Al Stewart - Year of the Cat | REACTION
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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 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.
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!
The Year of the Cat has had me under its spell for forty years...
A mí también
@@franciscodanieldaddino1174 😃 👍 👊
You and me, both !
@@isolde1802 ❤📆🐱
In a silk dress, running, like a watercolor in the rain. One of the best lines ever!!!
Totally agree.
This Song belongs to category "Songs you don't want to end"
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.
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.
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...:)
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
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.
Refreshing to see young people with good taste
I keep coming back to this reaction. One of my absolute favourites on RUclips!
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.
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
They don’t write songs like this anymore. The collaboration of the instruments is just mind blowing.
You guys are fun to watch!! Baby boomer here. Love watching you guys appreciate and enjoy the music of the 60’s, 70’s, and eighties into the first part of the 90’s! Pure raw poetic talent back then! 😊
EVERYTHING about this song screams MASTERPIECE ❤
Ryan - your reaction was beautiful. I enjoyed this soooooooo much. 😂
Absolute ear candy..beautiful
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
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
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 !
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 👌
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.
Best instrumental break in history - strings to Spanish guitar to electric guitar to sax. Brilliant.
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 is The Perfect Song.
This has to be one of the best songs ever written
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!
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.
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!
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 is just beautiful... and it brings back so many good memories of my life with childhood friends in the 70s..
Lyrical genius.
On a morning from a Bogart movie
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your choice you've lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
Incredibly descriptive visuals.
The lyrics are a masterpiece.
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. 👌😉❤️
Vote Blue.
Absolutely!
I drove 60 miles to see Al Stewart play in the Sherman TX public park. The band with him is Empty Pockets and did a great job. At his age, his vocal range was limited (like Ian Anderson), but musicianship and lyrical recall was top notch. I was simply in awe of a person still driven to perform regardless of the venue or crowd size. Very friendly and said hello to everyone afterwards.
This reaction is almost as good as the song.
Yes, I have to come back and watch this periodically because it's so great!
"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.
I have to come back to this one over and over again. The best reaction ever.
It's no wonder the Album went platinum in the USA.. It is a masterpiece.😄
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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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.
The acoustic solo to electric solo to sax solo is complicatedly beautiful.
The Year of the Cat is a modern masterpiece. If you do not recognize it, you do not know instrumentation and arrangement.
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...
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!
Its important to know who Peter Lorre is to appreciate the lyrics.
What aspect of him do you mean?
I remember him from the movie M, where he played a desperate, dangerous but also helpless person. According to wiki not his only disturbing character.
It makes sense though.
I adore Peter Lorre, such a creepy little man!
@@75hilmar Lorre's face just lent itself to creepy/disturbing characters.
There's a story I heard about a serial killer coming across on of his children and letting her go after finding out she was his daughter.....
That's a whole thing right there 😅
It was a reference to to the movie CASABLANCA
Thanx for that. Revealing this song into a specific context of time and place.
She comes out of the Sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. It's one of the best lyrics ever
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....
Your reaction to this song has been so amazing and now, of all of the reactions I have watched to this song, whenever I hear Year of the Cat, I picture your reaction video. The joyous expressions and comments you made in this reaction stood out to me and have left quite an impact. Everytime I hear this song, I see you. Thanks, guys. You're awesome!! 🎧😎👍
Back again for my annual indulgence. Thanks guys.
I cannot count how many times I have watched this review since I first saw it several months ago. I love this song, and I love your reaction to it. There are several other of your reviews I've watched multiple times. You guys are great!😊🥰
When you find out that ever year is the year of the cat
His next biggest hit... Time Passages. You’ll love that.
This song is so instrumentally satisfying. Takes me back to my childhood. Fills me with nostalgia
Same here
Simply magic ❤
I don't know how many times I have watched your reaction. Your smiles only enhance this masterpiece.😊
The saxophone player was rather annoyed having to come record this song, because he was in the middle of watching a movie, and wanted to finish it. Producer, Alan Parsons, promised he'd get to finish the movie, because he lived so close to the studio. After playing his part on the song he went home, and finished the movie. Afterwards, he joined Al Stewart's band.
I wonder what movie was it?😂
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 am crying like a baby listening to this.
Takes me right back to one of the three happiest years of my life.
Can't help thinking of our then President Carter and his recent infirmity.
A really great era and this song was a big part of my mornings primping for the girls at school.
Thanks for the review and reminding me.
This IS a perfect song, great reaction guys!
Truly the best REACTION ever for the best song of all times.
This is what real music is supposed to be. For those of us that were lucky enough to grow up with it it was a wonderful time.
Ty's reaction to the sax is priceless.
I have not heard this in decades…thank you!
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
😻 This song is PUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRFECTION!!! (and it ALWAYS will be!) 😻
I love that you have had the same mind-blowing experience that I have had for this piece of perfect art.
It is perfect. Best song ever
You’re never to young or old to appreciate and enjoy great music. What talent.
Producer Alan Parsons put in the Sax solo. Made this song a hit and inspired Baker Street.
Killer electric and acoustic guitar solos also.
I'm not surprised that Alan would put in the Sax solo!!!!! He's THAT good!!! NOPE.....not surprised...
The production is awesome!
Phil Kenzie is a genius. He and David Sanborn are in a class by themselves.
I did not know that!!
The whole song is one of those rare, flowing stories, not broken up by repeats of chorus or lyrics that don't seem to fit the song. It's always been a favorite of mine and I love these guys reactions to it.
TOTAL FIRE guys 🔥🔥🔥 ! Thanks gor for playing! Your reactions are great!
This song brings emotions not just a vibe. Simply genius.
btw that whole album is a masterpiece 💪, On the Border, One Stage Before, Lord Grenville... awesome 💖
My brother played this album non-stop when it came out and this song in particular; now he’s gone, this song makes me feel his presence....
I'm sorry for your loss. Love from India ❤️
❤️
He's right there with you, every time you listen to it . . .
He was playing the acoustic guitar. Men get into more 70's music. It was the best era ever.
Tell 'em, Scotty 👍
LOL :) Are you a fan of the 70's?@@KevinLong-jr1zv
An absolute joy to listen to such an incredible masterpiece! Al is without doubt a musical genius!
My absolut favorite song since my youth!! ..since today...I am 60 years and I feel like I am young hearing that wonderful song !!! Many greets from Germany near Cologne 🙋🏼♀️!!
The first time I heard this song, I was 15 years old and in bed with the flu. Needless to say that I was so blown away that I couldn't wait to get well enough to buy the album. 46 years later, I am still blown away. I freaking love Al Stewart.
Glad you’re feeling better. I was 15 when I first heard this masterpiece, as well. It’s my favorite song to this day. And this reaction video is priceless!
I remember discovering "Turn of the Cards" by Renaissance, and Annie Haslam. It was transforming in my view of the world.
Also a band that played lyrics of 4th century history in their music. Much of it about the Persian and Byzantine empires.
That's also why I'm a big Al Stewart fan.
He combines history, storytelling, and music, all in one.
That bittersweet ending gets me every time: “you know sometime you’re bound to leave her. But for now you’re going to stay in the year of the cat….”
It’s what I call a masterpiece
This has been and always be in my top 5 favorite songs of all time. I was around when it first came out and still listen to this day. It's what some may call "meat-cutting music".
Same here ... the older I get, the further up my list of all-time favorites it rises.
Mine too!
Engineering by Alan Parsons. Orchestra arranged by Andrew Powell..same guy who did all the Parsons albums! That's why it sounds so smooth. Al is a good guitarist btw. He'ssingingandplayingbackupguitaron this track. There is a live version of Cat on RUclips...you'll really enjoy it!!
I have been listening to this song since the 70s. If has me spellbound every time. It's my favourite song EVER. I can't believe how I never tire from listening to it !!
Al is a gift to music lovers everywhere. Please , do your ears a favor and listen to "On The Border". The bass line and Spanish guitar are priceless.
The wind whips up the waves so loud
The ghost moon sails among the clouds
Turns the rifles into silver on the border
@@valeriemcknight5608In the islands where I grew up, nothing seems the same. It’s just the patterns that remain. An empty shell. There’s a strangeness in the air you know too well.
Great Singer. Best Song. Best line ever written...... "She comes out of the sun, in a silk dress running, like a water color in the rain"
Have thought the same thing about this lyric many times before. In the context of the storytelling and the music, nothing short of breathtaking.
And then it wraps up with "the drum-beat strains of the night remain in the rhythm of the new-born day"... Such poetry...
I'm so glad people's discovering this song, it's probably my favorite song ever.
This is such a beautiful and haunting song.
New to the channel. This song is sonically delicious and I appreciate all the open mindedness ❤
Just give up, you are all 70s love children. Welcome my friends, you make me realize how good we had it
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!
I come back to watch this review time and again... the gradual revelation of its brilliance to you is a joyful experience every time :-)
So good to see such brilliance being recognised by the next generation
I've heard this song literally thousands of times, and I still love it.
Seeing this young guys enjoying good music like this classic, priceless good job guys thank you
Love, love, love this song! From the very beginning!!!!!
'One' of the best reactions I've watched on any channel. You all echo the same sentiments I felt as a jr high kid in the late 70s playing this in my room while doing my homework. Many nights. Great song. Great reaction. A beautiful song indeed.
This friends is my number one all time favorite songs. The voice. The instruments. The melody. It’s amazing ❤
It's just great to see your generation loving my "teen music" ?? 😊. Love Al Stewart's music...🎤🎸💖
This was one of the songs, when I was in college, that we heard on the radio and INSTANTLY loved. It was just that good.
I knbew when this song came out that it was timeless mucic, and here we are.