1976 was THE PEAK OF PEAK In 1976 came out... Hotel California... Year of the Cat... Tales of Mistery and Imagination... A New World Record... Lucio Battisti, il Contrabasso, La Batteria... And th List goes on and on
We have seen Al live about a dozen times. We have met him on 3 occasions. He is a gentleman as well as a genius. Our favourite track is Modern Times, we asked him to consider playing it when we saw him in Bristol about 4 years ago, we saw him in Cardiff recently and he played it brilliantly, really made the night for us
I get a real kick watching you guys discovering some of the music I have known for over four decades. Good for you. Al Stewart and Gerry Rafferty were two of my favourite musicians. BTW what you thought were violins are cellos.
@@joejoseph2247 that’s it exactly! I grin all the while I’m watching their reaction. And THIS song is in my top 3 of all time so it’s even more special!
Alan Parsons engineered. Parsons did the beatles white album.....and Pink Floyd's DSOTM. Alan Parsons is the bomb. He lives near Santa Barbara now......working his studio, Parsonics. If you like this song......listen to any of the Alan Parsons albums. From Tales of Mystery and Imagination to A Valid Path....and beyond. You'll see why this song is so well done. Kudos to Al Stewart for sure.
Oh my God there is nothing funnier and more fulfilling than seeing young (to me) people experience truly superior music. Not just because it's from my generation, but because this is timeless.
What all the generations since don't understand is, we smoked a bowl, turned off the lights, poured a glass of wine, opened a beer etc, , put on our headphones in a dark room only lit by the stereo dial and the turn table light and heard it all, 100%. The 70’s we're amazing in so many different ways, and there was NEVER the need to go faster, in anything. Kick back, and enjoy the ride. Pure Bliss.
We did that, but sat on the floor of my friend Mikka's bedroom facing a mirror. Except sub mushrooms and beer. All kinds of songs of many slower genres and eras. Including Pink Floyd and other softer prog and the Beatles. That was in 1985 onward to 1989. I was born in 1970. We all were that age. ❤
This song will fall off your radar for 20 or 30 years and you'll pick it up unexpectedly again and think damn this was a good song. No one hates this song.
I am so pleasantly surprised by how much you guys enjoyed this. Love this song, but it's hard to tell sometimes how much of it is due to a nostalgia. So happy to know this stands the test of time.
I like what he asked almost dismissively. What is he doing? He's playing that acoustic guitar and he's singing it. And he wrote it and he pro by actually Alan parson produced it Alan parsons whatever, but yeah, yeah, he he's saying it put the band together, play guitar on it. I mean, yeah, that's all he's doing. As a reason, it's his song.Ohey, talk it about. Al stewart alister
And that part that sounds like a strange section Of an orchestra coming in is actually just the keyboard player. It's just the keyboard player. Ha ha hait's really just a keyboard player man. Same effect. Okay, I'd love to see him with a full orchestrai. Think he actually did it on a cruise ship Al Stewart did. With a full orchestra he's got other songs by the way
So Hey, everybody that's not an orchestra part. That is the keyboardist only that sounds like the strange section of a orchestra not to be annoyed all but that's a fact that's done on a keyboard a hammond b three
The pianist in Al's band, Peter Wood, co-wrote this with Al. Peter was just sitting around playing chords on his piano (the riff you hear throughout the song), and Al liled what he heard and wrote the song around it
Bring out your weed, lava lamp, and black light posters. Burn some strawberry incense. Grab your pet rock and mood rings. Put on your bell bottoms. We're taking a tour of the 70's. A magical decade that is sadly now history. This song is one of my absolute favorite songs, and artists. Check out Time Passages, On The Border, You're On My Mind Like A Song On The Radio. All by Al Stewart.
I bought this album in 1976 when I was 20. And I still have it in excellent condition. My rocker friends didn’t understand why I bought it. It just spoke to me. One song on the album, “Flying Sorcery” got me wanting to REALLY learn to fly. And I did!! Thanks Al.
❤ I cant stop watching this song and this is the best reaction to it. You guys should do a live version of it, like the Grey Whistle Test. You can check out all the different instruments and the sax Ryan 😊
'Sup from the 859!! This song has stuck with me for years, so very good!! I'm a 80's guy but this song is the amazing 70's!! Whats cooler than being cool? Al Stewart!!
Welcome to our childhood guys, glad you could join. Jr high back then was pretty special. The airways were littered with great music in every direction...
I know how you feel. I hope, like for me, this wonderful, incredible song is part of that bridge that connects you to your wife forever. Peace and love to you both.
"Haunting" is a good descriptor. I was 12 at the time. My connection wasn't as dramatic as yours, but Jr. High School can flood anyone with mixed emotions and this song definitely helped me sort through all that mess.
Can you visualize it, guys? You’re listening to a master storyteller. His use of precise words to a beautiful tune with a magnificent arrangement - it’s at the top of my list of best songs ever!
"She comes out of the sun with a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain" That line alone shows why this song is a masterclass in song writing.
I agree. The arrangement, the lyric mated with gorgeously precise musicianship? It saddens me to know that our culture has devolved so precipitously and so rapidly since this *absolute masterpiece* was produced.
@@chrisreed3572 We can carry it on and when the time is right it can re-emerge and be added to. inspired we will advance music. This is just s start here in 3d
My Fifth Grade English Teacher played this album, during class. This was one of his tactics, to get us to learn how to write in Proper Cursive in Paragraph Form. He wrote all the lyrics on the chalkboard, put on the Vinyl, while the class wrote away. It was this Class, that I heard so many Classic Artists, that still remind me of that Teacher and how cool He was to influence so many young people to learn English, but at the same time hear GREAT Music.
I had a music teacher all through elementary school in the 60’s who influenced thousands of students in the same way. All show tunes, had to write the words listen to the tune by his piano playing and sing a line and you better know the song cause you don’t know which line of the song you have to sing. Created a whole school to learn every show tune created. Viva Mr. Morgan ~ #mrmorgansawmillelementary
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain." Are you kidding me? Dude is a master wordsmith. Do "Roads To Moscow". Thanks for this reaction.
He had two intros for Roads to Moscow. He couldn't decide, so used both of them. Al now lives in California, owns a winery but still plays. I love the stuff he did with Lawrence Juber.
Love the “bogart movie” start too...”strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime”...that was the initial charm for me. And the solo where the instruments take over one by one was the final sealer for me.
Lyrics. So important in any Al Stewart song. The allusion to Bogart's Casablanca, and the whole feel of a Moroccan escapade. Plus everything else that was said. Nice reaction!
1976-1977 northern Mexico, Teenager, first love, block party. Didn't know much English, and/or fully understood what the song was about. Best slow dance of our lives. vinyl records, 45 rpm . Some people get to experience the song for the first time.... we lived it when it first came out.....
Like seriously, this epic rock song is right up there with Stairway To Heaven and Bohemian Rhapsody. Panoramic, haunting and dazzling. Soul caressing instrumentations swirling with whirling majestic radiance. Evocative lyrical transcendence conjured from another world. This luminous song demands and deserves and receives repeated listens, played really loud and i mean like seriously cranked up.
He was inspired by Lauren Becall and Humphrey Bogart and by different starsigns of the zodiac oooo- Kay. It's a fabulous song and when I wear patchouli perfume I think of this song it's so hippy flower child free. ❤
My first impression when I heard it in the 70s was "haunting." I imagined the mysterious woman in the song is a ghost (I was a teenager :) . He comes to recognize it but decides to stay anyway, even though he knows it's not real & that he'll have to leave some day. The real meaning could be miles away from my version but it's how I'll always remember this incredible song.
The 70s had some great songs, Al's contributions are a vibe. " If you don't like it fast forward." Fans of this song didn't fast forward. One of the most beautiful classic rock songs of the 70s. Al has a few of them.
As a 62 year old guy it's amazing to have listened to this masterpiece and many other great songs from the 60's and 70's and these guys are just discovering they were born in the wrong era.Fortunately,this music is still available for younger people to discover.I used to find out about these older bands by hanging out in record stores but today they barely still exist.Now unless you know the band or someone older introduces it to you you'll never hear this great stuff.The world has lost its soul.
You should hear Al Stewart's "Nostradamus", as well as "On the Border". Brilliant works, both. Stewart most likely falls into the "storyteller" category. And you guys are awesome!! We old geezers LOVE to see young guys like you digging OUR music. Keep it up and give us more!! Love you guys and may God bless!!
This is why we say we grew up with the best music, and the best cars in the 70's and 80's. I carry in my truck a cd of Year of the Cat, Dark side of the Moon, CCR greatest hits and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
I was 16 yo when i first listened to Year of the Cat..what an absolute masterpiece my favourite of all time. Very blessed to have grown up with 70's music. Loved watching you guys react as you discover his talent. Thanks for playing it..that sax still gives me shivers....
Guys, the thing I always loved about this amazing track, is how, even when it goes in jazzy mode, EVERYTHING is in context. Every note is beautifully in context. It's a master-piece of musicianship and a classic from the '70's rock/blues/jazz genre. Timeless. Still listening to it 50 years later and loving it just the same.
Another one from the embarrassment of riches that was the music of the 70s. We didn’t know how good we had it back then!
We sure didn't.
Great song !!!
1976 was THE PEAK OF PEAK
In 1976 came out...
Hotel California...
Year of the Cat...
Tales of Mistery and Imagination...
A New World Record...
Lucio Battisti, il Contrabasso, La Batteria...
And th List goes on and on
Another great song by Al Stewart is "Time Passages"
On the border. Almost Lucy. Song on the Radio. The Hits just keep on coming. But to call an lp "24 carrots"...what a terrible Dad joke.
Back again for my annual indulgence. Thanks guys.
What is Al Stewart playing?
He's playing the strings of your soul.
He actually plays the clean electric guitar after the "orchestral" synth
This song brings emotions not just a vibe. Simply genius.
This is the one song to play to anyone who tells you there is no such thing as a perfect song.
Yes. This.
Man, you got that right!!
This does come pretty close to a perfect song.
PERFECT 10+
lt isn't a great song, but it's a brilliant arrangement and production.
This song is beautiful.
I love that you have had the same mind-blowing experience that I have had for this piece of perfect art.
I’m 55. It’s good to see fine young dudes like you appreciating some of the wonderful music from the past ❤
Refreshing to see young people with good taste
This isn't a song, it's musical genius.
Totally agree.
You have to know music 🎶🎵
We have seen Al live about a dozen times. We have met him on 3 occasions. He is a gentleman as well as a genius. Our favourite track is Modern Times, we asked him to consider playing it when we saw him in Bristol about 4 years ago, we saw him in Cardiff recently and he played it brilliantly, really made the night for us
Amazing song. If dews me in every time.
For very long, I've considered this the perfect song. It has every element you'd want in a song.
I get a real kick watching you guys discovering some of the music I have known for over four decades. Good for you.
Al Stewart and Gerry Rafferty were two of my favourite musicians. BTW what you thought were violins are cellos.
I am so jealous of you three people able to listen to this song for the first time. I want to go back and relive that first time again.
Lovely.
My sentiment exactly.
Ditto. I lived it too.
we get to relive it through these guys :)
@@joejoseph2247 that’s it exactly! I grin all the while I’m watching their reaction. And THIS song is in my top 3 of all time so it’s even more special!
So right Elaine. It's that good ! Now it's lost in those time passages...:)
In a silk dress, running, like a watercolor in the rain. One of the best lines ever!!!
Totally agree.
yup. Still think about it sometimes. When I'm dodging raindrops
Yea, that’s a vivid classic line
Alan Parsons engineered. Parsons did the beatles white album.....and Pink Floyd's DSOTM. Alan Parsons is the bomb. He lives near Santa Barbara now......working his studio, Parsonics. If you like this song......listen to any of the Alan Parsons albums. From Tales of Mystery and Imagination to A Valid Path....and beyond. You'll see why this song is so well done. Kudos to Al Stewart for sure.
Old and wise and silence and I just beautiful
Watched too many political videos today, and I'm bummed. Gonna watch this for the umpteenth time 'cause it always makes me happy. Thanks, guys!😊❤
I can relate, @TallyDrake 💯🌊🐬
It makes me happy as well my friend.
This is such a beautiful and haunting song.
It's one of the it's recognized as one of the best beautiful rock and roll songs of all time
best reaction so far!
Best instrumental break in history - strings to Spanish guitar to electric guitar to sax. Brilliant.
Absolutely!
The Year of the Cat has had me under its spell for forty years...
A mí también
@@franciscodanieldaddino1174 😃 👍 👊
You and me, both !
@@isolde1802 ❤📆🐱
Oh my God there is nothing funnier and more fulfilling than seeing young (to me) people experience truly superior music. Not just because it's from my generation, but because this is timeless.
They make me laugh out loud!
I keep coming back to this reaction. One of my absolute favourites on UA-cam!
I do, too. The reaction is so cool to rewatch, like listening to the song again and again!
Agreed. These guys had such a heartfelt and sincere feeling bordering on ecstasy. Watching it made me have hope for this generation.
Me too, great reaction! It truly is a feel good song.
Me too!!
What all the generations since don't understand is, we smoked a bowl, turned off the lights, poured a glass of wine, opened a beer etc, , put on our headphones in a dark room only lit by the stereo dial and the turn table light and heard it all, 100%. The 70’s we're amazing in so many different ways, and there was NEVER the need to go faster, in anything. Kick back, and enjoy the ride. Pure Bliss.
Dont forget about the black light!
We did that, but sat on the floor of my friend Mikka's bedroom facing a mirror. Except sub mushrooms and beer.
All kinds of songs of many slower genres and eras. Including Pink Floyd and other softer prog and the Beatles.
That was in 1985 onward to 1989.
I was born in 1970. We all were that age. ❤
@@brianmaltby1424 yes definitely the black light was a must 👌
Yep! That's exactly it!
Wow ! I thought I was the only one doing this. So relaxing as you put it.
My 2 cats love your reaction to this song. MEOW!
This song will fall off your radar for 20 or 30 years and you'll pick it up unexpectedly again and think damn this was a good song. No one hates this song.
He's playing rhythm and singing. He wrote it too!
Ty's reaction to the sax is priceless.
I am so pleasantly surprised by how much you guys enjoyed this. Love this song, but it's hard to tell sometimes how much of it is due to a nostalgia. So happy to know this stands the test of time.
It's not nostalgia it's just a well written timeless song 😀🎸🎷🎹
I didn't hear it until the mid 2000's while watching Running With Scissors. Instantly knew it was special.
Ok, everybody now,with the synchronised head wobble 😂❤
I'm crying as I watching you guys.....So much joy. That's what real music is about....Pure Joy. The Year of the Cat is a timeless classic.
Yes... crying with you
@@andrewpetik2034 I'm on my 5th viewing. Now it's just smiles all the way. :)😊
yes....yes, it is...great music from an incredible songwriter...
@@spoonunit03
I can smile now!
I am back for another view.
It is now like listening to this masterpiece with old friends.
😊✌️
I didn't want to nit pick but they missed the cello and mandolin. No sense judging them. It is overwhelming.
This is by far my favorite reaction video.
Also my favorite reaction video but I have other favorites and coincidentally they are Also regarding this song
I like what he asked almost dismissively. What is he doing? He's playing that acoustic guitar and he's singing it. And he wrote it and he pro by actually Alan parson produced it Alan parsons whatever, but yeah, yeah, he he's saying it put the band together, play guitar on it. I mean, yeah, that's all he's doing. As a reason, it's his song.Ohey, talk it about.
Al stewart alister
🎉
And that part that sounds like a strange section Of an orchestra coming in is actually just the keyboard player. It's just the keyboard player. Ha ha hait's really just a keyboard player man. Same effect. Okay, I'd love to see him with a full orchestrai. Think he actually did it on a cruise ship Al Stewart did. With a full orchestra he's got other songs by the way
So Hey, everybody that's not an orchestra part. That is the keyboardist only that sounds like the strange section of a orchestra not to be annoyed all but that's a fact that's done on a keyboard a hammond b three
I have to come back to this one over and over again. The best reaction ever.
Me to. I brings me joy!
I love that you guys love this song... It's 70s classic fore sure. One of the best.
That triple hit of acoustic guitar/electric guitar/sax solos preceded by the string section sounds just as amazing now as it did in 76'
Yes it does!
Yes !
Again I LOVE you guyz reacting to this song xxx 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺😅😊🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨
This is The Perfect Song.
The pianist in Al's band, Peter Wood, co-wrote this with Al. Peter was just sitting around playing chords on his piano (the riff you hear throughout the song), and Al liled what he heard and wrote the song around it
Bring out your weed, lava lamp, and black light posters. Burn some strawberry incense. Grab your pet rock and mood rings. Put on your bell bottoms. We're taking a tour of the 70's. A magical decade that is sadly now history. This song is one of my absolute favorite songs, and artists. Check out Time Passages, On The Border, You're On My Mind Like A Song On The Radio. All by Al Stewart.
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I can't wait until the guitars and sax come in to see the faces!
PS
It did not disappoint.
The album is a masterpiece.
I bought this album in 1976 when I was 20. And I still have it in excellent condition. My rocker friends didn’t understand why I bought it. It just spoke to me. One song on the album, “Flying Sorcery” got me wanting to REALLY learn to fly. And I did!! Thanks Al.
I LOVE Flying Sorcery! First time I'd heard of Amy Johnson. We all know who Amelia Earhart was, but Amy is absolutely right up there with her.
❤ I cant stop watching this song and this is the best reaction to it. You guys should do a live version of it, like the Grey Whistle Test. You can check out all the different instruments and the sax Ryan 😊
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This song is just beautiful... and it brings back so many good memories of my life with childhood friends in the 70s..
'Sup from the 859!! This song has stuck with me for years, so very good!! I'm a 80's guy but this song is the amazing 70's!! Whats cooler than being cool? Al Stewart!!
Welcome to our childhood guys, glad you could join. Jr high back then was pretty special. The airways were littered with great music in every direction...
My absolute favorite song of all time
This has to be one of the best songs ever written
I,m 68. Cryiing while listening. Lost my wife of 21 years 2 months ago. Love this song.
Sorry for your loss...
So sorry for your loss. Huge, warm, comforting hugs.
I know how you feel. I hope, like for me, this wonderful, incredible song is part of that bridge that connects you to your wife forever. Peace and love to you both.
"hold fast to what is fine" (1 Thess 5 :21)
thankyou brother
The layering of instruments is masterful. A timeless classic.
Compliments of the genius producing of Alan Parsons
This is a great song , Al Stewart is a super nice musician
EVERYTHING about this song screams MASTERPIECE ❤
Ryan - your reaction was beautiful. I enjoyed this soooooooo much. 😂
Absolute ear candy..beautiful
One of the absolute greatest songs of all time!
This song is so hauntingly beautiful. I was 8 when it came out, and my big brother had drowned...and, somehow, this song soooothed me so deeply.
"Haunting" is a good descriptor. I was 12 at the time. My connection wasn't as dramatic as yours, but Jr. High School can flood anyone with mixed emotions and this song definitely helped me sort through all that mess.
I'm so sorry about your brother. I'm glad you found some solace in this beautiful song.
Bless you.
Sorry about your brother and our thoughts are with you. This song is a masterpiece
So sorry for your loss
The best arrangement I've ever heard in music.... Amazing....
Can you visualize it, guys? You’re listening to a master storyteller. His use of precise words to a beautiful tune with a magnificent arrangement - it’s at the top of my list of best songs ever!
Oh yes….well said!
"She comes out of the sun with a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain" That line alone shows why this song is a masterclass in song writing.
I agree. The arrangement, the lyric mated with gorgeously precise musicianship? It saddens me to know that our culture has devolved so precipitously and so rapidly since this *absolute masterpiece* was produced.
@@chrisreed3572 We can carry it on and when the time is right it can re-emerge and be added to. inspired we will advance music. This is just s start here in 3d
Fellas… it was a pleasure to see young men appreciate this masterpiece. So many youngsters wouldn’t even give it a chance. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Listen to Al Stewart - Time Passages. You’ll enjoy it.
Yacht boys, lol. The sax was big in those days. This is my second youth listening to this song, more respect for Al.
REACTION EXCELLENT, A GREAT SOUND!!!
It’s what I call a masterpiece
Simply magic ❤
Yes, I’m back for another view. 😍
I come back once in a while to see their reaction again. It never gets old.
Me too!
I can't say exactly why but this song make sad, even cry
Still your best reaction and the best reaction by any other reactor.
The acoustic solo to electric solo to sax solo is complicatedly beautiful.
When I see three guys there I have to laugh all the time. thanks.
My Fifth Grade English Teacher played this album, during class. This was one of his tactics, to get us to learn how to write in Proper Cursive in Paragraph Form.
He wrote all the lyrics on the chalkboard, put on the Vinyl, while the class wrote away.
It was this Class, that I heard so many Classic Artists, that still remind me of that Teacher and how cool He was to influence so many young people to learn English, but at the same time hear GREAT Music.
That's awesome. What a great teacher.
Cool teacher.
He should have taught you that what you do with your ear is hear not here.
That, my friends, is how you get the attention of a class! Why not pick the most perfect song ever written!
I had a music teacher all through elementary school in the 60’s who influenced thousands of students in the same way. All show tunes, had to write the words listen to the tune by his piano playing and sing a line and you better know the song cause you don’t know which line of the song you have to sing. Created a whole school to learn every show tune created. Viva Mr. Morgan ~ #mrmorgansawmillelementary
This was produced by Alan Parsons, which is why it sounds amazing 48 years later.
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain." Are you kidding me? Dude is a master wordsmith.
Do "Roads To Moscow".
Thanks for this reaction.
The imagery of Roads To Moscow is pure genius.
"Roads to Moscow" is a true masterpiece.
He had two intros for Roads to Moscow. He couldn't decide, so used both of them. Al now lives in California, owns a winery but still plays. I love the stuff he did with Lawrence Juber.
Love the “bogart movie” start too...”strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime”...that was the initial charm for me. And the solo where the instruments take over one by one was the final sealer for me.
This song is brilliant in every way.
Lyrics. So important in any Al Stewart song. The allusion to Bogart's Casablanca, and the whole feel of a Moroccan escapade. Plus everything else that was said. Nice reaction!
Not to mention Peter Lore contemplating a crime!
1976-1977 northern Mexico,
Teenager, first love, block party. Didn't know much English, and/or fully understood what the song was about. Best slow dance of our lives. vinyl records, 45 rpm . Some people get to experience the song for the first time....
we lived it when it first came out.....
God Bless The BRITISH for the best Bands and Music that they have given to the world. 👍👍
I agree! And I’m American saying that
Latecomer, eh?
Absolutely 👍
TRUE. The British are the best.
Absolutamente, Reino Unido y especialmente los británicos son la cuna de la música de calidad.
Sept 5, 2024 - today is Al’s birthday! 🎉🎉🎉
They don’t write songs like this anymore. The collaboration of the instruments is just mind blowing.
This song is so powerful that it even takes me back to places I've never been.
wow...yes!!! Me too!!!!
Someone wrote it makes you want to go places you've never been with someone you've never met. I wish I could find that comment now.
Powerful enough to take me back to 1978…I am 57.
This song always gives me chills.
I've heard this masterpiece of an album a thousand times,i'm 67,and it STILL gives me goosebumps.
Listen to the album,you'll adore it.
Ditto Red!
Agree. So many people miss this album in total. "On the border" "Lord grenville" all of it.
Agree
66 here !
It's my go to.
The whole mid instrumental is the love making climaxing with the Sax 🎷
Like seriously, this epic rock song is right up there with Stairway To Heaven and Bohemian Rhapsody. Panoramic, haunting and dazzling. Soul caressing instrumentations swirling with whirling majestic radiance. Evocative lyrical transcendence conjured from another world. This luminous song demands and deserves and receives repeated listens, played really loud and i mean like seriously cranked up.
I agree
Absolutely
Hotel California... Mr. Blue Sky... Child of Vision... Wish you Where Here... and very few more
I Totally Agree
@@mariosirius Lets throw in Freebird and The End and Heaven And Hell while we're at it as the list gets longer and longer..
This classic captivates everyone who listens to it for the first time or hundreds of times!
He was inspired by Lauren Becall and Humphrey Bogart and by different starsigns of the zodiac oooo- Kay. It's a fabulous song and when I wear patchouli perfume I think of this song it's so hippy flower child free. ❤
Every year is the year of the cat!🐈
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime..... 🔥
I have not heard this in decades…thank you!
Thanks!
My first impression when I heard it in the 70s was "haunting." I imagined the mysterious woman in the song is a ghost (I was a teenager :) . He comes to recognize it but decides to stay anyway, even though he knows it's not real & that he'll have to leave some day. The real meaning could be miles away from my version but it's how I'll always remember this incredible song.
Truly the best REACTION ever for the best song of all times.
The 70s had some great songs, Al's contributions are a vibe. " If you don't like it fast forward." Fans of this song didn't fast forward. One of the most beautiful classic rock songs of the 70s. Al has a few of them.
PURE EAR CANDY, YA'LL!!! STILL love this reaction, YOU-GUYS!! WE were the LUCKIEST PEOPLE: EVER!!! HUGS from TEXAS!!!
So beautiful of a song, one of my all-time favorites
Good to see some young folk figuring out what we all understood back in the 70's. Real music, by real musicians will always be the best!
As a 62 year old guy it's amazing to have listened to this masterpiece and many other great songs from the 60's and 70's and these guys are just discovering they were born in the wrong era.Fortunately,this music is still available for younger people to discover.I used to find out about these older bands by hanging out in record stores but today they barely still exist.Now unless you know the band or someone older introduces it to you you'll never hear this great stuff.The world has lost its soul.
Theres two of us left, at least. My soul can still sing, and so can yours, I think?
My too
We were the lucky ones back then my friend!
You should hear Al Stewart's "Nostradamus", as well as "On the Border". Brilliant works, both. Stewart most likely falls into the "storyteller" category. And you guys are awesome!! We old geezers LOVE to see young guys like you digging OUR music. Keep it up and give us more!! Love you guys and may God bless!!
The live versions are the best.
@@Coowallsky I agree
It's no wonder the Album went platinum in the USA.. It is a masterpiece.😄
You guys are all Cool as Shit. I'm 61 and I felt the AL vibe from first listen just like you guys did . Rock On Gentleman!
This IS a perfect song, great reaction guys!
When you find out that ever year is the year of the cat
An absolute joy to listen to such an incredible masterpiece! Al is without doubt a musical genius!
I don't know a thing about music and I have no musical abilities. But I know this song is an intricately crafted masterpiece. Absolutely my favorite.
So well said.
AWSOME !
Definitely!! One of my favorite songs of all time. 👌😉❤️
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Absolutely!
This is why we say we grew up with the best music, and the best cars in the 70's and 80's. I carry in my truck a cd of Year of the Cat, Dark side of the Moon, CCR greatest hits and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Absolutely!
I was 16 yo when i first listened to Year of the Cat..what an absolute masterpiece my favourite of all time. Very blessed to have grown up with 70's music. Loved watching you guys react as you discover his talent.
Thanks for playing it..that sax still gives me shivers....
Love love love him when he hears the sax 💖💖💖
Guys, the thing I always loved about this amazing track, is how, even when it goes in jazzy mode, EVERYTHING is in context. Every note is beautifully in context. It's a master-piece of musicianship and a classic from the '70's rock/blues/jazz genre. Timeless. Still listening to it 50 years later and loving it just the same.
Seeing this young guys enjoying good music like this classic, priceless good job guys thank you