East-coast style rap—but hold on a minute!—it's elegantly produced and embedded with everything from lyric opera, Shakespeare, the Pointer Sisters hit single, "Fire," and samples from the briefly famous New York's World Famous Supreme Team radio show ("I'm just about a superstar, see?"), the album carries an athletic energy, as in "II Be Or Not II Be": "One for the trouble, two for the time." 1991

A delightful cavalcade of nervous paranoia. 1979

Humble and transcendent, this album is the best not only of Cat Stevens' oeuvre but possibly of the entire early 1970's, uniting an earnest, decidedly non-commercial mastery of the song writing craft with an easy, soul-searching intimacy. 1970