Cat Stevens: Foreigner Suite

Trouble no more; it isn't!

NOT prog. and his drively stuff has always made me quite very sick indeed.

I don't believe it's prog, but Cat Stevens was a tremendous composer of interesting music and shouldn't be dismissed as a mere folk/pop star

    Love Cat Stevens. I was listening to "Tea for the Tillerman" yesterday. He's a great composer, but not prog. If he had taken a different turn in the road, who knows? He probably could have made a good prog artist.

Easy Livin wrote: "Catch bull at four" is by far his best, and has distinct prog tendencies too!

Dick Heath wrote: Easy Livin wrote: "Catch bull at four" is by far his best, and has distinct prog tendencies too!    "distinct prog tendencies" could also be said in theis case: influenced by what was going around him at the time, especially amongst his  Island Records stable mates wrt underground music, ergo not that surprising or unusual. Does he continue to use them and develop beyond them??? Cliche time: One swallow doesn't make a summer.

^^ for some strange reason I also like "Numbers" album, maybe because of its odd concept. (wait, I already mentioned this in my previous post!!!)
I listened to "Bull" once today, and I didn't really find those "progressive tendencies"... I admit not having listened to Foreigner album entirely, well, just the title track, which makes up half of it anyway . Apart from Numbers, all I know of Cat Stevens is the tracks in greatest hits compilations... I need to find albums, then make up my mind... (most tracks from his earlier albums sound quite good, though...)

I like Cat Stevens' music best when watching Harold and Maude, and I love his version of "Morning has Broken." I don't consider "Foreigner Suite" to be a prog epic, or even prog.

Oh, here's a video that some people may like to see:

YouTube - Cat Stevens - Foreigner Suite

"Slide show of original foreigner suite. Great pics.
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jammun wrote: There was a time I listened to Cat Stevens.  But sorry folks, anyone who openly advocates the murder (on religious grounds) of another artist no longer deserves any consideration for anything.

Strangely, and it shows my particular bias, I'd be rather more sympathetic towards an artist that advocated the murder of another artist on artistic grounds.  But on religious grounds? Gee whizz.  Cat Stevens has claimed to be misrepresented by the media concerning his comments about Rushdie (whom I've had the pleasure of meeting), but it seems clear to me that he was at the least condoning the Ayatollah's Fatwah as he considered it justified by Islamic law....

He later wrote on his website:

I never called for the death of Salman Rushdie; nor backed the Fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini--and still don’t. The book itself destroyed the harmony between peoples and created an unnecessary international crisis. When asked about my opinion regarding blasphemy, I could not tell a lie and confirmed that-- like both the Torah and the Gospel -- the Qur’an considers it, without repentance, as a capital offense. The Bible is full of similar harsh laws if you’re looking for them. However, the application of such Biblical and Qur’anic injunctions is not to be outside of due process of law, in a place or land where such law is accepted and applied by the society as a whole...

Edited by Logan - July 11 2008 at 20:59

I voted 'Yes' on this, for the same reason that SouthSideOftheSky named.