1. Wind
2. Rubylove
3. If I Laugh
4. Changes IV
5. How Can I Tell You
6. Tuesday's Dead
7. Morning Has Broken
8. Bitterblue
9. Moonshadow
10. Peace Train
1. Moonshadow [Live at the Troubadour]
2. Rubylove [Demo Version]
3. If I Laugh [Demo Version]
4. Changes IV [Demo Version]
5. How Can I Tell You [Demo Version]
6. Morning Has Broken [Demo Version]
7. Bitterblue [Live at Royal Albert Hall]
8. Tuesday's Dead [From the Majikat Earth Tour]
9. Peace Train [Live at Royal Albert Hall 2003]
10. Wind [From Yusuf's Café]
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The third album Cat Stevens put out in a 15-month burst that began in
the summer of 1970 with
Mona
Bone Jakon,
Teaser and the Firecat is where the
enigmatic folk-pop idol crested commercially, if not artistically. Its
immediate predecessor,
Tea
for the Tillerman,
possesses an air of mystery and unforced whimsy that proved impossible
for Stevens to replicate. That said, the singer-songwriter had it in
him to pull together a captivating collection that boasted two of the
biggest hits of his meteoric, if self-inhibited, career--"Peace Train"
and the sublime hymn "Morning Has Broken." "The Wind," "If I Laugh,"
and "Moonshadow" are every bit as tuneful and appealing as the hits,
while "Rubylove," "How Can I Tell You," and "Bitterblue" would be
standouts on Stevens's less accomplished later albums. In fact, only
the bellicose social statements "Changes IV" and "Tuesday's Dead" ring
hollow.
--Steven Stolder
