CD1
1 Maggie May (Quittenton, Stewart) 5:14
2 Stay With Me (Stewart, Wood) 4:38
3 Reason to Believe (Hardin) 4:07
4 You Wear It Well (Quittenton, Stewart) 4:21
5 In a Broken Dream (Bentley) 3:40
Performed by: Jackson, Python Lee, Stewart
6 Cut Across Shorty (Walker, Wilkin) 6:30
7 Had Me a Real Good Time (Lane, Wood) 2:54
8 Miss Judy's Farm (Stewart, Wood) 3:39
9 Angel (Hendrix) 4:04
10 Oh No Not My Baby (Goffin, King) 3:37
11 What Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me) (Sutton) 2:51
12 (I Know) I'm Losing You (Grant, Holland, Whitfield) 5:20
13 Mandolin Wind (Stewart) 5:31
14 Every Picture Tells a Story (Stewart, Wood) 5:58
15 I'd Rather Go Blind (Davis, Foster, Jordan) 3:52
16 Twistin' the Night Away (Cooke) 3:13
17 Sweet Little Rock & Roller (Berry) 3:43
18 Bring It (On) Home to Me/You Send Me (Cooke) 4:01

CD2
1 Handbags & Gladrags (D'Abo) 3:56
2 It's All Over Now (Womack, Womack) 6:21
3 Cindy Incidentally (McLagan, Stewart, Wood) 2:37
4 Pool Hall Richard (Stewart, Wood) 4:24
5 Street Fighting Man (Jagger, Richards) 5:05
6 Gasoline Alley (Stewart, Wood) 3:57
7 Let Me Be Your Car (John, Taupin) 4:54
8 That's All Right (Crudup) 4:00
9 My Way of Giving (Lane, Marriott) 3:56
10 Italian Girls (Stewart, Wood) 4:57
11 Lost Paraguayos (Stewart, Wood) 3:57
12 True Blue (Stewart, Wood) 3:31
13 Hard Road (Vanda, Young) 4:25
14 (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man (Goffin, King, Wexler) 3:53
15 An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (Stewart) 3:04
16 Jodie (McLagan, Stewart, Wood) 3:07
17 Man of Constant Sorrow (Stewart) 2:31
18 You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk) (McLagan, Stewart, Wood) 4:21

Issued less than half a year before Rhino's definitive Faces box set (Five Guys Walk into a Bar), this double-disc collection is pretty much a cynical cash grab by Warner marketing. For starters, it should be duly noted that it's the name of Rod Stewart and not the Faces that appears here first and the reason is simple: there are only four tracks from the course of the Faces' studio run. A far better choice for those marginal or economically challenged fans not predisposed to buying an entire box set is the single-disc Good Boys When They're Asleep, which gives a much more well-rounded picture of perhaps the greatest pure rock & roll band in history. Right, Rolling Stones notwithstanding. What this set does accomplish is difficult to say, as it jumbles less than a handful of Faces tunes with a slew of more well-known Mercury recordings and saturates the rest with Warner material. Yawn. This is a rather dodgy excuse for a marketing department to justify earning their salaries and little more. This is hardly a "very best of" anything. ---Thom Jurek, AllMusic Review

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01 - It's The Same Old Song
02 - My Cherie Amoure (featuring Stevie Wonder)
03 - You Make Me Feel Brand New (with Mary J Blige)
04 - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
05 - Tracks Of My Tears
06 - Let It Be Me (with Jennifer Hudson)
07 - Rainy Night In Georgia
08 - What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted
09 - Love Train
10 - You've Really Got A Hold On Me
11 - Wonderful World
12 - If You Don't Know Me By Now
13 - Just My Imagination

Continuing his stroll through pop's back pages, Rod Stewart moves on from the "Great Rock Classics of Our Time" and dives into the Soulbook, shorthand for all the great Motown and soul songs that still are in heavy rotation on oldies radio well into the new millennium. Apart from an oddly funkified spin of Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World" and a version of Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" that illustrates just how much range he's lost over the years, Rod doesn't spend much time with the soul and blues singers so influential on him, choosing instead to run through a bunch of Motown hits -- a full six of the 13 songs here are from the Motor City -- adding a couple of smooth soul hits from the early '70s, plus Chuck Jackson and Maxine Brown's "Let It Be Me," which gives him an opportunity to duet with Jennifer Hudson. All this is firmly within Stewart's wheelhouse, perhaps too much so, an impression not helped by the overly familiar arrangements, right down to Stevie Wonder reprising his harmonica on "My Cherie Amour" -- these are all designed to evoke memories, not to dig into the heart of the songs. It's all pleasing enough, flowing better than the Great American Songbook albums, and not feeling as karaoke as the Great Rock Classics album, but it's so comfortable, so easygoing, it verges on the forgettable. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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1. That Old Black Magic (4:35)
2. Beyond The Sea (3:25)
3. I've Got You Under My Skin (3:50)
4. What A Difference A Day Makes (3:22)
5. I Get A Kick Out Of You (3:32)
6. I've Got The World On A String (2:52)
7. Love Me Or Leave Me (3:07)
8. My Foolish Heart (3:37)
9. September In The Rain (2:55)
10. Fly Me To The Moon (2:45)               play
11. Sunny Side Of The Street (2:56)
12. Moon River (2:48)                       play

Rod Stewart has been mining the Great American Songbook for the better part of a decade, so it would only make sense that he would get a little bit better as time goes by. And, by some stroke of fate, Fly Me to the Moon -- the fifth installment in this never-ending series and first since 2005, as Rod spent the back half of the 2000s taking songbook detours into rock and soul -- is Stewart’s best album in the entire series. Some credit must be due to producer Richard Perry, who returns to the project after a few records off, but what distinguishes Fly Me to the Moon isn’t precision but relaxation. Rod is cool and loose, comfortable with the contours of these standards, which he should be after singing them for ten years. Standards still may not be suited for Stewart’s particular gifts -- unlike the rock and R&B numbers of his early years, he has absolutely no interest in rearranging the tunes or doing something unexpected with them, so he simply wraps his soulful rasp around them, sometimes sounding too ragged for the surroundings -- but he knows how to make his flaws work in his favor. He sounds like he’s having fun swinging through the tunes everybody knows by heart, and that’s the difference on an album that’s otherwise interchangeable with what came before: usually, the Great American Songbooks sound obligatory, but here there’s enough spirit coming from Rod to make this the best album in the series. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

"Fly Me to The Moon.The Great American Songbook" to kolejna piąta już płyta z serii songbooków. Nowe aranżacie znanych amerykańskich przebojów. Rod po raz kolejny odnalazł się w zaproponowanych na tej płycie piosenkach. Płyta "Fly Me to The Moon" pomimo spokojnego głosu Roda, sama porywa do tańca. Prywatka z nią, będzie trwała do białego rana. Jest niewątpliwie jedną z najbardziej rytmicznych płyt, w dotychczasowych pięciu songbooków.

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