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

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too low!

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:24 (eight years ago)

I was just listening to "You Don't Pull No Punches But You Don't Push the River" in the car.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:25 (eight years ago)

Prediction: #1 is the only one that no one will say "too low" about.

― bergoglio imbroglio (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:32 (eight years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/jp0XiJI.jpg

12. Summertime in England
from Common One
14 votes, 278 points, one #1
26 points for live version, Glastonbury 1987

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 20:32 (eight years ago)

astral weeks is an amazing album, but this is outrageous

― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:33 (eight years ago)

my no. 1, wayyyyyyyyyyyy too low

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:36 (eight years ago)

"irish heartbeat" hasn't placed yet (will it?) so there's hope for my ballot yet (?)

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:37 (eight years ago)

is this thread title a spoiler?

― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:38 (eight years ago)

Too low...

― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:38 (eight years ago)

xxp that's a little disingenuous of me i guess, my tastes are v well represented in this poll

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:38 (eight years ago)

Christ, what a track.

― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:39 (eight years ago)

oh yeah "summertime in england" makes me cry, every single time, when it gets to the "it ain't why why why it just is" part

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:40 (eight years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/6QQXSPY.jpg

11. Gloria
Them! single
12 votes, 281 points, two #1 votes

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 20:42 (eight years ago)

it's weird i was expecting this one to land at 10 or 11

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:44 (eight years ago)

was it van who said if you threw a guitar down the stairs it would eventually play the chord sequence of "gloria"

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:44 (eight years ago)

Can you dig the top ten?

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 20:51 (eight years ago)

The first time I listened to It's Too Late To Stop Now (about 3 decades after I should have first listened to it), when he went into "Gloria" I thought, "Ugh, why does he have to cover this cliched war-horse...oh wait...he WROTE this."

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:51 (eight years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/9iKJ0FT.jpg

10. Ballerina
from Astral Weeks
12 votes, 299 points, one #1 vote

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 20:52 (eight years ago)

i love how much van straight up screams through the them material

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:52 (eight years ago)

step right up

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:52 (eight years ago)

and at least four astral weeks tracks to come, lol

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:53 (eight years ago)

And it's getting late, yes it is, yes it is.

― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:55 (eight years ago)

Take off your shoes!

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 20:57 (eight years ago)

grab the ketchup!

― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:59 (eight years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/2fbayde.jpg

9. Sweet Thing
from Astral Weeks
16 votes, 310 points, one #1 vote

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:00 (eight years ago)

Well.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:01 (eight years ago)

this song is so BEAUTIFUL

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:02 (eight years ago)

SUGAR BAAAABY

With your champagne eyes and your saint-like smile

― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:03 (eight years ago)

I say we stop here today. I want suspense created as inexorably as Van pausing over a syllable in It's Too Late...

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:04 (eight years ago)

Sweet thing made my top ten

― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:04 (eight years ago)

I say we stop here today. I want suspense created

It's too late to stop now.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:08 (eight years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/3JPZsat.jpg

8. Madame George
from Astral Weeks
15 votes, 336 points, two #1 votes
14 points for T.B. Sheets version

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:10 (eight years ago)

I have no idea what at least one of these top 7 will be

― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:18 (eight years ago)

I have no idea what at least one of these top 7 will be

― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, August 7, 2017 2:18 PM (fifty-seven seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

justice for "i forgot that love existed"

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:19 (eight years ago)

Here is my #1.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:23 (eight years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Wncvh9k.jpg

7. Saint Dominic's Preview
from Saint Dominic's Preview
15 votes, 345 points, one #1 vote

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:24 (eight years ago)

This is just the greatest song.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:29 (eight years ago)

as we gaze out on

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:31 (eight years ago)

it really is, and it never gets old

― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:31 (eight years ago)

as we gaze out on

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:33 (eight years ago)

When I was compiling the votes, I played it on repeat for about 30 minutes and it sounded better every time.

Plus Van coins a new phrase in it, no regrettiance. So much more sophisticated than "no regrets."

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:34 (eight years ago)

Way upon...

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:35 (eight years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/3jBEWnI.jpg

6. Cyprus Avenue
from Astral Weeks
15 votes, 345 points, one #1 vote
23 points for It's Too Late To Stop Now" version

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:36 (eight years ago)

the avenue of trees

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:36 (eight years ago)

and I'm conquered in a car seat

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:38 (eight years ago)

Not a thing that I can do

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:41 (eight years ago)

This was a song I read about in great detail before ever hearing, in that Lester Bangs anthology from the 1980s. It did not disappoint.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:42 (eight years ago)

obvious point but it's extremely worth watching him tear this shit up live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuM5oKk0es

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:42 (eight years ago)

Yes. And of course, the version on It's Too Late To Stop Now is off the charts intense.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:43 (eight years ago)

Before any ballots came in, I figured this next song would win in a landslide. It did not.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:45 (eight years ago)

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