Katzengold

The excellent "GOLD" series has also Cat Stevens' accepted and delivers here a solid, concentrated cross-section of the studio recordings of his career from 1966-2005 from, chronologically, starting with early hits like Matthew & Son, Here Comes My Baby and The First Cut is the Deepest. Since remained free on both CDs still room, I would have been happy if one of the 35 songs from his early phase in Deram (1966-1969) a few more than picked only three would, for example, I love my dog, I'm gonna get me a Gun, A Bad Night, Here comes my Wife, Where are you, among other things

The lion's share of this double CD is quantitatively adequate with 19 of 32 songs Cat Stevens' "classical period" of 1970-1972: My favorite album of Cat Stevens, "Mona Bone Jakon" ('70), although unfortunately comes with only 2 songs short, it's of "Tea for the Tillerman" ('70), "Teaser and the Firecat" ('71) and "Catch Bull at Four" ('72) each 5, and the most accessible piece of "Foreigner" ( '73), The Hurt, and the 18minütigen (uncensored!) Foreigner Suite equal to the essence of this album. Lovely, too, that the two most important songs from "Harold and Maude" Do not be shy and If You Want to Sing Out Sing Out not forget, but were equal with sorted chronologically.

From the second - much weaker - creative phase of Cat Stevens in the second half of Seventies are "Buddha and the Chocolate Box" ('74) and "Izitso" ('77) represented correspondingly weaker with two songs, "Numbers" (' 75) and "Back to Earth" ('78) only ever a, and "Greatest Hits" ('75), there's still the fleet Single Another Saturday Night.

Basically, "Cat Stevens GOLD" leaves as an expanded version of his distinguished Best of CD "Remember Cat Stevens - The Definitive Collection" (1999) understand; as an additional incentive to buy there - only here! - Nor the six-minute Indian Ocean ('05), dealing with the tsunami of last year, emerged around the same time as his comeback album "An Other Cup" as Yusuf Islam ('06).

The accompanying text is fairly succinct; There is a list of musicians participating in the respective albums, and the sound corresponding to the outstanding Remasters appearing since 1999.

In this case, you can not go wrong with "GOLD" (even if they would have a little lush allowed to fail); this double CD promises an interesting and awakening curiosity overview of Cat Stevens' career to date.