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Van Morrison
- Record Label: Listen To The Lion
- Release Date: Feb 24, 2009
- Summary: The live album features Van Morrison performing songs from his 1968 album, Astral Weeks, on November 7 and 8, 2008, at the Hollywood Bowl.
- Record Label: Listen To The Lion
- Genre(s): Rock, Live
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Top Track
| Sweet Thing | |
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| And I will stroll the merry way And jump the hedges first And I will drink the clear Clean water for to quench my thirst And I shall watch the... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 12 out of 14
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Mixed: 1 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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All this deceptively timeless fluidity induces a wonderful mystic fog that might make you forget whether you're honoring a 40th, 5th, or 100th anniversary.
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This is a stroke of genius.
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Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl reveals a newly energized Van at the top of his game, fully engaged in the proceedings, and ready and able to sail into the mystic.
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UncutHe pulls it off in style. [Apr 2009, p.91]
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MojoNit-pick all you want but this is a tour de force, heady, joyful, ambitious, elegiac and--as with the 1968 original--unlike anything else. [Apr 2009, p.99]
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At its weary, lovely close, it becomes clear that Live belongs not to the listener but to the artist who created it. And that makes this album one of the most vital and electric he's made in years.
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He rushes through the tunes, slurring syllables as if enunciating the lyrics would be too much work even if he could remember all of them. And clearly, one day wasn’t enough rehearsal time for his hired band, who are so often in vamp mode while trying to figure out where Morrison’s going that they lose track of the tunes.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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TomDApr 9, 2009
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SusanCMar 3, 2009He is the best! He has more talent in his pinky them most new entertainers today.
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TonyOApr 30, 2009
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