Cat Stevens - Greatest Hits

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Cat Stevens - Greatest Hits
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Artist: Cat Stevens
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-09-26
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
  1. Wild World
  2. Oh Very Young
  3. Can't Keep It In
  4. Hard Headed Woman
  5. Moonshadow
  6. Two Fine People
  7. Peace Train
  8. Ready
  9. Father & Son
  10. Sitting
  11. Morning Has Broken
  12. Another Saturday Night

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Music Review: All aboard the Peace Train
Rating: 4 Stars

During the seventies, a young man with a deft knack for beautiful melody and a questing for spiritual focus wrote songs like "Peace Train," "Moon Shadow," "Wild World" and one of the most uplifting songs of all time, "Morning Has Broken." Cat Stevens had the voice, the musicianship and the earnestness to capture the hearts of listeners for the better part of a decade. His message was so universal that his biggest hits crossed radio boundaries and international borders. All Stevens' best known American hits are collected here, although you may find yourself drawn to 2000's "The Very Best Of Cat Stevens" set, which boasts 20 songs to this CD's twelve. Main selling points here, the songs "Two Fine People" was done specifically for this album, and "Ready," a non-hit from "Buddha and The Chocolate Box."

It was a bout with TB that brought Stevens into focus and transformed his style. As a teenage pop singer, he was coming across as a Mccartney clone or even like a Bee Gee. But once he recovered from his illness, the music became based more on guitar and piano melodies and the lyrics tried to convey more spiritual messages. "Teaser and The Firecat" and "Tea For The Tillerman" were the American breakthroughs; with the unforgettable "Peace Train" and "Wild World," and Stevens' had become a star.

That star life began to nag him with doubts, which led to more introspection. "Oh Very Young," asks how you would feel about your life if you knew you would be gone tomorrow. It led to such songs as a remake of "Another Saturday Night" and (though not included here) "Remember The Days Of The Old Schoolyard." Finally, in 1977 and his discovery of the Muslim faith, he pulled the plug.

This "Greatest Hits" captures not only the innocence of Stevens' quest, but also his transformation. If you have followed his post Cat life as Yusef Islam deeper than the headlines, you know that he has tithed is earnings to charities (primarily to children and orphans' groups, including UNICEF). He's also spoken out and written editorials condemning fanatical terrorist actions, writing after 9/11 "No right-thinking follower of Islam could possibly condone such an action. The Quran equates the murder of one innocent person with the murder of the whole of humanity." (He also donates a portion of his box-set royalties to 9/11 family charity groups.) But as recent events have proven again, people of peace are considered dangerous if powerful men don't like the words. Stevens joins such men as John Lennon, Bruce Cockburn and The Clash as musicians who found themselves on the wrong side of policy makers and Visa Checkers.

I pulled my old CD of this album out not just because I remember this music with a lot of fondness, but because it sends a message (albeit as small one): we're not all idiots.
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Before Cat Stevens changed his name to Yusef Islam, he had a slew of hits built around his soft, yet sometimes coarse, vocals. Stevens utilized a variety of instrumentation and rhythms in his predominantly acoustic arrangements, and songs like "Peace Train," and "Another Saturday Night" had a multi-cultural feel to them. Greatest Hits provides a decent overview of his more popular work, including the poignant "Oh Very Young" and "Father & Son." Unfortunately, the delightful yet brief "Tea for the Tillerman" is not present. The lovely "Morning Has Broken" has elements of Stevens's growing concern with religion, philosophy, and the relationship between the cerebral and the spiritual. In the early 1980s, Stevens, now Yusef, "retired" from the music profession because of his new beliefs. --Steve Gdula

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