The Story So Far: The Very Best of Rod Stewart in Bloomington, MN

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