FANTASTIC MINT 1970 ORIG CAT STEVENS TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN ALL MAGICAL SONGS
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$ 39
Sold For
Mar 31, 2012
Sold Date
Mar 26, 2012
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$ 10
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BEAUTIFUL TOP COPY!
1970 ORIGINAL STILL IN FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPER
HAS THE NEVER SEE "WILD WORLD" STICKER ON FRONT COVER!
CAT STEVENS
TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN
\ USA - (brown) A&M RECORDS - SP 4280
FANTASTIC COPY! ***STILL IN THE ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP with hardly EVER seen "WILD WORLD" STICKER on outside of the wrapper ....
TOP COPY 1970 FIRST PRINTING with original printed inner sleeve... Unique among albums of popular music, each track on TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN is wonderful and meaningful in its own right, and each song facilitates an entire album around musical style and philosophical messages.
While some people put Cat Stevens into that folky, James Taylor category, they obviously haven't heard this album, surely Cat's finest moment. Lyrically and musically, this album is simply stunning in its composition, from one magical song to the next. Not wanting to use the words "dark" or "melancholic" about such an uplifting album, but in comparison to the other singer-songwriters of the day, this album is simply in a different league - just listen to the poignancy in a song like "Sad Lisa" or the simple poetic beauty of "Into White". Timeless because we can all relate to the pain and pleasure of discovering what life is about during the volatility of youth, and that's what this album so eloquently paints on songs like "On the road to find out" and "Miles from nowhere". All of the songs immediately work their way into your head. They are simple and yet very deep. They depict a journey in terms of human conditions, the beginnings of Cat Stevens', and by extension our own, search for truth and light in a very dark world. This album is food for the soul and the spirit. It makes you feel, it may even make you think, but most importantly it makes you feel. The music is not ingrained in traditional folk, nor is it quite modern folk, yet it has all the best virtues of both worlds. In its inherent inspirational gravity, Tea for the Tillerman is a perfect work of art.Just some of the highlights include the following: "Where Do the Children Play" is a passionate, raw appeal for love in this world, for people to look outside of their own interests for just a moment and to consider what it means to be a part of a society: that our actions have consequences, and that we leave legacies; and that we do not inherit this world from our fathers, but borrow it from our children. When those first notes float from the speakers, one is immediately inundated with the passion of Stevens' appeal in this track.
"Hard Headed Woman" is a visceral appeal for love in this world, for genuine, meaningful romantic love, a love that is pure and lacks the self-conscious love of love that is championed by lesser popular music artists. This is a track about the human need for human contact, about the intense need that each of us has to be connected with another person. This is a song about symbiosis, and how the world has inexplicably commercialised love.
"Wild World" is the Cat Stevens song that everyone knows and immediately recognises, and this not necessarily a bad thing, as this track more so than any other here contains the essence of the album, and of Stevens' message at large: that the complexity and tumult of the world, and its effect on individual people can be overwhelming in a myriad of ways; that human emotions are subject to the tremendous inertia loosed upon us by the mind-boggling scale of our society, and that it is so, so easy to become lost. We are so beholden to the established ideology of the culture in which we persist that any sort of personal action is necessarily contingent upon the proper navigation through the staggering miasma of institutions and traditions, as well as to the physical challenges of living a meaningful life. This song is a bold underlining of the philosophy of "Tea for the Tillerman," and a beautiful underlining at that.
"Miles From Nowhere," is a powerfully introspective track about the relationship between the human spirit and the human body. While perhaps a tired notion in ad of itself, the way Stevens approaches this idea is unique: for him, and for us in turn, this relationship is a microcosm of the relationship that been sung about up to this point in the album: that is, the relationship between individual people and the society in which they live. The images of mountains and valleys described by Stevens here cannot help but summon up the grandeur and sublimity of nature experienced by the Romantic poets, and the pantheism it inspired in them. Here is a track from the heart of a man throughly invested in his own quest for spiritual peace. "I think I'll take my time to get there" may be the most beautiful lines in the entire album, and they beautifully anticipate the message of its following track.
For as long as a piece of art like this LP can exist, and as long as themes can be explored and questions can be asked, then this LP is worth celebrating.
SIDE 1 WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY HARD-HEADED WOMAN WILD WORLD SAD LISA MILES FROM NOWHERE SIDE 2 BUT I MIGHT DIE TONIGHT LONGER BOATS INTO WHITE ON THE ROAD TO FINDOUT FATHER & SON TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN
CONDITION: The Cover: MINTY CLEAN...a beautiful collectible still in factory shrink wrapper and with the rare WILD WORLD sticker that you NEVER see ... no bends, no writing and no split seams ...
The Vinyl: beautiful M (-) top copy that looks and plays at TOP level ... been in careful hands the past 42 years...both brown A&M labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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