falling in love with all these albums all over again.
the way that young lovers do >>>
― Many men scream death (voodoo chili), Thursday, 27 July 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
Reminder to vote. We're on a record pace with ballots but we need to keep the momentum going.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 27 July 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
a period of transition is still....not great. wavelength always surprises me at first though bc i loooooooove "kingdom hall"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 03:27 (six years ago) link
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
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 03:28 (six years ago) link
it is maybe van's tackiest album tho
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 03:41 (six years ago) link
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)
― 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).
― woof, Friday, 28 July 2017 10:04 (six years ago) link
Ah! Okay so totally different from the numbers in the outro of "Cleaning Windows." "Number a hundred and thirty six!"
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 28 July 2017 10:36 (six years ago) link
van is from the lodge
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
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
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
i will find it v difficult to not vote for every track on common one
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
wavelength is a great record, i'm calling it. "kingdom hall," the title track, and "take it where you find it" alone
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link
def putting this at an unreasonably high position in my ballot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHfcrOwBas
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 13:22 (six years ago) link
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
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 28 July 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
into the music is a masterpiece really
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
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.
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 28 July 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
is that one of those rearranged bang records comps of which there were once 100000 on itunes
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.B._Sheets_(album)
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 28 July 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
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
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
too unfamiliar with this discography to put together a real 30-track ballot but I'm gonna vote anyway
― sleeve, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
I like Astral Weeks, Common One, and Veedon Fleece
please gimme some album/track recommendations, the longer and spacier the better
― sleeve, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
doesn't get much longer/spacier than this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz7fWE47N8Y
― tylerw, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2JZ6BiAGj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGAvi2p1KE
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
^^ 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.
― wtev, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
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.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
i think st. dominic's preview might be my most-listened to Van album
― tylerw, Friday, 28 July 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
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.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
i'd say cyprus avenue, or caravan, or into the mystic, or
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
I would love for Into the Mystic to Win but knowing you doodz it'll prolly be Caravan or Wonderful Remark
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
Or Jackie Wilson Said
lol I checked out Caravan and was like "oh no, not this one"
hippie overexposure to Moondance runs deep
― sleeve, Friday, 28 July 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
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
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Sorry for huge!
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
xxp yeah that's the one I am familiar with, I had no idea there was a bunch of contract breaking weirdness
― sleeve, Friday, 28 July 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
The contract breaking weirdness aka 'Garbage Van'
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
His Band and the Street Choir is way better than I remembered.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 28 July 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
The version of Into the Mystic on vol.3 of Too Late to Stop Now damn near makes me levitate.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
Hoping voters remember just how exquisite Linden Arden is ... the interplay between Van's singing and the piano is magic.
― that's not my post, Friday, 28 July 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
man yall I really didn't know there were other van fans around here and generally hold my tongue
I will rep for a fair bit of 90s van. honestly I will say he's still got it. pay the devil was fuckin good. common one knocked me over when i first found it but that was back when just knowing it existed made you a head. wanna say good words here for queen of the slipstream & raglan road. those are giant numbers. along w/be thou my vision from hymns to the silence. fuck yes van morrison.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 29 July 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
man I never but never do these poll submission threads but you can expect an email from me in about five minutes here.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 29 July 2017 00:29 (six years ago) link
OH MY HIGH IN THE ART OF SUFFERING ONE, TAKE A WALK WITH ME
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 29 July 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link
Somebody do a death metal poll next.
― Crystal Geezer (WilliamC), Saturday, 29 July 2017 00:49 (six years ago) link
too broad
if somebody did Death or Mercyful Fate I would of course be in for those
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 29 July 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link
I predict my ballot will be the only one with "goin down to monte carlo" but it's so much the quintessential late van song. the band: exquisite. the pace: languid, flowing, effortless. the lyric: bitchy and clumsy. the overall effect: utterly hypnotic.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 29 July 2017 01:05 (six years ago) link
Xxxxp Tir No Nog is bomb
― JoeStork, Saturday, 29 July 2017 01:16 (six years ago) link
veedon fleece, you guys
― Many men scream death (voodoo chili), Saturday, 29 July 2017 02:43 (six years ago) link
his falsetto is so gorgeous throughout
I'll be following this poll with great interest, but since I'm not familiar with much of his catalogue won't be voting. All the same, I'd like to stan for The Healing Game, which is the Van album I listen to the most:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnIJrbwjlZA
― niels, Saturday, 29 July 2017 09:16 (six years ago) link
Mostly a boring 68-74 ballot from me, but the thread's sending me back to albums I've never properly listened to. I think maybe I'm ready for taking-it-easy mystic 80/90s Van.
Throwing out a a shout for Naked in the Jungle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Up9okdpcM
― woof, Saturday, 29 July 2017 13:17 (six years ago) link
My ballot will be last minute FYI
― sleeve, Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link