Album #2

>> 20 June 2008


Astral Weeks, by Van Morrison. I know, you're probably thinking: Van Morrison, isn't he the guy who sings "Brown Eyed Girl" and basically sounds exactly like Mick Jagger? Yes. It's the same guy. Some facts about Van Morrison:

  1. He is known by his fans as "Van the man." The nickname is appropriate because his name is Van, he is a man, and the two words rhyme, thereby making the nickname more memorable than something like "Van the singer" or "Van the guy who's suit is at the dry cleaner's".
  2. His other nickname is "The Belfast Cowboy". I can't imagine anyone calling him that, though: - "So, did you go to the Belfast Cowboy concert last night?" "Are you talking about the Van Morrison concert?" "Yes, that is what I'm talking about."
  3. He plays the ukulele.
  4. He is Irish
  5. He sounds like a better version of Mick Jagger.
Unfortunately, I can't find any youtube or hypemachine videos/mp3s to share, but trust me, this album is awesome. Van Morrison has written a lot of lame songs during his 50 year career, but on Astral Weeks, he has just eight songs, all of them real beauts! If you find a way to share some of these tunes with the blog, please let me know!

1 comments:

WEB SHERIFF June 21, 2008 at 11:52 AM  

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Hi Joel,

On behalf of Exile Productions and Exile Publishing, many thanks for plugging Van Morrison and, if you / your readers want good quality, non-pirated, preview tracks from Van’s new album – “Keep It Simple” - full versions of "That's Entrainment" and "Behind The Ritual" (along with album track samplers) are available for fans and bloggers to link on Lost Highway's web-site at http://www.losthighwayrecords.com .

Up-to-the-minute info on Keep It Simple and Van’s 2008 shows is, of course, also available on www.vanmorrison.com and www.myspace.com/vanmorrison and, for a limited period, you can still hear Van's exclusive BBC concert at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod.shtml?radio2/r2_vanmorrison and you can also see his BBC sessions at http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/vanmorrison/video/ .

Thanks again for your support.

Regards,

WEB SHERIFF

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