Every Picture Tells a Story
| Rod Stewart
Every Picture Tells a Story
Every Picture Tells a Story, released May 1971, is the third album by Rod Stewart. It incorporates hard rock, folk, and blues styles. It went to number one on both the UK and US charts and finished third in the Jazz & Pop critics' poll for best album of 1971. It has been an enduring critical success, including a number 172 ranking on Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. - Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
1971 - Boring as half of it may be, there’s enough that is unqualifiedly magnificent on the other half of Every Picture Tells A Story to make it clearer than ever before that if Rod Stewart ever allows himself the time to write himself a whole album, it will be among the best albums any of us has ever heard.
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The Vinyl District
2014 - The result was 1971’s Every Picture Tells a Story, an astonishing and timeless LP that soared to the top of both the US and UK charts.
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All Music
Without greatly altering his approach, Rod Stewart perfected his blend of hard rock, folk, and blues on his masterpiece, Every Picture Tells a Story.
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Music AV Club
2007 - Stewart made his solo masterpiece, Every Picture Tells A Story. Sadly, his remarkable talents as a singer, interpreter, and songwriter would never be showcased so well again.
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Classic Rock Review
2011 - It has timeless quality that introduces pop and rock fans to the best of folk, while still offering rich arrangement and production.
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Sputnik Music
2012 - “Every Picture Tells a Story” is the definitive statement of his early solo career, mixing the folk rock tendencies of “Gasoline Alley” with the bluesy feel of his debut, tied together by marvelous, intelligent and original songwriting.
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50THIRDAND3RD
2018 - Every Picture Tells a Story is a pretty good album, one you can listen to without an overwhelming urge to pick up the needle and move to the next track. At its worst, it’s passable; at its best, it kicks ass.
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PPcorn
His third solo album, Every Picture Tells a Story, made him a star.
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Classic Rock History
2016 - “Every Picture Tells A Story”, is the kind of album that you want to listen to in one sitting.
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Super Seventies
1977 - Even while it originally almost drives you from the room trying to convince you of the fact,"Every Picture" does rock with ferocity via a simple but effective seven -- not ascension/five note descension riff that Waller cleverly punctuates with a halved-time bass-drum-against-snare lick
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Keno
2001 - A truly grand LP put out by Rod Stewart. Every Picture Tells A Story opens with the title cut and this song and its story just builds until its ending.
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The Vinyl Press
2016 - This, his third album, really carried the ball forward for Stewart as a brand name talent. Despite its commercial success, it is a very good album, perhaps even better with the passage of time.
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Superhype
2016 - “Every Picture Tells a Story” is a sprawling track about a young man’s coming of age as he leaves home and sees the world.
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