Year Of The Cat
by Al Stewart
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Al Stewart bestography
Year Of The Cat is ranked as the best album by Al Stewart.
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Year Of The Cat track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Year Of The Cat rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 88 Music Albums of 1976 | 70/88 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1976 | 31/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1976 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 95/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | svk4ever | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 3/100 | 20 |
| 2026 |  neilgee | Top 100 Music Albums of 1976 | 35/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1976 | 40/50 | 1 |
| 2026 | tim0505 | Top 53 Music Albums of 1976 | 15/53 | 4 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1976 | 9/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | thenat | Top 29 Music Albums of 1976 | 8/29 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 183 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 698 | |||
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Year Of The Cat ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/22/2026 06:08 | martintho | 4,742 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2026 08:26 | Siromynian | 1,789 | 74/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2026 11:04 | tomr37 | 355 | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.0/100, a mean average of 77.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.7.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie;
In a country where they turn back time;
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime;
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain;
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came;
In the year of the cat.
Is there a more visual set of lyrics? This, the Title Song alone is worth the price of admission for this Album. The above lyric is an example of Al Stewarts song writing skills, an underrated artist... "A year of the Cat" is his finest hour, I highly recommend .
This is a high quality album produced and engineered by Alan Parsons. The song "Year of The Cat" is a masterpiece.
dihansse 11/23/2015 20:41 | #153363 | TOP COMMENT
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This album is one of my top 100 albums (check out the rest of my eclectic choice if you like) just because it is plainly a classic: the voice and the song writing of Al Stewart on this album is just fabulous. Since then he he wasn't able to follow up on this one but that doesn't matter. This album has it all.
One of my all time favourite albums. Such an impressive collection of songs. Seriously underrated album and artist.
NickVolos TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/09/2013 11:43 | #88036 | TOP COMMENT
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Where do you start on this one... It is great all over. From "Year Of The Cat" to "Broadway Hotel", "Lord GrenVille" to "One Stage Before", "On The Border" to ...
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