Best Cat Stevens album:

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The poll software allows for only 10 choices, so if your choice for best doesn't appear in the list, please reply with your choice.

[MoseyWalker]

1. Teaser and the Firecat

great, great record.

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2. It is great - but I also love "Mona," "Tillerman" and "Buddha."

[Zorro]

3. Tea and Teaser are pretty close

but Tea for the Tillerman wins out in the end for me. More meaningful, angst-ridden songs on that album.

[Katina]

4. I have the box set and it still doesn't compare

to Tea.

[saltpoint]

5. TEA and TEASER represent the apex of his writing for me. Note for

note, I love those albums well beyond their just being music collections.

They're almost like holy books, and I mean that in the most secular of interpretations.

I honor Stevens' decision to join the sect he joined, but I didn't much care for his calling for Rushdie's head on a platter. It didn't jibe with the man I had always respected for writing "Peace Train" and "How Can I Tell You" and 'Into White."

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6. I would agree, but I would also include "Mona Bone Jakon" because

it has some great songs on it! "I think I see the Light," "Trouble," "I Wish I Wish," and "Katmadu" rank with his best songs.

[saltpoint]

7. I'll buy that, you bet. The man has talent.

I miss him.

[benny05]

9. Mona Bone Jakon my Favorite

But also because many of those songs were featured in the great cult film, "Harold and Maude".

I have greatest hits so I can get all of the good ones.

[regnaD kciN]

11. Yusuf Islam and Salman Rushdie...

I honor Stevens' decision to join the sect he joined, but I didn't much care for his calling for Rushdie's head on a platter.

Not to be too picky, but he actually didn't. He was asked about the fatwa against Rushdie, and, as a new convert, gave an explanation as to where Shari'a calls for the death penalty for blasphemy. He added "I think that's correct," as in "I think I cited the right passage." However, it was reported by the press that he had said that killing Rushdie would be "correct." In reality, he thought that the death penalty should not apply in this case, because Rushdie wasn't a Muslim living in an Islamic state, and that Muslims had no right to enforce Shari'a in non-Muslim countries (although he did think that Rushdie needed to "repent" and withdraw The Satanic Verses from publication).

I will grant, though, that Yusuf Islam made many extreme statements during his early years as a Muslim. On his web site, a few years ago, he admitted that he held a lot of overzealous opinions typical of enthusiastic new converts to a religion, and that he was now embarrassed by a lot of what he had said back then.

[njdemocrat106]

8. Tea for the Tillerman, because it has "Father and Son"

That song always gets me a little misty-eyed. I've always thought Stevens was an underrated songwriter, IMO.

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. Tea, it was a great makeout record