Never a Dull Moment

Track Listings

1. True Blue

2. Lost Paraguayos

3. Mama, You Been on My Mind

4. Italian Girls

5. Angel

6. Interludings

7. You Wear It Well

8. I'd Rather Go Blind

9. Twistin' the Night Away

Editorial Reviews
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The fourth Rod Stewart album to contain his trademark acoustic-electric mix of instruments and bluesy vocals, Never a Dull Moment feels anything but formulaic, kicking off with the aw-shucks modesty of "True Blue" and rollicking on through the enduring original "You Wear It Well." Some of the best tunes here are covers--Bob Dylan's searching "Mama You Been on My Mind," a soulful reading of Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away," and a scorching take on Etta James's "I'd Rather Go Blind"--but, as always, Stewart manages to make them sound of a piece with his own compositions. Unlike the promises proffered by some album titles, Never a Dull Moment (ironic though it was, given the cover painting of a terminally bored Stewart) proved to be dead-on. --Daniel Durchholz --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Tracks:

True Blue
Lost Paraguayos
Mama You Been On My Mind
Italian Girls
Angel
Interludings
You Wear It Well
I'd Rather Go Blind
Twistin' The Night Away

Amazon.com essential recording

The fourth Rod Stewart album to contain his trademark acoustic-electric mix of instruments and bluesy vocals, Never a Dull Moment feels anything but formulaic, kicking off with the aw-shucks modesty of "True Blue" and rollicking on through the enduring original "You Wear It Well." Some of the best tunes here are covers--Bob Dylan's searching "Mama You Been on My Mind," a soulful reading of Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away," and a scorching take on Etta James's "I'd Rather Go Blind"--but, as always, Stewart manages to make them sound of a piece with his own compositions. Unlike the promises proffered by some album titles, Never a Dull Moment (ironic though it was, given the cover painting of a terminally bored Stewart) proved to be dead-on. --Daniel Durchholz

Customer Reviews:

BPs Review.......2007-01-09

This remains my favorite Rod Stewart music. Reminds me of when I listened to it on my way to SAT classes back in high school on my 8 track! So happy to have finally found it on Amazon, cos I've been looking for years....

Me and Janet.......and Rod........2006-07-21

This album was the soundtrack to a (for me, at least) painful breakup with Janet, who seriously broke my heart at the tender age of 19. Every track brings back memories, and I consider it to be one of the best albums of all time, with "Every picture tells a story" bringing up a close second. It was simply Rod and his mates at their best, playing good rock an'roll as it should be played, with a bit of a sense of humour,and it was all downhill when they broke up. I actually got to see them live, (in '72, i think) and I wish I still had the haircut! it would be good if some of todays bands could sound as good live.

make a solo album,call your mates.......2006-04-16

How do you make a solo album? Call your band mates. How do you follow up a serious classic album? Make a fun classic album! Step 1: call the Faces, Step 2: Add some awesome studio musicians, Step 3: Rock'n'Roll. One of the most underrated,unabated albums ever recorded, it never disappoints from song 1 to song end. True Blue kicks off the album in a raw and rythmic jam followed by one of the greatest exiles of FM radio the loose rockin' "Lost Paraguayos" where all guitars,vocals,horns,bass & sloppy drums SHINE! Next The Faces make Dylan their own with "Mama You Been on My Mind" and then roar through the infectious riff rock of Italian Girls". A simplified soulful garage rock version of Hendrix's "Angel" keeps the good times rolling. The classic " You Wear it Well" starts the second half of the album which concludes with 2 smokin' remakes: Etta James would be proud of the boy's take on her classic "I'd Rather Go Blind" and next is a get up and party version of Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away". WARNING this album makes you want to play it over and over again!!!

The Best Rock Singer Ever.......2006-02-27

Back in the day, Rod Stewart was, quite simply, the best rock singer in the world. If that sounds like a grand claim, pick up this CD and listen. Case closed. A lot of younger people listening to Rod's most recent output must wonder why he was once so revered. I'd say the first 20 seconds of this album would be a pretty good clue. As Rod rips into "True Blue", it's the start of a powerhouse album of great rock singing. Essential from start to finish. "You Wear It Well" may have been the (deservedly) big hit here, but the rest of the material is outstanding.

Of course, nobody would have noticed if the material and the support from the band weren't consistently excellent. They are. This album is astonishingly good from start to finish. The only song that didn't grab me from the start was the cover of Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away", played quite slower than the original. Now I realize it was just that this song about twisting was reinterpreted as a hard rock song. Not really twistable, but darned good nevertheless.

Arguments about whether this or "Every Picture Tells A Story" are Rod's best album are irrelevant. If you're a serious fan of Rock music and you don't own both, you're doing yourself a diservice.

HE'S JUST THAT GOOD!!!!.......2005-10-29

BUYING THIS CD WAS ACTUALLY A REVISIT FOR ME BUT AFTER LISTENING TO IT I REALIZED HOW FORTUNATE I AM TO BE ON THE SAME PLANET WITH THIS ICON!

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They won't allow you to choose no stars.
good job
Tommy Lee?
Cocky
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Never a Dull Moment
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The album title aptly defines the former Motley Crüe drummer's chaotic, highly public personal and musical life. Yet Lee, seemingly ever optimistic, continues to grow and expand musically-and while some of his modern stylings may not be to the liking of old-school Crüe fans, Never a Dull Moment has many honest, memorable moments. The drummer-turned-guitarist (and frontman's) first "solo" album was with rapper Tilo and Lee's Methods of Mayhem band; Never a Dull Moment is much more rock and much more solo, which, ultimately, is a good thing. It's a sort-of mix of Linkin Park and Nickelback--leaning more toward the latter--and Lee melds modern rock with moments of gentleness and the occasional electronic and rap-influenced aggro cut, such as the punky "Face to Face." Though Lee's workable, slightly gruff voice may be one of the disc's weakest elements, the full, ultramelodic choruses on midtempo songs, such as the lovely "Ashamed" (with guest vocals from Deftones singer Chino Moreno), are in cool contrast to balls-out rockers like "Higher." Lee's messages, music, and songs are heartfelt and carefully crafted, and despite Lee's musical baggage, Never a Dull Moment provides many gratifying moments for an open-minded listener. --Katherine Turman

Customer Reviews:

They won't allow you to choose no stars. .......2006-07-05

If you feel like going the ways of mainstream and listening to the same generic rock that they regurgitate every hour on the radio then this album is your ultimate saviour. I find it difficult to believe some record company thought that this was worth producing. I also find it very sad to think there are people out there that say "God, I feel this music" and convince themselves that this is the greatest music can be. Nothing clever on this album. Tommy Lee is making music in a genre that gave up on itself years ago. Tommy, you should do the same and give up. Tommy likes music? Great! Just do us a favor and keep it in your basement for friends. Oh and Tommy's friends, you should be ashamed of telling him that what he does is good. Lying hurts everyone.

good job.......2005-09-25

Ah yes, i was satisfied by my purchase from Amazon.
The cd was in excellent condition for a good price. I will definitely order again from Amazon and preplayed.

Tommy Lee?.......2005-08-12

Although I am a huge fan of Tommy Lee, I wasn't expecting anything truly great when I first picked up this album. However after listening to it just once, I was completely and totally blown away. This is an awesome album. I would recommend it to anyone.

Cocky.......2005-07-16

just like Methods of Mayhem but more rock and less about drugs

Afterglow 9/10
Hold me Down 10/10
Body Architects 9/10
Ashamed 7/10
Fame 02 8/10
Blue 7/10
Sunday 9/10
Why is it 7/10
face to face 10/10
higher 11/10
people so strange 9/10
Mr. S***y -not a song but a dumb guy talkin on phone

Tommy's Surprise.......2005-05-03

Every so often, a CD comes around that is far superior to anything else that is out there at the time.............this is that CD. Pick this up, it is amazing.

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BPs Review
Me and Janet.......and Rod.
make a solo album,call your mates
The Best Rock Singer Ever
HE'S JUST THAT GOOD!!!!

Never a Dull Moment
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Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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Italian Girls
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Interludings
You Wear It Well
I'd Rather Go Blind
Twistin' the Night Away

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Customer Reviews:

BPs Review.......2007-01-09

Me and Janet.......and Rod........2006-07-21

make a solo album,call your mates.......2006-04-16

The Best Rock Singer Ever.......2006-02-27

HE'S JUST THAT GOOD!!!!.......2005-10-29

BUYING THIS CD WAS ACTUALLY A REVISIT FOR ME BUT AFTER LISTENING TO IT I REALIZED HOW FORTUNATE I AM TO BE ON THE SAME PLANET WITH THIS ICON!

Fine and Dandy (2004 Studio Cast) (World Premiere Recording)

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Dandy
WOW Simply the best reconstructed show album to date!!
More than Fine, and More than Dandy!
Not To Be Missed
fabulous discovery!

Fine and Dandy (2004 Studio Cast) (World Premiere Recording)
Kay Swift , Carolee Carmello , Gavin Creel , Andrea Burns , Mark Linn-Baker , John Pizzarelli , Ann Hampton Callaway , and Jessica Molaskey
Manufacturer: P.S. Classics
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Finale Ultimo (Carolee Carmello & Ensemble)
Up Among the Chimney Pots (Natalie Douglas)
Can't We Be Friends? (John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey)
Whistling in the Dark (Jack Donahue)
Once You Find Your Guy (Ann Hampton Callaway)

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Mary Rodgers is usually heralded as musical theater's sole woman composer, but this new recording of a long-lost gem introduces us to another brilliant member of Broadway's thin female ranks: Kay Swift. Collaborating with her husband, lyricist James Paul Warburg (writing as Paul James), Swift penned a splendid collection of tunes-in turn touching, daffy, percolating and tender-for this 1930 show. Taking place in the unlikely setting of a tool-and-die factory, Fine and Dandy is a bubbly jazz age musical full of melodic invention and lyrical twists. Fans of the Gershwins' 1920s oeuvre will adore this world-premiere recording, and in fact George is namechecked in the wonderful title track, in which Carolee Carmello and Mario Cantone compete in spirited one-upmanship. The CD also includes four songs written by Swift between 1929 and 1950; like Plain and Fancy, they serve to remind us that Swift was one of Broadway's unsung heroes. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Description

The classic 1930 musical comedy in its world premiere recording, featuring a 28-piece orchestra and a cast of Broadway and jazz greats. An amazing roster of talent including Carolee Carmello (Kiss Me Kate, Parade), Gavin Creel (Thoroughly Modern Millie), Mario Cantone (Assassins and TV's Sex & The City), Mark Linn-Baker (A Year With Frog and Toad and TV's Perfect Strangers) and Jennifer Laura Thompson (Urinetown, Footloose) # is joined by bestselling jazz artists Ann Hampton Callaway, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, all in loving tribute to one of the few female composers from the first half of the 20th Century: the legendary Kay Swift. With a new biography of the composer, entitled Fine and Dandy: The Life and Work of Kay Swift, due out June 1 from Yale University Press, this new recording is sure to attract the attention of Broadway and jazz music-lovers everywhere. Overture (Orchestra), Rich or Poor (Gavin Creel & Jennifer Laura Thompson), Fine and Dandy (Carolee Carmello & Mario Cantone), Machine Shop Opening (Mark Linn-Baker & Ensemble), Starting at the Bottom (Gavin Creel), Can This Be Love? (Carolee Carmello), I'll Hit a New High (Andrea Burns & Male Ensemble), Picnic Song (Ensemble), Let's Go Eat Worms in the Garden (Gavin Creel, Carolee Carmello & Ensemble), Can't We Be Friends? (John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey), Up Among the Chimney Pots (Natalie Douglas), Whistling in the Dark (Jack Donahue), Etiquette (Mark Linn-Baker & Ensemble), The Jig-Hop (Andrea Burns & Ensemble), Nobody Breaks My Heart (Carolee Carmello), Can This Be Love? (reprise) (Jennifer Laura Thompson & Gavin Creel), Wedding Bells (Ensemble), Waltz (Deborah Tranelli), Finale Ultimo (Mario Cantone, Carolee Carmello & Ensemble), Once You Find Your Guy (Ann Hampton Callaway)

Customer Reviews:

Dandy.......2005-05-06

No one will easily mistake Kay Swift for Gershwin, but it is great that she is finally getting some recognition beyond "Can't We Be Friends?" (included here on this LP as a sort of bonus) which isn't itself all that familiar except to cabaret aficionados. Writing true show music is a different kettle of fish, an art form with different skills, and listening to this LP one begins to construct a live production of FINE AND DANDY in one's head. The voices of the individual performers are immensely helpful in this journey, and some of the tracks you could listen to day and night. I understand that Donald Ogden Stewart wrote the book for this show and I would love to get my hands on it, having enjoyed some of the films he worked on so much, Dinner at Eight, Holiday, Kitty Foyle, The Philadelphia Story and Europa 51 among them. His Socialist bent had an appealing, whimsical side to it and I can see the factory for which Kay Swift wrote her enchanting opening number as the perfect laboratory for Ogden Stewart's brand of inspired nuttiness. Gavin Creel and Carolee Carmello are vivacious and even infectious on their tracks, and it sounds as though they love the songs as much as we love them. "Can This Be Love?" already sounds like a standard, and I predict many renditions of the comical complaint number "Let's Go Eat Worms."

Don't know if a revival of the show would be successful, but it sounds as though it needs one bravura comedian to put it over big. Back in the 1930s they had Joe Cook. Who is Joe Cook's equivalent today? Someone like Will Ferrell I guess--gulp.

WOW Simply the best reconstructed show album to date!!.......2005-02-23

Fine and Dandy is simply the best 30s musical to be reconstructed for CD yet, and it was a complete surprise because who knew any of the songs from this show? Well, we know them now and they are teriffic, and performed by an equally teriffic cast, especially Carolee Carmello, Gavin Cleel and Jennifer Laura Thompson. Would it be fair to say that Ms. Carmello is wildly underappreciated? I have adored her ever since seeing her as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors many years ago in Boston. Here she is wonderful especially in Lets Go Eat Worms in the Garden and Nobody Breaks My Heart. It was so unexpected to find such a treasure trove of foot tapping songs, but here they are. BUY THIS CD if you like musicals at all, you won't be sorry.

More than Fine, and More than Dandy!.......2004-09-18

I am very selective in writing reviews for Amazon - so if you're reading this, then please know that I must really, really love this c.d. And I hope my "review" helps in your decision whether or not to buy it!
Having said that...this recording is tremendous. Kay Swift's music comes to life through the talented and spectacular voices, most notebly of Gavin Creel and Carolee Carmello. I think I listen to their duet (Track 10), at least once a day. The whole thing is just pure broadway fun, the way it used to be! The only bad thing about this c.d. is that you wished they had staged this musical, so that you could go see it live!

Not To Be Missed.......2004-05-31

Kay Swift, best-known for her close association with George Gershwin, was one of the few female composers to write for Broadway. Fine and Dandy was her first book musical, featuring lyrics by husband Paul James, and became one of the biggest hits of Broadway's 1930-31 season. However, like many musicals of the era, most of the original performance materials were lost over the years. In the mid-`80s, Swift began to reconstruct the score, assisted by orchestrator Russell Warner, who continued the work following her death in 1993. The new recording is a revelation, for the songs are, as the title says, fine and dandy--clever and romantic by turns, and always tuneful. Those who love Gershwin's "Strike Up the Band" and "Of Thee I Sing" will find a similar feel here, helped by strong performances from Carolee Carmello, Gavin Creel, Mario Cantone, Mark Linn-Baker and Jennifer Laura Thompson, bolstered by a full orchestra. The CD also includes several other songs by Swift, including the classic "Can't We Be Friends?"

fabulous discovery!.......2004-05-29

This is an amazing score: witty, clever, fantastically inventive music -- fans of Gershwin et al will be delighted to discover this delightful show. What a great contribution to the American songbook. And hats off to PS Classics for this debut nonprofit historical recording, which has impeccable production quality. Can't wait for the next one they release.

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Wonderful Experience For Rock Lover
Awesome, just awesome....

Never a Dull Moment
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Wonderful Experience For Rock Lover.......2003-01-05

Well ! Friends .
i just bought this album out of nowhere, I dont know why ,
but i can tell u all one thing that this is a not to miss thing. If u love a new kinda music that makes u feel good.The Take me down is the best song .You would love to hear it
again and again and again.

Awesome, just awesome...........2002-09-04

I have been a Motley Crue fan for 20+ years, I am very skeptical of solo projects put out (by Motley members or most other band members), as many artists that are in fabulous bands don't cut it as solo artists but this album by Tommy Lee is outstanding. It is very, very hard, having more of a Hardcore of almost punk sound to it. I am so so impressed, I hope everyone will give this great album a listen!

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Never a dull moment [Japan Import]
Kal David
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Out of print. 1992 import on Polystar records Japan. 10 tracks.

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Never A Dull Moment
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Hello M'Lady
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Never a Dull Moment
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Bonus
Bonus

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: 'drum Jam', and 'new Skin (With Tilo/No Kid Rock)'

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1. True Blue
2. Lost Paraguayos
3. Mama, You Been on My Mind
4. Italian Girls
5. Angel
6. Interludings
7. You Wear It Well
8. I'd Rather Go Blind
9. Twistin' the Night Away