Editing Teaser and the Firecat (section)

== Critical reception ==
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In a contemporary review for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine, music critic [[Timothy Crouse]] praised Stevens' distinctive musical style and introspective songs such as "Tuesday's Dead" and "The Wind", but felt that he lacks [[Van Morrison]]'s evocative quality and [[James Taylor]]'s refined lyrics: "Cat has become a dependable artist, a good artist, but he appears to be one of those composers who does not develop, who holds no surprises."<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=97 |date=9 December 1971 |first=Tim |last=Crouse |title=Cat Stevens ''Teaser and the Firecat'' > Review |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/teaser-the-firecat-19711209 |accessdate=30 May 2008 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121222316/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/catstevens/albums/album/116642/review/6212900/teaser__the_firecat |archivedate=21 November 2007}}</ref>

In a retrospective five-star review, [[AllMusic]]'s William Ruhlmann found the album more simplistic lyrically and musically entertaining than ''[[Tea for the Tillerman]]'' (1970): "''Teaser and the Firecat'' was the Cat Stevens album that gave more surface pleasures to more people, which in pop music is the name of the game."<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic |class=album |tab=review |id=r50190 |first=William |last=Ruhlmann |accessdate=13 September 2005}}</ref>
It was voted number 539 in the third edition of [[Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]'' (2000).<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2006|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=185}}</ref>