Backstreet JellyPOLL: ILM Van Morrison Poll Discussion Thread

Montreux 80 is ill

i have listened to this dude's discography to near completion a few times and i have noooo idea how to assemble this ballot

gonna rep for a song he never officially recorded but played live a lot, and which finally appeared on an official van release (the it's too late box) last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lXQn5AbNcw

an amazing song that's sorta buried in the middle of tupelo honey is "you're my woman"

and hard nose the highway gets a bad rep bc of it's really aimless second side but "snow in san anselmo" "warm love" and the title track is the strongest opening of... any van record, i think (moondance and veedon fleece prob rival it)

"Warm Love" is on the comp, no?

It's ever-present everywhere.

Duh.

lol

my brother and i were cracking up over Van's passionate delivery of "WHO'S YOUR SPONSOR!!??" on "I Paid The Price" recently

I think I'm just going to send a top 5 covers list along with my ballot. He recorded too much good stuff to cram into a top 30. I mean he even did an awesome cover of Bein' Green.

^live version that is.

falling in love with all these albums all over again.

the way that young lovers do >>>

Reminder to vote. We're on a record pace with ballots but we need to keep the momentum going.

a period of transition is still....not great. wavelength always surprises me at first though bc i loooooooove "kingdom hall"

the intrusions of non-van production and instrumentation are v refreshing. feels like there are way too many guitars on "kingdom hall" in a good way

it is maybe van's tackiest album tho

Listen at 54:20 or so. There's a bunch of ad lib and some numbers and I... still don't get it. Surely this is A Thing.

― leave your emu at the door (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:06 PM (one week ago)

Dialling codes - he's caught between 212 and 415 and 011 44 1 - New York, San Francisco, and London (dialling from America, back when the UK code for London was 01 not 020).

Ah! Okay so totally different from the numbers in the outro of "Cleaning Windows." "Number a hundred and thirty six!"

van is from the lodge

michael b is right upthread that "heavy connection" is a good song on period of transition but the other songs really don't pull their weight. i love the production though and i wonder what a more inspired van would've done on a bill withers-sounding record

i will find it v difficult to not vote for every track on common one

wavelength is a great record, i'm calling it. "kingdom hall," the title track, and "take it where you find it" alone

def putting this at an unreasonably high position in my ballot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHfcrOwBas

Even though this album was singled out in the Kelefa Sanneh rockism article, this song is still worth your time and a spot on your ballot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u92E-e0t5HY

into the music is a masterpiece really

The "TB Sheets" album has been a real revelation for me. I've always loved the title track (heard it on the radio years ago) but I probably prefer the version of "Madame George" on it to the "Astral Weeks" one.

is that one of those rearranged bang records comps of which there were once 100000 on itunes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.B._Sheets_(album)

ah the answer is yes

the halcyon days when the only van morrison records available digitally were a greatest hits comp and 1000000 variations of the bang records recordings and the funny piss-takes he did to get out of his bang contract

too unfamiliar with this discography to put together a real 30-track ballot but I'm gonna vote anyway

I like Astral Weeks, Common One, and Veedon Fleece

please gimme some album/track recommendations, the longer and spacier the better

doesn't get much longer/spacier than this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz7fWE47N8Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2JZ6BiAGj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGAvi2p1KE

^^ i highly recommend that whole album but that's where it gets real drifty

Listened to common one for the first time today. Really lovely.

Almost Independence Day is a masterpiece and will be way up high on my ballot. Apparently it was inspired by a phone call he got from a bandmate in Them, calling from Oregon in early July. Hence the lyric.

i think st. dominic's preview might be my most-listened to Van album

Any thoughts on what might win? Is Madam George the obvious choice? St Dominic's title track? Redwood Tree? Common One? Christ, this is hard.

i'd say cyprus avenue, or caravan, or into the mystic, or

I would love for Into the Mystic to Win but knowing you doodz it'll prolly be Caravan or Wonderful Remark

Or Jackie Wilson Said

lol I checked out Caravan and was like "oh no, not this one"

hippie overexposure to Moondance runs deep

The "TB Sheets" album has been a real revelation for me.

http://images.45worlds.com/f/ab/van-morrison-tb-sheets-ab.jpg

This edition of TB Sheets means a lot to me for sentimental reasons - and as a concise boil down of the Bang era stuff it really works. But it does miss off one of my faves from this period, available on other unlegit comps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u-CDd2CQEg

Sorry for huge!

xxp yeah that's the one I am familiar with, I had no idea there was a bunch of contract breaking weirdness

The contract breaking weirdness aka 'Garbage Van'

His Band and the Street Choir is way better than I remembered.

The version of Into the Mystic on vol.3 of Too Late to Stop Now damn near makes me levitate.

Hoping voters remember just how exquisite Linden Arden is ... the interplay between Van's singing and the piano is magic.