Pyro wrote:

Maybe you should just scroll down to your previous comments

I've always thought his voice had an annoyingly shrill quality to it. This song doesn't change that opinion.

I'm kicking myself for not going to a little benefit that he did in the neightborhood, for a library IIRC. Small, personal venue - reasonable cost.

I thought that it might be interesting. Now I realize I was/am just plain stupid and lazy.

I've literally never heard this...and I like it. Definitively AS, yet different. Nice violin!

Baby_M wrote:

Here's one
All those rock and roll heroes you spend your time around,
You may think your one of them but you a hundred thousand down,
You walk like Greta Garbo
But you talk like Yogi Bear,

I have been trying to Find "Modern Times" on CD.

callum wrote:
I caught that too. I didn't decide to register a comment until I heard it

Nice to hear Al Stewart now and then!

Chunnamark wrote:You'll just have to get use to it, like the taste of beer!

oo - time to bop around the room, thank you AS! and what nice strings soaring in the background.

Saw him at a show in Tahoe (brother's wedding-@ 84). Small room, sat right in front after entering 1/2 way through set. Not my type of music-dont even own an AS album/CD.... but still happens to be one of the best concerts I've ever seen.

The solos seem to have a consistency across his stuff, is that him playing them?

I'm glad I heard this song only because now I know where one of my favorite phrases came from!!!

Otherwise a 3. Never liked AS.

4999thnewuser wrote:

You play the game well
You've got the knack
Your hand in the till
And the knife in the back

This man can write lyrics.

rulebritannia wrote:

Well, don't hate him, but find him intensely uninteresting ....

Thank you thank you thank you

I've got to get this last album of his. Great to hear more Al Stewart on RP. Anyone got the lyrics to this song?

Nice to hear a little Al Stewart in the mix. Its too bad most people know him by Year of the Cat, some of his lesser known songs are more enjoyable because of the lack of overplay.

rulebritannia wrote:
Heaven can't help you.

Pyro wrote:


He is isn't he??....Well he always was

8)

I can kinda here undertones of the Bond them music in the intro/links. Its prett good though.

overblown, overwrought but sadly not over...


(Re Bobs your etc. Derivation relates to the appointment in 1887 of Arthur Balfour as Chief Secretary for Ireland by the then Prime Minister Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury, who happened to be Balfour's uncle. This obvious act of nepotism was decried by many. The saying then went You ask for the job - he remembers your name - and 'Bob's your uncle!'.

Heaven rulez. I love AS. And indeed hearing something besides the standard YotC is great. Thanks!

This guy continue to create great music. Too bad no one plays anything but "Year of The Cat"!

Pyro wrote:

If you'll allow me to answer, it means "there you have it - problem solved".

this song sucks really bad.

Hey, rule! Can you explain to me the (I assume British) expression, "Bob's your (yer) Uncle"?

Nice to hear something besides "Year of the Cat".

Heaven help me, I hate AS.