Click to expand.Regarding his more recent albums, I can wholeheartedly recommend Born to Sing: No Plan B, which is actually one of my favorite Van albums ever. Particularly if you appreciate his swinging sort of style, that's its apogee IMO. I also enjoy Down the Road, the recent Versatile, and even the Duets album a great deal. And I understand people who prefer Van melancholy are pretty satisfied with Keep Me Singing. I also think the Astral Weeks concert from 2009 is excellent.Honestly, I think most of his recent albums are as good as stuff from his 'classic' period.My top 5? Well, I think it's:. Astral Weeks.
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Into the Music. Veedon Fleece. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart. Born to Sing: No Plan BOne word of caution I would sound is that I am not a big fan of It's Too Late to Stop Now, so my tastes might not accord with yours. If you like Too Late to Stop, you'll probably like his recent Roll with the Punches. Regarding his more recent albums, I can wholeheartedly recommend Born to Sing: No Plan B, which is actually one of my favorite Van albums ever. Particularly if you appreciate his swinging sort of style, that's its apogee IMO.
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I also enjoy Down the Road, the recent Versatile, and even the Duets album a great deal. And I understand people who prefer Van melancholy are pretty satisfied with Keep Me Singing. I also think the Astral Weeks concert from 2009 is excellent.Honestly, I think most of his recent albums are as good as stuff from his 'classic' period.My top 5? Well, I think it's:.
Astral Weeks. Into the Music.
Van Morrison Astral Weeks Live Torrent Free
Veedon Fleece. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart.
Van Morrison Discography Blogspot
Born to Sing: No Plan BOne word of caution I would sound is that I am not a big fan of It's Too Late to Stop Now, so my tastes might not accord with yours. If you like Too Late to Stop, you'll probably like his recent Roll with the Punches. For me it's a bit tricky to answer because Van Morrison is a half great album artist, half great song artist. The core great album decade, as perhaps a majority acknowledges, is the miraculous late '60s to late '70s run from Astral Weeks to Into the Music.
But if you leave out the Them/Bang period and all the brilliant tracks from 1980 to now you leave out half his greatness.So I'll cheat and say my Desert Island Van is:Astral WeeksMoondanceSt. Dominic's PreviewVeedon FleeceA long playlist of 30+ studio and live songs from all the other (mostly somewhat uneven/problematic) releases.
Van Morrison performing at Spring Sing on Boston Common in 1968. (Courtesy MONTUSE/Dick Lacovello) This article is more than 1 year old.Its song lyrics are dotted with references to the artist's native Ireland. But on the back cover of Van Morrison's much-cherished album 'Astral Weeks,' there is an unexplained bit of verse that links the work to a different place altogether.I saw you coming from the Cape, way from Hyannis Port all the way,When I got back it was like a dream come trueI saw you coming from Cambridgeport with my poetry and jazz,Knew you had the blues, saw you coming from across the river.It always seemed safe enough to assume Morrison had written these words. But what the heck did they have to do with this album, a deeply meditative exercise in memory and nostalgia that was recorded in New York City and teems with references to Belfast?In the years following the album's November 1968 release, the vague tidbit that the songwriter had lived in Cambridge for a while became received wisdom among fans of the deeply affecting, deeply mysterious piece of work, by many accounts Morrison's masterpiece. But his Cambridge/Boston period remained an under-explained footnote in his biography, an anomaly without context.
Like many fans of 'Astral Weeks,' local musician and marketer Ryan Walsh wondered about this for years. 'The fact that these locales were listed on the back — I thought, this place must have meant something to him. And I’m from here and I love this city. I felt a weird duty to figure it out,' Walsh says.He did a deep dive and produced an eye-opening on the topic that was published by Boston Magazine in 2015, which landed him a book deal with Penguin Press. The resulting work, ',' hits bookshelves this week. Walsh discusses his book in conversation with Carly Carioli, former editor-in-chief of Boston Magazine and of the Boston Phoenix, in on Tuesday, March 6. 'Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968' by Ryan Walsh.
(Courtesy Penguin Press)Readers shouldn't expect a simple guide to the album. The book goes far beyond 'Astral Weeks,' placing Morrison's time in Cambridge, from January through early September of 1968, in the vivid context of Boston's counterculture of the time.