Modern Times [IMPORT] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Al Stewart

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 6, 2000)
• Original Release Date: November 6, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B0000248M1
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #196,271 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Reissue of 1975 album for the folk/rock singer/songwriter. Includes fully updated sleevenotes from Colin Irwin. Musicians include, Simon Nicol, Tim Renwick, Peter Wingfield and Gerry Conway. Produced by Alan Parsons. Includes three rare bons tracks, 'News From Spain', 'Elvaston Place' and 'Swallow Wind'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Modern Times, June 24, 2004

By	Jay C. Ramsey (Dunlap, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This is im my mind the best album Al Stewart recorded. My favorite, as I wore it out on the album was "What's Going On", but the whole album is great and it flows. Whoever decided on which tracks should go together was a mixdown genious. When I fist heard this album I was working as a DJ in the American Forces Radio And Television Service. This fit in nicely with jazz, soft rock or AOR (Album Oriented Rock) which was the Rock format of the time. Righteous CD. Glad they re-released it! Can't believe "What's Going On" was never released on a Best Of CD. But then again this was early in Al's career!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Album, June 16, 2002

By	Robert Miller (Eastern USA) - See all my reviews

I still have a review of Stewart by a critic from Rutgers University where the reviewer said Modern Times is his best album. All of his albums with the possible exception of the Indian Summer studio tracks are fine albums. Still, Modern Times is one of the best. Carol is such a great intro about a burned out party girl (just give a listen to the dual lead guitars). What's going on? is excellent too - about an oversized ego in a 2nd tier rock musician. Not the one is a great song about a love affair that didn't work out. Every song on this album has a great story. Add Tim Renwick's amazing guitar solos (a solo on every song!), Peter Wood's fabulous keyboards - perhaps my only complaint is the Alan Parsons overproduction - too much orchestra on Modern Times and Apple Cider Reconstitution. Al always surrounded himself with the finest musicians. This is a quality album and no one will go wrong buying it. I intend to buy this copy just for the bonus tracks. I'm glad too that this cd uses the European cover photos rather than the ridiculous American LP cover which didn't seem to have anything to do with Al Stewart or the album.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Modern Times- Maybe Al's Best, June 13, 2004

By	David A. Magnusson (Hialeah, Florida United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Modern Times is an album that sounds just as good in 2004 as it did when I first got it in 1975. Every song tells an indepth story that seems so familiar to me (and probably most people). Who hasn't experienced the sadness of "Not the One"? Can you look back to your teenage/young adult years and not be touch by "Modern Times"? Don't we all know a "Carol" from somewhere?

Modern Times, looking at it historically, was the major battle just before the pinnacle (Year of the Cat and Time Passages). it is the album that every thought was Al's best up to the moment. But no one at that time ever foresaw the popularity right around the corner with his next two albums.

I guess I was a victim of circumstance (as are we all) when I bought the LP. All my friends and relatives have gotten the LP/Cassette/or CD as a gift from one time or other. They too sing the praises of this most wonderful album.