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Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat (1971) [MFSL UDCD-649]
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Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat (1971) [MFSL UDCD-649]
Pop-Rock | EAC Rip | Lossless FLAC with Log+Cue+Covers -> 185MB | Nitroflare/1Fichier
Pop-Rock | EAC Rip | Lossless FLAC with Log+Cue+Covers -> 185MB | Nitroflare/1Fichier
Even as a serious-minded singer/songwriter, Cat Stevens never stopped being a pop singer at heart, and with Teaser and the Firecat he reconciled his philosophical interests with his pop instincts. Basically, Teaser's songs came in two modes: gentle ballads that usually found Stevens and second guitarist Alun Davies playing delicate lines over sensitive love lyrics, and up-tempo numbers on which the guitarists strummed away and thundering drums played in stop-start rhythms. There were also more exotic styles, such as the Greek-styled "Rubylove," with its twin bouzoukis and a verse sung in Greek, and "Tuesday's Dead," with its Caribbean feel. Stevens seemed to have worked out some of his big questions, to the point of wanting to proselytize on songs like "Changes IV" and "Peace Train," both stirring tunes in which he urged social and spiritual improvement. Meanwhile, his love songs had become simpler and more plaintive. And while there had always been a charming, childlike quality to some of his lyrics, there were songs here that worked as nursery rhymes, and these were among the album's most memorable tracks and its biggest hits: "Moonshadow" and "Morning Has Broken," the latter adapted from a hymn. The overall result was an album that was musically more interesting than ever, but lyrically dumbed-down. Stevens continued to look for satisfaction in romance, despite its disappointment, but he found more fulfillment in a still-unspecified religious pursuit that he was ready to tout to others. And they were at least nominally ready to listen: the album produced three hit singles and just missed topping the charts. Tea for the Tillerman may have been the more impressive effort, but Teaser and the Firecat was the Cat Stevens album that gave more surface pleasures to more people, which in pop music is the name of the game.
01 "The Wind" – 1:42
02 "Rubylove" – 2:37
03 "If I Laugh" – 3:20
04 "Changes IV" – 3:32
05 "How Can I Tell You" – 4:24
06 "Tuesday's Dead" – 3:36
07 "Morning Has Broken" (C. Stevens/E. Farjeon) – 3:20
08 "Bitterblue" – 3:12
09 "Moonshadow" – 2:52
10 "Peace Train" – 4:04
Cat Stevens – guitar, keyboards, vocals
Alun Davies – guitar
Larry Steele – bass, congas
Gerry Conway – drums
Hervey Burns – drums
Rick Wakeman – piano
Andreas Toumazis – bazouki
Angelos Hatzipavli – bazouki
Del Newman – string arrangements
Contributing artists: Rick Wakeman
Producer: Paul Samwell-Smith
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
Released: October 1971
Realease MFSL: 02 October 1995
Chart Peak: #2
Weeks Charted: 67
Certified Gold: 10/18/71
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Cat Stevens / Teaser And The Firecat
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Cat Stevens / Teaser And The Firecat
Used drive : PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure with No C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 98
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Track 1
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