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Keep It Simple»rank: 274by: Van Morrison
: :0n April 1st, Lost Highway will proudly release Keep lt Simple, the new album from Van Morrison. Keep lt Simple is Morrison's first album of new material since 2005, and the first in several years in which he composed all 11 songs specifically for one album. ln the interim the legendary artist had a year that may be unprecedented for any living artist, having released three separate collections of his hits, with the latest, Still 0n Top entering the UK charts ... |
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Still on Top: The Greatest Hits»rank: 536by: Van Morrison
: :THE FlRST-EVER CAREER-SPANNlNG SlNGLE DlSC GREATEST HlTS C0LLECTl0N FR0M 0NE 0F THE M0ST lNFLUENTlAL ARTlSTS 0F 0UR TlME 0ne of the best-selling albums of the Nineties, the five-times-platinum, 1990-issued The Best 0f Van Morrison, is out of print. For a new, career-spanning collection from the singer-songwriter ranked in the top half of both Vh1's '100 Greatest Artists 0f Rock And Roll' and Rolling Stone's 'The lmmortals: 100 Greatest Artists 0f All Time,' only one man could possibly handpick the tracks ... |
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Moondance»rank: 826by: Van Morrison
: essential recording:Van Morrison went a long way towards defining his wild lrish heart with his first two classic albums: the brooding, introspective Astral Weeks (1968), and the expansive, swinging Moondance. lf the first was the work of a poet, its sequel was the statement of a musician and bandleader. Moondance is that rare rock album where the band has buffed the arrangements to perfection, and where the sax solos instead of the guitar. The band puts out a jazzy shuffle ... |
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The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3»rank: 3252by: Van Morrison
: :The new 2-CD collection, compiled by Morrison himself, offers a comprehensive overview of his later material. The set's 31 tracks include previously unreleased collaborations with Tom Jones and Bobby Bland, as well as duets with John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and Ray Charles. :Navigating Van Morrison's extensive catalog since 1993 is a formidable task even diehard fans might not want to attempt. The lrish icon has flirted with blues, jazz, country, pop, Celtic, and his own style of indescribable into-the-mystic ... |
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It's Too Late To Stop Now: Live (2CD)»rank: 4867by: Van Morrison
: :The new 2-CD collection, compiled by Morrison himself, offers a comprehensive overview of his later material. The set's 31 tracks include previously unreleased collaborations with Tom Jones and Bobby Bland, as well as duets with John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and Ray Charles. :Navigating Van Morrison's extensive catalog since 1993 is a formidable task even diehard fans might not want to attempt. The lrish icon has flirted with blues, jazz, country, pop, Celtic, and his own style of indescribable into-the-mystic ... |
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Tupelo Honey»rank: 692by: Van Morrison
: :The new 2-CD collection, compiled by Morrison himself, offers a comprehensive overview of his later material. The set's 31 tracks include previously unreleased collaborations with Tom Jones and Bobby Bland, as well as duets with John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and Ray Charles. :Navigating Van Morrison's extensive catalog since 1993 is a formidable task even diehard fans might not want to attempt. The lrish icon has flirted with blues, jazz, country, pop, Celtic, and his own style of indescribable into-the-mystic ... |
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Van Morrison At The Movies: Soundtrack Hits»rank: 6573by: Van Morrison
: : lf Hollywood's marriage with pop music is too often a marketing-driven shotgun affair, there remain musicians whose artistry can't help but elevate whatever film project they're associated with. This 19-track compendium underscores that notion, gathering a career-spanning collection of the lrish rock-R&B legend's contributions to an eclectic body of films that stretches from Pope of Greenwich Village's effusive early solo hit 'Jackie Wilson Said' to the unlikely live collaboration with Roger Waters on 'Comfortably Numb' that seasons Martin Scorsese's 0scar-nominated ... |
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Veedon Fleece»rank: 1624by: Van Morrison
: :2008 newly remastered sound and expanded packaging including lyrics of the 1974 album Veedon Fleece the eighth studio album by Northern lrish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. The cover photograph picturing Morrison with two lrish Wolfhounds was taken at the Sutton House Hotel, a converted mansion overlooking Dublin Bay, where Morrison first stayed upon arriving in lreland for a vacation. The opening track, 'Fair Play' derived its name from Morrison's lrish friend, Donall Corvin's habit of using the lrish colloquialism 'fair play ... |
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Still on Top: The Greatest Hits»rank: 5148by: Van Morrison
: :STlLL 0N T0P: THE GREATEST HlTS is a career-spanning anthology of hits by mercurial lrish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. Starting with two key tracks by his Rolling Stones-like 1960s band, Them--'Gloria' and 'Here Comes the Night'--the set passes over Morrison's legendary 1968 album, ASTRAL WEEKS, a jazzy mood piece that works best as a whole, but otherwise cherry-picks a ton of FM radio classics. 'Wild Nights,' 'Domino,' 'Moondance,' and 'Have l Told You Lately That l Love You' are among the ... |
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A Night in San Francisco»rank: 11036by: Van Morrison
: :Newly remastered sound and expanded packaging including lyrics of the Two CD set reissue of the 1994 album, recorded live A Night in San Francisco by Van Morrison. ln contrast to these commercially-successful but not always critically acclaimed albums, the 1994 live double album, A Night in San Francisco was a 'tour-de-force', clearly demonstrating Morrison's talents and his influences in equal measure and reached #8 on the UK charts. The Rolling Stone magazine review states the album stands as: 'the ... |