In any event, we have The Foreigner Suite in its entirety from the ABC broadcast linked below (embedding. The pace at which each movement arrives gives the listener the perfect amount of time to jam out to each one without ever zoning out.įavorite moments: “I’ve seen many other girls before, ah but darling / Heaven must’ve programmed you” and “Love must’ve have made you on a Sunday / ‘cause you taste to me as good as God made honey taste babe”. And hating on Coldplay probably didnt help either. And it is so impressive that he’s singing at the same time.
Cat Stevens’ piano playing is phenomenal. There are so many wonderful hooks to enjoy.
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This is a song that will capture your full attention and keep it until long after the song ends. Teaser And The Firecat was another major hit the next year, thanks to excellent ballads such as 'The Wind,' 'Morning Has Broken,' and 'Moonshadow.' The album-closing 'Peace Train,' a hit in its. I will say, though, that the 18 minutes goes by far too fast. Foreigner is the seventh studio album released by English singersongwriter, Cat Stevens in July 1973. Sometimes I feel stupid when I struggle to articulate what I like about a song so I’m going to try to avoid that here. I don’t want that to seem like a cop out, but maybe it is. I don’t think I will say much about the actual music, partly because of its intimidating length and many movements and partly because I just think that I should let the song justify itself. It took me four or five years to figure out what my mom saw in it, but now, like her, this song has become one of my favorites. Every second of it offers something new and satisfying. I listened to it while I ate my cereal one morning and loved it. This wasn’t just an excerpt, though, this was the full thing. This (slightly embarrassing) fascination with records led to me devour both my parents’ collections. So I listened to the seven-minute excerpt only to be predictably underwhelmed. I put this song on the backburner until about tenth grade when I became interested in records (mostly the idea of records). At that time I had just uploaded a Cat Stevens Greatest Hits album to my computer and it only had an excerpt of the suite. She told me that it was one of her favorite songs. My mom first introduced this song to me when I was in middle school.
Check out the song in its entirety below: Few entertainers have been demonized as harshly as the former Cat. Today, I’m posting one of my all-time favorites: “Foreigner Suite” by Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam aka Yusuf aka the Roadsinger. We may earn a commission from links on this page. Things changed with his next album, Foreigner. I hope everyone had a solid spring break. Between 19, Cat Stevens recorded four albums in the same manner, using the same producer and many of the same musicians, painting the album covers, and assigning the records ponderous titles.
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