When a teenager (started between junior and senior year in high school) I worked in dangerous oil field as a rough neck (and did so in summers between college years) - because it paid very well. And used the money to buy audiophile grade equipment. This song has always been a pleasure to listen to on such gear.
What has changed that we aren't doing the same stuff today.. something has gone wrong with the new generations.. why? i am 64 and i am so lucky to have lived thru all these classics..
Snap, just remembered the name of this artist while searching for a song by the other Al, Al Green that is and yes the music of yesteryear was way better than the crap we hear today.
I’m 37 and I agree, I fell in love with this song in 2016 mist a twist if you know what I mean. Mums the word and what not. I hope you are confused cause I am.
I feel the same as you. I'll be 64 in about 3 months and I feel so lucky to have this song as part of my high school days. This song and Time Passages are just beautiful masterpieces!
True story. This happened this past Monday. A customer came up to my seafood counter. She had on this dress that was kinda flowing in the air and I said "You make me think of a line from a song." She said what song and said year of the cat. She had never heard of it and asked what line was it and I said " She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like the water running in the rain." She said "Oh my God that's so beautiful! Then I just recited the entire first lyrics and she asked me the name of the song again and who sung it. She immediately goggled it and started listening to it. She loved it and thanked me for telling her about it. Im 65 she was probably 32-34. I said no problem and said you missed alot of great music!
2024 - and still one of my favorite songs ever. I was a lil kid when I first heard this, and it remains one of the most lovely orchestrated songs I've ever heard.💯🕊️💯
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My late husband and I used to love to listen to this song cuddled in bed. We enjoyed listing to music together and remembering the old days. His favorite cologne was Patchouli too. Smelled so nice on him. Such beautiful memories. Still can’t believe we won’t have those nights again 😢
This song makes me want to put a headphone and walk through the park on a rainy day, aimlessly... One of the best songs ever written. Thanks, Al Stewart. From Brazil.
This, and 'Baker Street' by Gerry Rafferty define a certain excellence in atmosphere and a certain sense of a snapshot of time during the mid to late 1970s.
Yeah it's weird that songs do that. But everyone's "atmosphere" that they relate to the song must be different, yet somehow somewhat the same, too. I wonder if more recent eras, people will look back on with less yearning and nostalgia because so much of it has been recorded because of the internet & cell phones? The 70s, 80s and 90s have a kind of veiled nostalgia because we didn't have as many ways of preserving events & moments so well...we have to rely on our own memories. What do you think?
They make me think of a rainy 🌙 night. Where the lights from the headlights and traffic signals, reflect their warm street colors into the streets, on a summer night. 🌟 🐅
Al Stewart composed a beautiful arrangement of instrumentals piano, solo guitar and saxophone, wonderfully crafted musicians, even in 2022 this song is a standout.
Man. 1983, headed back to school on a Sunday night about a 6 hr drive..I made a cassette tape …just recorded a local community college jazz station, and this song was the last one I recorded. I remember jamming to that cassette all the way back to school..great memories!
Hello I really do appreciate you for being a big fan thank you for your wonderful comments on my post it really means a lot to me.I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music…..❤️❤️❤️❤
I was 17 in 1976 with my first real boyfriend going to the movies when I first heard this song. We married and now the song has lasted but my dear husband - I’m listening and remembering until it’s my turn and I see his beautiful face again.
One of the best instrumental sections of a song ever! the writer of that instrumental section where it goes from guitar to electric guitar to saxophone is absolutely brilliant. that transfer to the saxophone takes my breath away every time I hear it.
Grateful too growing up in the 70s and college in the 80s; certainly a time with its challenges-but we approached it with optimis, hope and some feeling of togetherness.. unlike today's despair and selfishness.
Al it's 1/10/23 and I just came home from your concert at the Rialto in Tucson, and this song is why, the melody, the mood, the lyrics...simply timeless, keep on rock'n Al...God Bless Javi G.
this number brings me back to the desolate streets in The Hague...in the time this number released. this is so classic,everlasting number. Thanks to Al!
I always picture a scene in my mind like something out of a Sherlock Holmes novel, dark, wet cobblestone alleyways with mist by the streetlamps...mysterious
This song has special meaning to me. My now husband for 33 years & I went out for drinks the first time & we went back to his place & we were smooching! I am a Leo & I needed to get home. Year of the Cat came on & we just laid there waiting for the song to be over. Gratefully we’ve had 33 years of the Cat! “Me”
God... they just don't do it like that anymore. Music now is so... empty, but that song is just, well... full. There's so much there and it all comes together to make one of my most treasured musical memories.
Music is subjective, what sounds empty to you may sound extremely fruitful to someone else. Music being empty today is a bad take because there are artists who dump their soul into their music, but there are some who don't. There are empty songs out there but lets not generalize.
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One of my all time favorite songs. What a Masterpiece. I was 13 years old when this came out. Everybody loved it. A huge hit, and still stands the test of time today!
Me too, I was the same age. Al Stewart's music is so underrated. All of his albums are great, and this one and Time Passages are classics. His songs and his lyrics are so interesting and even historical, not just cheap love music or senseless gibberish.
Hard to believe this song turns 47 years old in 2 weeks......the memories are overwhelming me right now....a better time and better life, and much better music!
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i cant imagine that happening ..this just has to be one of those rare songs that is actually perfect . did you know just how special this song is when you finished recording it ?..did your life change from that point ?...it did get you on the musical map so it must have made a difference also , in Love Chronicles when you "missed the bus and had to walk 12 miles home " , where were you living ? I'm from Bournemouth to and often wondered where you lived whilst you were here ..please consider writing an auto biography as i'd love to read it , as im sure many others would @@AlStewart-1
I like the idea that Al played the guitar in this song. Most people just sing with a band. But Al was a guitar player and was one of the best. I remember in the beginning of 77 I heard it all the time. year of the cat, OMG.
2024, im 53, heard this song for the 1st time 1980, in Monrovia Liberia !! never knew who sang this until I came to the U.S in 1984. One of my all time favorite songs. I just heard it again. TY Al for a great song and great memories of my childhood.
@Mark Schultz Most songs are lacking in quality of their lyrics but this song has a story with evocative lyrics. My only complaint is it takes about a half minute to get to them.
I've loved this song since it came out around 1976. Wonderful, unforgettable teenage years of 14-15 years old. It seems like every time this beautiful song played, whether on the home stereo 8-track or on the car radio, it was a very happy moment never to forget. One was in 1976, my father, my best friend, and me went shopping for a new car for our family. Just remembering all of beautiful cars way back then almost 50 years ago. Test driving fabulous Oldsmobiles, Lincolns, Buicks, Cadillacs, and Mercurys. We ended up buying a 1976 Mercury Marquis Brougham. Beautiful automobile. Everytime a see a picture of one, I get misty eyed, play this song, and think of my late father and mother.😢
@@AlStewart-1 Done! My battery has worked for 4 minutes. I just turned it on to see what it would do. It drains fast and has an internal defect. It is only a few months old, too. Keeps shorting out.
Incredible song. It takes me back to a better time, when human's for the most part trusted each other. One could live without the feeling of big brother watching us. I play Al Stewart daily as a form of escape of today and delve into that era.
@@marypetrie930 I could walk home at 2 am on a Saturday on a quiet street, even thumb a ride. I never heard a gunshot outside a firing range, nothing was set on fire or covered in graffiti, (Well not the front of things anyway) You could lock your bicycle up, and come out to a bicycle with actual wheels on it. People didn't think the earth was flat, that medicine was poison, or that fascism was a great idea as long as GOD said so. Fuck now. I'll take the 70s back.
Met Peter White at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga CA where I was living back in the late 90s ....he signed my CD and drew me a pic of his guitar...those were the days 🦁💖
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I'm 7 years old sitting the back of my Dad's white station wagon and I hear this song constantly on the radio. Something about it, even as a kid, something about the lyrics. Who is this mysterious woman he sings of and in what part of the world does this song take place in? These are questions I had at 7 and I have now at 54. Everything about this song is perfect, the lyrical poetry, the musicianship, the feeling that I'm going on an adventure when I listen to this song. It is just such a cool, cool, song.
Pivot man Farming, where is your home base ? You got to have good music when you're traveling I-70 through Colorado. It's not nearly as scenic as people would expect it to be.
Every lyric is poetry, the music ethereal. One of my favorite songs. "You know sometime you're bound to leave her, but for now you're going to stay, in the year of the cat."
One of the best songs EVER to hit the airwaves in the 70s..my God what I would not give to return to that time..to see you again my love, listen to the 🎷 as you closed your eyes, gently biting your bottom lip, swaying back and forth..i will see you again my love..i just know it .🙏🕊️❤️🌈❤
This song was a snapshot in time when I was leaving an abusive group home the day this song came out walking to my own apartment 45 years ago, now 45 years later I hear it before going into surgery as I drift off to sleep in the surgery unit playing in the background, it is such a symbolic song and it's been with me for so many years, and it truly is the epitome when they say that music touches feelings that words cannot!
@Mark Schultz Imagine having to learn all that just to like or dislike a song. The worst people on earth are those that think music is objective rather than subjective. (And yes, worse than Hitler unless Hitler was a music snob too).
What a beautiful piece of Art! The piano harmonies, the sweeping orchestral violins, the guitar & sax solos ... and the cherry on top ... Al Stewart!!!
Amazing performance--my favourite--every instrument is stunning. The piano is so distinct and gorgeous; the electric guitars are on point. All the instruments have the focus time and meld together. The lyrics and voice of Al Stewart bring everything together. Glorious 70s sound.
When I was an undergrad in geology (way back in the 1970s), Al Stewart stood out as one of the more memorable talents of that decade. During our six-week summer field camp in the Big Bend of Texas and in the high mountains of New Mexico, we heard Stewart's songs every evening, after a long day in the field. I remember listening to Stewart as I prepared for the evening exercises while I relaxed with a very cold beer.
Anyone involved in the production of a melodic masterpiece like this deserves the utmost respect and not a little envy. Oh to have been a part of it... Wonderful memories come flooding back every time I hear it.
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Who still loves this song!
Fucking everybody
Me! So many years later...
Been lovin' this song since '75.
Such a classic masterpiece. Still listening in June 2024.
I know it's a cliche, but this is a timeless classic.
someone listening to this masterpiece in 2024
May 24
When a teenager (started between junior and senior year in high school) I worked in dangerous oil field as a rough neck (and did so in summers between college years) - because it paid very well. And used the money to buy audiophile grade equipment. This song has always been a pleasure to listen to on such gear.
@@TheSulross tbh a song like this one is a pleasure on ANY gear ;)
Un délice de pop !
Yes!! June 2024
What has changed that we aren't doing the same stuff today.. something has gone wrong with the new generations.. why? i am 64 and i am so lucky to have lived thru all these classics..
Snap, just remembered the name of this artist while searching for a song by the other Al, Al Green that is and yes the music of yesteryear was way better than the crap we hear today.
Mark Foster comes up with songs like this FTP
I’m 37 and I agree, I fell in love with this song in 2016 mist a twist if you know what I mean. Mums the word and what not. I hope you are confused cause I am.
I feel the same as you. I'll be 64 in about 3 months and I feel so lucky to have this song as part of my high school days. This song and Time Passages are just beautiful masterpieces!
Takes me back to a time that's gone forever.
I was young, vibrant, looking forward to life and all it's possibilities and wonder.
True story. This happened this past Monday. A customer came up to my seafood counter. She had on this dress that was kinda flowing in the air and I said "You make me think of a line from a song." She said what song and said year of the cat. She had never heard of it and asked what line was it and I said " She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like the water running in the rain." She said "Oh my God that's so beautiful! Then I just recited the entire first lyrics and she asked me the name of the song again and who sung it. She immediately goggled it and started listening to it. She loved it and thanked me for telling her about it. Im 65 she was probably 32-34. I said no problem and said you missed alot of great music!
She was Vexed by 70s music. I am almost 62 and I get that completely.
💖👍
You wanted some. ..so
Not to be a stickler but it's "She comes out of the sun in a silk dress runnin' like a watercolor in the rain..." Love this song too!
Beautiful song.🌹🌹❤️
Listening in 2024
Going back to the 70’s when I was young and the music was great.
2024 - and still one of my favorite songs ever. I was a lil kid when I first heard this, and it remains one of the most lovely orchestrated songs I've ever heard.💯🕊️💯
Majestic song , voice , lyrics , melody. Is one of those masterpiece that passes and god knows why you never listen to them before.
The best thing in my 64 years of life is that I was so fortunate to be alive in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s to hear classics like this. Memories ...
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I bet it was sweet hearing them when they were brand new!
same age, same thoughts... 🙂😊🙏
Greetings from Milan!
@@appalachiangunman9589 It was.
hear hear
I am 65 this song came out when I was about 19 and I still listen to it to this day it takes me bk to the year of the cat when time was much simpler
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You are great life was simpler then the Year of the Cat
The Year of the Cat Al Stewart Al Stewart is phenomenal rock on Al Stewart 🎶🎸🎵🎸🎶🎵🎶🌄🎶🎶🎵🐕
The year of the.Cat. AL. Steart yea black one life was simpler
I'm 63! I can relate all too well. Life was good then. Music was some of the best and memorable.
One of most beautiful songs ever written. Period
And musical composition
You so right
No it's not. Period!
Me thinks a stay on the farm a little longer might mitigate your beautifulness.
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A true gem just when your thinking it can't get any better it does
My late husband and I used to love to listen to this song cuddled in bed. We enjoyed listing to music together and remembering the old days. His favorite cologne was Patchouli too. Smelled so nice on him. Such beautiful memories. Still can’t believe we won’t have those nights again 😢
So thought provoking.Wish you well for the future.
So glad I was a youngin then...God bless that generation! !
This song NEVER gets old. I could put it on loop and listen to it over and over. My high school days all over again. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
This song makes me want to put a headphone and walk through the park on a rainy day, aimlessly... One of the best songs ever written. Thanks, Al Stewart. From Brazil.
feels like a calm rainy day. beautiful, calm vibe. And darn good musicians!
Amen brother 🌹
No wonder it's a good song. It belongs to the era of true music.
This, and 'Baker Street' by Gerry Rafferty define a certain excellence in atmosphere and a certain sense of a snapshot of time during the mid to late 1970s.
Yeah it's weird that songs do that. But everyone's "atmosphere" that they relate to the song must be different, yet somehow somewhat the same, too. I wonder if more recent eras, people will look back on with less yearning and nostalgia because so much of it has been recorded because of the internet & cell phones? The 70s, 80s and 90s have a kind of veiled nostalgia because we didn't have as many ways of preserving events & moments so well...we have to rely on our own memories. What do you think?
They make me think of a rainy 🌙 night. Where the lights from the headlights and traffic signals, reflect their warm street colors into the streets, on a summer night. 🌟 🐅
Exactly, I would still dare to add Your Latest Trick
Same producer? No, but Hugh Murphy and Alan Parsons had a very similar style.
I would add Rod Stewart's "Killing of Georgie (pts. 1 and 2)" to make it a trifecta :)
Al Stewart composed a beautiful arrangement of instrumentals piano, solo guitar and saxophone, wonderfully crafted musicians, even in 2022 this song is a standout.
This is a masterpiece! All-time classic!
This song is therapeutic. It just makes you close your eyes and drift off for a few special minutes.
Man. 1983, headed back to school on a Sunday night about a 6 hr drive..I made a cassette tape …just recorded a local community college jazz station, and this song was the last one I recorded. I remember jamming to that cassette all the way back to school..great memories!
This song transcends time 🎉 and romance. ❤
I'm 31 and it's 2022 I'm lucky I even found a masterpiece like this.
You are truly an old soul
Can never get tired of this.
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There are times when I can hardly bear to listen to this ... the memories are so intense.
Same here ....I feel like crying but what for I have no idea ! ♡
im crying right now
I can relate
It's nostalgia. A powerful drug with serious side effects.
Best thoughts to you all ^
I was 17 in 1976 with my first real boyfriend going to the movies when I first heard this song. We married and now the song has lasted but my dear husband - I’m listening and remembering until it’s my turn and I see his beautiful face again.
One of the best instrumental sections of a song ever! the writer of that instrumental section where it goes from guitar to electric guitar to saxophone is absolutely brilliant. that transfer to the saxophone takes my breath away every time I hear it.
Intoxicating 😍👏👏
Totally agree, something you would like is Pink Floyd "Final Cut" . Transition from Roger's voice to saxophone.
That sucker was COMPOSED. We took artistry for granted so often then, because it kept coming every single day. And now it's a kind of wasteland.
Still gives me goosebumps after all these years!
I’ve always said this as well. It’s simply beautiful.
one of the best things about 50 years old,is the fact that i lived my teenage years in the 80's that is priceless and i am grateful !!!
Couldn't agree more.
One of the best songs of the 70's and that's saying a lot.
Amen, Bro.
Grateful too growing up in the 70s and college in the 80s; certainly a time with its challenges-but we approached it with optimis, hope and some feeling of togetherness.. unlike today's despair and selfishness.
I guess the question is ... will any generation stop feeling that which is "Nostalgia" ?
Al it's 1/10/23 and I just came home from your concert at the Rialto in Tucson, and this song is why, the melody, the mood, the lyrics...simply timeless, keep on rock'n Al...God Bless Javi G.
this number brings me back to the desolate streets in The Hague...in the time this number released.
this is so classic,everlasting number.
Thanks to Al!
One of the greatest songs ever recorded.
she comes out of the sun in a silk dress on running like a watercolor in the rain . . Amazing
Great lyrics!
One of my favorite lines in popular music.
YES! I was just thinking the same thing. One of the best lines I’ve ever heard that painted pictures in my mind! 😗
NickyBuff I totally agree with you on that!
That lyric evokes such a vivid mind-picture...
It's a mystical magical song without being spooky..Yes it's like a misty morning sunrise shadowing the backdrops of the city's seaport..
I always picture a scene in my mind like something out of a Sherlock Holmes novel, dark, wet cobblestone alleyways with mist by the streetlamps...mysterious
@@marcpeters4599 Exactly.
YEAH !!
This song and I'm Not In Love by 10CC gives me almost the same feeling!
It IS like a cat!
Okay . . . I’m blown-away by simplicity
This song has special meaning to me. My now husband for 33 years & I went out for drinks the first time & we went back to his place & we were smooching! I am a Leo & I needed to get home. Year of the Cat came on & we just laid there waiting for the song to be over. Gratefully we’ve had 33 years of the Cat! “Me”
Thanks for listening. Just because it means so much to me doesn’t mean anyone else wants to read about it!❤
I believe it was 1977.. I was 16 and going through the most difficult times and this song always got me through it all
What a masterpiece
All Time Classic Never Gets Old
Beautiful the excellence.
Heard this when it first came out while serving in the Navy in the Caribbean. Great memories.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written and performed
ong
Meu Deus que voz é está ? Realmente éramos muito feliz só por ter pessoas iguais está banda que falava de amor ❤️ pra os quatro canto do mundo 😍
God I love this song. You don't even have to be a CAT LOVER like I am!
God... they just don't do it like that anymore. Music now is so... empty, but that song is just, well... full. There's so much there and it all comes together to make one of my most treasured musical memories.
Music & art reflects our civilization
Music is subjective, what sounds empty to you may sound extremely fruitful to someone else. Music being empty today is a bad take because there are artists who dump their soul into their music, but there are some who don't. There are empty songs out there but lets not generalize.
Going back to the 70’s when we were young and the music was great
@@residual_soap meh. What she said was spot on.
Empty. Yes. This is bursting with richness
Great and beautiful song🎶🎵🎶❤️
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La he escuchado muchísimas veces y me encanta esta canción.
I'm a Musician's son and this instrumental is soft sweet and deep all at once ........................
One of my all time favorite songs. What a Masterpiece. I was 13 years old when this came out. Everybody loved it. A huge hit, and still stands the test of time today!
Me too, I was the same age. Al Stewart's music is so underrated. All of his albums are great, and this one and Time Passages are classics. His songs and his lyrics are so interesting and even historical, not just cheap love music or senseless gibberish.
Me too in 1976 !! Such great wonderful music 🎶
I was 9 in 76 and still remember hearing this song on my AM radio. Such absolutely vivid memories.
Hard to believe this song turns 47 years old in 2 weeks......the memories are overwhelming me right now....a better time and better life, and much better music!
a timeless masterpiece
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i cant imagine that happening ..this just has to be one of those rare songs that is actually perfect .
did you know just how special this song is when you finished recording it ?..did your life change from that point ?...it did get you on the musical map so it must have made a difference
also , in Love Chronicles when you "missed the bus and had to walk 12 miles home " , where were you living ? I'm from Bournemouth to and often wondered where you lived whilst you were here ..please consider writing an auto biography as i'd love to read it , as im sure many others would @@AlStewart-1
@@kellymelrose8527 lovely do you have google chat????
Still Holds Up In 2020!!
Peace From London. 🙏
The piano on this song is incredible
Who is that playing?
Peter John Wood who co wrote The Year of The Cat
Released 1976. I was in Europe that summer when the song hit the charts. Forty-six years later the song still gives me emotional chills.
I was 16 when it come out in 1976😊💃(Norway )
@@livmeretejacobsen5785 I was 10 🙃
I like the idea that Al played the guitar in this song. Most people just sing with a band. But
Al was a guitar player and was one of the best. I remember in the beginning of 77 I heard it all the time. year of the cat, OMG.
Just listened to this again after many years. A timeless classic.
In the 70's I didn't like this song, but today I think it is a masterpiece - so wonderful
What amazing Talent this song is Timeless absolutely Goldie.
2024, im 53, heard this song for the 1st time 1980, in Monrovia Liberia !! never knew who sang this until I came to the U.S in 1984. One of my all time favorite songs. I just heard it again. TY Al for a great song and great memories of my childhood.
Beautiful and magical...
How can you not love this song? Imagine yourself by the blue tiled walls in the market stalls ❤️
He just paints a picture using words.
I like to stroll through crowds like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime.
@Mark Schultz As opposed to what?
Running in the rain in a silk dress❤
@Mark Schultz Most songs are lacking in quality of their lyrics but this song has a story with evocative lyrics. My only complaint is it takes about a half minute to get to them.
Absolutely wonderful. A classic that has stood the test of time. ❤❤
I've loved this song since it came out around 1976. Wonderful, unforgettable teenage years of 14-15 years old. It seems like every time this beautiful song played, whether on the home stereo 8-track or on the car radio, it was a very happy moment never to forget.
One was in 1976, my father, my best friend, and me went shopping for a new car for our family. Just remembering all of beautiful cars way back then almost 50 years ago. Test driving fabulous Oldsmobiles, Lincolns, Buicks, Cadillacs, and Mercurys. We ended up buying a 1976 Mercury Marquis Brougham. Beautiful automobile. Everytime a see a picture of one, I get misty eyed, play this song, and think of my late father and mother.😢
That’s so lovely do you have google chat?
@@AlStewart-1 No Al, I don't. I will have to look into that. Are you on there, I presume? I would love to chat with you!
@@MarkWG when you get it let me know….
@@AlStewart-1 Done! My battery has worked for 4 minutes. I just turned it on to see what it would do. It drains fast and has an internal defect. It is only a few months old, too. Keeps shorting out.
@@MarkWG guess You are still busy
Incredible song. It takes me back to a better time, when human's for the most part trusted each other. One could live without the feeling of big brother watching us. I play Al Stewart daily as a form of escape of today and delve into that era.
I do the same thing.
Great song but rose tinted glasses comment!...plenty of shitty things in the 70's too...I remember!
Right
@@marypetrie930 I could walk home at 2 am on a Saturday on a quiet street, even thumb a ride. I never heard a gunshot outside a firing range, nothing was set on fire or covered in graffiti, (Well not the front of things anyway) You could lock your bicycle up, and come out to a bicycle with actual wheels on it. People didn't think the earth was flat, that medicine was poison, or that fascism was a great idea as long as GOD said so. Fuck now. I'll take the 70s back.
@@patrickmartin448 Me too.... Every morning and night!
Love it we had it GOOD! We were blessed!
This song has always put a mystical feeling over me like no other song.
A "Mystical feeling" is a good way to describe it.
Met Peter White at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga CA where I was living back in the late 90s ....he signed my CD and drew me a pic of his guitar...those were the days 🦁💖
Such a gorgeous song filled with so much imagery
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I'm 7 years old sitting the back of my Dad's white station wagon and I hear this song constantly on the radio. Something about it, even as a kid, something about the lyrics. Who is this mysterious woman he sings of and in what part of the world does this song take place in? These are questions I had at 7 and I have now at 54. Everything about this song is perfect, the lyrical poetry, the musicianship, the feeling that I'm going on an adventure when I listen to this song. It is just such a cool, cool, song.
I believe it takes place in Morocco because of the hint of Casablanca (bogart movie) plus the reference to blue-tiled walls in the alleys, etc.
I love this song being 20 years old driving trucks across the I 70 to Denver all night long listening to it brings back great memories with my dad
Pivot man Farming, where is your home base ? You got to have good music when you're traveling I-70 through Colorado. It's not nearly as scenic as people would expect it to be.
Master piece is the right term for such a beautifully crafted tail thats go so much depth to it muscly.
Every lyric is poetry, the music ethereal. One of my favorite songs.
"You know sometime you're bound to leave her, but for now you're going to stay, in the year of the cat."
Agree!!!
This is one of those classics that transcends time and emotion....
I was 8 when this song came out and felt this was adult music and so desperately wanted to connect and many decades later I did.
Ahead of its time what a gem
Boy, that saxophone just OWNS the room.
Now, This was and still is GOOD MUSIC
Fabulous....from an era where music had real soul and passion (from an old man)
You said it.
🗣 In my opinion : The most *Beautiful* light song from 70's
Beautiful people playing beautiful music:)
this song haunts me with the most wonderful memories of the time.
Great song writing, great performances by all those playing, you just don't see that much talent in one place and one song anymore.
Man I would of loved to live during these times. 2000 baby listening to a golden gem
An old soul, we feel you
One of the best songs EVER to hit the airwaves in the 70s..my God what I would not give to return to that time..to see you again my love, listen to the 🎷 as you closed your eyes, gently biting your bottom lip, swaying back and forth..i will see you again my love..i just know it .🙏🕊️❤️🌈❤
This song was a snapshot in time when I was leaving an abusive group home the day this song came out walking to my own apartment 45 years ago, now 45 years later I hear it before going into surgery as I drift off to sleep in the surgery unit playing in the background, it is such a symbolic song and it's been with me for so many years, and it truly is the epitome when they say that music touches feelings that words cannot!
Greatest song ever, every time I hear it, it goes back to my joyful years of the 70's when I was just a kid in Florida.
@Mark Schultz No but this song is absolutely great, unless of course you disagree.
im in uk, i thought this awesome
Mark Schultz don’t listen to this song, dumbass.
@Mark Schultz Imagine having to learn all that just to like or dislike a song. The worst people on earth are those that think music is objective rather than subjective. (And yes, worse than Hitler unless Hitler was a music snob too).
@Mark Schultz I didn't say Hitlerian, I said worse than Hitlerian.
Yes😊 My Favorite Song..
Um grande clássico🎤🎹 não me canso de ouvir.Belissimo🌹🌺
Highly underrated song of the 70’s by a highly underrated artist.
Did not appreciate this song during my teen years, but now I definitely do! ♥️♥️
Underrated?? By who? Its one of most popular songs of that era lol
I was so fortunate to see Al Stewart in concert in Fresno, CA. And then after the show I sat and talked to him. He was so charming.
wow🐈 lucky you !
Amazing song. The world never will get singers, songs, poets, as we had in 80's. The best years of this world.
Thank Christ.....we have THIS !!
What a beautiful piece of Art! The piano harmonies, the sweeping orchestral violins, the guitar & sax solos ... and the cherry on top ... Al Stewart!!!
Oh my gosh, yes! It's got all the instrumentation. And the lyrics are just haunting.
Saw him perform live about three years ago. Just him and his guitar. Amazing 💛
Michelle, where was? What a privilege!
City Winery, NYC. Amazing.
Lucky you are!
Amazing performance--my favourite--every instrument is stunning. The piano is so distinct and gorgeous; the electric guitars are on point. All the instruments have the focus time and meld together. The lyrics and voice of Al Stewart bring everything together. Glorious 70s sound.
When I was an undergrad in geology (way back in the 1970s), Al Stewart stood out as one of the more memorable talents of that decade. During our six-week summer field camp in the Big Bend of Texas and in the high mountains of New Mexico, we heard Stewart's songs every evening, after a long day in the field. I remember listening to Stewart as I prepared for the evening exercises while I relaxed with a very cold beer.
Who's still listening to this in August 2020 ?
I'm still listening to this now in 2020 and beyond til god takes me home .
December 2020. One of the greatest songs of all time. Brings back the memories of my teen years 70's and 80's.
January 22,2021.
Febrero 2021 y aún la disfruto al máximo.
Feb. 21, 2021
Perfect song. Musically and lyrically mesh into magic ❤️
what a great singer and amazing band. 1970s greatest musical decade.
Beautiful song have always loved it and time passages 2 years old when it came thanks Al
Anyone involved in the production of a melodic masterpiece like this deserves the utmost respect and not a little envy. Oh to have been a part of it... Wonderful memories come flooding back every time I hear it.