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The-Bullet 
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 Topic: Al Stewart - Past, Present and Future
Posted: April 05 2005 at 09:41 |
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Borderline Prog. Have any of you guys got or heard this ?. I got it around 22 years ago, and it still gets regular spins. He crafts catchy, folky tunes, but amongst them are some absolute gems, such as Roads to Moscow and Nostradamus, both on this album. A
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"Why say it cannot be done.....they'd be better doing pop songs?"
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Easy Livin
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Posted: April 05 2005 at 14:46 |
Good call TB. "Roads to Moscow" and "Nostradamus" are excellent tracks, with prog overtones. Did you know PP&F was recently re-released on a 2 CD set which includes "Orange" and "Modern times"? A superb collection. Personally, I feel YOTC wa
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richardh
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Posted: April 05 2005 at 18:57 |
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I've got a few Al Stewart albums including a compilation album with the live version of Nostradamus.Good stuff ,and yes very prog in style.Has anyone heard Last Days Of The Century? Always seems unfairly overlooked and is another AS album with some go
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Posted: April 05 2005 at 20:05 |
Good call. Roads To Moscow and Nostradamus. 
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Posted: April 06 2005 at 11:37 |
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Year of the Cat and Time Passages are his only songs that I like.
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Posted: April 06 2005 at 12:51 |
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I used to like him a lot and now,everytime that I hear him I'm reminded of the bloke out of the Pet Shop Boys! Brrrrrrrrrr!
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Posted: April 07 2005 at 05:58 |
 Crimson Prince wrote:
Year of the Cat and Time Passages are his only songs that I like. |
Those are his only songs that I've heard. Am I missing out? What is his proggier style like?
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richardh
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 18:24 |
James Lee wrote:
Crimson Prince wrote:
Year of the Cat and Time Passages are his only songs that I like. |
Those are his only songs that I've heard. Am I missing out? What is his proggier style like? |
It's softe
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 21:40 |
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Merlin's Time. excellent song, richardh.
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Posted: April 11 2005 at 03:23 |
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Although a fine folk singer/songwriter and even in P, P & F, I do not see much progressive leanings or hint as to call this prog.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Posted: April 12 2005 at 01:56 |
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Personally, I feel YOTC was his finest album though. |
"Don't bother asking for explanations -- he'll just tell you that he came... in the rear of the cat...."
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Posted: April 12 2005 at 16:49 |
I especially like the song called "the year of the cat"... very very nice one... but i don't think its prog though 
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Posted: April 13 2005 at 02:43 |
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Last Days of The Century (1987) is one of his best albums but obviously very few people here have heard it.
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Posted: April 13 2005 at 08:38 |
richardh wrote:
Last Days of The Century (1987) is one of his best albums but obviously very few people here have heard it. |
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Dick Heath
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Posted: April 13 2005 at 11:25 |
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Has Bedsitter Chronicles ever got issued on CD - the title track of his first British (minor) hit album, if I remember correctly, covered most or all of one side? It shocked the so-called folk establishment at the end of the
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Easy Livin
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Posted: April 13 2005 at 14:50 |
Peter, I wouldn't have said so myself. If I was to recommend a later album of his, it would be "Between the wars", which he made with Laurence Suber. It has a wonderful openning track called "Night train to munich", which tells a nice little spy story.<
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Posted: April 13 2005 at 23:11 |
[QUOTE=Dick Heath]Has Bedsitter Chronicles ever got issued on CD - the title track of his first British (minor) hit album, if I remember correctly, covered most or all of one side? It shocked the so-called folk establishme
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Peter
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Posted: April 13 2005 at 23:15 |
[QUOTE=Easy Livin] Peter, I wouldn't have said so myself. If I was to recommend a later album of his, it would be "Between the wars", which he made with Laurence Suber. It has a wonderful openning track called "Night train to munich", which tells a nic
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Easy Livin
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Posted: April 14 2005 at 03:39 |
What's that you say young Peter? You'll need to speak up! I had just about managed to banish the "He came in the rear of the cat" image from my mind, when you remind me of it. Now it will be another
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Dick Heath
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Posted: April 14 2005 at 06:16 |
Easy Livin wrote:
I had just about managed to banish the "He came in the rear of the cat" image from my mind, when you remind me of it. |
EL Thanks for reminding me of that dire joke which involved a f
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