“Year Of The Cat” by Al Stewart - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1976 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s |
Seventh album from the 30-year-old Glaswegian singer-songwriter recorded at Abbey Road, and notable for the lush orchestration of Alan Parsons' production. A shortened version of title-track - about a tourist who experiences a lost 24 hrs in a romantic adventure with a mysterious stranger - gave him his only UK hit, which came as a bit of a relief for the man himself: “When I finished Year of the Cat, I thought: ‘If this isn't a hit, then I can't make a hit.' We finally got the formula exactly right.” The album gave him biggest hit in both the UK (#38) and the US (#5). It's all very accomplished musically and comes complete with well written lyrics, but not one track breaks me out of my unrelenting boredom.
The Jukebox Rebel
02–Jan–2011
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [05:02]  Al Stewart - Lord Grenville (Al Stewart) Pop Ballad |
| A2 | [03:23]  Al Stewart - On The Border (Al Stewart) Songwriter |
| A3 | [03:16]  Al Stewart - Midas Shadow (Al Stewart) Songwriter |
| A4 | [03:04]  Al Stewart - Sand In Your Shoes (Al Stewart) Folk Rock / Americana |
| A5 | [04:30]  Al Stewart - If It Doesn’t Come Naturally, Leave It (Al Stewart) Cerebral Pop |
| B1 | [04:22]  Al Stewart - Flying Sorcery (Al Stewart) Songwriter |
| B2 | [03:58]  Al Stewart - Broadway Hotel (Al Stewart) Songwriter |
| B3 | [04:41]  Al Stewart - One Stage Before (Al Stewart) Songwriter |
| B4 | [06:37]  Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat (Al Stewart, Peter Wood) Songwriter |
