To Whom It May Concern, 1966-1970 [Import]

To Whom It May Concern, 1966-1970 [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Double CD. Contains the Original LPs Bedsitter Images, Love Chronicles, and Zero When She Flies, plus a Rare Early Single-Only Release. A Must have for Singer-Songwriter Fans.

Tracks:

The Elf
Turn Into Earth
Bedsitter Images
Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres
The Carmichaels
Scandinavian Girl
Pretty Golden Hair
Denise At 16
Samuel Oh How You've Changed
Cleave To Me
A Long Way Down From Stephanie
Ivich
Beleeka Doodle Day
Lover Man
Clifton In The Rain
In Brooklyn
Old Compton Street Blues
Ballard Of Mary Foster
Life And Life Only

Tracks:

You Should Have Listened To Al
Love Chronicles
My Enemies Have Sweet Voices
A Small Fruit Song
Gethsemade Again
Burding
Electric Los Angeles Sunset
Manuscript
Black Hill
Anna
Room Of Roots
Zero She Flies

Album Details

Double CD. Contains the Original LPs Bedsitter Images, Love Chronicles, and Zero When She Flies, plus a Rare Early Single-Only Release. A Must have for Singer-Songwriter Fans.

Customer Reviews:

Great music, but beware of CD rot.......2006-12-08

I have enjoyed Al Stewart's music since his first album, and saw him perform most of these songs live in my younger years. These were among the albums we played at 4am in my student days, along with "Songs of Leonard Cohen" and others, while we talked the world to rights.

So it's great to have Al's first three albums (including "Love Chronicles" which was infamous at the time for one of the earliest appearances on record of the F-word, used entirely appropriately) all together on a double CD. It's also good to have all the songs from both versions of "Bedsitter Images", which at some point was reisssued with a few tracks changed.

BUT... I have now owned two copies of this set, purchased a couple of years apart, with different cover art, and both have suffered from CD rot. I don't know the quality of current pressings, but I am reluctant to spend my money a third time to check this out.

Whatever you do, buy this from the UK site, rather than here!.......2006-10-18

This double CD set is RIDICULOUSLY cheap in the UK now - you'll get it for around $10 on the high street in England. After shipping to the states, it must still be significantly less than the ludicrous quoted price on this page!

This is the early stuff, showing the promise of future brilliance, and is highly recommended if you like any of the later albums at all.

This particular collection is welcome because of the inclusion of tracks left off the later pressings of the first album - I was confused for years when my vinyl copy seemed to have some of the songs missing from those I remembered from listening to older friends copies; once I bought this set I realised that my memory was in fact more reliable than I'd thought.

Great early works by Al.......2006-08-17

This is not Al Stewart's best stuff. His 1970s work is his best, including Orange, Past Present & Future, Modern Times, Year of the Cat and Time Passages.

After you've purchased the above works, you may wonder what Al Stewart to listen to next? I like this two CD collection better than any of Al's post-Time Passges albums that I've listened to. This collection has a folk rock sound to it that's completely lost in Al's more polished but less interesting later works. It reminds me of Simon and Garfunkel.

Intelligent MASTERPIECE !.......2005-10-17

Hopefully, I won't repeat what others have said here. Their reviews are thoughtful, well written, and I agree with almost everything they say.

I've had a cassette copy "The Early Years" since high school in 1979. It featured many of the songs on this collection and the album "Orange". I saw this collection and jumped at the chance to get those songs on cd. What blew my mind was hearing how good the other songs were.

Astonishingly good.

This is not music for impatient people. Time seems to slow down as each song washes over you. It feels like being on a long vacation. Unhurried, and completely satisfying. I think the songs benefit from not being played to death on the radio. They become yours, free from previous associations.

The lyrics are brilliant, of course, but the arrangements are so tastefully timeless. Because of that, I have never grown tired of these songs. When I discovered them in high school, my musical I.Q. went up several points. An experience I would later have when listening to Nick Drake, The Lilac Time, and Belle and Sebastian. (hint, hint)

The booklet included is a wonderful read. The photos quite fun. No lyrics, but you'll probably memorise them eventually.

Don't forget to check out "Orange" which, in my mind, goes perfectly with this collection. And if you haven't heard "Modern Times" and "Past, Present and Future", you're in for a treat.

David A. Magnusson.......2005-08-16

An amazing genesis for a most gifted singer/songwriter. I played the living heck out of this album (CD-actually). All his younger songs have a message and a theme of what great things were to come from Mr. stewart. "Zero She Flies" absolutely rocks! The background piano in "Bedsitter Images" haunts me! "The Elf" starts the album (CD) off on a jovial note and it never lets go. "Life and Life Only" is absolutely brilliant. This is listening to the Byrds, Hollies and Buffalo Springfield before indulging in Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. It is listening to Rubber Soul and Revolver before hitting the White Album and/or Abbey Road. This is require listening for all Al fans!

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