Dirk Star
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Posted: May 03 2008, 10:33 |
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[quote=Bassman,May 01 2008, 02:22][/quote]
| Quote | | So puzzling that he would eventually involve himself in such controversy. Peace Train, huh? |
Just as well he never decided to do an updated version of "I`m Gonna` Get Me A Gun."..In all reality I`m sure Cat/Yusef is very embarrassed by that song now though.A lot of his early songs both from his pop and second folkier period display an awful lot of naiveity at times.Which is then kind of amazingly compounded by the depth of maturity displayed in songs like The First Cut Is The Deepest(teenage pop star Cat) And Father & Son (foky singer songwriter Cat) It was a whole different age back in those days I guess?That said if somebody like The Beatles had put out I`m Gonna` Get Me A Gun,they would`ve been burning those rekkids by the truckload.
The wikipedia link for Cat puts to rest a few of those controversies that sometimes surround him though imo.I`m not a religous man in any way shape or form,but I`ve always had a lot of time for the bloke myself.The same goes for some of the more religously themed tracks from George Harrison`s solo back catalogue as well I suppose.It`s a strange one really as I know of a lot of people who are probablly put off their music because of that one sole reason to a certain extent.And yet the very same people are more than happy to listen to abstracts for drug dependency and the "price of fame" like it`s something they can identify with?I don`t know maybe I`m generalising too much here?But it sometimes seems to me that any artist who starts to display a sense of positivity and self fullfilment in their work is then immediatley written off in some quaters.
That said from a personal point of view I could probably do with hearing a little more darkness and negativity in his work sometimes.Which is probably partly why I liked those earlier albums of his the most,when he was still trying to find himself a little bit.
Oh yeah and the opening Vocal for Matthew & Son is absolutely drenched in reverb.It always makes me laugh a little bit actually,as it gets pretty close to Bonzo Dog`s Canyons Of Your Mind reverb piss take.Maybe that`s why he decided to leave that effect completely in the off position for future recordings?
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up the NWO (joke btw) 
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His 'new' cd is very good.I love Cat Stevens.My dad played Tea For The Tillerman loads in the late 70's/early 80's.Can't see where the comparison for Moonshadow and Moonlight Shadow comes from though mate.
