Cat Stevens-Teaser And The Firecat (1971)
Artist: Cat Stevens
Title: Teaser And The Firecat
Year of Release: 1971
Country and Year of Edition: US 1971
Sell Price: $5.69
Sell Date: 1/28/25
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 11/7/24 VG/no cover $3.99
Low: $1.25
Median: $4.00
Average: $3.97
High: $5.69
Current low price: $2.88
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2
Have/Want: 127/60
Where Sold: Rancho Cordova, CA
Time It Took To Sell: 1 month
Where and When Bought: 8-track ebay lot sometime last year
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A
Sad To See It Go: No
Steadily from my purchase of different 8-track lots, I have a ton of Cat Stevens 70's titles that I never owned before. The only one I ever had on vinyl was a dollar copy of Catch Bull At Four, but this might be the one I should've bought.
No 70's child escaped "Moonshadow," "Morning Has Broken" or "Peace Train." There is a deceptively simple greatness to those songs that almost scream subversion on AM radio. Oddly enough, "Peace Train" got the split between tracks on the 8-track. Maybe when the album was first mastered, they didn't think it was so important.
I never saw the short movie that the cover incorporates and includes Cat Steven's animation of a fantastical story of a man, his cat and a moon-like disc that traverses dangers waters with said cat and eventually man only to land in the trees and brought to its proper place in the sky by owls.
"Changes IV" has echoes of the "Peace Train" style. That's one of the better songs of the album. "Tuesday's Dead" is another reminiscent stomper. What it reminds me of is "Animal Zoo" by Spirit. That Randy California always gets nicked one way or another. "Bitterblue" is another great one.
Defiantly classic straddler of pop and rock.
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