Name	Artist	Time	Price
1.	Lady D'Arbanville	Cat Stevens	3:45	$0.99
2.	Maybe You're Right	Cat Stevens	3:25	$0.99
3.	Pop Star	Cat Stevens	4:13	$0.99
4.	I Think I See the Light	Cat Stevens	3:55	$0.99
5.	Trouble	Cat Stevens	2:49	$1.29
6.	Mona Bone Jakon	Cat Stevens	1:42	$0.99
7.	I Wish, I Wish	Cat Stevens	3:50	$0.99
8.	Katmandu	Cat Stevens	3:22	$0.99
9.	Time	Cat Stevens	1:26	$0.99
10.	Fill My Eyes	Cat Stevens	3:00	$0.99
11.	Lilywhite	Cat Stevens	3:41	$0.99

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Our Review

Released in 1970, Mona Bone Jakon signaled the beginning of a fertile creative period for Cat Stevens that would stretch across seven albums in five years. Though the album doesn’t contain any of his biggest hits, there are several stellar singles (“Pop Star,” “I Think I See the Light,” and “I Wish, I Wish”) that are on par with his most well known songs, and they all feature Stevens’ gift for memorable melodies and his warm and distinct baritone. There’s an undercurrent of melancholy here that’s sometimes overt (“Maybe You’re Right,” “Trouble”) and other times wrapped in poetic metaphor (“Katmandu,” “Fill My Eyes”). The arrangements of these mostly acoustic folk tunes are generally spare and subdued, but even in these quieter moments his music radiates an emotional power and intensity that would become his trademark. Stevens arguably peaked on the two subsequent releases, Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat, but Mona Bone Jakon belongs in their august company.

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Customer Reviews

Harold and Maude (4 stars)
some of these great songs are in the film Harold and Maude, to great effect. It's a wonderful film with a great score.

At his best (5 stars)
Not to take away from such phenomenal works like Tea For The Tillerman and Matthew & Son, both of which are very good albums. However, I find Mona Bone Jakon to be Cat Stevens best work. Sure he had hits with Teaser and Catch Bull, but musically and lyrically they do not compare to his earlier work, especially this one. If I didn't know better I'd think of Mona as part 2 of Tea for the Tillerman. However it is its successor both in ti

The Cat's Comeback (3 stars)
Cat Steven's real impack would run from this album to "Budda and The Chocolate Box", before the three lackluster albums that he would issue before packing it in for Islam. I tend to like and dismiss indivdual songs rather than albums with Cat, but this has some of his highlights ("Trouble" "Lady D'Arbanville") and really not a groaner in the bunch. "Trouble" and "I Wish, I Wish" would appear

Biography

Born: July 21, 1948 in London, England
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Cat Stevens, born Steven Demetre Georgiou, was the son of a Swedish mother and a Greek father who ran a restaurant in London. He became interested in folk music and rock & roll in his teens while attending Hammersmith College and in 1965 began performing under the name Steve Adams. Mike Hurst, a former member of the folk-pop group the Springfields, who had become a record producer, heard him and took him into a recording studio to cut his composition "I Love My Dog." This demo caused Decca Records...

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	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	Wild World	Cat Stevens: Greatest Hits	3:22	$0.69
2.	Peace Train	Cat Stevens: Greatest Hits	4:14	$1.29
3.	Morning Has Broken	Cat Stevens: Greatest Hits	3:23	$1.29
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5.	Father and Son	Cat Stevens: Greatest Hits	3:43	$1.29
6.	Moonshadow	Cat Stevens: Greatest Hits	2:52	$1.29
7.	Oh Very Young	Cat Stevens: Greatest Hits	2:39	$1.29
8.	The Wind	The Very Best of Cat Steven..	1:42	$1.29
9.	Another Saturday Night	Cat Stevens: Greatest Hits	2:30	$1.29
10.	Wild World	Tea for the Tillerman	3:20	$0.69

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