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- Summary: The veteran singer-songwriter is still going strong nearly 40 years after launching his recording career.
- Record Label: Geffen
- Genre(s): Rock, Singer-Songwriter
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| Celtic New Year | |
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| If I don't see you through the week See you through the window See you next time that we're talking on the telephone And don't see you in that Indian... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 6 out of 9
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Mixed: 3 out of 9
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Entertainment WeeklyHe has rarely sounded more engaging. [3 Jun 2005, p.82]
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This destined-to-be-classic release will please a wide variety of his fans.
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Magic Time is one of those rare, intermittent Van Morrison records that consciously offers a bird's eye view of everywhere he's been musically and weaves it all together into a heady brew.
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Thankfully, for Morrison, the joy still comes from the journey, and the Magic Time is the time when he’s still striving, wandering and ?ghting off complacency.
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Rolling StoneSome seriously astral blues poetry... and a lot of mellow, easy-rolling folk-jazz numbers about the evils of the modern world and the struggle of the poet. [19 May 2005, p.76]
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UncutMagic Time ultimately reveals itself to be the sort of strangely mixed bag that will be all too familiar to those who've hung on with patient, fervent belief through the '90s and beyond. [Jun 2005, p.114]
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MojoMostly it's just business as usual with Van in reasonably good form. [Jun 2005, p.95]
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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charliewJun 6, 2005How can you knock the man, when you got it, you got it, and he's DEFINITELY still got it!
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EricKJul 20, 2005
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PaulFJun 23, 2005
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DavidKJun 15, 2005
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KenHJun 1, 2005Seems more of the same Van Formula - folk/jazz reminiscing about the days of old. No chances taken or envelopes pushed whatsoever.
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