Year of the Cat REMASTERED By ALAN PARSONS
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Topic: Year of the Cat REMASTERED By ALAN PARSONS
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Subject: Year of the Cat REMASTERED By ALAN PARSONS
Date Posted: February 01 2021 at 07:47
Two disc edition to be released on March 26, 2021. Remastered from the first-generation master tapes by Alan Parsons, also includes nine live tracks recorded at the Paramount Theater, Seattle in October 1976 and a new mix of the track ‘Belsize Blues’, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in September 1975. Track Listing: DISC ONE 1. LORD GRENVILLE 2. ON THE BORDER 3. MIDAS SHADOW 4. SAND IN YOUR SHOES 5. IF IT DOESN’T COME NATURALLY, LEAVE IT 6. FLYING SORCERY 7. BROADWAY HOTEL 8. ONE STAGE BEFORE 9. YEAR OF THE CAT BONUS TRACK 10. BELSIZE BLUES (RECORDED AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS IN SEPTEMBER 1975) DISC TWO 1. APPLE CIDER RE-CONSTITUTION (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED) 2. THE DARK AND THE ROLLING SEA (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED) 3. ONE STAGE BEFORE (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED) 4. ON THE BORDER (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED) 5. BROADWAY HOTEL (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED) 6. ROADS TO MOSCOW (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED) 7. YEAR OF THE CAT (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED) 8. SAND IN YOUR SHOES (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED) 9. IF IT DOESN’T COME NATURALLY LEAVE IT (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED) Source: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/al-stewart-year-of-the-cat-2cd-remastered-expanded-edition/" rel="nofollow - https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/al-stewart-year-of-the-cat-2cd-remastered-expanded-edition/ There will be coming out on the same date a 3 CDs + 1 DVD edition including the entire gig, a 5.1 surround sound mix (also by Parsons) and a hi-res version of the new remaster. Source: https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/al-stewart-year-of-the-cat-box-set/" rel="nofollow - https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/al-stewart-year-of-the-cat-box-set/ |
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 02:59
| Nice one, definitely will get this. I do like Al Stewart and he flirted with prog ideas quite a bit during his career. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 03:58
In the last two years, we had reasessed whether AS shpould be in the PA DB, and we asked the admins (who declined) for his inclusion in PA under Prog-related, but more on the strenght of his albums before the Parsons and Hipgnosis days (Cat and Passages). Albums like Chronicle, Orange Modern Times and PP& F are proggy-ish in the psych/acid/prog folk sense YotC and TP are defintetely more AOR-ish, IMHO. ------------- 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 |
richardh wrote:Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 08:04
| I dunno, listen to "Life in Dark Water" from Time Passages. Very proggy mood. I think TP(!) is my favourite Stewart album. Seen him live in relatively recent years, very congenial and talented. Few artists had such a genuine grasp of history and fused it into their music and performances |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 18:29
| Dark and the Rolling Sea, from Modern Times, is a fave of mine. The News From Spain (Orange), too |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 18 2021 at 02:14
I don't agree with the AOR tag. He was a little folk/prog in his early days as you suggest but then became a little more commercial while still retaining a level of intelligence in his music that put him well above the dreaded AOR label. He also collaborated with the very talented Peter White for a long time. His obvious prog tracks between 1975-1987 Nostradamus Rumours Of War Where Did They Go? Merlin's Time Lord Grenville Roads To Moscow The Last Days of The Century On The Border Fields of France Helen and Cassandra enough to make a big album of prog material but there isn't any single album that is really 'prog' . Famously he grew up in the small Dorset village of Wimbourne at the same time as a certain Robert Fripp and even took a week of guitar lessons off the great man! I'm not sweating on his inclusion but there is an awful lot of stuff listed in PA that has even less to do with prog imo. |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: February 18 2021 at 07:44
| The Palace Of Versailles is a nice classically-oriented song, worthy of an open pair of prog ears. |