Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
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Free Music Review: Cat Stevens at his best
Hit: 5 Stars
If I had to choose one of Cat Stevens' albums, this would be it. I prefer the mostly acoustic, piano and percussion emphasis in this one. Whereas some of his later musical ventures lacked the depth of character and sound space that these songs provided to listeners. I first hear Cat Steven's voice as the soundtrack to the film Harold and Maude - one of my all-time favorites. Once I heard his voice, I was hooked. I looked for a soundtrack, but at the time it was not available,. Now I think there is one out. The songs from that film are still my favorite of his works. Amongst them, Wild World stands out. My favorite songs from Harold and Maudeare If you want to Sing Out, Sing Out, and Trouble, which can now be found on the soundtrack to the film. Does anyone know where to get a copy of the soundtrack these days? If not, pick up Tea for the Tillerman and one of his greatest hits CDs.Free Music Review: Essential music for this baby boomer
Hit: 5 Stars
I consider Tea for the Tillerman "desert island" music, as in survival music. I have to admit that I tend to hear "Mona Bone Jakon" through "Catch Bull At Four" as a continuum in my mind and heart, but this is not to diminish "Tea," which was my opened window into Cat Stevens's 70s journey. To this day, any one of these songs can stop me in my tracks. "Father and Son," "Hard Headed Woman" and "On the Road to Find Out" are tragic, spiritual, joyous all at once. You will see.
Regardless of what followed for Cat, this is music that shaped my soul and will always be a part of who I am. I still have the vinyl of all those albums! I cherish them like heirlooms to pass down to my family as part of my heritage. Maudlin? Not if you were there in the 70s, in love or in touch. Even if you weren't, you'll find much sensitivity, insight and genius here. Wholly recommended with all my heart.
Free Music Review: Perry
Hit: 5 Stars
There are many great albums I own from the sixties and seventies. This is the only one that I totally wore the grooves off and had to buy the CD . . . so far. Not all at once but slowly over the years I wore it down. Truly, there's not a bad song on it. People only tend to argue about which they like best. It's too bad it didn't make VH1's top 100. I agree with the positive reviews above except I would recommend this over any greatest hits even as a starter. Cat Stevens albums are indivisible. As a song writer and introspective lyricist Cat is in rare company. I honestly believe people buying it now will enjoy hearing it again twenty years from now; I have seen it bring tears to people reading the words for the first time. Cat Stevens introduced a zen quality to music that has yet to be duplicate. I give it my highest recommendation. If you enjoy it half as much as I do it will rank among your favorites forever.Free Music Review: Just a lovely piece of work.
Hit: 5 Stars
I hadn't listened to this since probably 1977 or so, back when the vinyl record was all there was. On a whim I got the CD version from an Amazon affiliate reseller. (As a result I am not sure whether I got the remastered version from 2008 or an older one. I have just listened to it on the car system and it didn't sound very bright in the high frequencies...)
If it's been "too long" since you heard this front-to-back, I think you should do yourself a favor. Revel in songs with actual melodies and whose lyrics are about something.
The songs I remembered as favorites sound great, and there are a couple gems in there that I hadn't noticed the first time around, these 33 years since; I think the Tea For The Tillerman album has aged better than I have. :-)
Many of the reviewers have already covered the songs and their meaning beautifully. I'm just sorry I waited so long to rediscover this.
Free Music Review: WELCOME BACK CAT
Hit: 5 Stars
It's heartening to see Yusuf Islam again taking an interest in Cat Stevens. Islam must realize just how much albums like this and TEASER AND THE FIRECAT, CATCH BULL AT FOUR, et. al. mean to so many of us. He has supervised the digital remastering of this wonderful music, and the result is crystal-clear sound that highlights the sensitive acoustic arrangements of his beautiful compositions. Indeed, this is an album first and foremost of amazing songs. The single "Wild World" (a pleasant enough ditty akin to Stevens' pre-stardom tunes like "Here Comes My Baby" and "The First Cut Is The Deepest) is in fact one of the album's weaker cuts, paling in comparison todeeply-felt personal anthems like "Miles From Nowhere" and "On the Road to Find Out", or the gently poetic protestations of "Where Do the Children Play?" and the deeply moving "Father and Son".