I Felt That! Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Peace Train REACTION/REVIEW
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- I Felt That! Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Peace Train REACTION/REVIEW
BizMatik Reviews and Reacts to Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Peace Train
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This is such a great song. Morning Has Broken and Moonshadow are also beautiful Cat Stevens songs. ✌🏽💜
Cat Stevens is incredibly talented....talk about someone who got canceled way back when. Dude deserved better than that! Love his writing and singing! Thanks for featuring him, Biz.
Uh, he didn't get canceled. He was in the ocean swimming and was drowning. He said to God, if you save me I will be devote my life to you. The undertow stopped pulling him and he got back to shore. He quit music and dedicated himself to Islam.
I listened to Cat Stevens when I was a teenager in his early years. I don't care that he converted to Muslim or what he calls himself now, but after the Twin Towers fell on 9/11 he was denied access back to the United States after making statements saying the suicide bombers that flew the planes into the Towers and killed over 2000 innocent people was somehow justified. I don't care what your religion is, the actual Koran does not endorse killing innocent people.
@@jxchamb In all honestly, he did kind of get cancelled back then. I distinctly remember hearing on the FM airwaves that he no longer wanted to use the name Cat Stevens and that he no longer cared about the music. It broke my heart. We now know different and you are correct with what you said. I just felt I needed to throw that into the conversation. Peace
He didn't get cancelled. He moved to the Middle East and quit the music business. He's been back for several years.
In the early 70's, we were still fighting in Vietnam. We didn't get out until 1975. Yeah there were a lot of songs about peace. 55,000 Americans died in Vietnam, many of them my age.
A lot of us really believed in peace, brotherhood/sisterhood, understanding and harmony. We actually thought the world was moving toward freedom and justice. Everyone coming together in peace was just a foolish dream we had I don't regret it.
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I agree with most of what you said, but when something is moral and right it's never foolish
This song has always made me tear up with joy.
Same
Early 70s they were trying to bring the country back together after the Vietnam war and the Kent State shootings. They wanted to calm everyone down from the assassinations of Robert Kennedy, MLK, Charles Manson in 69', protests and riots. So we had a era of positivity which I feel disco was a part of, we all were together dancing and having fun.
There was a very unpopular war going on in the 60's and early 70's, that's why the music was about peace.✌
Father and Son is one of my absolute favorites., you will love it
I laughed when you said we, back in the 60s and early 70s, were socially conscious but without being annoying! I promise you, plenty of our fellow citizens thought we were extremely annoying. 😄 I'm in my late 60s now and better understand WHY! Cat Steven's music was integral (along with so many others) to that period of idealism and hope amid tragedy and the lure of despair. It's a great pleasure for me that this song touched you as much so many years later. Thank you for that. I don't think you've reacted to Father and Son yet. I recommend watching the video.
Lol
Yeah, that one made me chuckle. As the old saying goes - "You had to be there". The great thing about the '70s was all those "liberated" women. : )
Fun fact... Cat Stevens was dating Carly Simon back in the day.. while she waited on him to pick her up one night, he was late, she wrote her hit song "Anticipation".
That is a fun fact.
Cat Stevens was a childhood favorite!
I grew up on Cat Stevens. The 70s was a cool time to be a kid.
This is an anthem. A show stopper, playing the album, alone or with friends. You 'd stop, a drink, a sip of wine, smoke if you did that. This is like 1972-73. Vietnam still going on and this anthem brought a lot of people together.
Cat Stevens is my favorite singer from the 70’s, Tea for the Tillerman was one of my first albums I owned, react to Father and Son, he’s an excellent singer, songwriter and musician! Great analogy, I agree we need to respect others differences and stop being so judgmental, we have no right to judge others
i had all his albums, when i was young. i was 15yrs old, in 1970, so this is my time. Tea for the Tillerman is probably my favourite album. Moonshadow is a great song. 'How Can I Tell Her' is a great love song
Cat Stephens is a special artist as he was almost always sweet, gentle, positive. I love his performances. One of my favorite live performances is a duet with Chris Cornell singing "Wild World". There are several videos on YT of varying quality. I think the best quality is a black&white multicam version labeled "UPGRADE". It is a lovely performance , two beautiful men singing sweetly, less than a year before Chris tragically took his own life. May he rest in peace.
Very nice reaction..
I absolutely loved Cat Stevens in the early to mid seventies and had several of his albums. Great voice and really good songwriter.
I have his greatest hits CD and still enjoy the music.
Peace ❤
Cat Stevens kept that childlike wonder-- the kind you can't negotiate with-- about why the world can't be a better place, why we can't all get along. You'll find it in this song. You'll also find it in Morning Has Broken, his other introspective gorgeous masterpiece of a utopian world. I love how his songs grab people the way they grabbed you. There's a refreshing earnestness that's unique to Cat Stevens❤❤
I'd recommend checking out "Wild World" next. I was 14 when the album "Tea for the Tillerman" came out, and it blew my mind.
The Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the fire Kat albums were huge in my house growing up. Also an obscure cult movie Harold &Maude has a full soundtrack of Cat's music and it's great too!
my dad wore out both those albums , we had such great music to grow up with !
Harold and Maud is one of my favourite movies. brilliantly acted and, yes, such wonderful singing by Cat.
Live version video ....Biz you would love it!
It is difficult to really understand the feeling and the meaning of a lot of 70's music without having lived through the 70's. A lot was happening and things felt on edge. There was Nixon, Watergate, two Israelli-Arab wars, the exodus from Viet Nam, Opec, the Oil Crisis, Iran, recession and disconnect.
Kinda like now. I think it's very relevant. ❤️✌️
Btw, I was there. It just feels on the edge now.
Not to mention the cultural revolution...
I was there also, I graduated college in 1974 and got my first break in a career. But, my family rejected me because after following the Watergate hearings, revelations, and scandal, I showed up at dinner and declared, “that Crook Nixon has finally resigned, good riddance to that phony liar”. My dad, a war hero, and a successful businessman, took Nixon’s side and banned me.
So, yes it’s a lot like today’s MAGA fascist movement, family members can’t talk to each other because half the country is blindly following the cult of trump, the other half want to save democracy from book bannings, the war on history that makes snowflake kids feel uncomfortable.
@@lisarainbow9703 not to mention the sexual revolution, also.
@@ed.z. I believe that falls under the umbrella of "cultural".
Or should I say , "counter-culture"?
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Anything Cat Stevens!! He is a beautful artist!
Two of the greatest albums of the early '70s, (actually of all time), are from Yusuf/Cat Stevens, 1970's "Tea For the Tillerman" and 1971's "Teaser and the Firecat." Not a bad song on either disc. "Bitterblue", 'Tuesday's Dead", "Morning Has Broken", "Father and Son", "Where do the Children Play" are just to name a few. Others from Cat/Yusuf's catalogue are "The Hurt", Oh, Very Young", "Another Saturday Night", (Remember the Days of the) Old School Yard", "Can't Keep it In", and "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out", and "Banapple Gas". Great stuff.
Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat are both masterpieces. Cat Stevens was a superstar in the early 70's.
@@robertburke5354 I couldn't agree more, Robert. I played the heck out of those two albums. Loved 'em both, and still do.
My top three favorites are Teaser, Catch Bull at Four, and Tea for the Tillerman.
@@ron88303 All three albums are masterpieces, Ron. When Tillerman came out, I listened to it over and over and over. Such wise words, unlike anything I'd heard up to that point.
We're so jealous! We've been fans of this music for years, as well as entertainers in music, so we know so many songs as amazing as this from the past. Yes, they are still amazingly wonderful, but because we've heard them so many times, they don't wow us like they do you. I think that's why this works as a platform. We get to enjoy your first hearing of it, as if it was our own. This is great music. Tell everybody about it. Great work.
I understand that’s how I feel like when I see people reviewing old hip hop songs.
These days I can't hear this without getting a bit choked up. Thanks for your reaction.
Beautiful song! Please check out Morning Has Broken. ☮️❤️😎
For a few of my teen years I hated Cat Steven for a few years. He was always on the radio, and I thought it was empty fluff. After, he left show biz, I started to listen to his recordings out of curiosity and I was shocked how beautiful, and soulful he was. I was delighted when he reappeared on the the scene. And he was still soulful as ever.
GOLD,+ WILD WORLD BY CAT STEVENS.✌️🌎
Playing for Change covered this with Yusuf's participation.
Ive been out of touch for awhile but what a great song to jump back into! My mother raised me listening to singer/songwriters of the 70's and 80's. I am so grateful for that. Ive done the same with my son. Its amazing that three different generations all enjoy this same genre of music.
Love Cat Stevens! This is a great song! Lots of GREAT songs by him!❤
Back when I was a mere child this was the first 45 I ever bought..walked about 5 or more city blocks and bought it at Zellers. On way home and almost home tripped and broke it! Back to the store I go. Lol
John Denver and Cat Stevens (along with a few other, specific songs) remind me of the best of who I was as a child. My first summer was the Summer of Love, '67, and my first memory is the Moon landing. Times were different then, I grew up in a wide-eyed, open-minded, changing world of increasing peace and equality. I turned ten in the Bicentennial. There was real hope everywhere out in public. And the child in me grew up hopeful and trusting and dreaming big dreams. Things have changed, but songs like this bring back all those possibilities, and I know the hope, peace, inspiration, and social growth will come around again. The Singularity is on the horizon, and social change is bearing down on us quickly. We're due for some positivity in our luck, so maybe it will be overwhelmingly positive rather than catastrophic.
Peace Train is a huge favorite. I saw Yusef (then Cat Stevens) in concert & he was amazing. If this touched you, try "Love Train" by the O'Jays -- excellent soul music. Different genre, similar theme.
Such a profound song. Timeless. The "claps" represent UNITY, in my opinion.
I distinctly remember being very sad that Cat Stevens suddenly disappeared from the airwaves and being told stuff like he’d gotten, weird, radical, etc-the messaging was definitely intent on killing his reputation.
Cat Steavens/Yusuf ....he's my medicine
wow - that bought back some memories - great discography - "Father and Son" comes to mind.
Biz!! Your are so grounded! Very open minded! I just cannot get enough of your reactions
Thank you fam 🙏🏿🙏🏿
Yusuf/Cat Stevens "Tell 'Em I'm Gone"....Nuff Said.
Should have done the live concert version, it’s incredible.
Great reaction Bizmatik! I agree with a lot of what you said. Strive for peace and respect one another. I adore this artist. I have his greatest hits album and play it often. Lots of great suggestions from others. Hard Headed Woman and Moonshadow. Father and son is lovely. Can't go wrong. Thanks!
He says "everyone get on the train", it takes a decision and action to " get on " the path toward BLISS.
Let go, don't be mad, llove your neibor.
The whole peace movement during this time frame was driven by the war in Vietnam.
Brother Yusuf! I love him
Many excellent Cat Stevens songs. I bought several of his early albums while in high school and college. Never gets old. Check out "Oh, Very Young". It will pull at your heart strings.
Such a great song! Love Cat Stevens!
He about a year ago prerecorded peace train with playing for change it is amazing everything playing for change does is worth watching
Cat Stevens is amazing. Beautiful rabbit hole you could go down, and I think you should! Songs to check out include Wild World, Trouble, On the Road to Find Out, and Where Do the Children Play. Some of his best songs are short, but oh so good. Thanks for the reaction!
I love this music. I remember being at my aunts house and this was always playing. Great reaction Biz.
Thanks
If you want to go back a bit in the 1960’s, they his hit single ‘Matthew and Son’ is a wonderful song about the dredge of a daily life at work at Matthew and Son, plus his classic ‘First Cut is the Deepest’.
Then after this, from his classic 1970 album Mona Bone Jakon was ‘Lady D’Arbanville’.
These are overlooked gems, overlooked due to the classic albums of ‘Tea for the Tillerman’ and Teaser and the Firecat,’ where every song is a classic.
"TEA FOR THE TILLMAN" Listen to the best album you'll ever hear, appreciate & respect.
Cat Stevens, a very rare song writer of such dept & pure meaning of spirit of peace.
The video is great his father and son.
Very fond memories of my dad playing this on his guitar when I was young.
Cat Stevens has many great songs but this is my favorite.
I love Cat….so gorgeous!
Other great songs from him:
Where do the children play
father and son
moonshadow
miles from nowhere
And yes, Moonshadow
Very insightful breakdown of lyrics. You are right, peace won't happen with everyone, but we can bring our peace to those we come in contact with.
Love Cat Stevens.
Used to skip school and sit on my best friends roof and to him and Rufus lol completely different music.
My favorites of his is How Can I Tell You. Beautiful love song. Very underrated.
We also used to skip and go to the hospital and read magazines. 😂
Wild World...Tea for the Tillman album every song a hit...
Soundtrack of my youth.
Biz, you're one of the few Reactors that listen to the lyrics. One the other day said I never pay attention to lyrics, I thought how can you not...most important part of a song....I left that reactor, 🤔
Thank You, Love you're Channel ❤️
What a fantastic reaction Biz! I feel the same way about it. I gotta say that when I am out and about, I give everyone I greet a smile and say Good Morning etc... and I always tell the person waiting on me that I appreciate them and it seems to take some by surprise and regardless, they appreciate being told they are appreciated. It feels good to say it! I do wish we could all jump on the peace train! I have some suggestions...Another Saturday Night, Hard headed Woman, Moonshadow, Morning has broken, Oh very young. That oughta do you for now. They are all great songs and it's hard to pick only a few! Peace!
Thank you
Hearing Both Of Their Thoughts,, Yusuf/Cat Stevens "Father & Son" ..(Music Video)
Try 'Get Together' by the Youngbloods....also Try 'My Sweet Lord' by George Harrison.
"Don't worry Bout a Thing' by Bob Marley.
loved your reaction to peace train
First 45 I had by Cat Stevens was Another Saturday Night. Remember those? Where The Children Play from 1971, a dark comedy drama Harold and Maude. Brilliant movie, please see and understand it, mind blowing 23 years ago.
Thank you for your reaction to this song!
You are welcome
I think there would be a lot of people who disagree about it not being annoying back. You must speak loudly to be heard sometimes. ❤️✌️
Lol I’m sure
Hey, I love the way you got this one, Biz! There are SO many more fantastic Cat Stevens songs: "Can't Keep It In," "Bitterblue," and "Sitting" are quick-paced jams while "Father and Son" and "Where do the Children Play" are representative of his quieter messages.
He stopped right in his prime think 1978 then started up again 2004. I'm pretty sure he has written most of what he's done! So glad seeing you review this!
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I see your point for sure. Greed, fear, competition; human weaknesses not likely to go away.
But Yes sir. The hangover from the turmoil of the 60s, the terror of Vietnam (winding down but still not over). Society definitely had that peaceful vibe.
Dude you should react to his seminal album Tea For The Tillerman. Every song is a banger. Trust me. 😎
I still remember what he said in 2001. I don't forgive so easily.
A followup to this great one could be Morning Has Broken. ~~~ Peace
Biz, the cat Stevens rabbit hole is a must so much to pick from! Sad Lisa, wild world, how can I tell you, lady darbanville, if I laugh
There are two things a person has to "earn" from me. My dis-respect is one, and my trust is the other.
Missed this one - great review. I love, love, love Cat Stevens 💖 so many good songs to choose from. Class songwriter - everything this man has recorded is top notch. Dive in bro 👌
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Oh, Wild World and We Only Just Began...Carpenters
My senior year in high school...both songs played at my Graduation..and theme to Yearbook...
Just had my 50th Reunion last year, We played all this wonderful music from late 60s 70s...Music EXPOSITION...ROCK AND ROLL
There was a very short period in the early 70s when it looked like everything was going to be ok... and then everything went to %$#@. All right, maybe that was just me, but we got some great music out of it.
I would suggest doing the 10,000 MANIACS version of this song PEACE TRAIN - I would consider it even better by them. One of the few times that another band does a cover better than the original.
Oh Very Young is a beautiful song.
Speaking of trains, have you reacted to The Ojays' song, "Love Train" yet, Biz? Really needs to be on blast at this point in time, with all the HATE going on! It's one of my 3 most favorite calm down songs, if I'm bent out of shape! Lol. Thank you!
Great analysis of the song. Makes you think.
Thank you
Two songs I didn't see mentioned in the comments: "Father and Son" and "The First Cut is the Deepest"!!!
Moonshadow, Father and son, where do the children play, just to name 3 songs you need to check out from Cat Stevens
I love your channel, Biz
Thank you🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Catch Bull at Four is his best album in my opinion. Whenever I try to narrow down recommendations off it I end up with seven songs out of ten. XD "Sitting" and "Can't Keep It In" would be the most similar to this one; "Angelsea" is my favorite in his entire catalog; "18th Avenue" and "Freezing Steel" are WAY different; "The Boy with a Moon and Star on His Head" and "Ruins" are both masterpieces of storytelling (though "Ruins" is emotionally devastating).
What you see, is what you are. 'The crow sees the dead and dying in the garden. The butterfly only sees the flowers.' Our minds need purifying so the soul can act and shine. The time will be here soon. The Peace train will be here soon.
☮️💙💙💙always a fan!!
Just for your own personal education and to get a better feel for the times, learn about the riots at the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago. Also the Kent State massacre in 1970. Now add the Viet Nam War and the draft, the assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK, race riots, college sit-ins, the introduction of drugs into high schools and colleges, Watergate, Gene McCarthy, and on and on.
I agree with your thoughts on human nature but I still believe in the possibility of a new, improved world too (maybe it's the hippie in me).
Teaser and the firecat was a great album
On a side note, I'm subscribed and have notifications on, but I don't get notifications...
Hé also wrote The First Cut Is the Deepest
Did you hear the new 2023 album "King of a land" + Amazing video of the song King of a land? Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens is 75 years old and still so fresh and idealistic... Nice creature of the Almighty ✌️😎💚🌍
Another banger 🔥 ❤
You've heard of the saying "Be the change you want to see in the world" often credited to Gandhi. Not so thought. He did say “We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” - Mahatma Gandhi
"Marked Safe" from not asking, what is up my brother?! 🙂 Yo Biz! Peace
Wussup
Thank you for sharing your thoughts about the reality of what this song is describing. Music is so important in documenting generational history. IMO, music is both chicken and egg in the role it plays in belief systems of the younger generation at any given time (at least it used to be). The older I get the less I believe in the existence of/power of “human nature”-at least the idea that human nature takes away our choices regarding picking self preservation over community. I believe we are so much more impacted by external events when it comes to determining where we stand. You can observe how things cycle in a similar pattern throughout history every 20 years (generation) or so. Some believe generation identity is stronger even than religion, race and economic class. One can hear what Stevens is proposing in “Peace Train” as idealism, but I think what he’s saying is it’s possible if, as a group of humans, we keep our eyes on the prize even when external events distract us and make it seem impossible.
Makes me want to watch Remember the Titans.
We really felt this way, that good things where gonna come. They didn't . But , maybe this time will be very near, It goes to a world dictarship, WEF style, or the people overcome the differences, awake to whats really going on and stand together for a change!
There was a tremendous Peace movement in the late 60s and early 70s and the nation was terribly divided. It was not a peaceful time at all.
Listen to “Where do the children play” ❤