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
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2) Brown Eyed Girl
3) And it Stoned Me
4) Days Like This
5) Moondance
prefer Veedon Fleece to Astral Weeks
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...
G-L-O-R-I-A (GLORIA)
G-L-O-R-I-A (GLORIA)
Will have to pop down to HMV to get that one.
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.
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.
Into the Mystic
and it stoned me
Haunts of ancient peace
Spanish Steps
Morrissey?
Leonard Cohen?
its real and often it is a brilliant gig.
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...''
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.
If he can be bothered to turn up.
into the mystic
and it stoned me
wonderful remark
professional jealousy
dweller on the threshold
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.
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...
Madam George
Into the Mystic
Cleaning Windows
Irish Heartbeat
Brown Eyed Girl
stupid....just all of 'em (nearly) right?
Brown Eyed Girl
Into The Mystic (as a bit of trivia this was the first dance from American Pie 3)
Days Like This
Russian Roulette
2) Rave On, John Donne
3) Hymns to the silence)
4) the way young lovers do
5) Take me back