Misunderstood indeed. It's tough to associate the stylin' young Rod The Mod featured on this mid-'60s compilation with the adult-contempo-pop codger presently booting soccer balls from stages around the world.

A scattershot repackaging of previously released rarities, this 15-track disc captures the fledgling Stewart trotting over what must have been well-worn turf among London's R&B hopefuls of the day, including Willie Dixon's Don't You Tell Nobody, Big Bill Broonzy's Mopper's Blues and Holland-Dozier-Holland's Can I Get A Witness.

A handful are culled from Stewart's first demos, recorded in 1964 with Long John Baldry, and on them he sounds just like what he was -- a raw, inexperienced teenager scratching up his larynx.

It's fun hearing his tastes develop in time for early solo singles such as his 1966 cover of Sam Cooke's Shake, the rather humourously grandiose 1965 orchestral pop foray The Day Will Come, and an "unfinished" early take of his 1968 solo flop Little Miss Understood -- all of which are pretty good.

But strangely, the disc's liner notes are more extensive than the music within. Fans of Stewarts' early work will know this stuff already, but it's a decent catch-all for those looking to have it on one platter.

Rod The Mod plays the Air Canada Centre on Wednesday. (More on: Rod Stewart).

Track Listing 1.Ain't That Loving You Baby
2.Moppers Blues
3.Don't You Tell
4.Keep Your Hands off Her
5.Just Like I Treat You
6.Can I Get a Witness
7.Baby Take Me
8.Bright Lights, Big City
9.Day Will Come
10.Why Does It Go On
11.Shake
12.I Just Got Some
13.So Much to Say
14.Little Miss Understood
15.Come Home Baby
16.In a Broken Dream
17.Blues
18.Cloud Nine