This video is appalling on multiple levels.<\/p>\n
[livevideo]278CE95C3DCC48C3A209934D701A60D5[\/livevideo]<\/p>\n
The pointlessly rural setting, the various Look crimes \u2013 the beret, the overalls, the visor, the aviator shades, the peroxide \u2013 the objectification of women\u2019s body parts, the exploitation of poor people, Rod\u2019s preening and prancing… I could go on. <\/p>\n
This style of Stonesy rock is what Rod had been successfully purveying with the Faces, but here it\u2019s been perfected to death. It\u2019s now drained of whatever vitality it once had and turned into a coked-out rock star nightmare. I hate everything about it.<\/p>\n
But.<\/p>\n
I absolutely LOVE that guitar riff<\/strong> that comes in after Rod shrieks \u201cI love ya, honay!\u201d (first appearance at about 1:23). A two-chord riff with one repeat, it\u2019s perfect in its simplicity, even it is a bit too Les-Paul-through-a-Marshall-amp. It just works. <\/p>\n Of course it\u2019s immediately undercut by that dull, thudding drum fill from whichever Appice brother that is, but this little hint that Rod still knows what he\u2019s doing confuses me. Does it almost redeem the song, or does it make the whole thing even more embarrassing by highlighting all that he\u2019s thrown away?<\/p>\n Anyway, do you have a song or an album you basically despise which still has some feature or aspect you grudgingly love?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This video is appalling on multiple levels. [livevideo]278CE95C3DCC48C3A209934D701A60D5[\/livevideo] The pointlessly rural setting, the various Look crimes \u2013 the beret, the overalls, the visor, the aviator shades, the peroxide \u2013 the objectification of women\u2019s body parts, the exploitation of poor people, Rod\u2019s preening and prancing… I could go on. This style of Stonesy rock is what […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}