Year Of The Cat (studio album) by Al Stewart

Year Of The Cat by Al Stewart
Year: 1976
Overall rank: 1,933rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 206 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1976 (30th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (372nd)
Award Best albums of all time (1,933rd)
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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 206 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.0/100, a mean average of 77.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.

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75/100
From 07/31/2022 13:11
Album Rating: 73.00
(657/9)

1.Lord Grenville. 68
2.On The Border. 74
3.Midas Shadow. 67
4.Sand In Your Shoes. 70
5.If It Doesn't Come Naturally, Leave It. 72
6.Flying Sorcery. 73
7.Broadway Hotel. 77
8.One Stage Before. 73
9.Year Of The Cat. 83
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85/100
From 01/05/2022 15:54
Mi álbum favorito de Stewart y mis canciones favoritas de él (Year Of The Cat y On The Border).
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95/100
From 01/01/2021 22:58
One of my all time favourite albums. Such an impressive collection of songs. Seriously underrated album and artist.
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From 12/16/2020 11:00
This is probably my all-time Number 1 album. Of course, our choices are always mixed up with the time in our lives that they so reflect. But every single track brings up deep-seated memories and feelings. Just a beautiful album, even having listened to it for the last 45 years.
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85/100
From 04/14/2017 17:56
This is a high quality album produced and engineered by Alan Parsons. The song "Year of The Cat" is a masterpiece.
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From 11/23/2015 20:41
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.
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90/100
From 10/09/2013 11:43
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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From 05/04/2010 07:12
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 .
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