Shrink-wrapped Remastered Classic feat "Father & Son","Wild World","Where Do The Children Play" Cat Stevens tends to be lumped in with the early-'70s singer-songwriter school led by James Taylor and Carole King, but he actually fits in rather neatly with such wistful English contemporaries as Nick Drake, Syd Barrett, and Donovan. Tea for the Tillerman's "Wild World," "Into White," and "Longer Boats" indicate that he may have been a more gifted tunesmith than the lot of them. As with the best of the Brit folk-rockers, Stevens mixed melancholy with whimsy. Yes, he was prone to airy platitudes, but when he harnessed his eccentricities, as he did throughout this 1970 masterwork, you had something truly distinctive. A natural cult artist, à la Tim Buckley and Leonard Cohen, Stevens connected with record-buyers to the tune of 25 million units sold before he changed his name to Yusuf Islam, established an Islamic school, and raised a ruckus by supporting Ayatollah Khomeini's death decree against author Salman Rushdie. This remastered 2000 version of the 1970 recording, which was overseen by the artist, is a vast improvement over the earlier CD reissue. --Steve Stolder
While the pressing is excellent the sonics are disappointing. It's not that it sounds bad, but other versions are better. The vocals are recessed and the guitars have less presence.....the overall sound is more subdued. The original U.S. and U.K. versions are more dynamic and forceful. If you want a high quality audiophile version I would recommend the Analogue Productions over this.
Just listened to my LP again after getting a new player and I am blown away with the quality of this album. With so much scratches on the LP, I had to download the streaming version from Amazon Prime (thank you Amazon). Almost every song is good with cohesive and smooth transition from one song to the next and it just floored me that I haven't heard a quality album by a newer artist (with maybe Adele's 21 being an exception) that compares to this. No matter what na..
My fault. I should have checked more carefully. It is stereo even though it is SACD. It is two channel and not multi-channel. It is a fine album, don't get me wrong. I was just disappointed that I was not more discerning.
Since the 70's when this album was first written, I have loved this album. I love every track, especially "Sad Lisa", and "Everything into white". This album shows the real genius of Cat Stevens, as he was in The Day. Tea for the Tillerman will always be one of my favorite albums, right up there with my love for the Beatles.Briefly, I do not think of the Cat Stevens now but of earlier days when he not exited off a plane and has not entry to certain countries.I lost..
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