SINGER REACTS TO VAN MORRISON FOR THE FIRST TIME! 

Van is quite simply one of the greatest artists to ever live. From a singing perspective I think the most amazing aspect about him is that he is "uncopyable" if that's even a word. No one would be able to perfectly duplicate a Van song the way he sings it. It just so so personal and unique - unreal. Oh, and he's also a genius :)

It's reassuring to see young people appreciating someone We older people see as a musical treasure. Thanks Dani 😊

I've been on a 25 year deep dive into Van's music...and he still blows me away. 😉

If this song doesn't get you in the feels, then you're dead inside.

"Van the Man"! Oh so many hits! Musical Legend!

This song speaks to the soul

This is easily in my top 10 all time favorite songs. It’s a very big first dance song at weddings.

The complexity of the instrumentation is so delightful.

You need to check out Van's "Tupelo Honey." How a voice becomes an instrument. Gorgeous music and lyrics.

That line about "your gyspy soul" stood out to me also. Great reaction!

Anything Van does is worth listening to, especially Into The Mystic. It is so spiritual at its base, so uplifting, so...so...damn...great song!!

That bass line is sick

To my mind, "In the Garden" is his masterpiece. But this is a real contender. So beautiful!

when my wife passed this song took on a whole new meaning and I felt like I'd heard it again for the first time.

Dani . I wish I was you and could hear Van for the first time all over again.

I cried hearing this ,then my spirit started writing and amazing ❤️❤️

Keep diving. My wife and I danced to this on our 25th wedding anniversary. We've seen him in concdert at the Hollywood Bowl and at the Chicago Theatre. Hoping to see him in Ireland in 2023.

This song has been on my playlist since playlists were made by stacking LP's on turntables. First-generation high-fidelity!

Van is definitely the man!

I love that she loves Van. I hope she explores all of his music. He brought us so many fantastic songs.

Van is amazingly talented and a personal favorite. I'll be truly upset the day he leaves this earth. Check out "cleaning windows", one of my favorite songs of his.

Van the man is one of my top 3 male vocalists!

Tupelo Honey, both in studoi and live are a must. Tupelo Honey live with Pee Wee Wilson is a great example of Van's style, which is quite unique.

Van Morrison is a legend great tracks are many examples “Tupelo honey” “caravan” “moondance” “someone like you” “have I told you lately” enjoy!

I love this song….

Glad your first time hearing Van Morrison was this song. He has many albums but this song is probably my favorite. Thanks for doing this.

Well you started out with one of his best songs. So many more to choose from. Keep it going

"Into the Mystic" is on Van's "Moondance" (1970) album, the follow-up to his seminal "Astral Weeks" (1968). The final lyric of the song "too late to stop now" was used as the title of his 1974 double live album "It's Too Late to Stop Now" recorded over a series of shows in 1973 and featuring his eleven-piece Caledonia Soul Orchestra. In 2016 an "It's Too Late to Stop Now" box set was released that includes volumes II, III and IV of that tour along with a DVD.

Oh he’s looking good beautiful and you pick the perfect songs much love

Ancient Highway" w/Lyrics by Van Morrison a vocal tour de force

Nice reaction, Dani! Van the Man has an incredibly deep catalog. The hits are great, of course, but my fave tracks are the ones where he just closes his eyes and goes into a trance like stste and does ad lib stream of consciousness lyrics in that great celtic syle of his... Listen to the Lion, Almost Independence Day, Vanlose Stairway, In the Garden... there are a lot of them and they are spellbinding and hypnotic. I also highly recommed Astral Weeks (the song and the album).

Thanks for reacts to Van Morrison. Morrison voice was lite and rough at the same time. The back music was amazing and with him voice, its all came together.

There is nobody like Van Morrison. Nobody.

Respect

To me, it's also an incredibly spiritual song...Van's voice can take me into so many places. Not wanting to be morbid, but this will be played someday at my memorial service! It's freeing...

The elusive term you're looking for is Celtic Soul. That's Van the Man. Excellent song choice, btw, I was surprised you started with this great classic, most start with the obvious earlier AM radio hits 'Brown Eyed Girl', 'Domino' or 'Moondance' which is more soft jazz in sound. This is a very deep well, you could do a lot worse than starting with his "The Best of Van Morrison" album, you may know some of those songs. There are a couple of tunes from when he was in the group Them, including the garage band classic 'Gloria' which Patti Smith covered. He plays saxophone in addition to other instruments. He's released 42 solo albums in the past 54 years and shows no sign of slowing down. Critics have their favorites but mine is the 1986 "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher" which Sinead O'Connor recommend in "Rolling Stone" magazine. I listened to her and never looked back, not a bad song on it.

Around 2:39 I could see he had touched you and there was a reaction in your face to the touching, as you went inside to that loving and needing part of all of us that longs for liberation. The look on your face made me cry, sent me to that place too - and I've heard this song maybe 500 times. Who knows? Through you I just heard it for the first time, and I'm moved by the experience.

No fancy auto tune gadgets or studio tricks, nothing but good old fashion talent! 2 Thumbs up reaction!

A beautiful spiritual song. Try listening to the entire album, Into the Music. A great album to get you hooked into Van the Man, who now has released 50 albums.

Fabulous song and you won me over with your reaction !

Into the mystic simply beautiful, I am a blues rock man but I always loved Van Morrison. This song seems to me truly mystical an approach to a deep longing that transfers the mundane in a voyage beyond the cycle of days to a destination that promises rest and unification of two souls.

Sometimes a song just grabs you from the first time you hear it, this one did it for me.

Master at work! Haters back up. Cant touch this

I love Van Morrison. ♥ This song kinda reminds me of "Dreams" by the Allman Brothers. They both sort of lull you into a tranquil state of mind.

wow i cant imagine hearing this for the first time. 53 years later

many of us are descendants of sea fearers either colonizing or reading this song is a memory of our voyage I can feel it

Gosh first time you ever listened to this Iconic artist...Great, Right! 😎👏👏👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I've listened to this song since the album came out in 1968. It has spiritual significance to me. The bass player does deserve credit! Nice reaction thank you for this.

There is no beginning or end to Vans music.. Soul, Passion, musical genius and he just keeps going .. everything he does is Pure musical perfection. V T M. I am so glad to have seen him live he’s brilliant and still sounding great 👍

Tupelo Honey studio version from the same titled album is one of the most beautiful and beautifully produced love songs ever.

He has one one of the most powerful and soulful voices known to man.

Fabulous choice!!😃

I love all kinds of music.

Love the base line in this song, too.

one of my favs of Van the man.

Can the man has had dozens of great tunes like Tupelo Honey, Moondance, which is one of his best, Bright side of the Road!

Great reaction to a great singer who I was listening to his greatest hits album just the other day. You should check out his version of Have I Told You Lately, that song just melts me. And of course Brown Eyed Girl as well!!! There's a reason he's called Van The Man!!!

Excellent song!!

This is from Van Morrison´s great album Moondance released 1970, the title track is another classic.

Van has music in his blood, in his bones, probably in his fingernails. That is earthy quality is what we called souls in the days before autotune :)

My favorite Van song. Live is so good. Jazzier, generally, and the use of the sax for the foghorn is so clear live.

Very nice reaction vid. Of course, Van Morrison is legend.

“Mental escape” is quite accurate. This is my 2nd favorite song.

Brown Eyed Girl!!

One of my top 10 all time favorites.

This song is perfect

This is a top 5 song for me. This is a sailor coming home to his woman. I love the line Rock Your Gypsy Soul as well. He is eager to get back to his woman after being away at sea. He doesn't fear the foghorn because it isn't warning of a storm, it is signalling that he is close to home and will be with his love. Try Moondance and Brown Eyed Girl by Van as well. Great songs. Cheers from Canada

Still gives me goose bumps after all these years.

The piano part is so slick and integrated, everyone misses it. Listen again for it.

Van has never had a job in his life other than singer/songwriter/musician. He has been doing this for a living since was 15. He can sing rock like it's jazz. If God has a wallet there's a picture of Van in it.

The Counting Crows get the closest to ever sounding like Van the man.. love them both ✌️🤗

Van morrison rules. Thats all

Van's number of recordings is long with much brilliance. I won't pretend to have heard all of his albums, but I can't conceive of any that would top his second, Astral Weeks, and his third, Moondance, which includes Into the Mystic. I've talked to a number of Van Morrison fans who hadn't even heard of Into the Mystic, which is still my favourite. Check out both of them and you can't go wrong.

This song is just perfect for a sunny day off at the lake. Van Morrison has a ton of good songs - "Tupelo Honey" and "Domino" are definitely worth checking out.

cool vibing with ya!

Digging and grooving to the Van Man. It doesn't get better than that!! I saw him live in 1966 or 1967.

When I sit and listen to this song, it always brings a tear to my eye. For me it is about memories of someone loved and lost, if only in a dream. One piece of lyric at the beginning people might not understand is "Ere the bonnie boat was won". It means 'before (in time) the beautiful boat was won (acquired through challenges) '. Bonnie is a Scottish word meaning something like pretty and attractive.

I’m glad you dug it, next for you Tupelo honey! And then more up-paced ‘caravan!’ Preferably from the last waltz documentary ( ‘the band’s farewell concert!)

My main man Van in one word? Soulful!

This song refers to the Mystic River. Van was living in Boston at the time he wrote it. He was room mates with Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band for a time.

into the mystic. uh that song makes me cry. every. time!

I love this song so much and Van does a wonderful job singing it. Take a listen to Johnny Rivers' version of this. Although Van wrote it, I prefer Johnny's version but that could be because Johnny's was the first version I heard. In the end it gives me goose bumps every time I hear it, no matter who sings it!

Love that you were moved by certain lines

You got it

Those final lyrics should be "too early to stop now", as in it is criminally too early to stop such a beautiful song so soon.

If you've watched American Pie, The Wedding, it would sound familiar, as it was played at the wedding as an opening song

It will play at my going home service

dDani speaking FACTS!

Can we all admit there is no music today that can catch what come out of 60s and 70s

Van's signature growl and simple, yet great lyrics make this not a good song, but a *great* song. Yes, that bass line really carries it.

Van The Man!!!! The Belfast Cowboy!!! Poet Musician Composer Singer Philosopher The Bard The troubadour!!!!!! Knighted

This is a song I have to listen to very loud, to feel it all over.

There are sp many Van songs that totally kill it with lyrics and music. It would be a long dive. Enjoy.

Dani, picture your last year of high school. You have just lost your virginity to the person you will marry. It's 1970, 1 year after Woodstock. You make love, high, and Into The Mystic is on your radio, along with Like A Rolling Stone, and Closer To Home. OMG, I'm crying....

Another random oldie to try(besides more Van!!😁) Dying to Live-Edgar winters

He is sneaky good. I didn't expect that when I first heard him. But he's good.

Besides Sir Van the Man being one of the greatest musicians and performers, he has an unbelievable repertoire. And after many hundreds of hours of listening to the hundreds of songs he’s written, I can say there isn’t a bad one I don’t like. And there are so many diamonds in the rough if you ever take a deep dive into his life’s work.

Back in the day baby when I wanted to get romantic with my girl Van was the man. Keep going! He's awesome.

Im looking through your uploads. Have you not done The Band?

you should try brand new day off the moondance album...if you can find it...any van morrison songs are gold