here's what i don't know -- is there some connection between Al Stewart and the band America?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 6 August 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
Al Stewart is English, which wouldn't necessarily preclude him from being somehow associate with America, but, no, I don't think they have any sort of history with each other.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 6 August 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
Oof, my bad. He's actually a Scotsman.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 6 August 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
he sounds kinda like robyn hitchcock
even if i watched this on mute i would have bet for sure he was from somewhere in the UKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckthyI3UQbI
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 6 August 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
here he is in 2014 -- he still sounds good imo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMZ9gEPgI9o
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 6 August 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link
I know what you mean, niels i.e. Lennon's voice. It's the aspect that makes you want to stick out your chin a little if you try an impersonation.hehe, exactly
America and Al Stewart have the soft rock FM radio thing in common?
he's also playing the... Moody Blues Cruise aka Moodies Cruise http://moodiescruise.com/
― niels, Sunday, 6 August 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link
had no idea how deep this dude's catalog is. been listening on spotify all afternoon.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Sunday, 6 August 2017 21:43 (seven years ago) link
i saw al stewart live last year, he's wonderful
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 6 August 2017 23:27 (seven years ago) link
Every time I've seen him he has been great, but it's almost always in a duo with this dude Dave Nachmanoff who probably Googles himself so I won't say anything else about him. He's been sporadically getting together with a backing band called The Empty Pockets and playing Year of the Cat in its entirety. I just found out last night that they're finally coming within driving distance in October, so I'm extremely excited for that.
― cwkiii, Sunday, 6 August 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
this dude Dave Nachmanoff
that dude is extremely endearingly lame
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 6 August 2017 23:41 (seven years ago) link
oh wait lol i am definitely thinking of someone else
(sorry dave if you googled yourself)
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 6 August 2017 23:42 (seven years ago) link
xp are you sure? endearingly lame is super otm.
― cwkiii, Monday, 7 August 2017 00:03 (seven years ago) link
(also sorry dave)
― cwkiii, Monday, 7 August 2017 00:04 (seven years ago) link
someone praised him in the comments to the 2014 video! called him "fabulous"
America and Al Stewart have the soft rock FM radio thing in common?i already know this, wondered if there was something else i was missing
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 7 August 2017 01:36 (seven years ago) link
Uh, who are musicians from the UK who later relocated to California?
― doug watson, Monday, 7 August 2017 01:44 (seven years ago) link
Artists with animals in the title of their biggest hit?
― pplains, Monday, 7 August 2017 01:46 (seven years ago) link
Artists filed under "A" by record store clerks of less than average intelligence?
― doug watson, Monday, 7 August 2017 01:52 (seven years ago) link
An Al Stewart listening thread might be esoteric but could also be fun someday.
― Eazy, Monday, 7 August 2017 03:02 (seven years ago) link
i recommend just listening to 'apple cider reconstitution' 1000 times like i have
― ciderpress, Monday, 7 August 2017 03:18 (seven years ago) link
I love that song
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Monday, 7 August 2017 11:30 (seven years ago) link
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i think we have a winner
there are a surprising number of these oldies tours in 2017
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 7 August 2017 12:41 (seven years ago) link
Btw LL I never thought about a voice timbre kinship between Stewart and robyn but there is something there. They are both double reeds but RH has more croak; if Al is an oboe robyn is a cor anglais
The big resemblance for me is al stewart/singer from pet shop boys. When west end girls first came out I was like wait what is happening?
Also I had completely forgotten about the al Stewart single Midnight Rocks even though, as a denizen of the K-Tel album Full Tilt, I must have listened to it a hundred times. Great verse melody.
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Monday, 7 August 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link
Ha! Totally hear that.
― pplains, Monday, 7 August 2017 13:36 (seven years ago) link
for some reason he also reminded me of this guy and this song (tom newman- sad sing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYMWPD51XKE
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 7 August 2017 13:59 (seven years ago) link
Tennant got many Al Stewart comparisons in 1986, not always flatteringly.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 August 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
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Yes, if you could only save on Al Stewart song in a fire, that's the one.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
I might go for "In Brooklyn"
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link
heard this song this morning while getting my coffee in London, always a good way to begin a morning.
― akm, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 11:19 (seven years ago) link
Grew up in England, hence the accent.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 11:52 (seven years ago) link
But, yes, Bert Jansch, Donovan, John Martyn, Al Stewart, there was a lot of them bumping around in Soho coffee houses at the same time.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
Just found this, feel like I've been looking for this album for years without knowing it. I just walked into an apartment in North Beach in 1982 with a bunch of hanging plants, a Ganesha on the end table, smoking a gentle spliff and laughing about our plans to start a cult focused on good sushi and regular naps.
― lukas, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
Thought the revive would be about the reissue box set that has just come out, remastered by Alan Parsons, 5.1 mix etc.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
They're not gonna release a remastered vinyl, really?
― lukas, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
There must be millions of copies of this LP lying about neglected, do consumers really care that much about remastering?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 1 April 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
also the original sounds perfect tbh
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 1 April 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
This may not be the thread in which to pose this question, but am I the only one who loves the songs "Year of the Cat" and "Time Passages", but finds his albums full of well-crafted banality?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 1 April 2021 00:24 (three years ago) link
Does anyone else mainly remember Time Passages from when HBO used to play the video to fill up time between movies?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 1 April 2021 00:27 (three years ago) link
xxp I love those songs too, and "Song On The Radio", but can't stand it when he gets all Lord Grenville
xp I do recall those Video Jukebox interludes. Chaz Jankel's "Questionnaire" was in pretty heavy rotation. (Didn't Showtime fill the movie segues with Aerobicise, aka soft-core porn masquerading as "exercise" clips?)
― henry s, Thursday, 1 April 2021 00:45 (three years ago) link
no it's CD only xposts
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 1 April 2021 05:09 (three years ago) link
Love this song. Neil Tennant should cover it.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
Just watched the Old Grey Whistle Test video of this, and was struck by how the guitar solo (clean) segues into a different guitar solo (distorted). And then that segues into a sax solo.
Classic.
― enochroot, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 01:14 (three years ago) link
Anyone seen Al recently? Wonder if he's still got it or no. The man is 78!
― alpine static, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 07:53 (one year ago) link
“Year of the Cat” surfaces at a key moment in The Shards, the Bret Easton Ellis novel from earlier this year.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 11:00 (one year ago) link
I was going to say that I’d seen him recently but after checking I realise it was way back in 2015. Eight years ago he was still worth seeing if that helps.
― AlanSmithee, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
he played at the venue attached to my workplace within the last year but i did not catch his performance unfortunately
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
He did this extremely comprehensive 50 CD BOX SET a few years ago, and my first question was "why? who is this for? Al and his family? Who in the world needs 50 CDs of Al Stewart?" The answer is probably not many, because it's reguarly onsale on Amazon for quite a bit less than original price. But I also admire him for having the guts to do it, and I guess if you're one of the select few who needs all of this material, there it is.
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/al-stewart-the-admiralty-lights-complete-studio-live-and-rare-1964-2009/
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 21:19 (one year ago) link
i mean if nothing else, you do get "Year of the Cat print individually SIGNED by Colin Elgie" along with it
Yeah I'm a Stewart fanatic but even I baulked at that box set.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 21:27 (one year ago) link
Only went to number 31 in the UK charts, just HOW did this song become so well known??
What’s his best song that isn’t Year of the Cat?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 22:18 (one year ago) link