Linden Arden POLL the Highlights--ILM Van Morrison Poll Results

OK that's it for today. We'll finish up on Monday.

Recap:

52. Country Fair
51. Coney Island
50. I’ll Be Your Lover Too
49. Gypsy
48. Glad Tidings
47. Raglan Road
46. Bright Side of the Road
45. He Ain’t Give You None
44 tie. Real Real Gone
44 tie. Beside You
43 tie. These Dreams of You
43 tie. In the Garden
42. Here Comes the Night
41. Haunts of Ancient Peace
40 tie. Tupelo Honey
40 tie. Dweller on the Threshold
39 tie. I’ve Been Working
39 tie. Bulbs
38 tie. Everyone
38 tie. And the Healing Has Begun
37. Contemplation Rose
36. Baby Please Don’t Go
35. Cleaning Windows
34. Mystic Eyes
33. Redwood Tree
32. Wavelength

glad to see redwood tree make it, love the scat singing at the end

"Wavelength" is the closest he came to an American pop hit after the early seventies.

Maybe but "Have I Told You Lately" did fine; Rod's version went higher I think.

C or D: Smoking moodily in front of vaguely new-wavey-colored crayon scribbles

...while thinking about how much record companies suck

You know, I've long had a nagging feeling about the graphic style of the Wavelength cover - the teal and purple swipes. I finally figured out what it reminds me of.

https://nouvellegamine.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/nagel08.jpg

Damn, now I wanna hear Van cover "Rio".

agree that "and the healing has begun" feels greater to me but I don't get to gripe since I assigned equal points to all the songs on my ballot

It's a small shame that "Everyone" didn't get a boost in popularity after Tenenbaums like some of the other Wes Anderson cratedigger cues of the era ("Making Time", "Ooh La La", even "Me & Julio...") did.

The Wavelength photo was by Norman Seeff, but the design looks like Judith Jacklin, who did the hand-tinted photos of hosts and musical guests that were used during the commercials on Saturday Night Live. (ehh...just checked wikipedia and she's not the designer, but that cover looks just like the SNL photos of the era.)

I love "Real Real Gone", glad to see I'm not the only one. I first heard it on a Dylan bootleg from the 90s.

xp i voted for Everyone at #2, and Tenenbaums was a big reason why

Originally he wanted to use "Sloop John B", and there are a few fan-made cuts on youtube subbing it in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y44jSgtwTkY

predictably i like "everyone" much better in that scene

not a beach boys fan?

Feel like my pre rollout ambiguous post to kornrulez about coming through delayed the rollout so it didn't finish Friday as intended. Sorry all.

Not at all. I was going to do all the tracks today but the thread was dead all morning and early afternoon. I can do more this evening if there's any interest.

not a beach boys fan?

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eh i am but "everyone"'s got kind of this walking rhythm that works unsurprisingly well with a slow motion shot of people walking

http://i.imgur.com/CREizJG.jpg

31 (tie). Wonderful Remark
Greatest Hits / King of Comedy
7 votes, 105 points

That was high on my ballot, one of my very favorites.

http://i.imgur.com/duKJlYP.jpg

31 (tie) Warm Love
Hard Nose the Highway
7 votes, 105 points

Maybe but "Have I Told You Lately" did fine; Rod's version went higher I think.

― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin),

only on the A/C chart maybw

Van's version, that is. Stewart's was a massive hit (it peaked at #2).

Ok. I still can't stand it, not least because it depends on the laziest rhyme ever, love/above.

Glad to see some Them in the roll out. The list is a good mix of all the different Van sounds.

Xpost Tupelo Honey. I had a lot of 70s Van on my ballot but not much from TH and not the title song. Not really sure why ... maybe I don't think she's an angel.

TIL that "Why Must I Always Explain" is the same chord progression as "Tupelo Honey."

man in the garden is a jam, though it gives me catholic mass flashbacks. Strange that kozelek is using that di acoustic guitar sound on recent albums.

No track so far has had more than 7 votes.

Song with the highest votes/points ratio to date: he ain't give you none.

Try to guess the Top 5. Nobody will get it right.

^give us a hint, how many in top 5 from each decade.

top 5 are the Way That Young Lovers Do, You Don't Pull No Punches, Cyprus Avenue, Into the Mystic, and Bein' Green

ok probably not "Bein' Green" but maybe "Listen to the Lion"

Madam George has to be in there!

ok probably not "Bein' Green"

it ain't easy bein' "bein' green"

G-L-O-R-I-A-!

it's gonna be alright!

I blew it not voting for You Don't Pull No Punches, I'm a moron.

So yeah, it's Bein' Green.

Not close

Two Songs About Hating The Music Business + Two Songs About Women + One Song About Leaves Falling On Women Who Hate The Music Business

http://i.imgur.com/7VfH5hM.jpg

30. Tir Na Nog
from No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
5 votes, 106 points

fuck yes I'm gonna bump that one right now

God this song is so wonderful

it really is. my no. 4

listening to "in the garden" now & remembering when I saw Van on Avalon Sunset his piano dude - may have been Mose Allison? - stomping all over the transcendent vibe in the dorkiest but also kinda best way: Van went deep into the refrain, everybody in the house down in that spiritual vibe - no guru - no method - no teacher - just you and I and nature and the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost- there was a very vocal contingent of Christians in the crowd, earlier in the evening when he'd done "Whenever God Shines His Light" he'd sung "He heals the sick / and He heals the lame / and He says that you can do it, too, in Jesus Christ's Name" (in the track there's no "Christ), a whole swathe of the audience down front erupted in cheers - so In the Garden peaks, Van's got pretty much everybody in that garden, it's us & Van and the Trinity, what a vibe - and Van exits, stage left, the band still playing - and dude at the piano smiles huge and exuberantly into his mic goes: "No guru, no method, no teacher -- just Van the Man!" which is kinda like

lol

wonderful

I saw Mose Allison play in 1997-ish and he gushed at length about how grateful he was to VM for the Tell Me Something album and the difference between a songwriting royalty check for a Van Morrison album vs. a Mose Allison album.

that is wonderful jclc

re: Tenenbaums

Early cuts of the movie had it end with the Anthology version of "I'm Looking Through You" (and starting with the actual "Hey Jude" instead of Mothersbaugh's cover) but they couldn't get the rights

Love that story, JCLC. And I think Tir Na Nog has been my best find of the poll.