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

let's enjoy it while we can

I've started a Spotify playlist- it's collaborative, so fill your boots if I'm not around:

https://open.spotify.com/user/thepoacher/playlist/5DPeJd4pUzQMIQMBvzvU9M?si=aUl4MH8S

(Glad Tidings too low!)

Sweet, thanks for making that!

http://i.imgur.com/e9I9qNn.jpg

45. He Ain't Give You None
from Blowin' Your Mind
3 votes, 67 points

bright side of the road is van's "oh yoko"

If I'd voted, the take from the '90s Bang Masters comp would've been in my top 10, easily. I love the instructions he gives to the band after the false start ("should be freer"), and his "keep it there, keep it there" near the end.

xp

lol he looks like mac demarco there

http://i.imgur.com/u8Mv2bG.jpg

44 (tie). Real Real Gone
from Enlightenment
4 votes, 70 points

This is one of my favorite late-period Van songs.

Real Real Gone, you deserved more discussion. But we have to move on.

Here is the first from Astral Weeks. Can anyone guess what it will be?

beside you or slim slow slider

What brad said. I didn't vote for either.

http://i.imgur.com/cfA52zY.jpg

44 (tie). Beside You
from Astral Weeks
4 votes, 70 points

I'm not a fan of Beside You. Putting it 2nd on Astral Weeks doesn't do the album any favors (in my humble opinion).

http://i.imgur.com/Tj9u8uI.jpg

43 (tie). These Dreams of You
from Moondance
5 votes, 72 points

didn't vote for beside you, but it's pretty key to setting up Astral Weeks' mystery in my opinion.

the title track is a sweeping two-chord epic that whisks you up into the slipstream, but beside you is so foreign and disorienting--no rhythm to speak of, strange swirling folk instruments. accepting beside you is surrendering yourself into van's cosmic whims.

I voted for These Dreams of You, the bridge is majestic.

well HUSH-A-BYYYYYYYE

xp excellent articulation of why I voted for it, thx

Here's a good one I discovered from this poll...

http://i.imgur.com/q9WjK0Y.jpg

43 (tie). In the Garden
from No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
5 votes, 72 points

Forgive the typo in the next pic, this song is from 1965 not 1988.

http://i.imgur.com/Hnx7W0u.jpg

42. Here Comes the Night
Them! single--1965
6 votes, 73 points

http://i.imgur.com/yXIqo5A.jpg

41. Haunts of Ancient Peace
from Common One
6 votes, 77 points

love that song

Common One obviously is a lot slicker and more fusion pro but I think it's also the closest he ever got back to the spiritual world he channels on astral weeks

Here comes a fairly big surprise...

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

40 (tie). Tupelo Honey
from Tupelo Honey
5 votes, 78 points

loving the 45 picture sleeves

Thanks. I was sure this would be in the top 20. Tupelo Honey is clearly not an ILM favorite.

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

40 (tie). Dweller on the Threshold
from Beautiful Vision
5 votes, 78 points

http://i.imgur.com/nrb1C04.jpg

39. I've Been Working
from His Band and the Street Choir
6 votes, 79 points

correction

39 tie. I've Been Working
from His Band and the Street Choir
6 votes, 79 points

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

39 (tie). Bulbs
from Veedon Fleece
5 votes, 79 points

aw i'm glad "dweller on the threshold" and "bulbs" made it even though i didn't vote for either

http://i.imgur.com/jj6Giw3.jpg

38 (tie). Everyone
from Moondance
5 votes, 82 points

man moondance is having a rough time

let's enjoy it while we can

Help me share my load

Here's one that's too low...

http://i.imgur.com/g8igBcf.jpg

38 (tie). And the Healing Has Begun
from Into the Music
6 votes, 82 points

http://i.imgur.com/4JYAat3.jpg

37. Contemplation Rose
from The Philosopher's Stone
7 votes, 83 points

both of those tracks are amazing

Going to be interesting to see brad's ballot

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

36. Baby Please Don't Go
Them! single
5 votes, 85 points

"And the Healing Has Begun" has marvelous violin.

We were just a few points away from having this poll get truly mysitical...

http://i.imgur.com/F3gjnFU.jpg

35. Cleaning Windows
from Beautiful Vision
7 votes, 92 points

It would have been incredible to have Van prophetically predict this song's placement, "Number 36."

hi my name is van i love to clean windows and hate on the record industry

http://i.imgur.com/Ig2jwEA.jpg

34. Mystic Eyes
Them! single
6 votes, 94 points

http://i.imgur.com/UgiW8Ei.jpg

33. Redwood Tree
from Saint Dominic's Preview
5 votes, 102 points