Classics, Volume 24: Cat Stevens
This is a pretty good collection overall, featuring 20 hits and should've-been-hits from the voluminous Cat Stevens catalog, including cuts from theHarold and Maudesoundtrack. But there are also important omissions here, like "Wild World." For that, you'll need to go back to theTea for the TillermanLP, or shoulder some overlap by getting the mid-'70sGreatest Hitspackage. It actually wouldn't be such a bad idea to snap up some original Cat Stevens albums--Tea for the TillermanandTeaser and the Firecatare thick with hits, and each has a certain...cohesiveness that's lost when not heard in its entirety.--Gavin McNett