Your Top 5 Van Morrison Albums*

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by majoyenrac, Jan 28, 2018.

  1. Jack

    Jack Senior Member

    This weekend it’s:
    Magic Time
    Enlightenment
    Versatile
    Keep Me Singing
    Hymns to the Silence
     
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  2. Fender Relic

    Fender Relic Forum Resident

    Location:
    PennsylBama
    Finally...a top 5 thread where every answer is correct. :uhhuh:
     
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  3. samurai

    samurai Step right up! See the glory, of the royal scam.

    Location:
    MINNESOTA
    Poetic Champions Compose
    Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
    Tupelo Honey
    Moon Dance
    Astral Weeks
     
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  4. Jupitermadcat

    Jupitermadcat Forum Resident

    Location:
    Coconut Creek,FL
    1.Moondance
    2.Into the Music
    3.Its too late to stop now.
    4. Hard nose the highway.
    5. T.B. Sheets
     
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  5. Jack

    Jack Senior Member

    Today it’s
    Born to Sing, No Plan B
    Pay the Devil
    Keep it Simple
    Down the Road
    Days Like This
     
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  6. Rockford & Roll

    Rockford & Roll Forum Resident

    Location:
    Midway, KY
    Van is like Dylan for me. I get on binges of his work based on my mood, the season etc. A few months back it was his five most recent - all terrific. Currently focused on:

    1. Poetic Champions Compose
    2. Hymns to The Silence ( On Hyndford Street is a perfect early morning summer song!)
    3. It's Too Late To Stop Now
    4. St. Dominic's Preview
    5. Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl
     
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  7. rjp

    rjp Senior Member

    Location:
    Ohio
    well, moondance is #1

    #2 - hymn to the silence

    #3 - tupelo honey

    #4 - avalon sunset

    @5 - pick any album since 1997 (except the ridiculous skiffle album and the horrible one with gail lewis) and you have #5, because the chord progressions and song structures are all the same on every one of them. only the lyrics have changed.
     
  8. Marshall66hendrix

    Marshall66hendrix Senior Member.

    Location:
    England.
    Into the music
    Moon dance
    Beautiful vision
    Inarticulate speech of the heart
    Avalon sunset..
     
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  9. AveryKG

    AveryKG Sultan of snacks

    Location:
    west London
    1. Veedon Fleece
    2. Moondance
    3. Hard Nose the Highway
    4. Wavelength
    5. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
     
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  10. sami

    sami Mono still rules

    Location:
    Down The Shore
    The run from Astral Weeks through St. Dominic's Preview, one of the great album runs by anyone, ever.

    There were plenty more great records, but that run was the pinnacle of the man's output.
     
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  11. smilin ed

    smilin ed Senior Member

    Location:
    Durham
    At the moment:
    1. Veedon Fleece
    2. Into the Music
    3. Moondance
    4. Hard Nose the Highway
    5. Astral Weeks

    Astral Weeks through to Into the Music is an incredible run.

    For me, his last really good album is Beautiful Vision. Still loads of excellent songs later on, but I find much of it hit and miss; samey at times, especially when he gets in a blues groove - and some of the vocals come across as rushed, almost perfunctory. I also don't care for the 'smooth' production of a lot of that 80s stuff. Listen to The Street Only Knew Your Name on the Philosopher's Stone and then the version on Inarticulate etc etc.
     
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  12. Ronnie Pilgrim

    Ronnie Pilgrim Forum Resident

    Location:
    United States
    Veedon Fleece
    His Band and The Street Choir
    Moondance
    Tupelo Honey
    Into the Music
     
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  13. Jem

    Jem Forum Resident

    Location:
    Lathbury
    Today:

    No Guru No Method No Teacher
    Into The Music
    Veedon Fleece
    The Healing Game
    Magic Time
     
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  14. WayneC

    WayneC Hopelessly addicted to vinyl

    Location:
    England
    I remember somebody saying (I think on this very forum) something like that Van was like Steely Dan, in that his music as a body of work is its own self contained & pretty unique world: if you love one of them you are likely to love all of them. I've found this to be true, I really don't get on with Steely Dan. I've tried very hard for over 30 years because people love them. I must be missing something but they bore me senseless. However, Van I love.

    In no particular order my top 5 are usually some combination of

    Veedon Fleece
    Astral Weeks
    Wavelength
    Into the Music
    St. Dominic's Preview


    You could three or 4 more to that 5 according to whatever, No Guru is great, Moondance of course...etc etc
     
  15. Jem

    Jem Forum Resident

    Location:
    Lathbury
    Now:

    No Guru
    Beautiful Vision
    Into The Music
    Veedon Fleece
    Astral Weeks (Live)
     
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  16. Larry Martin

    Larry Martin Member

    Location:
    Mississippi
    1. Enlightenment
    2. Moondance
    3. Hymns to the Silence
    4. St. Dominic’s Preview
    5. Born to Sing: No Plan B
     
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  17. cjc

    cjc Senior Member

    1. No Guru, no Method, no Teacher
    2. Poetic Champions Compose
    3. Common One
    4. His Band and The Street Choir
    5. Astral Weeks
     
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  18. Jem

    Jem Forum Resident

    Location:
    Lathbury
    Now:

    Veedon Fleece
    No Guru No Method No Teacher
    Beautiful Vision
    Into The Music
    Avalon Sunset
     
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  19. DTK

    DTK Forum Resident

    Location:
    Europe
    The Bang Sessions
    Astral Weeks
    Moondance
    Beautiful Vision
    Verdon Fleece
     
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  20. Today my choices are (but I reserve the right to change my mind later :agree:):
    Moondance
    Tupelo Honey
    Wavelength
    Hymns To The Silence
    His Band and The Street Choir
     
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  21. JeffMo

    JeffMo Format Agnostic

    Location:
    New England
    Nice to see Hymns get some love!
     
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  22. CassetteDek

    CassetteDek social distancing since 1979

    Location:
    Chicago
    moondance
    tupelo honey
    t.b. sheets
    st. dominic's preview
    astral weeks
     
  23. x2zero

    x2zero Forum Resident

    Location:
    Brooklyn USA
    Moondance
    It’s Too Late To Stop Now
    Into the Music
    Tupelo Honey
    St. Dominic’s Preview
     
  24. Joe N

    Joe N Forum Resident

    Moondance
    St. Dominic's Preview
    Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart
    Irish Heartbeat (with the Chieftains)
    Tupelo Honey

    honorable mentions to Hard Nose the Highway and Enlightenment
     
  25. the real pope ondine

    the real pope ondine Forum Resident

    Location:
    usa
    impossible!

    ok i'll try;

    Veedon Fleece
    No Guru
    Live at the Opera House
    Into the Music
    It's too Late...
     
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