Just Yesterday [Import]

Just Yesterday [Import]

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. Elf

2. Bedsitter Images

3. Samuel, Oh How You've Changed

4. You Should Have Listened to Al

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Carol

2. Apple Cider Re-Constitution

3. Dark & Rolling Sea

4. Modern Times

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Running Man

2. Merlin's Time

3. If It Doesn't Come Naturally, Leave It [Live]

4. Optical Illusion

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Night Train to Munich

2. Leage of Notions

3. Marion the Chatelaine

4. Joe the Georgian

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 5

1. On the Border [Live]

2. Sirens of Titan [Live]

3. Time Passages [Live]

4. Roads to Moscow [Live]

See all 9 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
This 5 CD set beautifully packaged in a long box with a 70 page booklet is a comprehensive set documenting Al's prolific career from his first album Bedsitter Images in 1967 to the 2005 release A Beach Full Of Shells. Al Stewart's music explores his fascination with historical tales using a blend of sophisticated whimsical lyrics and melodies. Discs 1 - 4 cover his studio albums and the 5th disc is a concert recorded live in Chicago, in October 1978. EMI. 2005.

Tracks:

Nowhere Girl - B-Movie
Kiss Me - Tin Tin
Swear - Tim Scott
Don't Tell Me - Blancmange
One Step Beyond... - Madness
Ca Plane Por Moi (This Life's For Me) - Plastic Bertrand
Pop Muzik - M
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Specimen
Caught With The Meat In Your Mouth - Dead Boys
Piss Factory - Patti Smith
Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight - The Rezillos
Jump - Aztec Camera
Cath - The Bluebelles
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Memphis Tennessee - Silicon Teens
Warm Leatherette - The Normal

Customer Reviews:

All of the best diverse music from the 1980s........1998-11-27

Plastic Bertrand is a group that is very hard to find in the United States, even with a song played on the radio such as, "Ca Plane Por Moi." "Nowhere Girl," by B-Movie rocks also! There is just an amazing selection of fabulous flashback music. This is definately a need for all of those other 80s music buffs like me.

Average customer rating:

Underrated singer-songwriter still doesn't get his just desserts
missing key singles

Just Yesterday
Al Stewart
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Odds and Sods: Mis-Takes and Out-Takes
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Famous Last Words

ASIN: B000AYYTA8
Release Date: 2005-10-10

Tracks:

Elf
Bedsitter Images
Samuel, Oh How You've Changed
You Should Have Listened to Al
In Brooklyn
Clifton in the Rain
Electric Los Angeles Sunset
Manuscript
Small Fruit Song
You Don't Even Know Me
I'm Falling
Soho (Needless to Say)
Old Admirals
Roads to Moscow
Nostradamus/The World Goes to Riyadh [Live]

Tracks:

Carol
Apple Cider Re-Constitution
Dark & Rolling Sea
Modern Times
On the Border
Sand in Your Shoes
Lord Grenville
Flying Sorcery
Year of the Cat
Almost Lucy
Life in Dark Water
Timeless Skies
Time Passages
End of the Day

Tracks:

Running Man
Merlin's Time
If It Doesn't Come Naturally, Leave It [Live]
Optical Illusion
Rumours of War
Accident on Third Street
Last Days of the Centruy
Red Toupee
Where Are They Now?
Antarctica
Helen and Cassandra
Fields of France [Live]
Genie on a Table Top
Charlotte Corday
Trains

Tracks:

Night Train to Munich
Leage of Notions
Marion the Chatelaine
Joe the Georgian
Laughing into 1939
House of Clocks
Waiting for Margaux
Turning It into Water
Down in the Cellars
Mr. Lear
Somewhere in England 1915
Katherine of Oregon
Soho (Needless to Say) [Alternate Take]
Coldest Winter in Memory
Terminal Eyes
Denise at 16

Tracks:

On the Border [Live]
Sirens of Titan [Live]
Time Passages [Live]
Roads to Moscow [Live]
Life in Dark Water [Live]
Valentina Way [Live]
Year of the Cat [Live]
Pink Panther Theme
Song on the Radio

Album Description

This 5 CD set beautifully packaged in a long box with a 70 page booklet is a comprehensive set documenting Al's prolific career from his first album Bedsitter Images in 1967 to the 2005 release A Beach Full Of Shells. Al Stewart's music explores his fascination with historical tales using a blend of sophisticated whimsical lyrics and melodies. Discs 1 - 4 cover his studio albums and the 5th disc is a concert recorded live in Chicago, in October 1978. EMI. 2005.

Album Details

A Troubadour and Master Storyteller, Al Stewart's Timeless Songs have Earned Him a Revered Place in Contemporary Music. Stewart Celebrates his 60th Birthday in the Autumn of 2005 and the London Barbican Gig is Being Billed as a Birthday Celebration. Al Stewart's Music Explores his Fascination with Historical Tales Using a Blend of Sophisticated Whimsical Lyrics and Melodies. This Five CD Set Beautifully Packaged in a Long Box with 70 Page Booklet is a Comprehensive Box Set Documenting Al's Prolific Career from his First Album 'bedsitter Images' in 1967 to the 2005 Release 'a Beach Full of Shells'. Discs One to Four Cover his Studio Albums and the Fifth Disc is a Concert Recorded Live in Chicago, Oct 1978 - Many of the Tracks have Only Ever Been Available Commercially in the USA

Customer Reviews:

Underrated singer-songwriter still doesn't get his just desserts.......2006-11-27

Al Stewart is the type of artist who gets overlooked quite often. Even at the peak of his popularity in the late '70s, he was anything but the typical rock/pop star. His voice is somewhat thin and nasal, his elocution just a bit too proper.... but when you look past these seeming flaws, you realize he's amazingly gifted as a guitarist, songwriter, and bandleader. In the '60s and '70s, it seemed as if everyone were trying to pawn themselves off as mini-opera auteurs in the prog-rock arena, especially after the success of the Who's "Tommy" and various other works by Yes, the Moody Blues, and Genesis, among others. Precious few produced epics as engaging and beautiful as those made by Stewart (the live medley of Nostradamus and The World Goes to Riyadh on Disc One attests to this). At the same time though, Stewart could dazzle with compact snapshots both poignant and catchy ("Brooklyn," "Almost Lucy," "Flying Sorcery"). He knew his way around a pop hook and he'd hit you with a killer cross when you least expected it.

That brings me to this import box set, which is virutally impossible to find anywhere outside Amazon and a few select retail outlets specializing in imports. As an intro sampler to Stewart's body of work, it's good... but at five discs it should be much more. I would be content to say that whomever compiled this set didn't know much about Stewart and his work, because efforts that are widely regarded as some of his best --- like 1984's "Russians and Americans," which is so highly sought after today that it fetchs almost $90 on the used market --- are woefully under-represented. So it would then be safe to assume the compiler merely took all Al's singles and key FM album tracks to press.....but that's not it either. Key singles like "Midnight Rocks," "Paint By Numbers," and "Lori, Don't Go Right Now" are omitted while his albums from the last decade fill one disc and another is wasted on tracks from a concert. AND, most of the discs are only over an hour...... This is just wrong!

This box set is obviously aimed at Al's fans, so why not give them what they want, or hand the reigns over to someone who at least understands what that entails? Five stars for the music...2 stars for the compilation. I'll settle on a four.

missing key singles.......2006-06-17

Overall this is a wonderful overview of one of the greatest singer/songwriters of our times. Unfortunately, neither "Song On The Radio" nor "Upon The Midnight Rocks" are to be found among the studio tracks found on discs 1-4. The playing time on the set is short enough that these two wonderful tracks could easily have been fit in. Other than that, the sound quality of the sound is immaculate, including the live 5th disc. The set is very pricey, but if you obtain it from one of the drop shippers you can get it for a reasonable price. I found it necessary to buy a copy of Al's "Greatest Hits" on Rhino just to have the above mentioned missing singles. Kind of a bummer, but the set is still very representative of Stewart's entire career and the 70 page booklet is chock full of info, photos, and quotes from the artist himself. I'd love to give this set 5 stars but the missing singles and necessity of purchasing another disc just to obtain them forces me to give the set only 4 stars. All considered the box is a great overview of Stewart's 40 year career and should find a home with anyone who is truly a fan of his work. For novices, the Rhino single disc "Greatest Hits" is probably a better and far cheaper choice.

Average customer rating:

The Canadian Brass/ Encore

Manufacturer: Musica Viva
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

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General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music

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Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000287YR
Release Date: 2001-07-01

Tracks:

Canadian Brass Rag
The Cathedral
A Royal Firework
Golliwog's Cakewalk
Days Before Yesterday
En Sueno
First Gymnopedie
The Joust
Entertainer Rag
Ragtime Waltz
The Favourite Rag
Sycamore Rag
Euphonic Sounds Rag
Rosebud March
Figleaf Rag
Easy Winners Rag
'Lasses Trombone
Slim Trombone
Amazing Grace
Bourbon Street Medley: Just A Closer Walk With Thee/Tin Roof Blues/ Muskrat Ramble

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Just Like Yesterday

Manufacturer: Just Like Yesterday
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAGIPE
Release Date: 2004-05-11

Average customer rating:

The U.G.L.y. Project
Authentic Lyfe
Manufacturer: Ink Struggle Entertainment
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAK2Z6
Release Date: 2005-08-02

Tracks:

Keep Movin' On
Day...Today
Everybody Needs Love
Pretender
Memphis Diamonds
Dem Green Troubles
Interlude (Kmo)
Gettin' It On
Lonesome
To Donna
Product (Of Society)
Drifter.
Outro(kmo)

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Just Yesterday
Michael Hanna
Manufacturer: Michael Hanna Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music

General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music

Piano | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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ASIN: B0009FUUWO
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Be Thou My Vision
First Love
Red River Valley
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Product Description

Relaxing and soothing solo piano, blending melodic tunesmithy and skillful arranging with a fervent playing style and passionate expression. Perfect for contemplative reading or meditation, or as smooth background music for everyday life. If you enjoy the tuneful New Age Piano genre, you will love the solo piano music of Michael Hanna.

Features seven original works, plus arrangements of Danny Boy, Be Thou My Vision, It Is Well With My Soul, and Red River Valley.