Van Morrison: your views please

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I'm deep into the music of Van Morrison:

* Peerless, soulful voice.

* Gifted musician - guitar, alto sax, harmonica....

* Several hundred original compositions.

* Consistently high standard of album releases.

* Outstanding live performer.

I'd be very interested to hear what others think of Van the Man.

― Gerry Smith, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

You have me at a loss. I have an enormous gut feeling that Van "The Man" is absolutely dreadful and the living antithesis of all I hold dear about music (make that "this week's living antithesis...") BUT I don't have a shred of evidence to back it up.

― Tom, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Yes agreed, but also several rather polished but tiresomely dull albums (Into the music/poetic champions compose/Day like this etc).

I'm glad you didn't say consistently high standard of live performance as he's done both one of the best and worst concerts I've ever been to. First in Glasgow around about 89' he was simply transcendent. The second at the same venue a year later he just couldn't be arsed, sloppy, insulting, bigoted, mean spirited wank. I think he'd got one of the roadies to yodel as a support and he was better than Van the Man that night.

He looks cool in a fedora though.
― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

And someone should tell Georgie Fame and Brian Kennedy to fuck off. Sycophantic bastards the pair of them.

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

i love brown-eyed girl.

― ethan, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I think you'd like Them, Tom. I personally have not an iota of Celtic Soul abt me, and no longer cares who knows it. Moondance is kinda OK, and I like the way he was photographed on Astral Weeks to look more Kris Kristofferson than he actually ever did. At all.

― mark s, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Hearing the original "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" at my cousin's wedding for the couple's first dance was in fact a bit of a revelation, though admittedly in part because I was so used to the Rod Stewart borefest remake of same. But I honestly think I could get by with just a homemade CDR of highlights.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

The entire "Astral Weeks" album is just lovely, a perfect example of LP as self-contained work of art. I know he has other good (and bad) stuff, but "Astral Weeks" is on my "must own" list.

― Sean, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

He's an easy target of mockery(around here anyway): the antithesis of post-punk, earnest caterwauling hippy mystic and faux jazz self- flagellation, a widebellied little big boss man but if you can get past all that TB Sheets & Astral Weeks are their own rewards. He radiates a kind of anticharisma from those beady little eyes, and even the narrators of his songs are unlikeable - squeamish at the sickbed of an ex-lover, vaguely pedophilic li'l schoolgirl lechery all over the place, and there's a dark narcissicism underlying everything. But somehow, I love those records.

― fritz, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I like both Astral Weeks and Moondance a lot. Astral Weeks has that sort of unnameable dream quality that I associate with Neutral Milk Hotel. Like the compositions are steered by something very interntal, possibly unconcious. And boy, the bass playing on that record is so nice.

He's got so much & I know so little. I also like "Wavelength". Some of those long mid-70s pieces like "Listen to the Lion" are pretty painful.

― Mark, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

What I wrote on the 'frat-rock' thread, i.e., should've stopped after 'Gloria'. Morrison = Meat Loaf with a Celtic burden of significance instead of cheezy American humour.

― dave q, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Gerry - do you have that notorious 'contractual obligation' album he did to piss off Bang Records? (Includes "Here Comes Dumb George" and "The Big Royalty Cheque", I gather he had a bit of a beef with Bert Burns.) Now that I would love to hear.

― dave q, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Those demos have been released on various semi-legit comps - 'Garbage Van' is my fave!

― , Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Since THEM, Van = A Turdburger.

― Dr. C, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

van morrison. please come on. let me have a big yaaaaaaaaaawn.

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

There are a lot of very good reasons to dislike Van Morrison. 'Astral Weeks' isn't one of them, you can forgive just about anything after that.

― stevo, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

On which album can I find more songs like "Wild Nights"? Any suggestions? It's the only song by VM I really love. Really love. I have access to a good dozen of his records at the local phonothèque (cd library), but every time I pick one up, I'm not in the mood for folky stuff and that's all I seem to get. So I dont really listen to it. Did VM ever write other swinging songs about boys doing the boogie-woogie on the corner of the street?

― Simon, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Van is useless, has been since Them, and has inspired more shit music than anyone not called Bob Dylan, but there's an absolute pearler of a story about him in retired PR Keith Altman's 'No More Mr Nice Guy' should anyone want to hear it.

― Snotty Moore, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Like "Wild Nights" - "Domino", "Bright Side of the Road", "Jackie Wilson Said". All on the Greatest Hits album which is essential, since it gathers up all the best bits from some extremely dodgy albums. You also need "Saint Dominic's Preview" and "Astral Weeks", but almost every other Van M album consists of a few good tracks (which will be on the compilation) and lots of padding.

― Andrew Norman, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

[check]

― g, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

[check 2] now now -- blocking threads like that isn't very nice!

― Mrs. Grundy, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

[check 3] Hmm... try this, maybe?

― Mrs. Grundy, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

What in god's name happened to this thread?

― Michael Daddino, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Beautiful Vision, perfect album

― dn, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Van Morrison's Greatest Hits doesn't has neither "TB Sheets" nor "The Way That Young Lovers Do." In fact, it doesn't have anything at all from Astral Weeks. I tried to convince my mom that she ought to throw it away and just buy his first five or six albums or whatever. She was having none of that.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 14 November 2004 18:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

oh, I guess it has "Sweet Thing" on it, and it's not Greatest Hits it's The Best of BUT STILL. NO TB SHEETS. THAT IS UNFUCKINGACCEPTABLE.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 14 November 2004 18:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

Cannot stand him, honestly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 14 November 2004 19:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

Why is this thread all fucked-up looking? Anyway Astral Weeks is like the greatest thing ever okbye.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 14 November 2004 20:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

Astral Weeks is an awful, sickly wedding cake of wobbly self-indulgence.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

I love Astral Weeks! And Mad T.V.!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

What I wrote on the 'frat-rock' thread, i.e., should've stopped after 'Gloria'. Morrison = Meat Loaf with a Celtic burden of significance instead of cheezy American humour. -- dave q (scrape10...), October 17th, 2001.

dave q., as usual, nails it. still, i give a thumb's up to astral weeks and moondance, and bits and pieces of all the rest.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

WTF IS with this thread anyway?

and didn't someone on ILX once post a rilly funny story about some (REALLY disgusting) thing that van's (understandably) pissed-off stage musicians did to one of his harmonicas?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

ok i found it:

Van Morrison is a prize curmudgeon by all accounts, which gives me an opportunity to pinch this from the rocking vicar
Van's Daily Dump
Van Morrison insists on his band turning up to rehearsals at bang on 8.30am, although Van himself often doesn't turn up until ten, and then goes straight to the toilet with a copy of Exchange & Mart to have a dump. One day, the band got so cross that they waited until Van was engaged and then, one by one, tip-toed over to Van's Sacred Harmonica Bag, full of harmonicas Van has collected from around the world, picked a specimen, and rubbed it in their anal clefts. Even now, when you see Van on Later, his band seemed particularly delighted when he does a harmonica solo.

-- Billy Dods (butterbubble...), September 4th, 2002.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

I love Astral Weeks to bits, but I've never felt the need to get anything else.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

Fixored this fuxor. Should be readable now.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 15 November 2004 03:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

Thanks Sean; you're a treat.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 15 November 2004 03:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

Alex in NYC maybe MAYBE has a big lump of coal where his heart is.

Maybe.

Astral Weeks = very necessary.

The rest = meh. Ups and downs.

― skowly (skowly), Monday, 15 November 2004 04:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

i like veedon fleece.

― bulbs (bulbs), Monday, 15 November 2004 04:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

I find him dull except for Them.

Out of context, that would be a strange sentence.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 15 November 2004 04:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

Them + pretty much everything up to 1974 classic - although the amount of love lavished on Astral Weeks is a bit perplexing and St. Dominic's Preview in particular really should receive far more love than it seems to.

Nothing I've heard from him since 1974 seems to come close - although I'd be interested to see what other ILMers think of some of his more recent albums (especially Back On Top, Down The Road, What's Wrong With This Picture) since I have recently been entertaining the (probably fanciful) notion that he's about due for a sudden and unexpected return to form.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 15 November 2004 04:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

As somebody said on the Rod Stewart thread, that Fritz can really tell it like it is.

This message is not for Van haters, but for Van fans. I first got hip to Van when I saw the "Last Waltz." When he came out I thought "who the heck is that little fat guy, he's all flabby and dressed in a brown pantsuit? He looks like a middle-aged lady. On top of that he's doing this ridiculous chorus-line kicking." Then I kept listening and I shut up. His was the most definitive performance in the movie, his and Muddy Waters.

About Van sideman and territory-sharer Georgie Fame, who was dissed above: I saw Georgie once at Ronnie Scott's in London, and he put on one good show. He did one bit where, in a tribute to his former boss, he sang a medley of Moondance and some African song from a movie soundtrack (was it one of those Cornel Wilde things?) that was pretty damn great.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 04:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

Them's version of 'Its all over now, baby blue' is classic. Astral weeks is obviously amazing. I don't give a fuck about anything else he did, and neither should anyone else.

― prov, Monday, 15 November 2004 06:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

I think the haters maybe don't like Van because of his jazz leanings. C'mon people, who do you think he is, Sting? The

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 06:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

A second for 'Beautiful Vision.' Great album that my folks used to put on when I was 7 or 8. Don't know if I'd have the same reaction to it if I heard it for the first time now, though.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

I don't like him b/c the timbre of his voice grates on me for some reason. Sorry, VM lovers!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

"the antithesis of post-punk, earnest caterwauling hippy mystic and faux jazz self- flagellation"

I've never thought of Van Morrison as hippy-anything (or especially earnest, for that matter). Unlike the faux-mysticism of, say, Led Zeppelin, Van's lyrics steer clear of gnomes and m'ladys, are grounded instead in back alleys, snowstorms, trains, Safeway supermarkets, and memory. More importantly, the music is equally grounded: in r&b. His 70's catalogue (Moondance, Tupelo Honey, St Dominick's Preview, Hardnose the Highway, Veedon Fleece, and though it's '69, Astral Weeks belongs in this group too) is at least as strong as Al Green's. After that, for the most part it seems like he started reading a bit too much of his own press: yes, the mysticism did start to grate. I've been listening to him a lot again. He good.

― Burr (Burr), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

He's supposedly a mean drunk.

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

Unlike the faux-mysticism of, say, Led Zeppelin, Van's lyrics steer clear of gnomes and m'ladys,
??? Sorry, those two terms do not appear anywhere in any LZ song.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

Sorry, I should have said dark lords and elders of the gentle race.

― Burr (Burr), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

Thank you, that'll be fine.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

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his new albums have sold modestly but consistently well for twenty years and they each sport at least one gem

― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 September 2012 15:10 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah i don't keep up w/ the new stuff too much, but i'm always pleasantly surprised when i hear one of them. he can still sing.

― tylerw, Sunday, 30 September 2012 15:19 (7 months ago) Permalink

I love a lot of the early stuff, especially the Them era. & Astral Weeks.
Also Veedon Fleece, It's Too Late To Stop Now and other bits of the Caledonia Soul Orchestra.

Not listened to him much after about '74 though I do have Common one somewhere and the video of the live set from the collaboration with the Chieftains.

I was just looking at the list of supposedly essential lps by him in the current Mojo this morning and thinking there were a couple of things I'd think of as necessary such as the Too late set.
Also that I should have the Chieftains studio lp, just managed to get the video thing from the tv around the time that was released.

― Stevolende, Sunday, 30 September 2012 18:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

Irish Heartbeat is one of his best albums for sure. "Raglan Road" is incredible.

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 30 September 2012 19:13 (7 months ago) Permalink

here is the stream

― alex in mainhattan, Sunday, 30 September 2012 20:36 (7 months ago) Permalink

i was listening to these songs a LOT in 1987. and doing lots of drugs. people forget how psychedelic the 80's were. unless they were psychedelic in the 80's. a lotta 80's revivalists miss that part of it.

― scott seward, Sunday, 30 September 2012 21:54 (7 months ago) Permalink

(also i just love that van album a lot. very inspiring to me.)

― scott seward, Sunday, 30 September 2012 21:55 (7 months ago) Permalink

A lot of his eighties are sharp! "Cleaning Windows," "Did Ya Get Healed," "Someone Like You" -- lovely.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 October 2012 23:08 (7 months ago) Permalink

"dweller on the threshold" is another great 80's Van track

― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:09 (7 months ago) Permalink

one irish rover from no guru is another great one. the production on the album track is a little cheese-o, this version kinda improves on it.

― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 14:13 (7 months ago) Permalink

So glad to see No Guru, No Method, No Teacher is getting some love! I saw Van on the tour for this album and was floored by several of the then-new songs, which I'd never heard at that point. The album's midsection - "Foreign Window", "A Town Called Paradise", "In The Garden", "Tir Na Nog" - is an amazing, trancelike four-song sequence.

― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 14:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

I was going to ask for guidance into eighties Van. I own Beautiful Vision ("Cleaning Windows" is one of his best imo) but dat's dat.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 15:12 (7 months ago) Permalink

listening to the new one - so smooth and pleasant, which I think is probably a mark against it in a lot of people's books but not in mine. Relaxed little horn section, Van with his grumpy observations...it's like...kind of boring, that can't be denied, it doesn't grab you, but I really really like it. I don't know, I expect to play it a lot more than more exciting stuff

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 16:45 (7 months ago) Permalink

Pretty good too;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_Remark

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 16:51 (7 months ago) Permalink

^ easily my fave van morrison track of the past 30 years and reading that i apparently really need to get the philosopher's stone.

― balls, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

Philosopher's Stone has a fair amount of good stuff on it but don't go looking for higher peaks than "Wonderful Remark" - "Wonderful Remark" is an all-time jam. "Bright Side of the Road" is great but isn't there a version of that on Into the Music too?

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:59 (7 months ago) Permalink

this thing from philosopher's stone is all time

― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

and this!!!!

― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:01 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah yr right esp re steppin out queen, God damn

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:20 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah i've always wondered if that song is just straight up improv on van's part or what. barely a song but holy shit!

― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:23 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah 'bright side of the road' was on into the music, pretty easily the best post-peak run van album (xgau says best post-moondance, and he may be right). apparently shakira performed it at the obama inauguration!

― balls, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:37 (7 months ago) Permalink

Into The Music a fine piece of work but hardly the best since Moondance

― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:11 (7 months ago) Permalink

I prefer it to Moondance. I prefer St Dominic's Preview to Moondance. I prefer Tupelo Honey to Moondance.

see a trend?

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:17 (7 months ago) Permalink

"Full Force Gale" is mighty

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:17 (7 months ago) Permalink

holy shit steppin' out queen - i just went fucking ham

― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:25 (7 months ago) Permalink

how did i not know about this philosopher's stone thing??????

fuckin' a

YOU GONNA PROMENADE!
A LITTLE HIP ACTION!

― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:25 (7 months ago) Permalink

seems like that release was kinda under the radar (at least I didn't really pay attention to it when it came out). but it's essential imo. van really needs like a comprehensive box set, but maybe he's been on too many different labels for that to happen?

― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:27 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah label thing is a huge obstacle, even the comps, as solid as they are, are hurt by this i think. really wish his 80s onward stuff was on spotify, totally the kind of thing that service is best for.

― balls, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah, i just went over there to listen to some stuff but no dice! vannnnnnnn!

― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:35 (7 months ago) Permalink

it used to be, must've been taken down

― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:36 (7 months ago) Permalink

van really needs like a comprehensive box set, but maybe he's been on too many different labels for that to happen?

I have a good 2-disc NRBQ comp (on Rhino) and they've been on like seven different labels, so it's doable.

― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:38 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah, i mean now that all major labels are one major label (or three, i can't keep track) it seems like it should happen. might even be van's fault, i feel like he might own his masters or something?

― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

holy shit steppin' out queen!

soto do you actually not like moondance or are you just tired of it or do you just prefer some others to it? totally understand the latter two and always kinda amazed at how many ppl i've met who own and LOVE moondance, go to a weird place when they hear 'into the mystic' like it's 'desperado' or something and yet somehow have zero interest in listening or owning any other van morrison album.

― balls, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:44 (7 months ago) Permalink

I gotta rep for "inarticulate speech of the heart" as far as 80s van goes. immense album.

― blank, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:39 (7 months ago) Permalink

The second side is a bore and I never want to listen to it whereas every other album I mentioned has goodies.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

but the first side is so awesome it makes up for it. but yeah, this is one of those albums where i only listen to one side.

also, why does Allmusic show "Crazy Love" as having been written by Paul Anka? That can't be right!

― Lee626, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 01:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah, i mean now that all major labels are one major label (or three, i can't keep track) it seems like it should happen. might even be van's fault, i feel like he might own his masters or something?

Van owns most of his masters, and that's part of the problem. He had a nice reissue campaign going a few years ago, but stopped it (depending on who you ask) either because he got pissed at his label, or he got caught up in new projects, including the Astral Weeks concert series. The latter also came about because of another problem: most of his solo catalog that he doesn't own is controled by Warner Bros. Morrison has been trying to get them back for years to no avail, complaining that those albums haven't been treated properly (and hence no reissues other than audiophile vinyl outside of the still in print original cd editions). The live AW album was done so he could own versions of the all the songs on that set.

― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 02:02 (7 months ago) Permalink

I listened to ASTRAL WEEKS about a year ago and was sorely disappointed. Not even sure how it can be considered a classic album...

― Tyler Burns (burns46824@yahoo.com), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 04:10 (7 months ago) Permalink

― zvookster, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 04:31 (7 months ago) Permalink

I'm really into ponderous Van. "Keep It Simple" is a hugely funny Van album title to me.

― blank, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 05:22 (7 months ago) Permalink

really wish his 80s onward stuff was on spotify, totally the kind of thing that service is best for.

i was bummed to discover this fact today

― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 05:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

what are some good early-ish mark isham albums? I like his soundtrack for "never cry wolf"

― blank, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 06:08 (7 months ago) Permalink

Not Supposed To Break Down off Philosopher's Stone is just amazing.

Some other gems from the 80s that I don't think have been mentioned
- Wild Honey from Common One
- Rave On, John Donne from Inarticulate Speech
- So Quiet in Here and Real Real Gone from Enlightenment
- Tore Down a la Rimbaud from A Sense of Wonder

― that's not my post, Thursday, 4 October 2012 04:57 (7 months ago) Permalink

Rave On, John Donne is such a quintessential Van title. Hard to think of anyone else who'd merge Buddy Holly and 17th C English poetry.

― that's not my post, Thursday, 4 October 2012 05:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

"Celtic Ray" off Beautiful Vision quite nice too

― Lee626, Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:22 (7 months ago) Permalink

i guess it's obvious that common one is totally killer but common one is totally killer

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 7 October 2012 19:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

"Give Me My Rapture" from Poetic Champions Compose is a good 'un.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 14:46 (5 months ago) Permalink

Yep, love that whole album.

― 2 Chain Pizzas (to go) (Eazy), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:34 (5 months ago) Permalink

I've been enjoying Into The Music quite a bit lately. Warm and comfy like an old sweater.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:49 (5 months ago) Permalink

i don't think i've ever heard poetic champions.
this long outtake from the early 70s is worth hearing, if you haven't checked it out. http://ow.ly/fOwOm

― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:07 (5 months ago) Permalink

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