this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y-CsUw_-AY
― Number None, Saturday, 12 August 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
(hat tip to tylerw)
Definitely get the Pacific High Studio set. And if you haven't gotten volumes 2, 3 and 4 from It's Too Late, by all means, pick that up as well.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 12 August 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
xps to Chinaski
Your favourite bootleg -as in 'Unofficial Live Recording-
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 August 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
Watching this 74 Van Morrison show and he covers Dylan's "Just Like A Woman" and after "please don't let on that you knew me when" instead of "I was hungry and it was your world" he mutters "I was weird.... everybody was....." Van the Man #1
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
In the '71 Pacific High Studio version of "Just Like A Woman" (which, after a slow first 3 minutes, really gets intense) on the second time the "please don't..." line comes up he says "I was weird... and you were weird, too." Van must have liked that spin.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 04:35 (six years ago) link
an odd thing I noticed a while back is how "St Dominic's Preview" kinda borrows the tune of "The Wind Cries Mary," and "Bulbs" swipes the line about the streetlights turning blue.― JoeStork, Monday, August 7, 2017 9:47 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― JoeStork, Monday, August 7, 2017 9:47 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
will never unhear this now
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 04:42 (six years ago) link
lol yeah the verse chords are the same in wind cries mary and st. dominic.
I can't be the only person who thinks of Wish You Were Here when listening to Almost Independence Day (of course in this case, van's version came first)
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 11:59 (six years ago) link
― that's not my post, Monday, August 14, 2017 11:35 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha that's funny, it seemed so off the cuff
there's really a great amount of well shot full Van concerts on YouTube
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
yeah, it's nice -- for a while there his people were super vigilant about scrubbing any/all vids ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
via Midnight Bootlegs, a 1990 set in FLAC: https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/bf6mkTXx4Oyx2bb4rfBro1As2R9yHsF9l7f88drsUcY?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&mgh=1
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
Man, just listened to Into the Music properly for the first ever, probably. Dexys entire career for a start, but more.I saw Van maybe 20 times, work related, between 1988-2000ish. I know most of those 80s records from seeing him live, must pick up No Guru, Poetic Champs etc.
― Fine Toothcomb (sonofstan), Monday, 21 August 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
born to sing: no plan b is just the loveliest record. the horns are so wonderful
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 22 September 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
but does no plan b refer to born, sing, or both
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
who knows, at least a third of the record is a critique of capitalism so
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
because of this poll back on top and the healing game are now two of my absolute favorite van records
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 22 September 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
you check out magic time?that was one that grew on me when I was listening to them all on Spotify
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 September 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
yeah magic time is great, especially "just like greta" which is overwhelming
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 September 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
less a definitive ranking than maybe a potentially useful order for people trying to get into van's '90s records:
the healing gameenlightenmentback on tophymns to the silencedays like thistoo long in exile
the first five are basically all variously great, days like this ends with two of van's best songs ever. too long in exile is a real mess though, maybe my least favorite van record ever, and yet the title track is still so awesome
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 September 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
i always feel like i underrate keep me singing when i'm listening to it bc the first five tracks are all so gorgeous
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 25 September 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
Let me step in for some fair play...to you.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 October 2018 02:51 (five years ago) link
Excellent. But I will always remember this poll for introducing me to No Guru...my god what an album.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 14 October 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link
you inspire me to check the wavelength album more closely (i am sold on the song).
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 14 October 2018 03:03 (five years ago) link
Not a great album, but with Morrison it's especially hard to distinguish mediocre from good or good from great
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 October 2018 11:19 (five years ago) link
wavelength has a great title track
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 October 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
oh which has been covered, lol
alfred have you heard all of common one
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 October 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
shhh I'm about to exercise while listening to "Got to Go Back."
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 October 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
Yes! Good work with ranking Saint Dominic number one. That's my favorite.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 14 October 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
I need to hear Veedon Fleece. I like the rest of the top 4. Probably would have ranked Tupelo higher.
― o. nate, Monday, 15 October 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link
Maybe you've addressed this elsewhere but no Moondance?
― Engles in the Outfield (cryptosicko), Monday, 15 October 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
I thought, stupidly, he released it in 1969, but it worked out because I prefer every album on my list.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 October 2018 02:24 (five years ago) link
preferring wavelength to moondance is absolute nonsense
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 15 October 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link
Alfred preferring synthy outlier to canonized classic shocker
:P
― niels, Monday, 15 October 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
Veedon Fleece is so good, one of my faves by Van.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 11:43 (five years ago) link
^agree about Veedon Fleece. Anyway, here's a great version of Bulbs from a German TV show in the mid 70s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFc7uVEYAsw
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
Jesus, I just got cut nearly in half by Tir Na Nog. I've been reading Peter Matthiesen's The Snow Leopard, which is partly a travelogue of a trek in the Himalaya to study bharal, partly a discourse on the origins of Buddhism, and partly a gentle prayer of devotion for his wife who had died the year before, and it's an incredibly moving book, full of the white light of understanding and humility. The song dovetails so neatly with those themes of finding solace in eternity (albeit from a different mythological viewpoint) and the possibilities inherent in the idea of reincarnation - let alone Van's open, enveloping deliver - it reduced me to tears. Ach.
Regard as one, this life, the next life, and the life between - Milarepa.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 5 July 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
^Beautiful post. I read The Snow Leopard many years ago - this is making me want to revisit it. One of the great things about ILM.
― that's not my post, Friday, 5 July 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
I would like to thank this poll for turning me on to Veedon Fleece, what an album
― sleeve, Friday, 5 July 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
^^^ what sleeve said, this thread made me discover veedon fleece which by now i prefer to astral weeks.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 6 July 2019 06:24 (four years ago) link
^^^Though I would say a lot of it may be that Veedon Fleece is fresher, whereas I’ve had 20+ years with Astral Weeks.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
You came into my lifeAnd you filled me and you filled meOh, so joyous by the clear cool crystal streamsWhere the roads were quiet and stillAnd we walked all the way to Tir Na Nog
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5gHutpK.jpg
51. Coney Island2 votes, 48 pointsOne #1 vote
One voter otm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn2CeHlKrTw
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 15 August 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
After all the Covid nonsense, I couldn't really stand to listen to Van any more, but then a few days ago this came up on my YouTube feed and I was conquered one more time. There's actually lots of awesome live Van footage on YT, from loads of different eras, and I've begun to see certain similarities between Van and Miles Davis, especially their brilliance at putting together and leading bands (and of course their wary, guarded, unsmiling public personas). Anyway what a group he's got here - and doesn't this version completely SMOKE the studio recording - and I've never seen a clearer view of his osmotic tongue pressure in full effect, especially on the 'Voice of America' line - he's a master at making the deliberate seem spontaneous. Love the moment when he catches a cameraman moving around behind him and gives him a brief but deadly stare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6oZK004AWM
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 15 February 2024 14:34 (three months ago) link
I don't know this chap Glen Hansard's music (might be for the best) but this is an incredible story, worth sticking to the end to hear Van's final kiss-off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29abxJgCyOI
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 15 February 2024 14:37 (three months ago) link