Rhino
's 2001 collection
The Very Best of Rod Stewart
aims to be comprehensive.
has open access to the
Warner
vaults, and
Stewart
had many, many hits for the label -- nearly two decades' worth, in fact. During those two decades, he was pursuing the shifting tides of
pop
fashion, delving into
disco
,
new wave
adult contemporary
ballads
, and
retro-rock
with equal abandon.
also pulled
"Maggie"
and
"You Wear It Well"
from
Mercury
and randomly placed them in this arbitrarily sequenced 16-track collection, which is pitched closely to
's late-'80s/early-'90s
hits (which perhaps makes sense, since those recordings had yet to appear on a single-disc collection) and has a great majority of his Top Ten hits. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine