Al Stewart 
The best album credited to Al Stewart is Year Of The Cat which is ranked number 2,159 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 754.
Al Stewart is ranked number 1,180 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 1,256.
- See also:
- Al Stewart & The Empty Pockets
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 08/15/2025 12:21 |  doombringer | 185 | 85/100 |
| ! | 03/19/2025 17:52 | ootsp | 5 | 86/100 |
| ! | 07/08/2023 02:15 | reelcolonel | 42 | 78/100 |
| ! | 05/13/2022 18:41 | lisalisa | 330 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2021 21:21 |  paladisiac | 1,035 | 67/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 7% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 77.9/100, a mean average of 78.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.8/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 9.1.
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Hugely talented. One of the great solo artists.
Quality artist. Glad to see him getting some well-deserved love on this site.
I've always had a lot of time for Al Stewart. So many excellent songs spread out across a wide number of albums. I've enjoyed seeing him play at the Half Moon Putney and at Croydon. Great guitar work, and very distinctive.
Stewart toured the college circuit and released five albums of typically introspective romantic folk music which showed he was a hugely talented songwriter capable of producing some wonderful romantic and historically inspired lyrics and some great melodies.
Although hugely respected in the UK Stewart never achieved any significant commercial success and, in 1975 left the UK for Los Angeles and CBS for RCA. The change in home and record company brought a change in Stewart’s musical style as he moved away from his acoustic folk style to a slicker mainstream light rock sound under the guidance of producer Alan Parsons. The effect was dramatic with Year of the Cat and Time Passages making the US top ten.
Stewart continues to record and perform into the new Millennium and his crystal clear vocals and intelligent songs from a career spanning over thirty years have ensured that Stewart is one of the most respected and fondly remembered of all British singer songwriters
Captain_Dude 07/06/2011 00:58 | #24005
His music was perfectly suited for 1970s FM radio. It may sound a little dated now...but, then again, he wasn't making music for the 21st century. Enjoy him for his time.
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