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The top five songs of.....Van Morrison
Henry Irving
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Because music is more reliable than football. An old album never let's you down or chews your guts up. Doesn't matter if the new CD is rubbish or they get old or fat there is always the old stuff or another new band to pick up on.
5. Coney Island
4. Real Real Gone
3. Bright Side of the Road
2. Who was that Masked Man
1. Tupelo Honey
5. Coney Island
4. Real Real Gone
3. Bright Side of the Road
2. Who was that Masked Man
1. Tupelo Honey
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1) Astral Weeks
2) Brown Eyed Girl
3) And it Stoned Me
4) Days Like This
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Should have said the first one was meant to be Into the Mystic as opposed to Astral Weeks which is of course an album (his best one though).0
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Into the mystic is a great track.
prefer Veedon Fleece to Astral Weeks0 -
Don't have that one I'm afraid0
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Am at this very I'm moment listening to a review copy of the forthcoming Astral Weeks Live album, which will be out on Feb 23.
Last November he played the album in concert in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl - the first time he'd ever performed the whole record live in 40 years. This is the live recording of that event and fabulous stuff it is ,too - same mood and spirit as the studio recording but subtlely different. Obviously the voice has changed over 40 years - got richer and more sinewy, I think. But he toys with the words, teasing them , repeating them in that mantra-like , incantational way, and the arrangements have a few subtle variations.
Top five songs apart from the Astral Weeks suite :
Listen To The Lion
Almost Independence Day
Days Like This ( with News Shopper on that :best song of his in the last 15 years)
Into The Mystic
Wild Night
But there are so many. I'd probably pick a different five if you asked tomorrow...0 -
And her name is G-L-O-R-I
G-L-O-R-I-A (GLORIA)
G-L-O-R-I-A (GLORIA)0 -
[quote][cite]Posted By: nigel w[/cite]Am at this very I'm moment listening to a review copy of the forthcoming Astral Weeks Live album, which will be out on Feb 23.
Will have to pop down to HMV to get that one.0 -
Don't tell the wife, but me and a sweet Irish rover from many years back always exchange knowing glances whenever 'Wavelength' hits the air.
Henry - explain yourself .......... The Band, Van Morrison. You'll be telling me next that albums by Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen and .......... wait for it ........ The Incredible String Band occupy large swathes of your record cabinet.0 -
By the way.... dig out 'Russian Roulette' by Van Morrison (from the album 'Days Like This').
I first heard the opening line as "Hey, Carl Leaburn.......".
OK, Van claims to be singing "Take it or leave it .....", but listen to the track and see whose side you take.0 -
Fact. Van Morrison is the most miserable performer in the world bar none.0
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Cypress Avenue
Into the Mystic
and it stoned me
Haunts of ancient peace
Spanish Steps0 -
[quote][cite]Posted By: carly burn[/cite]Fact. Van Morrison is the most miserable performer in the world bar none.[/quote]
Morrissey?0 -
[cite]Posted By: News Shopper[/cite][cite]Posted By: carly burn[/cite]Fact. Van Morrison is the most miserable performer in the world bar none.
Morrissey?
Leonard Cohen?0 -
I just dont get it why musicians are supposed to put on a happy beaming persona all the time. Some of the best and most powerful musical performances I have seen are by artists who really mean what they are singing about and arn't always jumping about the stage smiling. I have much respect for Van who continues performing for his sheer love of music, not through any need for money. If you go and see Van Morrison live you get him, in whatever mood he is in at the time,
its real and often it is a brilliant gig.0 -
Agreed, Shrew. Genius don't need to smile. Must have seen him in concert 50 times over the years - no exaggeration - and he's made me smile every single time, even when you could tell that he himself was in a foul mood.
Was thinking about the lyrics of Days Like This. Would make a very good anthem when we finally win a game...
''When it's not always raining
there'll be days like this
When there's no one complaining
there'll be days like this
When everything falls into place
like the flick of a switch
Well my momma told me
there'll be days like this...''0 -
[cite]Posted By: Dave Rudd[/cite]
Henry - explain yourself .......... The Band, Van Morrison. You'll be telling me next that albums by Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen and .......... wait for it ........ The Incredible String Band occupy large swathes of your record cabinet.
Got some early Tom Waits. Not a big Bruce fan but like some of his stuff.
Incredible String Band. No, none of that. Dylan (John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, Blood on the Tracks) yes. Joni and Neil, yes even a little Jackson Browne plus lots of punk, reggae and soul.
And lots and lots of Lou and the Velvets of course.
And I flogged all my Vinyl. All on the ipod and PC these days.0 -
[cite]Posted By: shrew[/cite] If you go and see Van Morrison live you get him, in whatever mood he is in at the time,
its real and often it is a brilliant gig.
If he can be bothered to turn up.0 -
In no particular order:
into the mystic
and it stoned me
wonderful remark
professional jealousy
dweller on the threshold0 -
I prefered him in The Doors. Relight My Fire was a classic........0
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Only really like 'in the days before rock n roll' on the Enlightment album, just a great listen0
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I can't believe that none of you guys have pmentioned Madame George yet!!! (The one from from Astral Weeks)
Anyway i like the drawn out anthems...
Madam George
Listen to the Lion
Almost Independence day
Gloria (Them)
Brown Eyed girl
Apparently Brown eyed girl was originally called brown skinned girl but the title was changed to make it PA.0 -
I'm with you Wolf Boy! My five said APART from the sublime and peerless Astral Weeks suite (because I wouldn't single out Madam George from Cypress Anvenue, Balerina or any of the other tracks - never has an album felt more like one more continuous and indivisible piece of music ,IMO).
And totally with you on
Listen to the Lion and Almost Independence Day,
both of which I featured on my list. Largely because they are the two later tracks that came closest to capturing the alchemy of Astral Weeks...0 -
How can there be only five?...the Man sweats music.
Madam George
Into the Mystic
Cleaning Windows
Irish Heartbeat
Brown Eyed Girl
stupid....just all of 'em (nearly) right?0 -
Bright Side of the Road
Brown Eyed Girl
Into The Mystic (as a bit of trivia this was the first dance from American Pie 3)
Days Like This
Russian Roulette0 -
Brown Eyed Girl (if I'm in a particularly good mood) and errr... that's it.0
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Brown Eyed Girl0
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1) In the garden
2) Rave On, John Donne
3) Hymns to the silence)
4) the way young lovers do
5) Take me back0
