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ALBUM: A Night On The Town Lyrics
By:
Rod Stewart
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Big Bayou
Fool For You
Pretty Flamingo
The Balltrap
The First Cut Is The Deepest
The Killing Of Georgie (part I and II)
The Wild Side Of Life
Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)
Tradewinds
A Night On The Town Reviews
Half a fine album
Conveniently enough, on this album Rod's lined up the material in descending order of quality. THE GOOD: the first four songs are among his best in his sensitive-singer-songwriter mode. Megahit "Tonight's the Night" holds up well as a tender/slightly sleazy sexual awakening song, "First Cut" is just plain beautiful, and "Killing of Georgie" is brave and moving especially for a man's man like Rod. THE SO-SO: the four rockers that follow aren't bad, but it's kinda hard to tell where one leaves off and the next begins because they're all in the same midtempo, whiteboyboogie, "whoo, what a bad boy am I" mode. On the albums previous to this (especially on the four classic Mercury albums that form the core of his artistic reputation) he's shown that he can rock in many more ways than this. And for a fellow who at the time was treating women like tissue paper to whine about how one of them has him in a "Balltrap"... well, all I can say is it serves you right, Roddy. THE WRETCHED: "Trade Winds", one of the most godawful Brotherhood of Man songs ever written. Better folks than Rod have failed at this same theme because it's a hard one - put one foot wrong and you're wading in the syrup. To sum up: if you're not a Stewart completist you might be better served by buying a best-of that has "Tonight's", "First Cut" and "Georgie" on it - I'm sure there's one available.
Man About Town
Night On The Town is not quite up to the standards of Rod Stewart's early work on the Mercury label (Every Picture Tells A Story & Never A Dull Moment to name two), but is still an excellent album and the best he did on the Warner Brothers label. On the original vinyl release, the album was broken up into the slow and fast sides and it shows that Mr. Stewart could rock as good as anyone and had the ability to take the lights down low. The Balltrap" and "Trade Winds" are solid rockers as is "Pretty Flamingo", but it is the slower songs that carry the album. "Tonight's The Night" is the big hit from the album (spending eight weeks at number in late '76) and is ode to a girl's first sexual encounter. He takes Cat Steven's "The First Cut Is The Deepest" and makes it all his own by giving it his classic, whiskey-soaked vocal treatment. The best track on the album is "The Killing Of Georgie (Parts I & II)" which tells the tale of the demise of a gay friend. The song could have made the situation seem contrite, but Mr. Stewart sings the song in such a genuine way, he overcomes the possible sappiness.
A wonderful walk down memory lane
I haven't thought of this album (dates me!) in years until I saw Rod's recent tour. This was the epitome of a slow dance half hour with "Tonight's the Night", "First Cut is the Deepest" etc. On the oldfashioned album format,all the slow was on one side. It still sounds fresh.
Great CD
I must say - when I first got this CD I listened to it and put it aside. I didn't like it. Then one day I listened to it again and I now like every song on it. "The Balltrap" is an excellent song to sing along with!
When it was released back in 1976, a line from the seductive ballad "Tonight's the Night"--"Spread your wings and let me come inside"--was racy enough to get the song banned in some quarters. That may seem quaint by today's standards, as does "The Killing of Georgie," a lament over the murder of one of Stewart's gay friends. In fact, both songs, and particularly the latter, were as daring as they were accomplished, helping to make
A Night on the Town
Stewart's best effort of the mid-'70s. The distinctions "slow side" and "fast side" (originally assigned to the LP's A and B sides) are meaningless in the age of CDs, but they point out how adept Stewart is at any speed, reeling off a gorgeous rendition of Cat Stevens's "The First Cut is the Deepest" and the raucous original "The Balltrap" with equal aplomb.
--Daniel Durchholz
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