Gold

Cat Stevens

Genre: music4me > Pop > Pop

Format: 2 CD

Released: Mon 17 Mar 2008

Catalogue Number: 9832823

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Description:
Personnel include: Cat Stevens (vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion); Alun Davies (guitar); Peter Gabriel (flute); Rick Wakeman (piano); Herbie Flowers (bass guitar); Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (drums); Harvey Burns (percussion); Art Garfunkel (background vocals).
The man who was born Steven Demetre Georgiou and would become Yusuf Islam, Cat Stevens enjoyed success with numerous singles in the late 1960s and early '70s, before converting to Islam and turning his back on secular pop in the late '70s. Though Stevens's music often gets overshadowed by his religious beliefs, the British singer/songwriter penned an impressive string of highly melodic folk-rock tunes, a point driven home by this excellent 2005 retrospective.
Arranged in chronological order, the collection moves from Stevens's early work that marked him as an icon of London's Swinging '60s (the deceptively jubilant "Here Comes My Baby" and the oft-covered rock number "The First Cut Is the Deepest") to his early-'70s heyday (the effortlessly catchy "Wild World" and the lilting "Moonshadow"). Of particular note are "Don't Be Shy" and "If You Want to Sing Out Sing Out," two wonderfully uplifting songs featured prominently in the quirky, much-loved dark comedy HAROLD & MAUDE. Although Stevens's post-'71 output isn't quite up to par with earlier efforts, GOLD gathers the standout tunes from this era, and even adds "Indian Ocean," a thoughtful pop-tinged track, featuring admirer Ed Harcourt on Wurlitzer, that was recorded to benefit the survivors of the 2004 Asian tsunami.

Details:

Discs: 2

Track Listing:

Disk 1
1.	Matthew & Son
2.	Here Comes My Baby
3.	The First Cut Is the Deepest
4.	Lady d'Arbanville
5.	Trouble
6.	Where Do the Children Play?
7.	Hard Headed Woman
8.	Wild World
9.	Sad Lisa
10.	Father and Son
11.	Don't Be Shy
12.	If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out
13.	The Wind
14.	Moonshadow
15.	Morning Has Broken
16.	Bitterblue
17.	Peace Train
Disk 2
1.	Sitting
2.	Silent Sunlight
3.	Angelsea
4.	Can't Keep It In
5.	18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)
6.	The Hurt
7.	Foreigner Suite
8.	Oh Very Young
9.	King of Trees
10.	Another Saturday Night
11.	Drywood
12.	(Remember the Days of The) Old Schoolyard
13.	(I Never Wanted) To Be a Star
14.	Last Love Song
15.	Indian Ocean