Dunno, has been the usual response. Sounds like Rod Stewart.
As stated, Beck's involvement is minimal until Stewart gets to I'm so weary... Wham! I'm sick of trying... Four notes from Beck. I'm tired of living but afraid of dying... Another little flurry from the guitar, and back into the rolling timpani and organ for a spell with a raving vocal play-out to wind up proceedings on Side One.
That first side is a succession of strong performances, nary an original in sight, but, presumably when they started putting the group together it was a case of What about this one? as Beck, Stewart and Co. worked through some favourite numbers they thought might work.
Though the basic tracks were laid down over two weeks, I'm inclined to guess that there were sporadic sessions over the fortnight rather than fourteen days of nine-to-five (or the nocturnal equivalent) studio time. Side One, works as a whole, the way that a live set might go down. The second side is a mixed bag, seemingly throwing together whatever else they happened to have to hand.
It opens with an acoustic rendition of Greensleeves, a track presumably recorded around the same time as Love is Blue and intended as a pop chart possibility rather than an album track.
The side also includes Beck's Bolero, recorded before the rest of the album (we need a B-side for the single territory) and tends to support the use what we've got on hand to fill out the album hypothesis. Not that there's anything wrong with the track itself, a bolero rhythm with cascading guitars and a thunderous play-out, forty-two years later it's still one of my all-time favourites.
In between those two there's Rock My Plimsoul, a Beck/Stewart original that's a straightforward twelve-bar, albeit a twelve bar sung by a great vocalist with a bloody good guitarist working in call and response tandem.