Van Morrison's Greatest Song

I wouldn't attempt to argue it's his greatest - it's just my favourite - Rave On John Donne

I especially love the live version

 

Caravan is my fave, and I think it’s the best, but boy are there a lot that qualify.

Have I Told You Lately could very well be his best song, because it actually sounds like a standard. It could be sung by anyone a hundred years from now, next to Stardust and All of Me, and not be out of place.

Heck, even a hundred days from now...

 

Interesting you say that about Neil Diamond, considering the backlash so many have around his inclusion.

I’m with you, however. I think Dry Your Eyes was exceptionally performed, and a real highlight.

 

Sweet thing.

 

I have approximately 150 favourite Van songs (all compiled on CD's) but of all those to me his greatest two songs are:
Into The Mystic
Across The Bridge Where Angels Dwell

 

No doubt...his version of Raglan Road.
Best song of his own maybe Caravan among many others

 

The man has so many greatest songs.
The last few years I've enjoyed Street Choir the most.
Love this basic rendition without the background singing and horns.

 

I’m partial to ‘Oh The Warm Feeling’.

 

I have to agree with those who've mentioned that Van has such an extensive catalogue that it's impossible to choose just one track but am I the only member who never tires of listening to this?...……….



I always wonder where Van "went" when he recorded those vocals

 

Listen to the Lion.

 

"And the Healing Has Begun" supersedes my previous suggestions! I'm not sure how I could
have overlooked it.

I also suggest that Toni Marcus and her violin throughout Into the Music is the best instrumental
performance on any of Morrison's albums (rivaled perhaps, by some of Pee Wee Ellis solos). I wish he had used
Marcus more often. I think she also plays on one of the alternate takes from Common One.

 

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so you don't think that 'moondance' and 'stairway' are signature songs for morrison and zeppelin?

you have piqued my interest..........what songs are? in your humble opinion, of course.

which would be a much better response to my post than one that tries to make fun of my comment.

 

Says just about every brown-eyed girl who's ever heard it. And there's a lot of those.

It's a classic, but for me it would have to be one of the epics-- "You Don't Pull No Punches..."; "Liston to the Lion"; "Almost Independence Day.' There's really too many to choose from and I guess it depends on what mood you're in. One I never get tired of is "Tupelo Honey."

 

Sweet Thing



...that's obvious, right?

 

Moondance

 

Surely you understand that the issue that I and others that responded to your post have is "you are just making things up for the sake of posting something".

Also you didn't say "signature" you said "greatest".
So if someone has a differing opinion from you they are lying? Why do you think that?

You make it sound like you, and only you, have the facts. Like you took all of the Van Morrison songs into a laboratory with a Bunsen burner and determined scientifically which song of his was the greatest.

 

we must agree to disagree, because i don't understand anything you said.

 

“Cyprus Avenue,” the final number of the first side of Astral Weeks, is a three-chord blues composition that also has been a standard played at Morrison concerts for more than five decades. The musical and emotional centerpiece of the album, “Cyprus Avenue” focuses on Morrison’s childhood in Belfast in lyrics that are both mystical and haunting. The tune is so brilliantly supported by bassist Richard Davis that Paul McCartney once called Lewis’s performance throughout the ballad, "immortal." For me, I don't know for sure about God or what happens to us all when we die. I wish I did. The big questions have always eluded me. But I do know that I could be dead a thousand years and the bass line from “Cypress Avenue” will still live inside some part of me. For that reason alone, I assume there is some form of an afterlife.

 

Quibbling over semantics for trolling purposes

 

Highlight of that live disc

 

And It Stoned Me, Brown Eyed Girl

 

Fair Play
Linden Arden Stole the Highlights
Who Was That Masked Man
Streets of Arklow
You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push the River
Bulbs
Cul De Sac
Comfort You
Come Here My Love
Country Fair

(Yes, I'm a bit of a Veedon Fleece fan.)