–1990 and Unplugged...and Seated.[1] It was released as a single in Spain, backed with "Reason to Believe." Information technology has too been covered by The Georgia Satellites on their 1986 album Georgia Satellites and past Robin McAuley on Forever Mod: A Tribute to Rod Stewart.[2] [3]
Background and structure [edit]
The lyrics of "Every Picture Tells a Story" from a first person narrative of the singer finding adventures with women all over the globe merely eventually returning home after having learned some moral lessons.[1] [4] Locations of his adventures include Paris, Rome and Peking.
In his review of the album in Rolling Stone, John Mendelsohn noted that this song "does rock with ferocity via a elementary but effective seven-note ascent/v-note descension riff that Waller cleverly punctuates with a halved-time bass-drum-against-snare lick."[4] The rhythm is loose throughout most of the song, although information technology tightens in the coda.[v] Stewart biographers Tim Ewbank and Stafford Hildred describe the music equally "a mess - unbalanced and shoddily thrown together," although the "vocals pull the vocal out of problem."[6] Despite existence a hard rock song, the vocal primarily uses acoustic instruments, although guitarist Ron Woods does use an electric guitar occasionally.[1] Pete Sears played the acoustic piano. The vocal'southward music incorporates many elements. Toby Creswell describes the opening guitar theme as reflective and melancholy.[7] As the guitar opening fades, the drums played past Micky Waller crash primitively before Stewart begins to sing.[8] [7] Greil Marcus besides praises the acoustic guitar parts that are played afterwards each verse and the drum coil afterward the first poesy.[five]
According to Stewart, he found the mandolin and violin players for this vocal and for "Maggie May" in a restaurant in London.[6] Maggie Bell and Long John Baldry provide energetic harmony vocals, including the line "She claimed that it just own't natural" in response to Stewart's line "Shanghai Lil never used the pill."[1] [5] [6] Allmusic'south Sullivan describes the song as "just obviously visceral -- so much so that [it is] meliorate heard than described" and that it represents six minutes of "defining rock & coil."[i]
The song's lyrics are entirely free-form in that they do not follow whatsoever consistent rhythmic meter and read almost like prose. Rhyming just appears occasionally and irregularly, sometimes as internal rhymes within a line. "On the Peking ferry I was feeling merry", "Shanghai Lil never used the pill"). At that place are somewhat more than nigh-rhymes between lines (inferior/mirror, ways/same, stampede/tea, funk/luck, attraction/sanction), but these as well are unpredictable and occasional. The lyrics fifty-fifty exhibit occasional elements of subtle vowel ingemination ("I firmly believed that I didn't need anyone only me"). Stewart's confident performance, however, renders these shortcomings of rhyme and rhythm unnoticeable to the listener; the song sounds like information technology does accept lyrical rhyme and rhythm.
Analysis and reception [edit]
In the Rolling Stone Album Guide, critic Paul Evans described "Every Moving picture Tells a Story" and "Maggie May," another song off the Every Picture show Tells a Story album, as Rod Stewart's and Ron Wood's "finest hour—happy lads wearing their hearts on their sleeves."[ix] Music critic Greil Marcus regards the vocal as "Rod Stewart's greatest performance."[5]
Allmusic critic Denise Sullivan commented that some of the lyrics are racist and sexist (east.g., describing an Asian adult female as a "slit-eyed lady"), and that the song "is a real nugget from a brief menstruum in time when rock singers didn't worry about what information technology meant to be rude -- in fact, the ruder and cruder, the better."[one]
However, a live version of the song performed by Stewart in 1992, 21 years later on the original anthology version was released, skips a consummate verse containing some particularly unkind and crude references to women, too as a self-deprecating reference: "I firmly believed that I/Didn't demand anyone simply me/I sincerely felt I was so complete/Look how wrong yous tin exist/The women I've known I wouldn't let tie my shoe/They wouldn't give yous the fourth dimension of twenty-four hours/But the slit-eyed lady knocked me off my feet/God I was then glad I found her".[10]
Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised the song as "devilishly witty."[8] The lyrics begin with a reference to the theme of cocky-discovery:[vii]
- Spent some time feeling junior
- Continuing in front of my mirror
- Combed my hair in a thou ways
- But I came out looking merely the aforementioned
In other media [edit]
"Every Picture Tells a Story" was used in the Cameron Crowe moving-picture show About Famous in a scene where primary characters William and Penny walk through the halls of a hotel.[1] [11] It was too included on the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Car IV: The Lost and Damned. The vocal was as well referenced in Jayne Anne Phillips' brusk story "What Information technology Takes to Keep a Young Girl Alive."[5] While the story's grapheme Sue is lying in bed in the dark "Rod Stewart, scratchy and loud, combed his hair in a thou different ways and came out looking just the same."[5] Greil Marcus uses the reference to the vocal in "What It Takes to Go along a Young Daughter Alive" to muse on what makes a good record and why "Every Film Tells a Story" is a practiced record, i.due east., a good tape is ane that "entering a person'south life, can enable that person to alive more intensely—as, whatsoever else it does, 'Every Film Tells a Story' does for Jayne Anne Phillips' Sue."[5]
Personnel [edit]
- Rod Stewart – lead vocals, bankroll vocals
- Ronnie Wood – electric guitar, twelve-string guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
- Pete Sears – piano
- Micky Waller – drums
- Ian McLagan – Hammond organ, backing vocals
- Long John Baldry, Maggie Bell, Mateus Rose, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane – backing vocals
References [edit]
- ^ a b c d east f grand Sullivan, D. "Every Film Tells a Story". Allmusic . Retrieved 11 August 2011.
- ^ Ruhlmann, W. "Georgia Satellites". Allmusic . Retrieved 11 August 2011.
- ^ Huey, Southward. "Forever Mod: A Tribute to Rod Stewart". Allmusic . Retrieved 11 August 2011.
- ^ a b Mendelsohn, J. (viii July 1971). "Every Flick Tells a Story Review". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 15 August 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g Marcus, Grand. (1999). In the fascist bathroom: punk in pop music, 1977-1992 . Harvard University Press. pp. 275–277. ISBN978-0-674-44577-2.
- ^ a b c Ewbank, T.; Hildred, S. (2005). Rod Stewart: The New Biography. Citadel Printing. p. 100. ISBN978-0-8065-2644-vii.
- ^ a b c Creswell, T. (2005). 1001 Songs. Thunder's Mouth Printing. pp. 856–857. ISBN978-ane-56025-915-ii.
- ^ a b Erlewine, S.T. "Every Motion picture Tells a Story". Allmusic . Retrieved 12 August 2011.
- ^ Evans, P. (2004). "Rod Stewart". In Brackett, North. (ed.). The New Rolling Rock Anthology Guide. Fireside. p. 782. ISBN978-0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ "Rod Stewart Vagabond Heart Tour, Live in Los Angeles 1992". YouTube. Retrieved 22 Apr 2013.
- ^ Hornby, N. (2003). "Mama You Been on My Mind". Songbook. Penguin. ISBN978-1-57322-356-0.
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