1976 was THE PEAK OF PEAK In 1976 came out... Hotel California... Year of the Cat... Tales of Mistery and Imagination... A New World Record... Lucio Battisti, il Contrabasso, La Batteria... And th List goes on and on
We have seen Al live about a dozen times. We have met him on 3 occasions. He is a gentleman as well as a genius. Our favourite track is Modern Times, we asked him to consider playing it when we saw him in Bristol about 4 years ago, we saw him in Cardiff recently and he played it brilliantly, really made the night for us
Oh my God there is nothing funnier and more fulfilling than seeing young (to me) people experience truly superior music. Not just because it's from my generation, but because this is timeless.
I am so pleasantly surprised by how much you guys enjoyed this. Love this song, but it's hard to tell sometimes how much of it is due to a nostalgia. So happy to know this stands the test of time.
@@joejoseph2247 that’s it exactly! I grin all the while I’m watching their reaction. And THIS song is in my top 3 of all time so it’s even more special!
I like what he asked almost dismissively. What is he doing? He's playing that acoustic guitar and he's singing it. And he wrote it and he pro by actually Alan parson produced it Alan parsons whatever, but yeah, yeah, he he's saying it put the band together, play guitar on it. I mean, yeah, that's all he's doing. As a reason, it's his song.Ohey, talk it about. Al stewart alister
And that part that sounds like a strange section Of an orchestra coming in is actually just the keyboard player. It's just the keyboard player. Ha ha hait's really just a keyboard player man. Same effect. Okay, I'd love to see him with a full orchestrai. Think he actually did it on a cruise ship Al Stewart did. With a full orchestra he's got other songs by the way
So Hey, everybody that's not an orchestra part. That is the keyboardist only that sounds like the strange section of a orchestra not to be annoyed all but that's a fact that's done on a keyboard a hammond b three
I know how you feel. I hope, like for me, this wonderful, incredible song is part of that bridge that connects you to your wife forever. Peace and love to you both.
What all the generations since don't understand is, we smoked a bowl, turned off the lights, poured a glass of wine, opened a beer etc, , put on our headphones in a dark room only lit by the stereo dial and the turn table light and heard it all, 100%. The 70’s we're amazing in so many different ways, and there was NEVER the need to go faster, in anything. Kick back, and enjoy the ride. Pure Bliss.
We did that, but sat on the floor of my friend Mikka's bedroom facing a mirror. Except sub mushrooms and beer. All kinds of songs of many slower genres and eras. Including Pink Floyd and other softer prog and the Beatles. That was in 1985 onward to 1989. I was born in 1970. We all were that age. ❤
I get a real kick watching you guys discovering some of the music I have known for over four decades. Good for you. Al Stewart and Gerry Rafferty were two of my favourite musicians. BTW what you thought were violins are cellos.
Welcome to our childhood guys, glad you could join. Jr high back then was pretty special. The airways were littered with great music in every direction...
1976-1977 northern Mexico, Teenager, first love, block party. Didn't know much English, and/or fully understood what the song was about. Best slow dance of our lives. vinyl records, 45 rpm . Some people get to experience the song for the first time.... we lived it when it first came out.....
Can you visualize it, guys? You’re listening to a master storyteller. His use of precise words to a beautiful tune with a magnificent arrangement - it’s at the top of my list of best songs ever!
"She comes out of the sun with a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain" That line alone shows why this song is a masterclass in song writing.
I agree. The arrangement, the lyric mated with gorgeously precise musicianship? It saddens me to know that our culture has devolved so precipitously and so rapidly since this *absolute masterpiece* was produced.
@@chrisreed3572 We can carry it on and when the time is right it can re-emerge and be added to. inspired we will advance music. This is just s start here in 3d
Lyrics. So important in any Al Stewart song. The allusion to Bogart's Casablanca, and the whole feel of a Moroccan escapade. Plus everything else that was said. Nice reaction!
Alan Parsons engineered. Parsons did the beatles white album.....and Pink Floyd's DSOTM. Alan Parsons is the bomb. He lives near Santa Barbara now......working his studio, Parsonics. If you like this song......listen to any of the Alan Parsons albums. From Tales of Mystery and Imagination to A Valid Path....and beyond. You'll see why this song is so well done. Kudos to Al Stewart for sure.
"Haunting" is a good descriptor. I was 12 at the time. My connection wasn't as dramatic as yours, but Jr. High School can flood anyone with mixed emotions and this song definitely helped me sort through all that mess.
Back to join you in your first time to hear this.. imagine the first time hearing this when it first came out as 16 year old driving with the top down on a weekend driving to the lake for fun..great memories! I remember how different it was from all others when it first came out.. love it.
This song will fall off your radar for 20 or 30 years and you'll pick it up unexpectedly again and think damn this was a good song. No one hates this song.
Bring out your weed, lava lamp, and black light posters. Burn some strawberry incense. Grab your pet rock and mood rings. Put on your bell bottoms. We're taking a tour of the 70's. A magical decade that is sadly now history. This song is one of my absolute favorite songs, and artists. Check out Time Passages, On The Border, You're On My Mind Like A Song On The Radio. All by Al Stewart.
As a 62 year old guy it's amazing to have listened to this masterpiece and many other great songs from the 60's and 70's and these guys are just discovering they were born in the wrong era.Fortunately,this music is still available for younger people to discover.I used to find out about these older bands by hanging out in record stores but today they barely still exist.Now unless you know the band or someone older introduces it to you you'll never hear this great stuff.The world has lost its soul.
I bought this album in 1976 when I was 20. And I still have it in excellent condition. My rocker friends didn’t understand why I bought it. It just spoke to me. One song on the album, “Flying Sorcery” got me wanting to REALLY learn to fly. And I did!! Thanks Al.
I was 16 yo when i first listened to Year of the Cat..what an absolute masterpiece my favourite of all time. Very blessed to have grown up with 70's music. Loved watching you guys react as you discover his talent. Thanks for playing it..that sax still gives me shivers....
My Fifth Grade English Teacher played this album, during class. This was one of his tactics, to get us to learn how to write in Proper Cursive in Paragraph Form. He wrote all the lyrics on the chalkboard, put on the Vinyl, while the class wrote away. It was this Class, that I heard so many Classic Artists, that still remind me of that Teacher and how cool He was to influence so many young people to learn English, but at the same time hear GREAT Music.
I had a music teacher all through elementary school in the 60’s who influenced thousands of students in the same way. All show tunes, had to write the words listen to the tune by his piano playing and sing a line and you better know the song cause you don’t know which line of the song you have to sing. Created a whole school to learn every show tune created. Viva Mr. Morgan ~ #mrmorgansawmillelementary
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain." Are you kidding me? Dude is a master wordsmith. Do "Roads To Moscow". Thanks for this reaction.
He had two intros for Roads to Moscow. He couldn't decide, so used both of them. Al now lives in California, owns a winery but still plays. I love the stuff he did with Lawrence Juber.
Love the “bogart movie” start too...”strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime”...that was the initial charm for me. And the solo where the instruments take over one by one was the final sealer for me.
I am crying like a baby listening to this. Takes me right back to one of the three happiest years of my life. Can't help thinking of our then President Carter and his recent infirmity. A really great era and this song was a big part of my mornings primping for the girls at school. Thanks for the review and reminding me.
Like seriously, this epic rock song is right up there with Stairway To Heaven and Bohemian Rhapsody. Panoramic, haunting and dazzling. Soul caressing instrumentations swirling with whirling majestic radiance. Evocative lyrical transcendence conjured from another world. This luminous song demands and deserves and receives repeated listens, played really loud and i mean like seriously cranked up.
You guys are fun to watch!! Baby boomer here. Love watching you guys appreciate and enjoy the music of the 60’s, 70’s, and eighties into the first part of the 90’s! Pure raw poetic talent back then! 😊
Guys, the thing I always loved about this amazing track, is how, even when it goes in jazzy mode, EVERYTHING is in context. Every note is beautifully in context. It's a master-piece of musicianship and a classic from the '70's rock/blues/jazz genre. Timeless. Still listening to it 50 years later and loving it just the same.
I cannot count how many times I have watched this review since I first saw it several months ago. I love this song, and I love your reaction to it. There are several other of your reviews I've watched multiple times. You guys are great!😊🥰
'Sup from the 859!! This song has stuck with me for years, so very good!! I'm a 80's guy but this song is the amazing 70's!! Whats cooler than being cool? Al Stewart!!
This is why we say we grew up with the best music, and the best cars in the 70's and 80's. I carry in my truck a cd of Year of the Cat, Dark side of the Moon, CCR greatest hits and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
This just might be the greatest song I've ever heard. It's a testament to the combined genius of Al Stewart and Alan Parsons, incombination with a stable of consummate musicians. It does everything a great song's supposed to do. Had the privilege of hearing it performed live in 1989. What a treat.
Your reaction to this song has been so amazing and now, of all of the reactions I have watched to this song, whenever I hear Year of the Cat, I picture your reaction video. The joyous expressions and comments you made in this reaction stood out to me and have left quite an impact. Everytime I hear this song, I see you. Thanks, guys. You're awesome!! 🎧😎👍
The 70s had some great songs, Al's contributions are a vibe. " If you don't like it fast forward." Fans of this song didn't fast forward. One of the most beautiful classic rock songs of the 70s. Al has a few of them.
Al Stewart - an amazing singer/songwriter. I’ve been a fan since the 70’s when I first heard him singing The Year of the Cat on a rental car FM Radio as I left LAX to drive down the coast. THEN, right after it they played Time Passages; the sun was setting, it was just after Christmas…magic!
My absolut favorite song since my youth!! ..since today...I am 60 years and I feel like I am young hearing that wonderful song !!! Many greets from Germany near Cologne 🙋🏼♀️!!
Que lindo ver gente joven que disfruten está joya de la música no está todos perdido. Emociona para gente que vivió esa época de una música inolvidable. Gracias..
Really enjoy you 3. Look into Foghat. An English blues rock band. I will name 3 songs to try. I am a professional mudician. This is a hugy underated band from thr 70s. Songs. Driving Wheel. Intense from beginning to end. Fool For the City, just great, or Terraplane Blues. Simple a madterpiece or blues Rock. Classis slide guatat and exceptionally talented band. They really are a not miss. Cheatue 59 Boogie will have you dancing on the video
This song brings emotions not just a vibe. Simply genius.
Another one from the embarrassment of riches that was the music of the 70s. We didn’t know how good we had it back then!
We sure didn't.
Great song !!!
1976 was THE PEAK OF PEAK
In 1976 came out...
Hotel California...
Year of the Cat...
Tales of Mistery and Imagination...
A New World Record...
Lucio Battisti, il Contrabasso, La Batteria...
And th List goes on and on
Another great song by Al Stewart is "Time Passages"
On the border. Almost Lucy. Song on the Radio. The Hits just keep on coming. But to call an lp "24 carrots"...what a terrible Dad joke.
Refreshing to see young people with good taste
Back again for my annual indulgence. Thanks guys.
This is the one song to play to anyone who tells you there is no such thing as a perfect song.
Yes. This.
Man, you got that right!!
This does come pretty close to a perfect song.
PERFECT 10+
lt isn't a great song, but it's a brilliant arrangement and production.
This isn't a song, it's musical genius.
Totally agree.
You have to know music 🎶🎵
We have seen Al live about a dozen times. We have met him on 3 occasions. He is a gentleman as well as a genius. Our favourite track is Modern Times, we asked him to consider playing it when we saw him in Bristol about 4 years ago, we saw him in Cardiff recently and he played it brilliantly, really made the night for us
Amazing song. If dews me in every time.
Oh my God there is nothing funnier and more fulfilling than seeing young (to me) people experience truly superior music. Not just because it's from my generation, but because this is timeless.
They make me laugh out loud!
I love that you have had the same mind-blowing experience that I have had for this piece of perfect art.
In a silk dress, running, like a watercolor in the rain. One of the best lines ever!!!
Totally agree.
yup. Still think about it sometimes. When I'm dodging raindrops
This song is beautiful.
Best instrumental break in history - strings to Spanish guitar to electric guitar to sax. Brilliant.
Absolutely!
I am so pleasantly surprised by how much you guys enjoyed this. Love this song, but it's hard to tell sometimes how much of it is due to a nostalgia. So happy to know this stands the test of time.
It's not nostalgia it's just a well written timeless song 😀🎸🎷🎹
I didn't hear it until the mid 2000's while watching Running With Scissors. Instantly knew it was special.
What is Al Stewart playing?
He's playing the strings of your soul.
I keep coming back to this reaction. One of my absolute favourites on TH-cam!
I do, too. The reaction is so cool to rewatch, like listening to the song again and again!
Agreed. These guys had such a heartfelt and sincere feeling bordering on ecstasy. Watching it made me have hope for this generation.
Me too, great reaction! It truly is a feel good song.
Me too!!
I am so jealous of you three people able to listen to this song for the first time. I want to go back and relive that first time again.
Lovely.
My sentiment exactly.
Ditto. I lived it too.
we get to relive it through these guys :)
@@joejoseph2247 that’s it exactly! I grin all the while I’m watching their reaction. And THIS song is in my top 3 of all time so it’s even more special!
So right Elaine. It's that good ! Now it's lost in those time passages...:)
This is by far my favorite reaction video.
Also my favorite reaction video but I have other favorites and coincidentally they are Also regarding this song
I like what he asked almost dismissively. What is he doing? He's playing that acoustic guitar and he's singing it. And he wrote it and he pro by actually Alan parson produced it Alan parsons whatever, but yeah, yeah, he he's saying it put the band together, play guitar on it. I mean, yeah, that's all he's doing. As a reason, it's his song.Ohey, talk it about.
Al stewart alister
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And that part that sounds like a strange section Of an orchestra coming in is actually just the keyboard player. It's just the keyboard player. Ha ha hait's really just a keyboard player man. Same effect. Okay, I'd love to see him with a full orchestrai. Think he actually did it on a cruise ship Al Stewart did. With a full orchestra he's got other songs by the way
So Hey, everybody that's not an orchestra part. That is the keyboardist only that sounds like the strange section of a orchestra not to be annoyed all but that's a fact that's done on a keyboard a hammond b three
EVERYTHING about this song screams MASTERPIECE ❤
Ryan - your reaction was beautiful. I enjoyed this soooooooo much. 😂
Absolute ear candy..beautiful
I,m 68. Cryiing while listening. Lost my wife of 21 years 2 months ago. Love this song.
Sorry for your loss...
So sorry for your loss. Huge, warm, comforting hugs.
I know how you feel. I hope, like for me, this wonderful, incredible song is part of that bridge that connects you to your wife forever. Peace and love to you both.
"hold fast to what is fine" (1 Thess 5 :21)
thankyou brother
What all the generations since don't understand is, we smoked a bowl, turned off the lights, poured a glass of wine, opened a beer etc, , put on our headphones in a dark room only lit by the stereo dial and the turn table light and heard it all, 100%. The 70’s we're amazing in so many different ways, and there was NEVER the need to go faster, in anything. Kick back, and enjoy the ride. Pure Bliss.
Dont forget about the black light!
We did that, but sat on the floor of my friend Mikka's bedroom facing a mirror. Except sub mushrooms and beer.
All kinds of songs of many slower genres and eras. Including Pink Floyd and other softer prog and the Beatles.
That was in 1985 onward to 1989.
I was born in 1970. We all were that age. ❤
@@brianmaltby1424 yes definitely the black light was a must 👌
Yep! That's exactly it!
Wow ! I thought I was the only one doing this. So relaxing as you put it.
That triple hit of acoustic guitar/electric guitar/sax solos preceded by the string section sounds just as amazing now as it did in 76'
Yes it does!
Yes !
The Year of the Cat has had me under its spell for forty years...
A mí también
@@franciscodanieldaddino1174 😃 👍 👊
You and me, both !
@@isolde1802 ❤📆🐱
I get a real kick watching you guys discovering some of the music I have known for over four decades. Good for you.
Al Stewart and Gerry Rafferty were two of my favourite musicians. BTW what you thought were violins are cellos.
I have to come back to this one over and over again. The best reaction ever.
Me to. I brings me joy!
Welcome to our childhood guys, glad you could join. Jr high back then was pretty special. The airways were littered with great music in every direction...
I'm crying as I watching you guys.....So much joy. That's what real music is about....Pure Joy. The Year of the Cat is a timeless classic.
Yes... crying with you
@@andrewpetik2034 I'm on my 5th viewing. Now it's just smiles all the way. :)😊
yes....yes, it is...great music from an incredible songwriter...
@@spoonunit03
I can smile now!
I am back for another view.
It is now like listening to this masterpiece with old friends.
😊✌️
I didn't want to nit pick but they missed the cello and mandolin. No sense judging them. It is overwhelming.
The layering of instruments is masterful. A timeless classic.
Compliments of the genius producing of Alan Parsons
This is a great song , Al Stewart is a super nice musician
This is The Perfect Song.
best reaction so far!
1976-1977 northern Mexico,
Teenager, first love, block party. Didn't know much English, and/or fully understood what the song was about. Best slow dance of our lives. vinyl records, 45 rpm . Some people get to experience the song for the first time....
we lived it when it first came out.....
This song is just beautiful... and it brings back so many good memories of my life with childhood friends in the 70s..
Can you visualize it, guys? You’re listening to a master storyteller. His use of precise words to a beautiful tune with a magnificent arrangement - it’s at the top of my list of best songs ever!
Oh yes….well said!
"She comes out of the sun with a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain" That line alone shows why this song is a masterclass in song writing.
I agree. The arrangement, the lyric mated with gorgeously precise musicianship? It saddens me to know that our culture has devolved so precipitously and so rapidly since this *absolute masterpiece* was produced.
@@chrisreed3572 We can carry it on and when the time is right it can re-emerge and be added to. inspired we will advance music. This is just s start here in 3d
When I see three guys there I have to laugh all the time. thanks.
This has to be one of the best songs ever written
Fellas… it was a pleasure to see young men appreciate this masterpiece. So many youngsters wouldn’t even give it a chance. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Listen to Al Stewart - Time Passages. You’ll enjoy it.
Lyrics. So important in any Al Stewart song. The allusion to Bogart's Casablanca, and the whole feel of a Moroccan escapade. Plus everything else that was said. Nice reaction!
Not to mention Peter Lore contemplating a crime!
Sept 5, 2024 - today is Al’s birthday! 🎉🎉🎉
One of the absolute greatest songs of all time!
Alan Parsons engineered. Parsons did the beatles white album.....and Pink Floyd's DSOTM. Alan Parsons is the bomb. He lives near Santa Barbara now......working his studio, Parsonics. If you like this song......listen to any of the Alan Parsons albums. From Tales of Mystery and Imagination to A Valid Path....and beyond. You'll see why this song is so well done. Kudos to Al Stewart for sure.
Old and wise and silence and I just beautiful
I have not heard this in decades…thank you!
This song is so hauntingly beautiful. I was 8 when it came out, and my big brother had drowned...and, somehow, this song soooothed me so deeply.
"Haunting" is a good descriptor. I was 12 at the time. My connection wasn't as dramatic as yours, but Jr. High School can flood anyone with mixed emotions and this song definitely helped me sort through all that mess.
I'm so sorry about your brother. I'm glad you found some solace in this beautiful song.
Bless you.
Sorry about your brother and our thoughts are with you. This song is a masterpiece
So sorry for your loss
Yacht boys, lol. The sax was big in those days. This is my second youth listening to this song, more respect for Al.
Truly the best REACTION ever for the best song of all times.
This song is so powerful that it even takes me back to places I've never been.
wow...yes!!! Me too!!!!
Someone wrote it makes you want to go places you've never been with someone you've never met. I wish I could find that comment now.
Powerful enough to take me back to 1978…I am 57.
Back to join you in your first time to hear this.. imagine the first time hearing this when it first came out as 16 year old driving with the top down on a weekend driving to the lake for fun..great memories! I remember how different it was from all others when it first came out.. love it.
This IS a perfect song, great reaction guys!
God Bless The BRITISH for the best Bands and Music that they have given to the world. 👍👍
I agree! And I’m American saying that
Latecomer, eh?
Absolutely 👍
TRUE. The British are the best.
Absolutamente, Reino Unido y especialmente los británicos son la cuna de la música de calidad.
This song will fall off your radar for 20 or 30 years and you'll pick it up unexpectedly again and think damn this was a good song. No one hates this song.
PURE EAR CANDY, YA'LL!!! STILL love this reaction, YOU-GUYS!! WE were the LUCKIEST PEOPLE: EVER!!! HUGS from TEXAS!!!
Bring out your weed, lava lamp, and black light posters. Burn some strawberry incense. Grab your pet rock and mood rings. Put on your bell bottoms. We're taking a tour of the 70's. A magical decade that is sadly now history. This song is one of my absolute favorite songs, and artists. Check out Time Passages, On The Border, You're On My Mind Like A Song On The Radio. All by Al Stewart.
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So beautiful of a song, one of my all-time favorites
I don't know a thing about music and I have no musical abilities. But I know this song is an intricately crafted masterpiece. Absolutely my favorite.
So well said.
AWSOME !
Definitely!! One of my favorite songs of all time. 👌😉❤️
Vote Blue.
Absolutely!
Simply magic ❤
As a 62 year old guy it's amazing to have listened to this masterpiece and many other great songs from the 60's and 70's and these guys are just discovering they were born in the wrong era.Fortunately,this music is still available for younger people to discover.I used to find out about these older bands by hanging out in record stores but today they barely still exist.Now unless you know the band or someone older introduces it to you you'll never hear this great stuff.The world has lost its soul.
Theres two of us left, at least. My soul can still sing, and so can yours, I think?
My too
We were the lucky ones back then my friend!
I don't know how many times I have watched your reaction. Your smiles only enhance this masterpiece.😊
I've heard this masterpiece of an album a thousand times,i'm 67,and it STILL gives me goosebumps.
Listen to the album,you'll adore it.
Ditto Red!
Agree. So many people miss this album in total. "On the border" "Lord grenville" all of it.
Agree
66 here !
It's my go to.
The best arrangement I've ever heard in music.... Amazing....
It’s what I call a masterpiece
I bought this album in 1976 when I was 20. And I still have it in excellent condition. My rocker friends didn’t understand why I bought it. It just spoke to me. One song on the album, “Flying Sorcery” got me wanting to REALLY learn to fly. And I did!! Thanks Al.
I was 16 yo when i first listened to Year of the Cat..what an absolute masterpiece my favourite of all time. Very blessed to have grown up with 70's music. Loved watching you guys react as you discover his talent.
Thanks for playing it..that sax still gives me shivers....
My Fifth Grade English Teacher played this album, during class. This was one of his tactics, to get us to learn how to write in Proper Cursive in Paragraph Form.
He wrote all the lyrics on the chalkboard, put on the Vinyl, while the class wrote away.
It was this Class, that I heard so many Classic Artists, that still remind me of that Teacher and how cool He was to influence so many young people to learn English, but at the same time hear GREAT Music.
That's awesome. What a great teacher.
Cool teacher.
He should have taught you that what you do with your ear is hear not here.
That, my friends, is how you get the attention of a class! Why not pick the most perfect song ever written!
I had a music teacher all through elementary school in the 60’s who influenced thousands of students in the same way. All show tunes, had to write the words listen to the tune by his piano playing and sing a line and you better know the song cause you don’t know which line of the song you have to sing. Created a whole school to learn every show tune created. Viva Mr. Morgan ~ #mrmorgansawmillelementary
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain." Are you kidding me? Dude is a master wordsmith.
Do "Roads To Moscow".
Thanks for this reaction.
The imagery of Roads To Moscow is pure genius.
"Roads to Moscow" is a true masterpiece.
He had two intros for Roads to Moscow. He couldn't decide, so used both of them. Al now lives in California, owns a winery but still plays. I love the stuff he did with Lawrence Juber.
Love the “bogart movie” start too...”strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime”...that was the initial charm for me. And the solo where the instruments take over one by one was the final sealer for me.
This song is brilliant in every way.
It's no wonder the Album went platinum in the USA.. It is a masterpiece.😄
I am crying like a baby listening to this.
Takes me right back to one of the three happiest years of my life.
Can't help thinking of our then President Carter and his recent infirmity.
A really great era and this song was a big part of my mornings primping for the girls at school.
Thanks for the review and reminding me.
The acoustic solo to electric solo to sax solo is complicatedly beautiful.
Like seriously, this epic rock song is right up there with Stairway To Heaven and Bohemian Rhapsody. Panoramic, haunting and dazzling. Soul caressing instrumentations swirling with whirling majestic radiance. Evocative lyrical transcendence conjured from another world. This luminous song demands and deserves and receives repeated listens, played really loud and i mean like seriously cranked up.
I agree
Absolutely
Hotel California... Mr. Blue Sky... Child of Vision... Wish you Where Here... and very few more
I Totally Agree
@@mariosirius Lets throw in Freebird and The End and Heaven And Hell while we're at it as the list gets longer and longer..
This classic captivates everyone who listens to it for the first time or hundreds of times!
Seeing this young guys enjoying good music like this classic, priceless good job guys thank you
An absolute joy to listen to such an incredible masterpiece! Al is without doubt a musical genius!
I love that you guys love this song... It's 70s classic fore sure. One of the best.
This is such a beautiful and haunting song.
It's one of the it's recognized as one of the best beautiful rock and roll songs of all time
My favorite song! Always had been. A true masterpiece!
You guys are fun to watch!! Baby boomer here. Love watching you guys appreciate and enjoy the music of the 60’s, 70’s, and eighties into the first part of the 90’s! Pure raw poetic talent back then! 😊
Watched too many political videos today, and I'm bummed. Gonna watch this for the umpteenth time 'cause it always makes me happy. Thanks, guys!😊❤
I can relate, @TallyDrake 💯🌊🐬
It makes me happy as well my friend.
Ty's reaction to the sax is priceless.
For very long, I've considered this the perfect song. It has every element you'd want in a song.
Beautiful to hear it thru you guys; it was (& is) such a triP
Love you guys
Guys, the thing I always loved about this amazing track, is how, even when it goes in jazzy mode, EVERYTHING is in context. Every note is beautifully in context. It's a master-piece of musicianship and a classic from the '70's rock/blues/jazz genre. Timeless. Still listening to it 50 years later and loving it just the same.
I cannot count how many times I have watched this review since I first saw it several months ago. I love this song, and I love your reaction to it. There are several other of your reviews I've watched multiple times. You guys are great!😊🥰
This friends is my number one all time favorite songs. The voice. The instruments. The melody. It’s amazing ❤
'Sup from the 859!! This song has stuck with me for years, so very good!! I'm a 80's guy but this song is the amazing 70's!! Whats cooler than being cool? Al Stewart!!
This like listening to a beautiful classical piece! Gorgeous music!
This was one of the songs, when I was in college, that we heard on the radio and INSTANTLY loved. It was just that good.
You guys are all Cool as Shit. I'm 61 and I felt the AL vibe from first listen just like you guys did . Rock On Gentleman!
Love, love, love this song! From the very beginning!!!!!
REACTION EXCELLENT, A GREAT SOUND!!!
This is why we say we grew up with the best music, and the best cars in the 70's and 80's. I carry in my truck a cd of Year of the Cat, Dark side of the Moon, CCR greatest hits and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Absolutely!
My 2 cats love your reaction to this song. MEOW!
I've heard this song literally thousands of times, and I still love it.
Never gets old.
"Like a water color in the rain"
My all time favorite lyric. Beajtiful..
It's just great to see your generation loving my "teen music" ?? 😊. Love Al Stewart's music...🎤🎸💖
This just might be the greatest song I've ever heard. It's a testament to the combined genius of Al Stewart and Alan Parsons, incombination with a stable of consummate musicians. It does everything a great song's supposed to do. Had the privilege of hearing it performed live in 1989. What a treat.
Your reaction to this song has been so amazing and now, of all of the reactions I have watched to this song, whenever I hear Year of the Cat, I picture your reaction video. The joyous expressions and comments you made in this reaction stood out to me and have left quite an impact. Everytime I hear this song, I see you. Thanks, guys. You're awesome!! 🎧😎👍
The 70s had some great songs, Al's contributions are a vibe. " If you don't like it fast forward." Fans of this song didn't fast forward. One of the most beautiful classic rock songs of the 70s. Al has a few of them.
Have to comment again.... Can't play year of the cat anymore unless it's with this review...just so so cool listening to this 🙂🙂🙂👍👍👍👍
Al Stewart - an amazing singer/songwriter. I’ve been a fan since the 70’s when I first heard him singing The Year of the Cat on a rental car FM Radio as I left LAX to drive down the coast. THEN, right after it they played Time Passages; the sun was setting, it was just after Christmas…magic!
My absolut favorite song since my youth!! ..since today...I am 60 years and I feel like I am young hearing that wonderful song !!! Many greets from Germany near Cologne 🙋🏼♀️!!
Que lindo ver gente joven que disfruten está joya de la música no está todos perdido.
Emociona para gente que vivió esa época de una música inolvidable.
Gracias..
Well said
I'm so glad people's discovering this song, it's probably my favorite song ever.
Thanks!
Really enjoy you 3. Look into Foghat. An English blues rock band. I will name 3 songs to try. I am a professional mudician. This is a hugy underated band from thr 70s. Songs. Driving Wheel. Intense from beginning to end. Fool For the City, just great, or Terraplane Blues. Simple a madterpiece or blues Rock. Classis slide guatat and exceptionally talented band. They really are a not miss. Cheatue 59 Boogie will have you dancing on the video
Fantastic song with the fingerprints of Alan Parson on it. Your reaction is classic!