Yusuf/Cat Stevens is the highlighted visitor on today’s episode of the ‘Broken Record’ podcast. Cat/Yusuf and also speaker Bruce Headlam went over the musician’s much-acclaimed launches Teaser and also The Firecat, Harold and also Maude and also a lot more throughout the conversation, which you can listen to completely below.

The ‘Broken Record’ podcast advertises the brand-new, 50th wedding anniversary version of Harold And Maude, which will certainly be launched on February 11, 2022 in brand-new 180g 1LP / 1CD / Digital launch layouts through A&M/Cat-O-Log/UMe. The brand-new version of the soundtrack will certainly integrate Cat Stevens’ 9 initial tracks, in addition to discussion from the movie, for the very first time.

Hal Ashby’s 1971 movie regarding the not likely friendship-turned-love tale of self-destructive teen Harold Chasen (played by Bud Cort) and also 79-year-old totally free spirit Maude (played by Ruth Gordon) is currently extensively applauded as an authentic cult standard. Full of dark wit and also existential dramatization, the movie stands for the possibly remarkable advantages that can develop from a well balanced collaboration in between traditional materialism and also vibrant free-spirited optimism. It exposes the deep existing harmony that exists in between apparently opposing sights and also just how, when joined, they can thrive to their shared benefit.

Seven tracks from both 1970 Island/A&M Cat Stevens cds were consisted of on the soundtrack: “On The Road To Find Out,” “I Wish, I Wish,” “Miles From Nowhere,” “Tea for the Tillerman,” “I Think I See The Light,” “Trouble,” and also “Where Do The Children Play?” 2 non-album tracks were additionally included right into the mix: “Don’t Be Shy,” and also what ended up being the flick’s informal motif, “If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out.” These tracks would certainly go unreleased up until the 1984 Footsteps In The Dark collection, and also were later on consisted of in the 2001 On The Road To Find Out box collection.

“I enjoyed a lot of [Harold And Maude], yet it was simply that those 2 brand-new tracks, which I’d kind of taped extremely approximately in San Francisco, when [Hal] was doing the recording there, they were never ever implied to enter the movie like that”, Yusuf/Cat Stevens states of the Harold And Maude soundtrack in the ‘Broken Record’ podcast.

“I was constantly implied to do it appropriately, you recognize, with artists close to me, yet it was me doing all the littles and also items. It wound up like that in the movie. As well as currently it’s there, you recognize, it’s background, yet in fact I like it currently since it is so harsh, it’s so raw. As well as it was so fresh and also spontaneous.”

“Your vision of the tune can never ever be duplicated and also it’s in your head, it’s in your mind”, he includes. “But the category that he developed with that said movie and also, and also, and also this the message of the movie, simply matched flawlessly with my songs.”

The Harold and also Maude main soundtrack cd was initially released in 2007 by Cameron Crowe’s independent tag, Vinyl Films. Generated just on LP in extremely minimal amounts, on a number of various plastic shades, those documents are extremely collectible today and also profession for thousands of bucks on Discogs and also various other follower websites.

Pre-order the 50th wedding anniversary version of Harold And Maude.

FlipsideMediaET eMagazine • “Everything Music”