Rediscovering Forgotten Classics

[Gus]

Was in the car yesterday with the radio as mere background to conversation ... when over the airwaves came "Year of the Cat" (Al Stewart??) .... I went into raptuous adulation while my (younger) companion looked on blankly. After a few minutes though, after admitting she'd never heard the track before, she agreed that it was a wonderfull track with superb production.

On getting back to my hovel I've tried to find my long lost CD of the track ... currently to no avail ... but I did unearth Baker Street Made me realise ... isn't it easy to forget that there are some great classics about that (shock, horror, probe) ... you cant dance to Anyone else out there who will admit to being spellbound by Year of the Cat or am I in a sad lonely minority again?

[Bill]

Originally posted by Gus
Anyone else out there who will admit to being spellbound by Year of the Cat or am I in a sad lonely minority again?

Ah..still remember the album and the title track..... takes me back a few years Have the album here in front of me but my turntable is knackered so can't play it ( yep I still have my vinyl copies ). Back in 1976 at a time when I'd just moved on from Elton John and Rod Stewart and was getting into Bruce Springsteen and punk was about to arrive ... and I was just about to go to uni.

[Jive Brummie]

Originally posted by Bill
Back in 1976 at a time when I'd just moved on from Elton John and Rod Stewart and was getting into Bruce Springsteen and punk was about to arrive ... and I was just about to go to uni.

...........Good year that............I was born then!!!!!!!

james......x

[DavidY]

Originally posted by Gus
but I did unearth Baker Street Made me realise ... isn't it easy to forget that there are some great classics about that (shock, horror, probe) ... you cant dance to

The DJ at one of our local Ceroc venues played "Get it Right Next Time" (from Baker Street I believe) - I really enjoyed dancing to it. Quite an interesting track musically and I'm sure those dancers who can interpret music (ie not me) could really make something of it.

[Dance Demon]

I have a compilation CD called "accoustic moods", which has both Baker St and Year of the cat on it, along with some other wee gems that fall into the same category as these two.
Full Playlist:

Lady Eleanor---Lindisfarne
Stuck in The Middle---Stealers Wheel
Baker St---Gerry Rafferty
Year Of The Cat---Al Stewart
They Shoot Horses don't They---Racing Cars...(one for Sheena )
Arms Of Mary---Sutherland Bros & Quiver
Chestnut Mare--The Byrds
Castles In The Air---Don McLean
Blue Guitar---Justin Hayward & John Lodge
Moonlight Shadow--Mike Oldfield(Kirsty McColl on vocals)
Lay Down---the Strawbs
How Come--Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance
Reason to believe--Rod Stewart
Journey---Duncan Browne
I Don't Mind At All---Bourgeois Tagg
Pinball---Brian Protheroe
Streets Of London---Ralph McTell
Time In A Bottle--Jim Croce
Morning Has Broken---Cat Stevens
After The Goldrush--Prelude

mostly just for listening to, with the exception of one or two

[Gus]

Originally posted by DavidY
The DJ at one of our local Ceroc venues played "Get it Right Next Time" (from Baker Street I believe) - I really enjoyed dancing to it. Quite an interesting track musically and I'm sure those dancers who can interpret music (ie not me) could really make something of it.

Funny you should mention that ... played it a few times and was thinking along the same lines. Waiting till I see Helen again and see what she thinks about it.

[Gus]

Originally posted by Dance Demon
Arms Of Mary---Sutherland Bros & Quiver

Arrrghhhh ... I've been after that track for aeons .... it was one of the test tracks that BRMB radio played when they were starting transmission ... wonderfull track .... reminds me of the Summer of 78 .... getting my O level results and losing my Dad .... strange times

Is the album still available?

[Tiggerbabe]

Originally posted by Dance Demon
I have a compilation CD called "accoustic moods", which has both Baker St and Year of the cat on it, along with some other wee gems that fall into the same category as these two.
Full Playlist:

They Shoot Horses don't They---Racing Cars...(one for Sheena )

Wow, thanks DD - Sheen xx (off to Amazon as soon as she posts this )

[fruitcake]

Originally posted by Gus
Was in the car yesterday with the radio as mere background to conversation ... when over the airwaves came "Year of the Cat" (Al Stewart??) .... I went into raptuous adulation while my (younger) companion looked on blankly. After a few minutes though, after admitting she'd never heard the track before, she agreed that it was a wonderfull track with superb production.

?

Well Gus Mdear, I must just be a baby, I don't know year of the cat, but I was on another thread, can't remember now, two minutes ago, speaking about eddie grant, electric avenue,.
Iv'e got loads vinyl in my loft but nothing to play them on.
But yes, Baker street is one of them, oh so many....
david Cassidy, David essex, Elton John,Stylisitcs, anyone remember them,the cure, boomtown rats, strangelers, 10cc.
Oh I'm in Heaven now!!!!
And on a roll....pretenders,Glitter band(oh yeah!)
Stautus Qo, DEEP PURPLE, black sabbath,......ooooh!!!
ELO,Santana,/.....sigh!!!
Whos' from my era then?!!!

[Bill]

Originally posted by Jive Brummie
...........Good year that............I was born then!!!!!!!

james......x

shut up.....................

[Bill]

Originally posted by Dance Demon
I
Lady Eleanor---Lindisfarne
Stuck in The Middle---Stealers Wheel
Baker St---Gerry Rafferty
Year Of The Cat---Al Stewart
They Shoot Horses don't They---Racing Cars...(one for Sheena )
Arms Of Mary---Sutherland Bros & Quiver
Chestnut Mare--The Byrds
Castles In The Air---Don McLean
Blue Guitar---Justin Hayward & John Lodge
Moonlight Shadow--Mike Oldfield(Kirsty McColl on vocals)
Lay Down---the Strawbs
How Come--Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance
Reason to believe--Rod Stewart
Journey---Duncan Browne
I Don't Mind At All---Bourgeois Tagg
Pinball---Brian Protheroe
Streets Of London---Ralph McTell
Time In A Bottle--Jim Croce
Morning Has Broken---Cat Stevens
After The Goldrush--Prelude

mostly just for listening to, with the exception of one or two

Oh good grief...........I remember all of these and loved most of them when they were released Thought Cat Stevens was great then ....partly because I had the same hairstyle for a few years ...and the original After the Goldrush and the music Neil Young was producng then ( and now). Ah nostalgia ( and no comments from you young master James !!!)

[Lory]

Originally posted by fruitcake
Whos' from my era then?!!!

Me!

[Gus]

Originally posted by fruitcake
DEEP PURPLE, black sabbath,......ooooh!!!
ELO,Santana,/.....sigh!!!
Whos' from my era then?!!!

Just in the process of rebuilding my heavy rock collection ... Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Rainbow and Deep Purple all featuring .... ahhh youth today dont know what they missed

[Jive Brummie]

Originally posted by Bill
shut up.....................

[Dance Demon]

Originally posted by Gus
Arrrghhhh ... I've been after that track for aeons .... it was one of the test tracks that BRMB radio played when they were starting transmission ... wonderfull track .... reminds me of the Summer of 78 .... getting my O level results and losing my Dad .... strange times

Is the album still available?

It's on PolygramTV label catalogue No 516 659-2
Let me know if you can't get it Gus, and i'll bring you down a copy in May

PS...I remember all of these when they first came out.......in the days when music WAS music.............and a pint was only 20p, and you could get 5 woodbine and a fish supper and still get change from a pound.....in the good old days,....sigh

[Daisy]

Have been reading this post with interest and have lots of great memories to all the LPs and tracks that have been mentioned....many of them mark corner stones in my growing up as they probably do for many others.

Particular favourites not mentioned are:

The Eagles..(various albums)...Saw them at Bingley Hall in Stafford in about 1977
Eric Clapton...In concert in Coventry about 1979
Free....only got the LPs
Bad company....an all time favourite!
Daryl Hall & John Oats..(Abandoned Luncheonette)...fabulous!
Yes (The Yes Album).... I can still sing along to this cover to cover!
Crosby Stills Nash & Young....( Daja Vu)....a classic.
Fleetwood Mac
Steely Dan
and many many more...........

We are lucky enough to have a fantastic album collection and even luckier to still have a turn table to listen to them on, and we can record them onto mini disc too.

[Bill]

Originally posted by fruitcake
black sabbath,......ooooh!!!
sigh!!!
Whos' from my era then?!!!

I certainly am ( though I know I'm a few years older than you fruity .. )

but I do remember dancing to 'paranoid' ( say nothing ....esp kids who weren't even born then ...... at the summer school camp in Stirling ( boy we travleed in them days !!) with my huge flairs ( frayed at the ends of course) bare feet and hair half way down my back........ only dancing I ever did till I came to Ceroc and took me almost 5 years to stop jumping ( excpet at competitions... ). and of course I danced alon - even my girlfriend at the time would have been too embarrassed to join in

[Chicklet]

Confessions then:

Spent a fair amount of time in the front row of the Barrowlands aged about 15 swooning to Big County and the Alarm while allegedly at a friend's house doing homework! Had a few very near misses running the length of Argle St flat out for the last train home!

Spirit of 76 in a whole different way!!!

[Emma]

Originally posted by Chicklet
Spent a fair amount of time in the front row of the Barrowlands aged about 15 swooning to Big County and the Alarm while allegedly at a friend's house doing homework! Had a few very near misses running the length of Argle St flat out for the last train home!

OK, am now pictuing you in checked shirt and 1980's hair. Photos. We need photos

[azande]

Originally posted by Chicklet
Confessions then:

Spent a fair amount of time in the front row of the Barrowlands aged about 15 swooning to Big County and the Alarm while allegedly at a friend's house doing homework! Had a few very near misses running the length of Argle St flat out for the last train home!

Spirit of 76 in a whole different way!!!

ALARM!! Thanks Chicklet I thought I was the only one that listened to them!

Absolute Reality!