The Very Best of Cat Stevens

Description

This release features 20 classic hits, all newly digitally
remastered plus previously unreleased songs and rare photos. Tracks include
“Another Saturday Night,” “Matthew & Son,” “The First Cut Is the Deepest,”
“Wild World,” “Where Do the Children Play?,” “Father And Son,” and counless
others. Kicking off A&M’s ambitious Cat Stevens reissue program is
this 20-song introduction. The set surveys all of Stevens’s stages, from the
orchestrated late-1960s sides through his early-’70s peak to his more eclectic
late-1970s experiments. Following the progression makes for an interesting
endeavor as Stevens learns to harness his ambitious ideas with arrangements
that don’t obscure his rhapsodic messages. Few artists of his generation were
more gifted when it came to plucking timeless melodies out of thin air, and
his sumptuous voice was always able to movingly convey his bittersweet lyrics.
As a career overview (including one previously unreleased cut) this set
achieves its goal, hitting all of the chart successes along the way and
basically defining his role as a sensitive ’70s singer-songwriter, but some
fans may opt for the classic early-’70s studio records, which find Stevens at
his most consistently touching. –Marc Greilsamer

Features:

Product Details:

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.88 x 5.55 x 0.47 inches; 4.3 Ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ UTV
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ AM541387.2
• Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2000
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ October 21, 2006
• Label ‏ : ‎ UTV
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1