![]() ![]() Oh, also, I strongly recommend his 2017 album "The Laughing Apple." I'm not much of a fan of his music since his first retirement around 1979. They're excellent sounding acoustic demos. ![]() I think it's one of the worst songs he ever wrote, so I'm not even going to dignify it by including it as a bonus track.īy the way, if you enjoy this era of Stevens' music, definitely check out the other two albums by him that I've posted on this blog. There's one more original song from this time period that only shows up on bootleg which I have no included, called "It's So Good." Unfortunately, "It's So Bad" would be a better title. I don't know why the other two unreleased songs ("Can This Be Love" and "The Fisherman" are still unreleased, because I think they're just as good as the others here. However, this version was featured in a movie called "Deep End" the year before, and it's got a significantly different arrangement. One, "But I Might Die Tonight," also appears on his 1971 "Tea for the Tillerman" album. Most of the rest didn't come out until a box set in 2001.īut even then, there still are three songs here that remain officially unreleased until this day. Two of the songs, "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out" and "Don't Be Shy," were prominently featured in the movie "Harold and Maude," but there was no soundtrack released, and the songs didn't get an official release until they were included on a greatest hits album in 1984. ![]() ![]() The stray tracks here aren't quite as solid as the four albums mentioned above, but they're pretty darn close, and contain some of his best songs, like "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out," and "I've Got a Thing about Seeing My Grandson Grow Old." If you like classic Cat Stevens music, you should have the songs on this album.Īside from the first two songs here, which were an obscure single, and the last two, which were B-sides, none of the songs on this album were released until many years after they were recorded. This album covers pretty much that exact same time period, 1969 to 1972. Sometimes a musician is in "the zone" when just about anything they did was excellent, and he was in the zone then. Those are the albums of his that have sold the most, by far. I like a lot of Cat Stevens' music, but my favorite era from him by far is 1970 to 1972, covering his "Mona Bone Jakon," "Tea for the Tillerman," "Teaser and the Firecat" and "Catch Bull at Four" albums. ![]()
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