hallogallo
(Raleigh, NC) | | Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 18:11 | |
The entire album is a true masterpiece, start to finish.
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ScottN
(Condo in Gaza needs remodeling. Still, I Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | | Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 18:10 | |
I relish the memory of seeing him at the height of his Cat Stevens fame in a small venue. He and and an accompanying guitarist. It was wonderful.
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grant
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Great music like this is timeless.
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tonypf
(Honolulu) | | Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 18:08 | |
schayler wrote:I used to listen to this song on a loop, knowing I needed to come out to my dad, but not knowing how. I always felt Stevens was speaking directly to me when he sung this, especially, "All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside. It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it." Now "old," and out, I am indeed happy.
Never heard this song on RP before. Stopped me in my tracks.
Blessings to you. |
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kencav
(New Jersey) | | Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 15:57 | |
Hundreds of listens later, I still get chills listening to this song. As a son who lost his father at a young age and now as a father to sons it expresses that relationship spiritually.
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scrubbrush
(All lost in the supermarket) | | Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 15:48 | |
schayler wrote:I used to listen to this song on a loop, knowing I needed to come out to my dad, but not knowing how. I always felt Stevens was speaking directly to me when he sung this, especially, "All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside. It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it." Now "old," and out, I am indeed happy.
Never heard this song on RP before. Stopped me in my tracks. Wonderful story. |
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schayler
(Denver) | | Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 04:59 | |
I used to listen to this song on a loop, knowing I needed to come out to my dad, but not knowing how. I always felt Stevens was speaking directly to me when he sung this, especially, "All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside. It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it." Now "old," and out, I am indeed happy.
Never heard this song on RP before. Stopped me in my tracks.
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unclehud
(now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | | Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 21:48 | |
Forty years ago, one of the strongest lines in this tune said: "Look at me; I am old, but I'm happy."
That line was like a lightning bolt then, just as it was fifteen minutes ago: the highest goal of a human life.
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SanFranGayMan
(San Francisco) | | Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 20:48 | |
A timeless, generational spanding song. So wistful, heartfelt. We've all been there, but few able to put it as loving as Cat did.
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linzie
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This s—— is that good, but it brings me too far back!!!!!!
...guitar class in high school, can't remember teachers name, but I can see him jumping all over the room
making sure we got these chords right!!
Telling us how the son is singing back to his father.....
...I'm getting old....
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tkosh
(Minnesota) | | Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 20:45 | |
Thank God they caught this guy at the airport. What a beautiful song.
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scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA) | | Posted: Oct 01, 2012 - 11:05 | |
Dear PSD, thank you for taking me to this wonderful treasure to mine ear.
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garyalex
(NYC) | | Posted: Sep 22, 2012 - 08:09 | |
bachbeet wrote:The fact that Cat lost his way and turned to Islam does not diminish this song in the least for me. I just wish he had kept putting out songs instead of basically turning his back on the art. "Lost his way"? I expect he'd say he'd found his way. Still, I also wish he'd kept making music like this. |
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coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | | Posted: Jul 21, 2012 - 10:32 | |
This man held the world within his larynx for some rather idyllic and innocent years of my childhood; how lucky I was to have this (and Donovan and Carole King had that vibrato thing going then too) in the background of so much accelerated change...and thanks RP for keeping the connections alive and pulsing!
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rdo
(DC) | | Posted: Jul 21, 2012 - 10:29 | |
Love this song. My mom played this around the house when I was a kid. Sunday mornings she would always turn on the record player to something like this.
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bachbeet
| | Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 22:40 | |
The fact that Cat lost his way and turned to Islam does not diminish this song in the least for me. I just wish he had kept putting out songs instead of basically turning his back on the art.
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philipr
(France) | | Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 10:06 | |
Cat, your music brought us higher than the sky, sometime near godfather ; Why di you leave us so soon ?
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donnyballgame
(41*53'36.29N 87*38'20.43W) | | Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 10:04 | |
floydginger wrote:Makes me want to go and get my 12 year old son out of school and take him to the beach where he can enjoy his youth and I can enjoy him. Do it man. You won't regret it. |
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ubuntourist
(Brain-Washington) | | Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 09:59 | |
For a thematic pairing, "Dialogue Part 1 & 2" by Chicago...
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floydginger
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Makes me want to go and get my 12 year old son out of school and take him to the beach where he can enjoy his youth and I can enjoy him. |
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d-don
(Oregon) | | Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 09:53 | |
Geecheeboy wrote:When I was a teenager I thought he was singing about me and my father. Now, as a grandfather, older than my own father ever lived to be, it sounds much different. I wish I could talk to the "old man" now. Great sentiment. I hear you all the way. |
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ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX) | | Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 09:53 | |
alanthecowboy wrote:
WOW! Hoping I wasn't the only one who thought Cat was ripping off the FLips...
Yeah... no, it's the other way around. :( |
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juanos
(Somewhere between the US and Guatemala) | | Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 23:27 | |
what a great song!!! brings back so many good old memories!
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dsd
(PDX) | | Posted: Jan 13, 2012 - 05:12 | |
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Lumpy13
| | Posted: Dec 12, 2011 - 10:45 | |
"See the World
Find an old fashioned girl . . ."
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luca77
(Melbourne,Australia) | | Posted: Nov 10, 2011 - 18:36 | |
dresher_lite wrote:Wore out the grooves on this album. My first intro to really good music when I was just 11 or 12. His work of music goes beyond Tea for the Tillerman and anyone who listens to his classics knows that he is one for the ages. Just dosn't get old. I remember I had Catch Bull at Four on 8 track! It looped around and around while I was getting loopy cruising my old delta 88. Ah, the music of my youth.  Lol I was just about to write how I wore a hole in this album when I was a kid... I never got into much else he did, but who cares - great, great record. |
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dresher_lite
| | Posted: Nov 10, 2011 - 17:49 | |
Wore out the grooves on this album. My first intro to really good music when I was just 11 or 12. His work of music goes beyond Tea for the Tillerman and anyone who listens to his classics knows that he is one for the ages. Just dosn't get old. I remember I had Catch Bull at Four on 8 track! It looped around and around while I was getting loopy cruising my old delta 88. Ah, the music of my youth. |
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alanthecowboy
(Lakefield) | | Posted: Nov 10, 2011 - 17:41 | |
ziggytrix wrote:THE TEST IS OVER - NOW
WOW! Hoping I wasn't the only one who thought Cat was ripping off the FLips... |
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calypsus_1
| | Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 18:49 | |
It is worth recalling here that after the lapse of more than 45 years after the entry of Singer-songwriter Cat Stevens on the music scene, then 18 y old, and despite all the hardships and hiatus that across Stevens life , it remains one of the most listened artists, most wanted, and most popular of Planet Earth. His charisma, attitude, humility, aesthetic sense, super-magnificent melodies, their lyrics expressing deep feelings, his unique voice, finds an echo in people. Is a inspiration for new generations of musicians. It's not that there are so many human beings who pass through a lifetime and be worthy to continue to deserve the admiration and support of audiences around the world. Their songs persist.
Notable instruments: Baldwin Piano, Epiphone Casino, Epiphone EJ-200, Fender Rhodes, Fender Telecaster, Gibson Everly Brothers, Flattop, Gibson ES-335, Gibson J-200, Hagstrom BJ12, Ovation electro-acoustic Guitar.
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ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX) | | Posted: Aug 08, 2011 - 09:21 | |
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