tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post1404289404499606499..comments2024-03-02T07:40:22.786+03:00Comments on Only Solitaire blog: Cat Stevens: New MastersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-12745266276305563092017-08-31T18:39:15.047+03:002017-08-31T18:39:15.047+03:00subject matter aside, "Here comes my wife&quo...subject matter aside, "Here comes my wife" sounds a LOT like the stuff Entwistle was writing for The Who around this time. Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05300481571797053823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-175337044044695842017-06-28T23:04:19.584+03:002017-06-28T23:04:19.584+03:00Yes there was a social conscience there already. ...Yes there was a social conscience there already. It would have been interesting if he stuck to the pop formula musically and been able to add depth and spirituality to more sugarcoated tones tho I doubt it would have worked. Dylan pulled it off on Blonde on Blonde. CloudSurferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00147823143388632564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-68187757845159694132017-06-28T22:23:17.976+03:002017-06-28T22:23:17.976+03:00First Cut is indeed the first great Cat Stevens so...First Cut is indeed the first great Cat Stevens song. I mean, it's about cutting, so it's important, right? But I agree, this is a classic example of the songwriter not being the right singer for his song.JimmADerbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13331334978761537408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-23707433538374520032017-06-28T18:51:12.757+03:002017-06-28T18:51:12.757+03:00Well, can't help but disagree about this one. ...Well, can't help but disagree about this one. Maybe I just like baroque pop more than I should but I just can't see any major difference (or drop) in quality between this and the first album and always considered you'd either have to enjoy or despise them altogether. Contrary to what you've said about "rose-coloured glasses" I treat this as a "Matthew & Son"'s murkier twin brother. He's already on a verge of insanity in the first track with "Blackness of the night" and "Image of hell" ensuing. <br />The interesting thing is, whether he would change his style if not for tuberculosis? This gives me the impression that he was already heading towards that way and the disease was only a catalyst.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-75954567747961148122017-06-28T15:55:27.215+03:002017-06-28T15:55:27.215+03:00Horses for courses I guess but I love this album. ...Horses for courses I guess but I love this album. I discovered it after getting into Tea for the Tillerman and found to my ears at least an almost endless feast of beautifully crafted pop/rock showcasing the shallow splendour of the art form, many of the songs comprised of timeless melodies flowing seamlessly into one another. Or am I getting carried away here? Even the lyrics are imaginatively inventive, if child-like, as though lifted from a Harry Potter dreamscape. <br /><br />From my own reading of the history there was hardly any promotion of the album due to Stevens' rebellion against his record label. Perhaps the relative shallowness and hit obsesselion got to him and accounts for his illness. Still he was to come back with his melodic powers fully in tact and a spiritual persona which was itself another staging post to his final destination. Pop's loss was Folk's gain. CloudSurferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00147823143388632564noreply@blogger.com