Not 100% sure about the chronology, but hours before Nolan tweeted that, he also reported about four Van Morrison gigs that had been cancelled the previous day "at the last minute," so Van could be particularly angry about that happening.
I've never actually seen Van lose it and scream like that before - a pretty sad sight, but at least we got an amusing "Brown-Eyed Girl" request. (Of course Van didn't look amused.)
― birdistheword, Friday, 11 June 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
Unexpected'zinger' there from the DUP's Ian Paisley Jr.
― PaulTMA, Friday, 11 June 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link
Ah, that's who "junior" was. Not someone I'd ever vote for.
― birdistheword, Friday, 11 June 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
This is the calibre of person Van hangs out with these days.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Friday, 11 June 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
Might have to remove this bookmark. Nothing good happening with Van.
― that's not my post, Friday, 11 June 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
I heard Van Morrison had announced the postponement of shows via social media (including Facebook!) specifically due to health concerns for his audience over the omicron variant. For a second, I thought maybe he saw the error of his ways, and indeed, announcements with those specifics were made via Facebook, Twitter et al...but they also used the pronoun "we" (i.e. his management). In the days following those posts, new ones with the pronoun "I" (i.e the man himself) pretty much groused what he's already been grousing for the past year.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 17:26 (two years ago) link
He has a Chicago show coming up in May, and the first thing that pops up on the link to Ticketmaster from his tour page is "The Event Organizer is requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination to attend this event."
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
Van is offering his jelly roll to so many people with such frequency. I hope they are actually separately wrapped jelly rolls.
― Bixby in a Samsung I know it's Siri-esque (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 21 February 2022 02:24 (two years ago) link
I guess he's cranked out another album.
Tracklist:
1. Dangerous2. What's It Gonna Take?3. Fighting Back is the New Normal4. Fodder for the Masses5. Can't Go On This Way6. Sometimes It's Just Blah Blah Blah7. Money From America8. Not Seeking Approval9. Damage and Recovery10. Nervous Breakdown11. Absolutely Positively the Most12. I Ain’t No Celebrity13. Stage Name14. Fear and Self-Loathing in Las Vegas15. Pretending
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91MDCAJgN9L._SX425_.jpg
I'm guessing a hard pass for me.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
Completists hardest hit
― So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
Seriously, this feels like an April Fools' joke four days late.
But it isn't.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
LOL what a fucking idiot Van "the Man" turned out to be.
― Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
Pains me to say this, but given his long history of being a shit in general, it's not a huge surprise.
The difference is the assholery has now become and overwhelmed his music whereas in the past it was an occasional annoyance.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
ILX Pre-Covers?
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
Sometimes It's Just Blah Blah Blah
― Brad C., Tuesday, 5 April 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VYB8UMFtL._SX290_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
Van Morrison has issued legal proceedings against Northern Ireland’s Department of Health and its minister Robin Swann over an opinion piece written for Rolling Stone magazine.
The op-ed called Morrison’s songs about the pandemic a “smear” on those involved in the public health response to the virus and highlighted the damage the musician might cause to public messaging around Covid-19 in Northern Ireland.
Morrison’s solicitors, John J Rice and Co, confirmed that he was taking legal action against the Department of Health and Swann, but declined to specify on what grounds.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
I was going to say Robin Swann is the one who should be sueing him judging by that video post upthread but I think Mr. Swann should be content to allow Van to make a public ass himself with his good buddy Ian Paisley Jr.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
Absolutely, Van's doing a perfectly fine job of digging himself into a hole. Still massively disappointed that this will likely be the final, ignominious chapter of Van's career.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
(I'm sure there will be many more shows and many more records to come, but nothing that will supplant the nuttery going on now.)
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
The decline of Armond White from crazy to lazy goes with the new Van lyrics he adoringly quotes; the music may be better, but firmly attached to this shit, it may well not matter---anyway, yeah, this is just quotes set in gush, but if you're morbidly, self-abusingly curious, here 'tis: https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/van-morrisons-songs-of-the-free/
― dow, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
hooked on purple heather right nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLvf1UVAotc
― Spottie, Thursday, 4 August 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
an album that should be in the good LP / WTF cover thread...
― that's not my post, Thursday, 4 August 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link
Fans should get The Philosopher's Stone - it includes a ton of outtakes. Altogether, if you took like the seven best outtakes and included the single, "Warm Love," I think the final result would've been another masterpiece for Van. I was never that crazy about what he ended up submitting, it's kind of a so-so album to me.
(IIRC he considered making it a double LP. Wonder what that would've been.)
― birdistheword, Thursday, 4 August 2022 23:33 (one year ago) link
Something like...
Side A:Warm LoveWonderful RemarkMadame JoyContemplation Rose
Side B:Not Supposed to Break DownThere There ChildDrumshanbo HustleTry for Sleep
...I'd really enjoy. There's probably a few other songs that would've been great too. He cut a great cover of Fleetwood Mac/Christine McVie's "Spare Me a Little" that I would've loved. (It hasn't been officially released. The bootleg sounds like it came from a cassette dubbed from a dub, etc.)
― birdistheword, Thursday, 4 August 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
Ah, from Clinton Heylin's book (via Wikipedia):
Recorded during a series of prolific recording sessions, there was more than enough material to fill a double-album. Morrison proposed the idea to Warner Bros. Records, but he was ultimately convinced to release a single LP. During the recording sessions held between August and November 1972, there were nearly thirty songs recorded in all, at least three-quarters of them original compositions. A few leftover tracks were saved or re-recorded for future albums like Veedon Fleece, but most would not see release until 1998's compilation of outtakes, The Philosopher's Stone, when nine of the songs would be used. Biographer Clinton Heylin suggested that "only 'Warm Love' and 'Hard Nose the Highway' could have sat comfortably alongside 'rejects' like 'Madame Joy', 'Bulbs', 'Spare Me a Little', 'Country Fair', 'Contemplation Rose' and 'Drumshanbo Hustle'."
― birdistheword, Thursday, 4 August 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
xpost that's a great track list from Philosopher's Stone. I've got several of those tunes on my Van playlist.
― that's not my post, Friday, 5 August 2022 01:53 (one year ago) link
Just because... Van & Dylan in Athens playing Foreign Window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqB6JSiHNg
― that's not my post, Friday, 5 August 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
Johnny Winter ended up with one of those outtakes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH3ha9O1EjQ
Winter had some great connections back then, as his prior album had "Silver Train" before the Stones and his next album had a then-unreleased John Lennon song.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 August 2022 02:07 (one year ago) link
xxp thanks! That whole collection is really worth getting. I wish he followed through on a volume two!
― birdistheword, Friday, 5 August 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
I just listened to all those you posted. So good! Hadnt heard any of them. Do you not like purple heather?
― Spottie, Friday, 5 August 2022 03:31 (one year ago) link
^love me some purple heather
― that's not my post, Friday, 5 August 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link
I like "Purple Heather" - this was actually my introduction to "Wild Mountain Thyme"! I was just leaning towards originals when I slapped that track list together.
― birdistheword, Friday, 5 August 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
ah i see. thanks for that list, again.
― Spottie, Friday, 5 August 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
You're welcome! Again, I wish I knew what that double LP would have looked like - I imagine it would include everything that was released on Hard Nose.
― birdistheword, Friday, 5 August 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
Somebody tryna give him a vax https://t.co/s9bKatSc8l— Don Allred (@0wlred) September 1, 2022
― dow, Thursday, 1 September 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
I was at the barbershop this morning and heard a cover of "Have I Told You Lately" that I didn't recognize. Sounded weirdly like Elvis. Or, rather, it sounded like someone trying to sound like Elvis.
I Shazamed and found that it is precisely that: KINGTINUED is a band that does modern covers as Elvis would, presumably, have done them if he were, y'know, alive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24wMa8k_JyA
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
Kingtinued also has done "Yesterday" and "Achy Breaky Heart."
I would recommend that you not listen to Kingtinued. I was able to get through 29 seconds of "Candle in the Wind" before I died of grief and shame. I am posting this from beyond the grave. Thxbye.
CRINGEtinued, more like
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
The singer does a passable Elvis, but the backing track sounds like cookie-cutter synth presets. I was thinking the other day, when being bombarded by Rick Astley for the umpteenth time, that Elvis could've done a mean cover of "Never Gonna Give You Up".
― o. nate, Monday, 17 October 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
But how would he have handled “Why Are You On Facebook?”
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 17 October 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
man’s a cunt, always has been
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 17 October 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
Speaking of cringey covers, using Van's cover of "Comfortably Numb" for the sex scene in a movie ("The Departed," I think?) kinda hits a high mark of cringe.
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 October 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
I kinda like Van + the Band + Roger Waters version. There's a live version from a 1990 show on youtube. But as soundtrack to a sex scene, yeah, that would be pretty cringe.
― that's not my post, Monday, 17 October 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
I haven’t listened to inarticulate speech in awhile but “irish heartbeat” randomly sailed back into my head this week and it’s a little weird how apt it is for shit I’m dealing with right now. God I love 80s Van, so gentle and spiritual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiCbNCy0bbg
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 March 2023 20:46 (one year ago) link
FWIW, Van came up during the first show of Elvis Costello's Gramercy residency (which was awesome). He mentioned how he and Allan Mayes, his friend and partner in Rusty, bonded over their mutual love of Van Morrison. He then covered "Domino," demonstrating afterwards how that great guitar lick inspired one of his own songs (forgot which, but it would've been an early song). He then snuck in the remark "...before (Van) went crazy," which got a huge laugh, and he then politely added, "he's a comedian, that's what he is." On a later number, he segued one of his own songs into "Jackie Wilson Said."
― birdistheword, Friday, 24 March 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
Apart from extreme cases, I don't tend to make definitive decisions about the 'separate the art from the artist' thing, but I've practically given up with Van. I never put a record on and if he comes up on various playlists, I find myself skipping after a few seconds. It's kind of brutal, tbh.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 24 March 2023 21:26 (one year ago) link
That probably sounds insensitive in light of brimstead's post. I hope things get easier for you.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 24 March 2023 21:27 (one year ago) link
Bird - maybe "Pay It Back"?
That's the only EC song that I can think of that has an echo of "Domino."
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 March 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link
I mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SEu2e12x1w
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 March 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
"Deep Dark Truthful Mirror" used to get mistaken for a Van Morrison song pretty regularly.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 24 March 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link