Back to Earth

Cat Stevens - Back to Earth

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Artist: Cat Stevens
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:

Just Another Night
Daytime
Bad Brakes
Randy
The Artist
Last Love Song
Nascimento
Father
New York Times
Never

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Free Music Review: My All time favourite
Hit: 5 Stars

I think Back to Earth is his best album. It's definately my favourite. It has recaptuerd that simpleness and rawness that primed his Glory days of Teaser and the Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman and fused it to the beautifulness of albums like Buddha and the Chocolate box. Not that Tea and Teaser weren't beautiful, but they didn't have the cute sounds and very happy melodies of Izitso and Buddha. The arrangements aren't synthesiser laden but simple, just Piano [or synthesiser], strings, bass guitar and vocals. If you liked Sad LIsa and Silent Sunlight, this ones for you. But this arrangement has more "loveliness" to it than the Acoutic guitar. It's not really superior. THe acoustic guitar also shows it's head on "Just another night" and "Daytime" which are fan favourites that harken back. Songs like Daytime, Father, The Artist, last love song and Randy are vocal classical music. The melodies on these songs are exquisit. Checkout the piano fianle to The Artist. Randy must be one of the rawest love songs he's done, it doesn't seem to make sense or go anywhere but is full of feeling and atmosphere. It explores many styles from rock, classical and pop. Last love song is similar but is sadder. His piano playing reminds me of someone [beautiful woman perhaps?] slowly walking along a beach. The string section on Father is so beautiful and touching , along with the lyrics about his presumably deceased Father. Daytime is great poetry and has some fantastic orchestration. But hang on, Nasimento is a dreamy disco number btu still has some beauty to it. Bad Brakes is a bad boy blues number, reminds me of Billy Joel's Glass Houses with lyrics that could've been written by ZZ Top [actually written by Alun Davies and Cat]. New York times is like something from the Izitso album but with less experimentation. So there is good variety. Buy it and enjoy it, that is all I can say.

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