Al Stewart - Year of The Cat...C/D?

Oof, my bad. He's actually a Scotsman.

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 UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckthyI3UQbI

here he is in 2014 -- he still sounds good imo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMZ9gEPgI9o

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/

had no idea how deep this dude's catalog is. been listening on spotify all afternoon.

i saw al stewart live last year, he's wonderful

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.

this dude Dave Nachmanoff

that dude is extremely endearingly lame

oh wait lol i am definitely thinking of someone else

(sorry dave if you googled yourself)

xp are you sure? endearingly lame is super otm.

(also sorry dave)

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

Uh, who are musicians from the UK who later relocated to California?

Artists with animals in the title of their biggest hit?

Artists filed under "A" by record store clerks of less than average intelligence?

An Al Stewart listening thread might be esoteric but could also be fun someday.

i recommend just listening to 'apple cider reconstitution' 1000 times like i have

I love that song

Artists with animals in the title of their biggest hit?

― pplains, Sunday, August 6, 2017 8:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

i think we have a winner

there are a surprising number of these oldies tours in 2017

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.

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?

Ha! Totally hear that.

for some reason he also reminded me of this guy and this song (tom newman- sad sing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYMWPD51XKE

Tennant got many Al Stewart comparisons in 1986, not always flatteringly.

i recommend just listening to 'apple cider reconstitution' 1000 times like i have

― ciderpress, Sunday, August 6, 2017 11:18 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love that song

― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Monday, August 7, 2017 7:30 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, if you could only save on Al Stewart song in a fire, that's the one.

I might go for "In Brooklyn"

heard this song this morning while getting my coffee in London, always a good way to begin a morning.

Oof, my bad. He's actually a Scotsman.

Grew up in England, hence the accent.

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.

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.

Thought the revive would be about the reissue box set that has just come out, remastered by Alan Parsons, 5.1 mix etc.

They're not gonna release a remastered vinyl, really?

There must be millions of copies of this LP lying about neglected, do consumers really care that much about remastering?

also the original sounds perfect tbh

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?

Does anyone else mainly remember Time Passages from when HBO used to play the video to fill up time between movies?

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?)

no it's CD only xposts

Love this song. Neil Tennant should cover it.

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.

Anyone seen Al recently? Wonder if he's still got it or no. The man is 78!

“Year of the Cat” surfaces at a key moment in The Shards, the Bret Easton Ellis novel from earlier this year.

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.

he played at the venue attached to my workplace within the last year but i did not catch his performance unfortunately

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 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.

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?

Time Passages

which is kind of the same song but you know