My Top 2000 Songs #1021: Stay With Me

As noted previously, I'm much more a Small Faces guy that a Faces guy... largely because, while a lot of the cool kids seem to love Faces, I simply don't enjoy Rod Stewart. Indeed, to the extent I spend much time with Faces records, I tend to prefer the non-Rod tracks.

Still, sometimes I can set aside that bias. Like if a song is as much a barnburner as "Stay With Me," off 1971's A Nod Is As Good As A Wink--by far the best Stones song the Stones never had. Because if you're looking for one of those definitive "maybe I don't play it very often, but if it comes on the car radio I'm gonna pull over and listen to the whole damn thing" songs, this is it.

BBC Live 1972:

Rod Stewart, 3 freakin' days ago! Good lord!

Co-writer Ron Wood with David Gilmour, Paul Rodgers, Brian May, Joe Walsh, and more...

Elkie Brooks:

Found on YouTube: