MFSL 1-244 CAT STEVENS TEASER & THE FIRECAT SEALED LP
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This is the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's version of Cat Stevens' 1971 A&M Records release, "Teaser And The Firecat". It is one of the rarer Anadisqs, and has a super-low number 0177. This one is factory sealed in the familiar MFSL loose bag; the bag has a 0.5" tear in the perforation at the top, and one of 1.5" in the perforation facing the rear. AMG: "Even as a serious-minded singer/songwriter, Cat Stevens never stopped being a pop singer at heart, and with Teaser and the Firecat he reconciled his philosophical interests with his pop instincts. Basically, Teaser's songs came in two modes: gentle ballads that usually found Stevens and second guitarist Alun Davies playing delicate lines over sensitive love lyrics, and up-tempo numbers on which the guitarists strummed away and thundering drums played in stop-start rhythms. And while there had always been a charming, childlike quality to some of his lyrics, there were songs here that worked as nursery rhymes, and these were among the album's most memorable tracks and its biggest hits: "Moonshadow" and "Morning Has Broken," the latter adapted from a hymn. The overall result was an album that was musically more interesting than ever, but lyrically dumbed-down. Stevens continued to look for satisfaction in romance, despite its disappointment, but he found more fulfillment in a still-unspecified religious pursuit that he was ready to tout to others. And they were at least nominally ready to listen: the album produced three hit singles and just missed topping the charts. Tea for the Tillerman may have been the more impressive effort, but Teaser and the Firecat was the Cat Stevens album that gave more surface pleasures to more people, which in pop music is the name of the game." -- William Ruhlmann
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