Midnight Rocks

Album: 24 Carrots (1980)
Charted: 24
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Songfacts®:

  • According to the inset sheet, "Midnight Rocks" runs to exactly four minutes. Arguably the weakest track on the album, and surprisingly weak lyrically for an Al Stewart song:

    Don't let our love be broken
    Upon the midnight rocks


    Indeed - it was, surprisingly, released as a single in preference to the obvious "Paint By Numbers." Unfortunately, even the heavy production and extended jazz type soloing can't save it. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

Comments: 4

  • Dave Schacht from Lakemoor, IlI think that this is a great song and that it's a disgrace that so-called "Classic Rock" stations don't play it. In fact, the only Al Stewart track that you're likely to hear on those stations is "Year Of The Cat." For some reason, they don't even play "Time Passages."
  • Libhy Esther Berman from Louisville KyAnother haunting by the infamous Mandi, & an unresolved situation.
  • Rik from Arizona, UsaAl once told me that he didn't really care for this track. It was simply to appease the record company who wanted another Year Of The Cat.
  • Meocyber from Alma Co.Disagree w/ story author. Another intelligent tale by Al. Again he uses another cool equating of stormy love w/ a stormy ship on the ocean. Not his very finest but still smart, refined.
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