Tea for the Tillerman [Deluxe Edition]

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman [Deluxe Edition]

Tea for the Tillerman [Deluxe Edition]
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Artist: Cat Stevens
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-11-04
Music Label: A&M Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Where Do the Children Play?
  2. Hard Headed Woman
  3. Wild World
  4. Sad Lisa
  5. Miles from Nowhere
  6. But I Might Die Tonight
  7. Longer Boats
  8. Into White
  9. On the Road to Find Out
  10. Father and Son
  11. Tea for the Tillerman
Music CD 2
  1. Wild World / Demo Version
  2. Longer Boats / Live at the Troubadour
  3. Into White / Live at the Troubadour
  4. Miles from Nowhere / Demo Version
  5. Hard Headed Woman / Live in Japan
  6. Where Do the Children Play? / From the Majikat Earth Tour
  7. Sad Lisa / From the Majikat Earth Tour
  8. On the Road to Find Out / Live at Kcet-TV
  9. Father and Son / From Yusuf's Café
  10. Wild World / From Yusuf's Café
  11. Tea for the Tillerman / Live at the BBC

Music reviews of Tea for the Tillerman [Deluxe Edition]

Music Review: ...NOT NEW - NOT IMPROVED...AVOID...
Rating: 2 Stars

When you put a CD-Album or CD-R into a Mac or PC linked to the Net, it automatically seeks out the Gracenote Media Database to get the track list and classification details. If you've already altered it before and are looking at it again - your computer recognizes the disc and any alterations you made - it remembers it - and shows you those details next time you put it in. Common practice all over the world for millions of music lovers using iTunes as a database...

So imagine my astonishment when I put in the 2008 supposedly new remaster of Cat Stevens' "Tea For A Tillerman" into my computer after I've unwrapped the shrink-wrap and up comes my OLD DISC with its altered details! Why? Because this is NOT an improved version as indicated on its packaging and in adverts, but the 2000 version all of us already have. The tracks timings are exactly the same (36:46 minutes) and there is NO NEW REMASTER.

And if that's not bad news enough - when I opened the other Cat Stevens DELUXE EDITION "Teaser And The Firecat" which I also bought this morning - it's NOT CHANGED EITHER. They are exactly the same as the old versions - NEITHER is any improvement to discs you can purchase on line for peanuts.

When I then turn to the packaging and booklet to find an explanation, there are three references to 'remaster' - first is on the sticker, second is Page 7 of the booklet which tells you it was 'recently' remastered by Ted Jensen (no date) and last on Page 27 which again mentions his name (but again no date). It slyly and deliberately doesn't mention "when" it was done...in short, this is an old disc masquerading as a new one and is deliberately deceptive about it.

But there's worse - I bought this DELUXE EDITION of Tillerman on the strength of a track on the recent 3CD Island Folk-Rock Box set "Meet On The Ledge". Track 2 on Disc 2 is Tillerman's "On The Road To Find Out" which has been given a 2009 remaster by DENIS BLACKHAM - and the sound is ASTONISHING - a huge improvement over the 2000 version. When you hear how good this 'whole' album could have sounded, it makes this deceptive lazy rip-off even more difficult to stomach.

Disc 2 doesn't make up for much either (36:49 minutes). While the bonus tracks on "Teaser" (see separate review) are excellent, these aren't. Admittedly there is two indispensable gems on here for fans - the demo versions of "Wild World" and "Miles from Nowhere" - they're beautiful. But the rest of the live tracks are poor man's filler. Any why weren't these demos put on the initial release in 2000 in the first place...

I don't know to what level Yusef was involved in this, but it is surely not in keeping with his beliefs or commitment to his fans to have this rip-off in the marketplace. The DELUXE EDITIONS of "Tillerman" and its companion "Teaser" should be withdrawn by UNIVERSAL and replaced with proper 2009 remasters.

What a disappointment and what a bad taste left in the mouth... AVOID.
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Description of Tea for the Tillerman [Deluxe Edition]

His U.S. breakthrough reached #8 here in early '71, thanks to a striking combination of introspective songs and irresistible melodies. Includes his big hit Wild World as well as Longer Boats; Into White; Hard Headed Woman; On the Road to Find Out; Tea for the Tillerman , and more!

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