Backstreet JellyPOLL: ILM Van Morrison Poll Discussion Thread

I'll just set up a few sock accounts and "want a danish" is going to run the table.

Also it's been ages since I've heard the 80's version but my recollection is that the Philosopher's Stone "Wonderful Remark" wipes the floor with the rerecording.

I can see by the look on your face.....thats you've got ring worm

It's a very common disease.

if anyone needs a guide to the '80s and early '90s van records i wrote one a few years ago http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/astral-years-a-seekers-guide-to-van-morrison-in-the-80-1700003646🕸

Excellent piece brad

Thanks, that's a fantastic blog. Van's 80s were better than he gets credit for. How about the 90s? The Healing Game is good, but I haven't heard much else.

I'll have to dig out the recording of his Glastonbury set in 86 which I saw. Some great performances: no guru, full force gale, iirc summertime in England

"Have I Told You Lately" is lazy writing but I LOVE "Why Must I Always Explain."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTN06FiglEE

sorry i thought the thread needed more high kicks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdZLTnRnHs8

Fully intend to vote in this - I'm a fairly casual fan but I'm slowly going through Brad's '80s picks and the stuff mentioned here, already discovered some great songs (some of which are not at all what I'd expect from any era of Van Morrison).

Found the 87 Glastonbury recording. Awesome.

Lots of great live Van up on YouTube. Here are a few full concerts.

Montreaux 1980
Winterland 1974
Pacific High Studio 1971
Ulster Hall with the Chieftains 1988

Hope everyone had a great weekend listening to plenty of Van.

A couple of 60s deep cuts to consider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRH8M-VyFHs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNaMbru1dQ0

So how about this one off No Guru? Love the stripped down version he did for the One Irish Rover doc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqB6JSiHNg

i'm currently trying to figure out which live version of caravan i should vote number one

The Bottom Line one, of course. He says "radio" as "rajjo" and it's like eight minutes long (but I still don't get the bit with calling out random numbers).

Submitted for your approval, Caledonia Soul Music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ecN3rOoFQ&list=RDb1ecN3rOoFQ#t=825

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.

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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