Van Morrison Rhino Remastered/Expanded Astral Weeks and His Band and the Street Choir

did a search and didn't see anything on this release coming from Rhino

From the second disc:

http://theseconddisc.com/2015/08/27...s-astral-weeks-his-band-and-the-street-choir/

Remasters for both and expanded with bonus tracks (all single disc editons)

Van Morrison, Astral Weeks (Warner Bros. WS 1768, 1968 – reissued Rhino, 2015) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Links TBD)

1. “Astral Weeks”
2. “Beside You”
3. “Sweet Thing”
4. “Cyprus Avenue”
5. “The Way Young Lovers Do”
6. “Madame George”
7. “Ballerina”
8. “Slim Slow Slider”
9. “Beside You” (Take 1)
10. “Madame George” (Take 4)
11. “Ballerina” (Long Version)
12. “Slim Slow Slider” (Long Version)

Tracks 9-12 are previously unreleased.

Van Morrison, His Band and the Street Choir (Warner Bros. WS 1884, 1970 – reissued Rhino, 2015) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Links TBD)

1. “Domino”
2. “Crazy Face”
3. “Give Me a Kiss”
4. “I’ve Been Working”
5. “Call Me Up In Dreamland”
6. “I’ll Be Your Lover, Too”
7. “Blue Money”
8. “Virgo Clowns”
9. “Gypsy Queen”
10. “Sweet Jannie”
11. “If I Ever Needed Someone”
12. “Street Choir”
13. “Call Me Up In Dreamland” (Take 10)
14. “Give Me a Kiss” (Take 3)
15. “Gypsy Queen” (Take 3)
16. “I’ve Been Working” (Alternate Version)
17. “I’ll Be Your Lover, Too” (Alternate Version)

Tracks 13-17 are previously unreleased.

Amazon has both listed but with the wrong pictures:

http://www.amazon.com/Band-Street-C.../ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

http://www.amazon.com/Astral-Weeks-...0786205&sr=1-1&keywords=Astral+weeks+expanded

 

I have the Japanese remasters from 2013 and am looking forward to these as we might actually get these without unusual EQ choices. Curious that they have not decided to release these together along with a. Lu-Ray but perhaps the Moondance boxed set didn't do that well and the 2 CD set did.

 

Looking forward to both but hope they have been decently remastered.

 

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...e-to-be-released-as-expanded-editions.459194/

 

Thanks. It's weird this didn't show up when I searched.

 

According to Amazon UK Astral Weeks (expanded edition) is due out on 30th October 2015

Track list:

1. Astral Weeks (2015 Remastered)
2. Beside You (2015 Remastered)
3. Sweet Thing (2015 Remastered)
4. Cyprus Avenue (2015 Remastered Version)
5. The Way Young Lovers Do (2015 Remastered)
6. Madame George (2015 Remastered)
7. Ballerina (2015 Remastered)
8. Slim Slow Slider (2015 Remastered)
9. Beside You (Take 1)
10. Madame George (Take 4)
11. Ballerina (Long Version)
12. Slim Slow Slider (Long Version)

 

http://www.amazon.com/Astral-Weeks-...8&qid=1442793563&sr=1-3&keywords=van+morrison

http://www.amazon.com/Band-Street-C...8&qid=1442804630&sr=1-4&keywords=van+morrison

 

A) They lost me at "expanded". That's like adding in another tree behind the Mona Lisa.

B) Wasn't AW successfully remastered for all time and all nations a few years back? "No matter how well you think you know Astral Weeks, this one re-writes the book" (Or some similar quotation rings a bell.)
DD

 

Sure wish there was a place to view waveforms/spectral displays before sinking the money . . .

 

I think we have w thread thst already mentioned this somewhere. I kmow,I comtributed to it.

 

Not as far as I know. Post His Band were done by Van, Warners did Moon dance. These two so far eluded it.

 

Well, I'm a sucker and I'll buy the both of them...

 

Well I hadn't seen that and wasn't aware of this. How evil of Marmil to make another thread.

 

Do these really need another remaster? The recent HDTracks releases were pretty well received.

 

Better than the highly rated Japanese release?
Warner Japan Remaster WPCR-75421

 

Not everyone cares about HDtracks

 

Yeah Im sure it was too - I've got this one from Rhino:

http://www.amazon.com/Astral-Weeks-...1442846500&sr=1-1&keywords=astral+weeks+vinyl

 

They *HAD* me at "expanded"....I always wondered what the tracks sounded like before the fades, which sound like nothing more than "We're coming close to the time allotted on this side of the LP...fade it here!"

 

The Warner vinyl re-issues from a few years back blew me away - AW especially - I can't see myself going back to CD for these - the original Warner CDs are fine for the car, the AAA vinyl editions (Kevin Gray?) of both of those are my go-to versions now - I'm done!

 

Well, I've never owned either of these two on CD--I only had the cassettes in the '80's---so I'm in. I thought they did a good job with Moondance , so I'm expecting these to sound great as well.

 

You're quite a bit late with this news. Would a gort kindly combine this thread with the previous one please:
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...weeks-and-his-band-and-a-street-choir.459580/

 

A) no bonus tracks for those
B) lots of folks prefer physical copies
C) enjoy your HDTeacks release.

 

No worries. Search has been a bit wonky of late. I had the same experience.

 

Yes. Yes they do.

 

MOJO is inviting you to listen to the outtake at the below link, but alas the "video" does not appear to be available in the U.S.
My favorite bit in their writeup is in bold:

Van Morrison’s peerless 1968 album Astral Weeks is to be reissued in remastered form next month with the exciting addition of unreleased tracks from the sessions. And no, none of them are You’ve Got Ringworm. http://www.mojo4music.com/21814/listen-to-a-van-morrison-astral-weeks-outtake/​