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Buyer beware! This 4 CD boxed set is brand new; it is unopened, unplayed and still in its original factory shrink wrap. However, there is a flaw in the boxed set packaging. Two or three of the corners of the inside box that holds the CDs and booklets are slightly torn. A couple of pieces of Scotch tape will fix the problem. The flaw can be seen through the original factory shrink wrap, which still seals the sets. I'm offering this item at an even greater discount but the buyer will have to accept the flaw in the packaging.
Cat Stevens was a cultural force in the 1970s, and anybody growing up around that time was fed a steady diet of Stevens hits. This box set--Stevens's first--aspires to be the definitive Cat Stevens collection, and for the most part it is, covering his career highlights ("Peace Train," "Moonshadow," "Wild World," and "If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out," among many others) over four discs. While Stevens's simplistic imagery, tailor made for sing-alongs around a camp fire, may not have aged particularly well, his knack for a catchy melody and indelible lyrical conceit are hard to deny. There is a restless longing and pained soul-searching at the heart of even his most popular work, and the collection's sequencing and the titles of each disc-- "The Search," "The Hurt"--reflect this intensity, as does his Stevens's eventual conversion to Islam. Note: The one glaring oversight here is the omission of "Trouble," one of the Cat man's best songs and the aural centerpiece of his stellar soundtrack for the 1972 movie HAROLD AND MAUDE. It's an essential tune for Stevens fans both old and new.
DISC 1: THE CITY: 1. Back to the Good Old Times - (previously unreleased) 2. I Love My Dog 3. Portobello Road 4. Here Comes My Baby 5. Matthew & Son 6. Tramp, The 7. I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun 8. School Is Out 9. Bad Night, A 10. Laughing Apple, The 11. Kitty 12. Blackness of Night 13. First Cut Is the Deepest, The 14. Northern Wind 15. Moonstone 16. Come on Baby (Shift That Log) 17. Lovely City (When Do You Laugh?) 18. Here Comes My Wife 19. View From the Top, The 20. Where Are You 21. If Only Mother Could See Me Now - (previously unreleased, demo) 22. Honey Man - (previously unreleased, with Elton John) 23. Joke, The - (previously unreleased)
DISC 2: THE SEARCH: 1. Time / Fill My Eyes - (previously unreleased, demo) 2. Lady D'Arbanville 3. Trouble 4. Pop Star 5. Katmandu 6. Lilywhite 7. I've Got a Thing About Seeing My Grandson Grow Old - (previously unreleased) 8. Where Do the Children Play? 9. Wild World 10. Sad Lisa 11. On the Road to Find Out 12. Father and Son 13. Love Lives in the Sky - (previously unreleased) 14. Don't Be Shy 15. If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out 16. Day They Make Me Tsar, The - (previously unreleased, demo) 17. Wind, The 18. Moonshadow 19. Morning Has Broken 20. How Can I Tell You 21. Peace Train 22. I Want to Live in a Wigwam
DISC 3: THE HURT: 1. Crab Dance 2. Sitting 3. Silent Sunlight 4. Angelsea 5. Can't Keep It In 6. 18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare) 7. Hurt, The 8. Foreigner Suite 9. Oh Very Young 10. Music 11. Sun/C79 12. King of Trees 13. Bad Penny, A 14. Lady D'Arbanville 15. Another Saturday Night
DISC 4: THE LAST: 1. Whistlestar 2. Novin's Nightmare 3. Majik of Majik's 4. Banapple Gas 5. Blue Monday - (previously unreleased) 6. Doves (Majikat Earth Tour Theme Song) 7. Hard Headed Woman - (previously unreleased) 8. Tuesday's Dead - (previously unreleased) 9. Ruins - (previously unreleased) 10. Old Schoolyard, (Remember the Days of the) 11. Life 12. To Be a Star, (I Never Wanted) 13. Child For a Day 14. Just Another Night 15. Daytime 16. Last Love Song 17. Never 18. Father and Son - (previously unreleased) 19. God Is the Light - (with Yusuf/Raihan)
This 4 CD boxed set is brand new; it is unopened, unplayed and still in its original factory shrink wrap.
This deluxe 4-CD box includes a 96-page booklet with photo collages and lyrics as well as an autobiogaphical essay and song-by-song commentary by Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam). Recorded between 1965 and 1997. Includes liner notes and song commentary by Bill DeYoung and Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam).
Please add $19.00 shipping & handling for orders outside North America; $12.00 shipping & handling to Canada.
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