Al Stewart - Piece of Yesterday: The Anthology

Title: Piece of Yesterday: The Anthology Artist: Al Stewart Release Date: 10/9/2006 Re-Released On: 10/13/2006 Label: EMI Music Distribution Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 094637347423, 0094637347423, 094637347454 Genre: Rock Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Psychedelic, Soft Rock, Folk-Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Album Rock, British Folk-Rock, Art Rock Moods: Elegant, Laid-Back/Mellow, Literate, Precious, Soft, Autumnal, Bittersweet, Earnest, Enigmatic, Intimate, Melancholy, Poignant, Soothing, Sophisticated, Whimsical, Wistful, Delicate, Eccentric, Gentle, Organic, Refined/Mannered, Reflective, Theatrical, Ambitious, Amiable/Good-Natured Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 2

1. Bedsitter Images
2. Samuel, Oh How You've Changed
3. In Brooklyn
4. Electric Los Angeles Sunset
5. Manuscript
6. A Small Fruit Song
7. Nostradamus/The World Goes to Riyadh [Live]
8. On the Border
9. Flying Sorcery
10. Year of the Cat
11. Almost Lucy
12. Time Passages
13. Running Man
14. Merlin's Time
15. If It Doesn't Come Naturally, Leave It [Live]

1. Last Days of the Century
2. Helen and Cassandra
3. Trains
4. Night Train to Munich
5. Marion the Chatelaine
6. Laughing into 1939
7. House of Clocks
8. Turning It into Water
9. Down in the Cellars
10. Mr. Lear
11. Katherine of Oregon
12. Soho, Needless to Say [Alternate Version]
13. The Coldest Winter in Memory
14. Denise at 16
15. Roads to Moscow [Live]

Year Type Label Catalog # 2006 CD EMI Music Distribution 3734742

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For Al Stewart fans who can't afford the five-CD set Just Yesterday, this 30-song double-disc collection is a fair -- but only a fair -- alternative. It is lacking a few items, however, that would make it more satisfying. For starters, the studio renditions of "Roads to Moscow" and "Nostradamus" are nowhere to be found, and then there's the absence of Stewart's debut single, "The Elf." Additionally, for anyone familiar with the breadth of Stewart's career and sound, this set runs through them in too brisk fashion, leaving out much that's worth hearing. In the final analysis, if one is weighing which collection to get, it is probably best to sacrifice and save in order to purchase Just Yesterday -- anyone forced to ponder such a question really wants the bigger set, after all -- and leave this for more casual listeners who won't even have to debate buying it or not. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

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