Position: 93 of 100
Artist: Al Stewart
Song: Year Of The Cat
Song: Year Of The Cat
Album: Year Of The Cat (1976)
Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/82574768
Vplay link: http://www.vplay.ro/watch/2fv5nvdk/
Deezer link: http://www.deezer.com/track/3100130
Grooveshark link: http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Year+Of+The+Cat/2IuI5O?src=5
This song found itself peaking at number 8 on the Billboard charts back in 1977 ushering in a new genre of folk that involved more instruments and enabled some of the great ballads of the 80s to come alive. This particular song, Al Stewart's most recognisable hit worldwide went as high as number 3 in the Canadian charts. Filled with images of the old world, the melodic British English and Bogart movie references, it has more than enough bait to get me hooked. The lyrics are some of the most beautiful I've heard in a song ever. Going against the rule that songwriting needs to be kept simple and to the point in order for the listener to connect, passages such as "strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime" or "she comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolour in the rain" or "the drum-beat strains of the night remain in the rhythm of the newborn day" are simply mesmerising poetry that carry over to song perfectly. In the end, the song is about finding what you never knew you needed when you never knew to look for it, it's about breaking your cycle (in this case fate has it broken for you) and just going with the flow. A feeling I know most of us would enjoy, but are never put in that magical circumstance where things just happen, and we all know we never go chasing for it of our own volition.
Vplay link: http://www.vplay.ro/watch/2fv5nvdk/
Deezer link: http://www.deezer.com/track/3100130
Grooveshark link: http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Year+Of+The+Cat/2IuI5O?src=5
This song found itself peaking at number 8 on the Billboard charts back in 1977 ushering in a new genre of folk that involved more instruments and enabled some of the great ballads of the 80s to come alive. This particular song, Al Stewart's most recognisable hit worldwide went as high as number 3 in the Canadian charts. Filled with images of the old world, the melodic British English and Bogart movie references, it has more than enough bait to get me hooked. The lyrics are some of the most beautiful I've heard in a song ever. Going against the rule that songwriting needs to be kept simple and to the point in order for the listener to connect, passages such as "strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime" or "she comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolour in the rain" or "the drum-beat strains of the night remain in the rhythm of the newborn day" are simply mesmerising poetry that carry over to song perfectly. In the end, the song is about finding what you never knew you needed when you never knew to look for it, it's about breaking your cycle (in this case fate has it broken for you) and just going with the flow. A feeling I know most of us would enjoy, but are never put in that magical circumstance where things just happen, and we all know we never go chasing for it of our own volition.
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