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The Essential Van Morrison

The Essential Van Morrison

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ManouGero~74
4.0 out of 5 stars Bon cd
Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on 5 January 2023
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J'ai enfin pu re-découvrir l'univers de ce chanteur-poète Irlandais, dont la voix et ses mélodies ne laissent pas indifférent.
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JHON
5.0 out of 5 stars Rápido en llegar
Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on 20 October 2022
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Buen producto llego bien rápido casi al día siguiente Excelentes
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D. Trelford
3.0 out of 5 stars Low quality sound
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 19 January 2023
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Don’t know how this was produced but it has a very tinny or thin sound. Doesn’t sound like any other CD’s that I own except for one which I wrote a review about and got removed for something that wasn’t even in my review.
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John D.
5.0 out of 5 stars Like it
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 7 November 2022
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One Of my favorite
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Mike Davey
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb selection of great tracks from the great man
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 28 November 2015
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If you have no Van Morrison and want to get into this unbeatable music - buy this 2 disc album.. Still On Top, also 2 discs is for me a slightly better selection but I am recommending this because it is in chronological order and side 1 presents arguably the best side of songs and performances from any Best Of I have ever encountered. It also has tracks from Astral Weeks, one of the greatest pieces of music ever committed to disc.

2 Them tracks start things off - which I find better than being shoehorned in as they are on SOT. The young Van in superb forthright voice. At school ( I can't believe it is so long ago) we wondered who on earth this was - he seemed that good already. Then early solo tracks Spanish Rose and the sublime Brown Eyed Girl from Blowin' Your Mind. Then 2 tracks (at last) from Astral Weeks (had to get the expanded new version of this), 4 killer tracks from Moondance and still only as far as track 10.

Then Domino, 2 from Tupelo Honey and as uplifting a track as I know - Jackie Wilson Said, with one of the great vocals and Warm Love from Hard Nose The Highway (not rated very highly by some but one of my favourites) and Fair Play, a track from Veedon Fleece, one of the greatest VM albums IMHO.

Now to a bit of extra inspired programming - a live version of Caravan from The Band's famous recorded last gig, with Van on effortless form and the side ending with Hungry For Your Love from Wavelength and a live Cleaning Windows from Belfast.

Side 2 has a good selection of tracks - probably subject to intense argument as to content because there is a large body of work to choose from. From Bright Side of the Road, another supremely uplifting song,Tore Down a la Rimbaud, Real Real Gone, Precious Time – all memorable - to a live version of Sweet Thing from Astral Weeks Live, another inspired programmme move. For me this shows no falling off in artistic quality and these are memorable songs by any standard.

I think it is a good selection overall although I would have liked to have seen included Dweller On The Threshold and Celtic New Year. But hats off for this superb selection - and even better in chronological order.

So highly recommended and then treat yourself to the newly expanded Astral Weeks
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Roberto R. B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Lo mejor de Morrison
Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on 8 January 2021
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Van Morrison es una de las más longevas figuras de la música rock. Comenzó a tocar, siendo un adolescente, ya a finales de los 50 y hasta hoy. Sus primeros éxitos los consigue con el grupo Them (64 – 66) con temas como Gloria, uno de los más conocidos y estimados. Luego, a partir de 1967, más de 40 álbumes en solitario (el último del 2019). Tan solo con uno de ellos, Astral Weeks, hubiera pasado a la historia grande del rock: siempre aparece en los primeros lugares en las listas de los mejores de siempre. Su rock está entreverado de soul, jazz, blues, folk...hasta conseguir un estilo muy propio que algunos críticos consideran un género en sí mismo. A su vez, ha influido sobre una gran cantidad de cantantes y grupos de diverso jaez como muy pocos lo han hecho.
Es muy difícil resumir una carrera tan grande en sólo dos discos, pero esta antología contiene buena parte de lo mejor de su obra. Dejará hambriento a más de uno, pero es un buen punto de partida para conocer a uno de los más grandes. Muy recomendable.
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yankeeswin
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 28 September 2022
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Great CD loaded with awesome songs.
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Harpo
5.0 out of 5 stars Van the Man
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 June 2022
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I was so pleased to get this album, it was a real trip down memory lane for me. BUT... the cd itself was in bad condition, the inside of the case was falling apart ( cheap manufacturing) but l was able to make up another one from old cd cases. Other than that. Great music from the master musician Van.
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Andy Arbeit
5.0 out of 5 stars Ein gelungener Querschitt durch alle Schaffensperioden
Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on 20 January 2017
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Muss über Van Morrison noch irgendetwas gesagt werden? Mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert prägt dieser musikalische, mittlerweile 72-jährige, Allrounder die internationale Musikscene und setzte im vergangenem Jahr mit „Keep me singing“ ein weiteres tolles Ausrufezeichen.
In meinem Platten- und CD-Regal dürfte so ziemlich alles von Morrison stehen. Dabei sind seine „Beautiful Vision“- aus dem Jahr 1982 und „Live At The Grand Opera House Belfast“ (1984)-Aufnahmen zweifellos immer noch meine persönlichen Lieblingsscheiben dieses großartigen Künstlers.
Darüber hinaus gibt es wirklich viele fantastische Kompilationen, mal mehr mal weniger gelungen zusammengestellt. „Still on top“ ist einfach phänomenal. Warum also auch noch dieses Doppelalbum.
Für mich persönlich sprachen drei Argumente dafür. Ich bin dabei, mir die Serie „The Essential“ in Gänze zuzulegen. Da darf ein Van Morrison auf gar keinen Fall fehlen. Als zweiter Grund sprach der Preis dafür. Für dieses recht kleine Geld 37 Van Morrison Songs zu bekommen, da kann man einfach nicht wiederstehen. Der dritte Grund ist allerdings der Wichtigste und der, der auch für andere Musikinteressierte von Interesse sein könnte. Die ganz frühe Schaffensphase von der eigentlich gar nicht existierenden LP „Blowin' your mind“ ist schnell abgehakt. An „Astral weeks“ und „His Band and the street choir“ gibt es natürlich kein Vorbeikommen, doch spätestens danach wir es richtig interessant. Vier Songs vom 1970-ziger Album „Moondance“ und „Jackie Wilson“ von „Saint Dominic's Preview“. Bis 1973 „Hard Noise the Highway“ bleibt es fast chronologisch, dann folgen kleinere Sprünge und zum Abschluss der ersten CD ist die Liveaufnahme von „Cleaning windows“ von dem zu Beginn erwähnten Livealbum zu finden. Die zweite CD beginnt mit zwei Aufnahmen von einer, wie ich finde, total unterschätzten LP „Into the music“ und deckt danach die Zeitspanne bis 2009 in etwas größeren Sprüngen ab.
Als kleinen, besonderen Schmankerl empfinde ich „Caravan“, welche der Live-Aufnahme „The Last Waltz“ entnommen wurde.
Diese Doppel-CD beinhaltet einen herrlichen Querschnitt durch alle Schaffensperioden eines Van Morrison. Der Hörgenuss wird für mich auch nicht dadurch geschmälert, weil ich ein oder zwei Aufnahmen von „Beautiful Vison“ schmerzlich vermisse. So ist das nun mal bei Kompilationen.
Okay, wer das Dreierpaket „Still on top“ im Regal stehen hat, kann evtl. auf „The Essential“ verzichten, doch ein Blick auf den aktuellen Anschaffungspreis beider Kompilationen trägt mit dazu bei, dass sogar das etwas eigenwillige Coverfoto von „The Essential“ zu gefallen beginnt.
Als Fazit bleibt festzuhalten, dass es schwer ist, das Schaffen eines solchen Künstlers auf zwei CDs festzuhalten. Hier ist es gelungen!
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Kevin Drew
4.0 out of 5 stars Great collection of his songs.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 31 May 2022
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A great collection of Van Morrison’s best songs.
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