Rod Stewart: Camouflage (West German ''Target'' Pressing) CD Track Listing

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Rod Stewart Camouflage (West German ''Target'' Pressing) (1984)
Camouflage (West German ''Target'' Pressing)\n\nOriginally Released 1984\nCD Edition Released 1986 ??\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Camouflage is better than the disastrous Body Wishes, but that's only a relative term. Jeff Beck adds the occasional rock guitar flourish, but that doesn't save the faceless material. Again, the two singles -- "Infatuation" and "Some Guys Have All the Luck" -- are fine, ready-made pop hits, but they wear thin after a few plays, and they're the best things on the record. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe beginning of the end, February 8, 2007\nReviewer: Chris Cormier "Wonderbar" (canada)\nApart from the single "Infatuation", this album was a big step down for Rod Stewart. I guess he had to try something different or be accused of being stuck in a rut (and start writing silly movie soundtracks). But the music is as horridly 80s cheesy as you can get. This album was the end of respectability for such a great singer. (Following it up with "Forever Young" pretty much cemented his fall) "Some Guys Have All The Luck" what the heck is that? What a long way to come from 'Every Picture', 'Night On The Town' or 'Gasoline Alley'. \n\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nTwo Moments Surrounded By Mediocrity, July 24, 2004\nReviewer: G. J Wiener (Westchester, NY USA)\nCamouflage is not one of Rod Stewart's better recordings. He strays far away from his rock n roll roots and mines the disco beats and synthesizers to the hill. The result is an annoying recording with much more bad than good. \n\nHowever, there are two strong singles on this CD. Some Guys Have All The Luck has some catchy hooks as well as some interesting lyrics and synthesizer/saxaphone touches. It is easily the highlight of this recording. The lead off track Infatuation, is pretty charming as well. I like the way the guitars fit in with the rest of the song. \n\nHowever, the remaining six songs just do not do anything special for me. Allright Now is too laden with synthesizers and tricky beats. Rod should have done this as a straight out rocker. As a matter of fact the problem with this recording is Rod got too complex with the tricky synthesized beats. Nearly every tune relies on too much special effects. In other words, too much cheesey style and not enough substance. Trouble is a decent ballad but it maybe wins the award as best tune of the remaining six tracks. \n\nTruthfully Amazon readers you are best served going with a more rock n roll best Rod Stewart recording than Camouflogue.\n\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nA good 80s album for Stewart's more pop/rock fans, June 6, 2003\nReviewer: JWP "Uncle Jesse Tanner" (San Jose, CA)\nThis is a transitional Rod Stewart album, as he was starting to move away from edgy bluesy pop/rock and towards the more Adult Contemporary pop singer he's known as today. In fact, I'd call this the last album where he could be considered cool, as there were traces of his soft image creeping in already, but it's mostly an 80s pop album.\nThe biggest hit was the happier, upbeat dancefloor rocker "Some Guys Have All the Luck" which also had a good sax solo. It's certainly reminiscent of the time, with that keyboard sound, but it's aged well. This is probably my all time favorite song of his. "Infatuation" is a slightly edgy mid tempo rock song that builds up with a guitar solo in the middle. It's also memorable for its video, which, if I remember right, had a merry go round. The cover of Free's (A 70s band with Paul Rodgers of Bad Company) "All Right Now" is more synthlike and although it doesn't rock as hard as the original, it's a good addition.\n\nThe other songs aren't bad either, mostly synthesized pop/rock like the fast paced title track. The mid tempo somewhat edgy rocker "Bad for You" and the poppy, pleasant melodic "Heart Is On the Line" could've been hits too. There's 2 ballads which are good as well. "Can We Still Be Friends" is a catchy, more typical 80s love song, and the softer, quieter piano based synthy "Trouble" ends the album mellowly, but it's still a memorable, singable tune.\n\nI'm not really a big fan of Rod's. I like some of his harder, early songs like "Hot Legs" and the disco themed "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy." I also like a few of his later soft rock hits like "So Far Away" but I'm still what you'd call a casual fan of his, meaning most of his radio hits are pretty much all I'd want from him, but this album is a good exception. I'm a pretty big 80s music fan, and anyone else who is (whether or not they'll proudly admit it) would probably like this album, as well as "Tonight I'm Yours" and maybe "Vagabond Heart" even if you're not much of a Rod Stewart fan.\n\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nNothing to strut about here, May 16, 2003\nReviewer: Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA)\nIt is interesting to discover tapes I bought years ago, listen to them once again, and sometimes wonder what in the world I was possibly thinking when I bought them. In the case of Rod Stewart's Camouflage, I happen to know that I bought it for the song Some Guys Have All the Luck, considering it one of a number of my theme songs over the years. Infatuation was another song I liked at the time, but I now can see that what I liked about Infatuation was the video rather than the song, which has not aged well. I'm glad I only bought this album for those two songs because they are the only decent songs to be found here. The metamorphosis of the cool Rodster of the late 1970s and early 1980s into a more mellow, soft pop singer was evidently already in its early stages when Camouflage was released in 1984. All Right Now and Can We Still Be Friends? are at least bearable although somewhat flat and lifeless, but the second half of this album was almost more than I could bear. Frankly, I could not survive the last track, Trouble, in its entirety; putting an end to something as painful and seemingly unhealthy as this song seemed like the humane thing for me to do. I'm not really a Rod Stewart fan, so I can't compare Camouflage to other albums. From my point of view, though, you have one very good song in Some Guys Have All the Luck, one decent song in Infatuation (as long as you don't have to listen to it more than once in the same year or so), two tracks that are average at best, and an agonizing musical morass otherwise known as Side Two, all of which add up to only eight tracks, none of which is unusually lengthy.\n\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nGreat pop album of the 80's, June 19, 2000\nReviewer: Luis Fernando Piedra Koppel (Guayaquil, Ecuador)\nOk... if Phil Collins' "No Jacket Required" was a definetely milestone in the 80's, Rod Stewart's "Camouflage" is just a couple of steps away to be another milestone recording representative of that decade. Ok, many of you people will be saying "this guy is nuts!", but hey... listen to this album and you will discover that the textures, sounds and moods are just as much representative of that long lost decade as it was Ronald Reagan presidency. Drum machines here, there and everywhere, funny guitars and of course... my friend the synthetizer. "Camouflage" will probably not be a much important part in the recorded history of Mr. Stewart's, as it is for example, "Every Picture Tells A Story", but it is indeed a fine example of Rod Stewart personal chemistry between rock and roll, fashion, girls and blonde dye for the hair. Indeed, once again, a great, great album. Jusr listen to "Infatuation" -a classic in the Stewart catalogue-, "Some guys have all the luck", and a wonderful cover of "All right now". Definetely worth owning. Cheer the 80's with Phil Collins' "No Jacket Required", Genesis' "Invisible Touch", Paul Simon's "Graceland", Peter Gabriel's "So", and Rod Stewart's "Camouflage"!.\n\n\nHalf.com Details \nContributing artists: Jeff Beck \nProducer: Michael Omartian, Rod Stewart \n\nAlbum Notes\nPersonnel: Rod Stewart (vocals); Jeff Beck, Michael Landau, Robin Le Mesurier, Jim Cregan (guitar); Gary Herbig (saxophone); Jerry Hay, Chuck Findley, Gary Grant, Kim Hutchcroft, Charlie Loper (horns); Jimmy Zavala (harmonica); Michael Omartian (keyboards, percussion, background vocals); Kevin Savigar (keyboards); Jay Davis (bass); Tony Brock (drums).\n\nRecorded at Lion Share, Los Angeles, California.\n\nIn recording 1984's CAMOUFLAGE, Rod Stewart's greatest accomplishment was getting old friend & employer Jeff Beck to join him on three songs. The most successful is the fiery "Infatuation," one of two Top 10 hits for Stewart, who barely cracked the Top 15 with anything off his previous album BODY WISHES. Stewart's choice of producer, Amy Grant knob-turner Michael Omartian, meant CAMOUFLAGE was awash in synthesizers and the band was made up of facile studio musicians. Gone were the rootsier excursions from earlier in his career, replaced by glossier numbers such as the title track with its Earth, Wind & Fire-like horns, and an idiosyncratic reading of Free's "All Right Now," with the bumps and wrinkles of the original smoothly ironed out. Still, Stewart's unabashed romanticism could not be quelled. "Trouble" finds him cooing lovingly over a bank of lighter-than-air keyboards, while on the endearingly poppy "Some Guys Have All The Luck," Stewart sings his heart out.
This rock cd contains 8 tracks and runs 37min 51sec.
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