🥂 50th CLASSICS SERIES, Vol. 24 - Cat Stevens (CD 2522)

[Harry]

Classics, Volume 24 - Cat Stevens [1987]
CD 2522

1. On The Road To Find Out
2. Moonshadow
3. Sitting
4. Silent Sunlight
5. The Wind
6. Trouble
7. Peace Train
8. (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard
9. 18th Avenue
10. Where Do The Children Play?
11. Father And Son
12. If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out
13. Ghost Town
14. Tuesday's Dead
15. Morning Has Broken
16. Katmandu
17. Oh Very Young
18. Novim's Nightmare
19. Ruins
20. New York Times

 

[Captain Bacardi]

Wow, this doesn't include "Wild World"? Someone missed the boat on that one.



Capt. Bacardi

 

[Harry]

Wow, this doesn't include "Wild World"? Someone missed the boat on that one.

Capt. Bacardi

I'll bet it was a "Longer Boat", too.

 

[Dave]

Well, the one deletion is enough to keep this from selling--omitting a gem like 'Wild World' somehow gave a lot of Cat's fans a good palm-rubbing on their faces (though Stevens' name change to Yusuf & abandoning his music career could have been prophetically telling enough that there could have been that sort of an angle tied to it)...

Otherwise, consider this a fairly well-thought out comp' of some pretty good stuff (and w/ the ability to add via CD burning, one can add whatever "also-rans" of what should have been hits, that this still-good set needs)...


-- Dave

 

[Mike Blakesley]

Cat Stevens is one of those artists where the hits are sometimes not as good as some of the album tracks, in my book. So any compilation of his is inevitably missing many of my favorites. Such as, in this case:

Music
Angelsea
Sun/C79
Into White
Sad Lisa
Bitterblue
Don't Be Shy
Rubylove
I Never Wanted to Be A Star
Can't Keep It In
Two Fine People

So, in the case of artists whose music I like a lot, I'm usually not a big fan of compilations and if I do buy them, it's mostly for the liner notes and/or packaging coolness.