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Astral Weeks
Release Date: 1990-10-25, Audio CD, Warner Bros / Wea
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- Posted: Dec-31-2008
Perfect
After listening to this album for the gazillionth time the other night, it occurred to me that if I had to pick just one album to take to the grave this would be it. While I love much of VM's music, for me Astral Works is only approached by the almost-as-wonderful Veedon Fleece. I'm not going to...
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- Posted: Sep-26-2008
Astral Squeaks
I know that this is a classic, I know that it has sold a zillion copies and that it estblished Van as a "great and as an innovator." I know that everybody has covered "Moondance", probably even The New Christie Minstrels. In spite of all that, I cannot stand it. I am not concerned that it is very...
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- Posted: Sep-21-2008
Delicious Exasperation
What is expressed in these songs, in the energy contained in them is something that I connected with very deeply. I think that is a lot of what art is: how well something is expressed, some feeling, emotion, struggle.... To me it soothed my soul, brought meaning to my pain - told me that...
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- Posted: Jul-17-2008
pretty instrumentation, but...
I like the instrumentation of this CD; it's got a lot going on in ways that you don't normally hear, but the actual melodies get kinda boggy about halfway through (or sooner), and if Van Morrison CAN sing (like a pro) he blatantly refuses to do so. Another perfect example of how this "they/we...
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- Posted: Jun-27-2008
REMASTER AVAILABLE! But ONLY In Japan! Why, Edgar... WHY?
The good news? 20+ years after their debut on CD, FINALLY, there are full remasters of "Moondance", "Street Choir" and "Astral Weeks". The bad news? They're not available domestically from Warner Music Group USA: All three are Warner Japan only. And the really bad news? As of today, Amazon...
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- Posted: Jun-27-2008
REMASTER AVAILABLE! But ONLY In Japan! Why, Edgar... WHY?
The good news? 20+ years after their debut on CD, FINALLY, there are full remasters of Moondance, Street Choir and Astral Weeks. The bad news? They're not available domestically from Warner Music Group USA: All three were released in June 2008 by Warner in Japan only, and Amazon is only now...
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- Posted: Jun-05-2008
Ah, some of the astral-Celtic sound
It's hard to think of Van as an introverted mystic, but this is where it all started. Yea, he had a first life as a Belfast bluesman and some time on Bang records when he produced one of the great pop singles of all timee, but this documents Van's summer of guitar. If you don't study this...
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- Posted: May-18-2008
Beautiful, Soothing, Soaring, Healing
A friend recommended this to me, knowing I was Irish, a Dylan fan, and contemptuous of contemporary popular music. So I bought it, half expecting the radio Van Morrison of "Brown Eyed Girl", "Moondance", "And It Stoned Me", "Crazy Love", "Domino", "Wild Night". And at first I hated it. I...
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- Posted: May-18-2008
A poet sings
As I recall all that time ago, there was a bifurcation if you will between mainstream music and popular but not well accepted, more like experimental ferment..eveything creative was up for grabs.Jimi Hendrix and Led Zepplin played our town, but to tiny audiences. Likewise recordings as diverse as...
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- Posted: May-18-2008
A poet sings
First the LP then the CD, now the upload. The music remains relevant and compelling.When Amazon put this album download on sale for under$2, I could not resist.
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