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| Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976)  Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:30 pm | |
| Moog! 
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:31 pm | |
| Guitar solo. _________________  |
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:32 pm | |
| Hammond organ.
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:32 pm | |
| It's the awesome title track. 
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:32 pm | |
| Last track - Year of the Cat.  _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:33 pm | |
| Written about Tony Hancock.  _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:33 pm | |
| Hints of Band on the Run. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:33 pm | |
| This is arguably my favourite and topmost guilty pleasure song. 
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:35 pm | |
| This is completely magical and naff and wonderful.
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:36 pm | |
| Like Casablanca, The Man Who Knew Too Much and all other stuff.
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| Guitar solos. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:36 pm | |
| Sax. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:36 pm | |
| Completely awesome.
This song has everything.
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:38 pm | |
| The strings are quite similar to the ones on ABC's The Look of Love. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (1976) Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:39 pm | |
| - A proper narrative
- An epic, ambitious conceptual, lyrical reach
- Full and proper strings
- A proper guitar solo
- Two proper saxamaphone solos
- An innocent and lushness
- An unashamed sense of nostalgia
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