Peace Train - Cat Stevens | Andy & Alex FIRST TIME REACTION!

My favorite Cat Stevens song is whichever one I’m listening to.

"Morning Has Broken" is a MUST!!! calming, peaceful and meditative

Hearing this as an 8th grader back in 1971 I was convinced that we would be the ones to finally get it together and have peace throughout the world. Sorry to say that never happened. Sad. Cat had the dream just like we did.

Tea For The Tillerman would be a great album listen.

Amazing how an older song can be so relevant today. Glad you finally got to it.

My favorite Cat Stevens was "Oh Very Young." It's sweet with a touch of melancholy.

You can actually HEAR his conviction toward peace and love in his voice. Inspired song.

This song came out in 1971 and we are still all waiting for that Peace Train. Love this song.

every politician in every country should give the peace train a listen..... over and over until it sinks in

I can not listen to "Peace Train" without crying. It is such an anthem for peace and love, tolerance and joy. I love Cat Stevens, have for 50 years plus.

Everyone was playing “Total Eclipse of the Heart” during the recent solar eclipse, I think it should have been “Moonshadow” because that’s exactly what it was.

To me this song is S tier. It’s deep for me and makes me cry when I really let myself get lost in it.

Best claps in a song ever....not sure how they recorded that - they are so clean.

🎼There was nobody like Cat Stevens. He had so much to say back “then” and is still going strong. So come and join the living!🎼☮️💟

Morning Has Broken- one of the most beautiful piece of music ever

I have a special love for “Moonshadow”.

It's heartbreaking when I think that we went from "Peace Train" in 1971 to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in 1991. 20 years to go from "Dreaming about the world as one" to "Whatever, Nevermind". Sort of reflects the emotional arc from childish innocence to adult cynicism many individuals go through as we grow up. Very bittersweet when you consider that journey from beginning to end. Mostly bitter when you consider that the Nirvana generation started their journey at the cynicism end of the spectrum. Would be nice to hope the arc could somehow reverse itself, but I'm not seeing any of that right now. When you get a chance you might want to give a listen to Melanie Safka's Lay Down Candles. I would suggest the video of Melanie performing with the Edwin Hawkins Singers live in 1970. Same spirit of hope tinged with the melancholy of the onset of disillusionment. Both songs are bittersweet.

When I was young, we used to get cheap concert tix at a local amusement park ($6 total for the park & a concert @ Pirates World circa 1970). I get there in the afternoon to scope out a decent seat, and this guy was just sitting on a wood stool in the center while tuning a guitar, like a crew-member does beforehand. More folks were trickling in, it wasn't even dark yet and nobody is really noticing him much. Suddenly without saying a word, he launched into Peace Train. Everyone FROZE in place & turned their heads to find out WTF this guy was all about. He did only a few more songs and then thanked everyone & told us his name as he left the stage. I don't recall if he was even on the list of performers that night, but I am sure I'd never heard of him or any of his songs. Been a fan ever since. Hope you both get to enjoy such memories of the times & music in your lives as you've given some of us Boomers.

Moon Shadow and Oh Very Young are great also. Wild World was the very first of his songs I ever heard but Father and Son holds a special place in my heart since I lost my father nearly 51 years ago, two days after my fifteenth birthday. I had an 8-Track tape of various songs by him and they were all good.

Brings me back to the days of reading Khalil Gibran.