I, as an impressionable young singer/guitar player was smitten by this song, performed it in a folk club in London. Some babe came up to me after and enquired "Did you write that?" I responded truthfully, this song still fills my eyes with tears for the general love of it (I am a semi-dormant romantic old fart these days) the song lives on. Thanks Al.
I went to the same boarding school about 10 years behind him. He came back and played a gig there to us inmates, around about the time this album came out. He sang this song too. The late 60s were remarkable times.
As a lonely teenager, this song was playing on my Walkman. I drank wine and imagined what was not to be. I am surprised to be so happy now at my advanced age.
PEOPLE TREAT OLDER FOLKS RIGHT. IN THE OLD DAYS, THE ELDERLY WERE PREYED APON AND LOOKED PISSED OFF. TODAY, FOLKS ARE LESS CRAPPY TO OLDER FOLKS. ENJOY............
One of my all-time favourite singer-songwriters, and as a singer-guitarist myself, I perform quite a few of his songs. On one occasion, more than ten years ago, I advertised at our local folk club (Southport's Bothy Folk Club) that the following week I was going to arrive an hour before our usual starting time just to sing this song. Some people did show up, probably to see whether I could actually do it. I'm pleased to say I didn't let Al down and managed it!
Jimmy Page of Led Zep on lead guitar. (swear to God)A song like this couldn't work, except it does. Each verse getting better and better.Conclusion: A Masterpiece.
@@gelubatir9794 Best of luck finding it, if you're an American. It's much easier to find the compilation called 'Early Years.' Disc one contains tracks from Bed-sitter, Zero and Orange. But disc two is the Love Chronicles album in its entirety.
Truly a remarkable song. This, along with "Roads to Moscow", are just about as good as music ever gets. Thank you, Al Stewart, for these and many other classics.
Introduced to the musical genius of Al Stewart by an Icelandic friend in Glasgow's West End on a crazy night in 1970. This track a mesmerising masterpiece!
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…..❤️❤️❤️
Many thanks for this. I used to play it on my guitar. Maybe I should again. I particularly appreciate the way you switched to the picture of Mandy when her section started to play. "And every girl I ever loved has left herself inside me." So true.
This song has came and went, in, and away from my life many times since I was a teen. First on vinyl, then cassette, CD, now through some space age, fictional, sci-fi, Star Trek, wireless computer technology. I was just some young, teen, punk when I first heard this, and I admit that as a teen male, I giggled at the line about f***ing becoming more like making love. Of course at that age I was ignorant to what he was saying. Along the way through my own "Time Passages".... WOWWW!!!...... this song has watched me grow up and mature, and now that I'm 50, his words have came fool circle and still make me giggle like a teen boy. I'm just kidding. In all honesty, it has came full circle and has such a deeper meaning. I've always loved this song, and Al Stewart for that matter, but it's almost fascinating the way that this song has, in a sense, grown with me as I grew to understand it more and more. Great story tellers, lyricists, with musical talent are far too few. I enjoy a catchy tune, and I am very eclectic when it comes to the music I listen to, but songs like this are like getting into a good book, except it's a book that gives you the opportunity to sit back, relax, close your eyes and tap your foot.... Thanks for sharing this with us, I think I'll hit replay a couple of more times, sit back, relax, and tap my foot..............
I once told people I'd be singing this song one hour before our usual folk club began. Eight people rolled up, probably to see whether I'd manage to get through the whole thing without a slip (I did). I saw Al in Manchester last night and someone called for this from the audience. Al just laughed.
AS AN ENCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JIMMY SHOWS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is so familiar to me. The way that I came into loving women was as incremental as this song is. Desire always comes first. Imagination leads the lover. It was no sense at all.
I, too, frequented the Troubadour but saw Al Stewart first, solo, at Colston Hall in 1970 - he'd already developed a larger fan base. He was a very accomplished performer. It was at that concert that I first learned of Mervyn Peake's extraordinary Gormenghast series when Al introduced his instrumental "Room of Roots".
saw him doing this at a festival in the 70`s(?). Don`t remember which one but Mungo Jerry opened then The Crazy World of Arthur Brown came from down to the stage on a crane with his head on fire and Country Joe and the Fish did the Fcuk-song. My sleeping bag was filled with feathers and had a hole in it and feathers were blowin in the wind (so we nearly had Dylan there too). We had some acid there as well and i think that is why i can`t remember where i was. Fcukin great time. Al Stewart was brilliant and he did not forget any of the words of Luv/Chron which was nearly his whole set
Thank you! I was there too, at the Troubador Club in Clifton Bristol, when a student at the uni., I think I saw Al Stewart at least a couple of times there. Thank you, fond memories.
14:48 The very first time I must confess I thought you'd be like all of the rest And we'd be strangers once again By the time we were dressed But when you'd smoked your cigarette And talked of some people that we'd met I found myself asking was it set, did you have to go yet And so you laughed and then kissed me And stayed for the whole weekend Although the bed was so narrow We had to sleep end to end And so the weeks passed through my brain In their dadaistic chain I found myself seeing you again, and again and again And all you gave you gave it free Asking for nothing back from me You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me And where I thought that just plucking The fruits of the bed was enough It grew to be less like fucking And more like making love
There's a CD called "To Whom it May Concern" which contains the whole album, plus the other early stuff. www.amazon.com/To-Whom-It-May-Concern/dp/B00000744H
TO ALL AL STEWART AND PETER WHITE FANS PHIL KENZIE The legendary sax soloist on all of Al Stewart's hits will be appearing at the upcoming "once in a lifetime" concert at The Royal Albert Hall on October 15th. This concert coincides with the release of Phil's CD, " A Night With The Cat" which will be available for purchase. A tribute to Al Stewart's artistry, it is an instrumental version of the magical lyrics of "The Year of The Cat". which will be enjoyed by all on this very special night.
hi passer59 I was probably in the Troubadour that night. I saw him there once and he did Clifton in the Rain. Outside? Yep it was raining in Clifton ha ha ha
it's his birthday today, september 5th. I remember in 1970 at a concert he said that he was : 'a rapidly ageing folk singer'. he was 25. later he said that : 'you wake up one day and you'e 47. time passages.....
Interesting that. I've just checked and both the albums Love Chronicles and Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane) were released in 1969, Al's album in September and the Jefferson Airplane album in November. The single Volunteers (which had "we can be together" on the B-side) was released in October 1969. So Al just about wins!
More to the point, it was the first time the word was printed in the lyrics on the album cover.. And of course it was not an expletive but a valid description.
I'm not sure he did, I know he played on this song but I'm uncertain whether he played on the rest, I still need to meet Al and ask him all these questions I have haha
ah, this song is very, very nice. how did I miss out on this guy for 48 years? Jimmy is as good as any. There is no accounting for taste, but Jimmy is truly a guitar hero and a cultural icon. can you really not say fuck on youtube? or are you guy all just super appropriate? cause i'm not. who gives a fuck? That was more of a rhetorical device than a question, so don't feel like you have to respond.
A big influence on me back in the day, I wanted to be like the girl who drove him insane. The London chick. Loved this album. Then he went to commercial type tunes.
Ah, Bristol Troubador club in Clifton, Al Stewart (Clifton in the rain), John Martyn, Keith Christmas, Ian Anderson, Ian Hunt and many more, wish we could go back again.
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I, as an impressionable young singer/guitar player was smitten by this song, performed it in a folk club in London. Some babe came up to me after and enquired "Did you write that?" I responded truthfully, this song still fills my eyes with tears for the general love of it (I am a semi-dormant romantic old fart these days) the song lives on. Thanks Al.
MORE EXCITING THAN HEMORRHOIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I went to the same boarding school about 10 years behind him. He came back and played a gig there to us inmates, around about the time this album came out. He sang this song too. The late 60s were remarkable times.
As a lonely teenager, this song was playing on my Walkman. I drank wine and imagined what was not to be. I am surprised to be so happy now at my advanced age.
PEOPLE TREAT OLDER FOLKS RIGHT. IN THE OLD DAYS, THE ELDERLY WERE PREYED APON AND LOOKED PISSED OFF. TODAY, FOLKS ARE LESS CRAPPY TO OLDER FOLKS. ENJOY............
One of my all-time favourite singer-songwriters, and as a singer-guitarist myself, I perform quite a few of his songs. On one occasion, more than ten years ago, I advertised at our local folk club (Southport's Bothy Folk Club) that the following week I was going to arrive an hour before our usual starting time just to sing this song. Some people did show up, probably to see whether I could actually do it. I'm pleased to say I didn't let Al down and managed it!
One of the greatest songs ever. I so related the first time I heard! Thx Al!
Sheer perfection..............I fell in love with him in the 70's !
Jimmy Page of Led Zep on lead guitar. (swear to God)A song like this couldn't work, except it does. Each verse getting better and better.Conclusion: A Masterpiece.
And John Paul Jones on bass
thank you, you convinced me to look out for the full album
Also, Ashley Hutchings (Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, and Albion Band) on bass.
@@gelubatir9794 Best of luck finding it, if you're an American. It's much easier to find the compilation called 'Early Years.' Disc one contains tracks from Bed-sitter, Zero and Orange. But disc two is the Love Chronicles album in its entirety.
Jimmy works well with Roy Harper as well - he's very entrenched in folk. It's how I grew to love his playing - not just a blues man.
Best song he ever wrote, by a million miles.
Small orange a close second.
Thank you Al Stewart.
Phil Na Is this the rock world's greatest ever track?
My favs are The Ballad Of Mary Foster, Roads to Moscow and Beleeka Doodle Day...Masterclasses in lyric writing
You are correct
The News from Spain also brilliant and I'm falling and and and .. ;-)
Small Fruit Song you mean.
Truly a remarkable song. This, along with "Roads to Moscow", are just about as good as music ever gets. Thank you, Al Stewart, for these and many other classics.
One of the greatest tracks ever done.
Introduced to the musical genius of Al Stewart by an Icelandic friend in Glasgow's West End on a crazy night in 1970. This track a mesmerising masterpiece!
All Stewart master of the folkrock music and timeless musician
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…..❤️❤️❤️
...This is great! I hadn't heard it for nearly half a century, school days! I never knew it was Jimmy Page, but yes, you can tell...
Great song
OMG! How could I have never heard this song before?!?!?! LOVE IT!!!
+lagaman11 April 1990 : )
YOU WERE BUSY.
Not only Jimmy Page, but John Paul Jones is also playing on this track.
oh didnt know JPJ played on it ..
So was Richared thompson also on guitar. {Richard Thompson Fairport convention}
Fantastic,brings back lots of memories
every song on this album is amazing..how many artists can do that these days....
Jim cool
Many thanks for this. I used to play it on my guitar. Maybe I should again. I particularly appreciate the way you switched to the picture of Mandy when her section started to play. "And every girl I ever loved has left herself inside me." So true.
What an epic of a song! Classic folk!
This song has came and went, in, and away from my life many times since I was a teen. First on vinyl, then cassette, CD, now through some space age, fictional, sci-fi, Star Trek, wireless computer technology. I was just some young, teen, punk when I first heard this, and I admit that as a teen male, I giggled at the line about f***ing becoming more like making love. Of course at that age I was ignorant to what he was saying. Along the way through my own "Time Passages".... WOWWW!!!...... this song has watched me grow up and mature, and now that I'm 50, his words have came fool circle and still make me giggle like a teen boy. I'm just kidding. In all honesty, it has came full circle and has such a deeper meaning. I've always loved this song, and Al Stewart for that matter, but it's almost fascinating the way that this song has, in a sense, grown with me as I grew to understand it more and more. Great story tellers, lyricists, with musical talent are far too few. I enjoy a catchy tune, and I am very eclectic when it comes to the music I listen to, but songs like this are like getting into a good book, except it's a book that gives you the opportunity to sit back, relax, close your eyes and tap your foot.... Thanks for sharing this with us, I think I'll hit replay a couple of more times, sit back, relax, and tap my foot..............
I once told people I'd be singing this song one hour before our usual folk club began. Eight people rolled up, probably to see whether I'd manage to get through the whole thing without a slip (I did).
I saw Al in Manchester last night and someone called for this from the audience. Al just laughed.
AS AN ENCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JIMMY SHOWS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is so familiar to me. The way that I came into loving women was as incremental as this song is. Desire always comes first. Imagination leads the lover. It was no sense at all.
Al Stewart....Legend.............
This song changed my life too.
Al Stewart actually performed at my college back in 1968, Pink Floyd were in the main hall but I opted to listen to Al.
I, too, frequented the Troubadour but saw Al Stewart first, solo, at Colston Hall in 1970 - he'd already developed a larger fan base. He was a very accomplished performer. It was at that concert that I first learned of Mervyn Peake's extraordinary Gormenghast series when Al introduced his instrumental "Room of Roots".
Seem to recall I was at that gig!
saw him doing this at a festival in the 70`s(?). Don`t remember which one but Mungo Jerry opened then The Crazy World of Arthur Brown came from down to the stage on a crane with his head on fire and Country Joe and the Fish did the Fcuk-song. My sleeping bag was filled with feathers and had a hole in it and feathers were blowin in the wind (so we nearly had Dylan there too). We had some acid there as well and i think that is why i can`t remember where i was. Fcukin great time. Al Stewart was brilliant and he did not forget any of the words of Luv/Chron which was nearly his whole set
Reading festival !!!
Al Stewart is damn awesome....
Thank you! I was there too, at the Troubador Club in Clifton Bristol, when a student at the uni., I think I saw Al Stewart at least a couple of times there. Thank you, fond memories.
This song changed my LIFE!
Love this song
Yes, a masterpiece!
I'll be posting a full length LIVE version of this epic song... with a bevy of well-endowed beauties to accompany the music...
oh Al, you've always been such a Romantic
Easily my favorite writer.
This ISs Al Stewart's best song ever listen t the lyrics
I ran ten thousand miles with my back to the wall! 😀
Brilliant!
Excelente...!!!
Thankyou to upload!! I remenber my 12yo's
..
14:48 The very first time I must confess
I thought you'd be like all of the rest
And we'd be strangers once again
By the time we were dressed
But when you'd smoked your cigarette
And talked of some people that we'd met
I found myself asking was it set,
did you have to go yet
And so you laughed and then kissed me
And stayed for the whole weekend
Although the bed was so narrow
We had to sleep end to end
And so the weeks passed through my brain
In their dadaistic chain
I found myself seeing you again, and again and again
And all you gave you gave it free
Asking for nothing back from me
You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me
And where I thought that just plucking
The fruits of the bed was enough
It grew to be less like fucking
And more like making love
Jut amazing lyrics, incredible...
and as it were,
unless they used rubbers,
he left himself inside her.
thank you for this. Such a shame the rest of the Album is missing. My vinyl copy became unplayable too many years ago
There's a CD called "To Whom it May Concern" which contains the whole album, plus the other early stuff. www.amazon.com/To-Whom-It-May-Concern/dp/B00000744H
Magic. Thanks very much for that link.
+utuber111963 ...mine is VG +
Saw him at St Andrews Hall in Norwich in 69 Still have my vinyl copy of Love Chronicles but no deck
One of the best Scottish songs
He left when he was a baby.
Grew up in England
Moved to London.
No connection.
TO ALL AL STEWART AND PETER WHITE FANS
PHIL KENZIE The legendary sax soloist on all of Al Stewart's hits
will be appearing at the upcoming "once in a lifetime" concert at The Royal Albert Hall on October 15th. This concert coincides with the release of Phil's CD, " A Night With The Cat" which will be available for purchase.
A tribute to Al Stewart's artistry, it is an instrumental version of the magical lyrics of "The Year of The Cat". which will be enjoyed by all on this very special night.
hi passer59
I was probably in the Troubadour that night. I saw him there once and he did Clifton in the Rain. Outside? Yep it was raining in Clifton ha ha ha
no comment....not needed, just listen and feel it....🙂
i love the references about Bournemouth as im from there to
Al Stewart at his best!
Yes this is the greatest song he has ever wrote
it's his birthday today, september 5th. I remember in 1970 at a concert he said that he was : 'a rapidly ageing folk singer'. he was 25. later he said that : 'you wake up one day and you'e 47. time passages.....
Un tres bon moment que cette chanson.
Amazing song! Apparently All disowned this album - bum move as I think its his best!
TOO TWEE FOR 1976........................
And a little jimmy page on electric giving him some support.
Jimmy Page on this one, but It was Richard Thompson on all the others. Al said so when I saw his gig last night in Manchester.
Yep; great!
How cute
It takes balls to sing about not being able to get it up!
Flaccid Blues😂
FOLKIES GET LESS CHICKS............................
Awsome
this is he first album in music history here the "F" word was used
Interesting that. I've just checked and both the albums Love Chronicles and Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane) were released in 1969, Al's album in September and the Jefferson Airplane album in November. The single Volunteers (which had "we can be together" on the B-side) was released in October 1969. So Al just about wins!
More to the point, it was the first time the word was printed in the lyrics on the album cover.. And of course it was not an expletive but a valid description.
The word fucked is actually used on the 1935 blues song "Shave 'em Dry"
Not sure if it this is the first song with the F word, my issue is that you tube doesn't block the comments on this song. LOL
I'm not sure he did, I know he played on this song but I'm uncertain whether he played on the rest, I still need to meet Al and ask him all these questions I have haha
As a member of the Bass Players Union, listen to Ashley Hutchings' bass line :)
John Paul Jones plays bass on this track.
It’s John Paul Jones on Bass here.
Thats a far cry from "Time passages" and "Year of the cat".
ah, this song is very, very nice. how did I miss out on this guy for 48 years? Jimmy is as good as any. There is no accounting for taste, but Jimmy is truly a guitar hero and a cultural icon.
can you really not say fuck on youtube? or are you guy all just super appropriate? cause i'm not. who gives a fuck?
That was more of a rhetorical device than a question, so don't feel like you have to respond.
Only I have 😃🏏🎾⚽🏸🏒🎯🥌🏹
Incredible amazing song including Page. Maybe also the first f word on released vinyl? He was Scottish.
Noodles37UK He still is, oddly enough.
+Neville Grundy Ha bloody ha. From Noodles : )
Wow
jimmy page played guitar in this song...and all the songs in this album....circa.early
1969...
-cool
The only thing better than this is a motorsickle of the same period. In my opinion. Maybe a Honda CB175. And the wind.
18 minute song, wow
At 14.40, you'll hear Jimmy Page
Mine too!!
Jim ye he’s here smoking with me now
A big influence on me back in the day, I wanted to be like the girl who drove him insane. The London chick. Loved this album.
Then he went to commercial type tunes.
Even if he did. Don't be like Dylan fans please, when he went electric 😂
I NEVER KNEW HE WAS GREAT BEFORE '77..........................
Well, he did sing "You Should Have Listened To Al".
year of the cat and time passages are the best! cheers! (ps: listen to nick drake also please)
Yes yes and yes. Dont forget roy harper thau.;)
I know this is regarded as a standard.
He's disowned it I think.
I understand why.
He's better from 1975 onwards.
He played at my college and offered to play again without using his agent...
PAGEY !
takes me back to the troubadour in Clifton, around 1970. Good days even though they only served orange juice and lemonade.
Ah, Bristol Troubador club in Clifton, Al Stewart (Clifton in the rain), John Martyn, Keith Christmas, Ian Anderson, Ian Hunt and many more, wish we could go back again.
@@chevauxblanc ...and string Band, Diz Disley, Sun Also Rises, Ralph McTell, and many more! Good times.
Never felt comfortable with this song. Too close to the bone. Plus the girls loved Al, which put him on a par with Cat Stevens, who I loathed
First musician in 'popular' music
.... too much Sens amillia ✌ ... must have had been laced
Lyrics anybody?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love Al Stewart. However, this son sucks. I think it does not reflect his true class act.
Much better than "year of the twat "
If he'd stayed like this he'd have been dead with no money
**
Sadly, Al Stewart disavows this and most all his early composition.
Hey, this is life and life only - and he puts his out there. Good for him.
**
Where's my gun?