Two-time defending UK-ASCAP Songwriter Of The Year Yusuf Islam is readying his first pop album since ’78, and good ol’ Cat Power is out to convince you that he’s still got the pop chops. Here are the first sounds from the forthcoming record (via iGIF). It’s a rip using iRecord (and mildly warbly, particularly come chorus) but totally listenable.
Dig that B-section melody! Almost a return to form, we dare say. Here’s our favorite Cat Stevens “video,” when he was in full form:
Here‘s what Yusuf Islam looks like now. Here‘s what Bud Cort looks like now (years of reconstructive surgery have rendered him a Benry Gale doppelgänger!).
An Other Cup is out 11/14.
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yusuf islam (now) = wayne coyne?
the b-side to “Heaven/Where True Love Grows” is “Heaven/Where 72 Virgins Await”
This seems like a medley. The “heaven must have programmed you” line comes from his foreigner suite. Maybe that’s why it feels like a return to form.
Does he have any pro-fatwah songs on the new album? I hear he’s big on fatwahs.
Geez, a guy endorses one fatwa and you never let him hear the end of it.
Cut the guy a break, it’s like that time you got that peter tosh album off napster in college and you went around chastising everyone for that copy of marley legend they got in a cereal box like you were some regge professer. You sign up for a new religion and sure you want to try out the new buttons and fatwas and whatnots.
bud cort is the mold hipsters have been pouring their pasty selves into for the last quarter century
If cat stevens = wayne coyne, then Fight Test must most definitely = Father and Son right?!
Goldblum: “Is that my espresso machine? How did you get it?”
Bud Cort: “Dude… we fuckin’ stole it”
Legend.
god i flippin’ love harold and maude. that movie was the bets.
This is awesome.
absolutely beautiful. thank you!!
Sounds good, thanks for posting it. Certainly much more encouraging than those new Who songs.
and I don’t think he ever endorsed a fatwa–say what you will about his religion or any other.
Yusuf never supported the Ayathollah’s fatwa. He’s a man of peace and has proved in several ways.
To fatwa or not to fatwa. I never bothered to find out what he actually said, but I find it interesting that the new album contains a pretty dramatic-sounding cover of “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood.” The “REAL” question is, will Natalie Merchant ever start singing Peace Train again?
To fatwa or not to fatwa. I never bothered to find out what he actually said, but I find it interesting that the new album contains a pretty dramatic-sounding cover of “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood.” The “REAL” question is, will Natalie Merchant ever start singing Peace Train again?