No Irish artist has ever bridged the sound of the American soul sound and the great Irish poets that came before as well as the incomparable..Van Morrison.
We have several musicians in our family. We chose this song to play at my uncle’s memorial when he passed…a truly beautiful man, loved by everyone. We wanted to believe his spirit had flown into the mystic.
Jamel, As an 80 year old guy and having so many of these songs as the sound track of my life, I get so happy seeing a young'un like you get SO turned on by these beautiful works of art, they are eternal. Peace
Just as with the classical composers of long ago, great music may go out of style with each trendy whim of the Top 40 devotees, but good music is good music forever. It's the fortunate young person that learns this, for they will have a lifetime of magical discoveries. There is _so much_ out there. I'm 69 and I'm still finding surprises. In fact, I even like Counatry/Western. But it's a shame that I'm allergic to it.
My wedding song. My late wife wanted something else, but I showed her this song. She absolutely loved it. Every time I hear it, I think of my beautiful Dani
@@timothybrown6936 thank you. She’s been gone over 9 years already. Not a day goes by without me missing her. Our kids were 3 and 5 when she passed. Our oldest is going to be 15 tomorrow. Days like that really hit.
Van Morrison: Phenomenal musician! His parents were professional musicians and he can write, arrange, compose, produce songs. He does vocals, lyrics, and plays at least 5 instruments. He brilliant, intelligent, talented and a phenomenal unforgettable musician from the mid-sixties till now!! Enjoy the rabbit hole! 1. "Here Comes the Night" 2. "Baby Please Don't Go" 3. "Domino" 4. "Give Me A Kiss" 5. "Blue Money" 6. "Call Me Up in Dream Land" 7. "Moondance" 8. "Crazy Love" 9. "Into the Mystic" 10. "Come A Running" 11. "Glad Tidings" 12. "G.L.O.R.I.A" 13. "Wild Night" 14. "Tupelo Honey" 15. "When That Evening Sun Goes Down 16. "Bright Side of the Road" 17. "Have I Told You Lately" 18. "Brown Eyed Girl" 19. "It Stoned Me" 20. "Caravan"
I think the instrumentation works around his voice in practically all his songs, blows me away how just listening to him can take you immediately to a better place
Exactly. Have you ever heard him go off on tangents, scatting all the way to wherever he wants to take it? Live concerts in the 70's he'd just take off running with it.
I have loved VanMorrisonfor 4 decades. Brings tears to my eyes it’s so beautiful ! I’m an 83 year old white woman, retired teacher . Van Morrison has eased my soul so many times. ! Thanks so much for playing it and loving it ! Love from Vancouver Island !! ❤️🇨🇦 . Other lovely sounds are Tupelo Honey, Crazy love, Brown eyed Girl and so many more ! ❤️
In my 70s here, and same. I listen to Van every day. Once on a trip from NY to MA I turned the radio to Van's songs, and songs played the entire trip....he has written so many songs, he is underestimated in that sense.
I'm a 47 year old man, who spent time in the US Navy, traveled all over the world, and spends every summer at the beach. When I die, I told my wife to just chuck my ashes into the water, as this song plays in the background. The ocean has always been my friend, my favorite place for real solace and relaxation. Why not spend eternity there? Great reaction. God bless, brother!
After 40+ years I find out my younger sister was a Van the Man fan as much as I was and come to find out that Into The Mystic is our favorite. As if one can have one favorite Van Morrison song that is.
Into the Mystic!!! Bless you for playing this beautiful song! An Irish song writer like Mr. Morrison will rock you into the next stratosphere! "I want to rock your gypsy soul just like in the days of old" is the best line of a song I have ever heard.
Almost painfully beautiful, "Into the Mystic" is one of his absolute best. A stunning vocal performance. You really can't go wrong with anything on the album Moondance though.
That entire album is a masterpiece. One of the best albums of all time. This song, And It Stoned Me, Moondance, Crazy Love, Brand New Day, the list goes on. A nearly perfect album.
Have you heard Van Morrison’s version of “Bring It On Home”? He does it “live” and his back up singers are incredible. The one black girl Dana Masters as well as the other girl help make this version great!
This song is my wife and I song. We have just celebrated our 34th anniversary. I can truly say that I love her even more today than I did 37 years ago.
It's a shut up, close your eyes and listen kind of song. Not many of those these days. One of the best! Van could move the soul of a person in a deeply personal way. Often to the point that you aren't sure what is even really happening. Tears are rolling and love is flowing and that's all you know.
One of my all time favorite songs. How can someone not get goosebumps listening to this, dead or alive? Still gives me goose bumps. I'm still alive but pushing it. Lol
Yes! So nice to see Jamal's reactions to Van-the-man's Irish soul music. I've listened to Van's music since G-L-O-R-I-A back in 1966 (?). Never fails to send shivers up my spine. He's still around (I think), so maybe there's more to come.
Michael Loveland yes yes yes I concur. Caravan from the Last Waltz. My Favorite Concert Movie featuring the Band, and their Many Friends, Van Morrison being one of them!!!!!
This is my all time fav song, my dearly departed Mother was called home 1/2/23 by our Father God. My sisters wanted song suggestions for the Memorial slide show, I recommended this & Stay Gold by Stevie Wonder. As soon as I got to the Service, my niece ran up to me, she & her husband had put the show together & she was so excited "You have to see the Slide Show, we used your song, it just fit so perfectly, everyone thought so when we put it together." My sister was next to say the same thing to me. It was beautiful. May you RIP Mother...until we meet again, you'll forever be missed and loved. God Bless!
My Daddy introduced me to Van Morrison, James Taylor, Jim Croce, etc as a young child in the early 1970's and this song was my favorite. I lost him last year and this song brings back those wonderful moments listening to music with him curled up on bean bags. I feel him still with me when I hear it. Just a gorgeous song with incredible lyrics. Keep 'em coming!
My favorite song ever. No matter what kind of day I've had or what I'm going through, listening to this song just sets my soul straight again somehow. It was a joy to watch you experience it for the first time.
Van Morrison is one of my absolute favorite artists. Song Suggestions: Sweet Thing, Have I Told You Lately, ( His original version he wrote, not Rod Stewart’s), And it Stoned Me, Crazy Love, Bright Side of The Road, Whenever God Shines His Light, Real Real Gone, Caravan, Tupelo Honey, Domino, and Queen of the Slipstream. That should give you something to listen to. He’s one of the best things to come out of Ireland ever!!!! Please do more......
Sweet thing is magnificent but the entire album Astral Weeks is pure genius! I had to buy two vinyl copies because I played over and over! Had it on reel to reel,cassette,CD and of course streaming! And all of his first 10 albums!
My friend knew she was dying at 17 years old. She told me when i hear this song it's her. When i see a butterfly it's her coming to say hi. A few months later she passed away at barley 18 years old... 37 years later i still think of her and tell my daughter that butterfly is Heather coming to say hi;-)
Van "The Man" insane...everything that he does is incredible. He's Irish, that's the lilt that you hear. He plays piano, guitar, harmonica and saxophone. He still records and tours to this day. I believe that he is 83....The man is an Irish poet with the desire to be an artist. I believe that he achieved his goal.
Van Morrison is one of the great singers and poets of my lifetime. Van and I are the same age and I have listened to his music for decades. He brings Irish mysticism, blues, and longing together in a magical song. Thanks for playing and reacting.
My brother, I cannot tell you how absolutely thrilled I am to share this moment with you. I was one of the people that begged you to listen to this song. The joy on your face hearing the song for the first time is the same joy I feel every time I have ever heard it. God bless you and stay safe and healthy!
@@fRo0tLo0p I cant disagree because I don t know which you watched but I will say that lacking passion is not a critique that I have ever heard of Glen :)
This is my absolute most favorite song. If I were stranded on a deserted island and can only have one song to listen to it would be this one. Where I would happily dance on the beach to it the rest of my life.
@@maryscottoconnor1203 "Moondance" sits in the front of my one stack of vinyl rotation that I listen to to at least weekly. I'm a sucker for anything from "Van the Man" :)
This song is steaming with enlightenment. As a 17 year old, I don’t get to see many people taking in this gift-to-humanity of a song. All the kids at school listen to whatever’s new, being able to connect with music such as this allows you to reflect upon yourself. This song in particular has helped me find myself through the universal hardships that come with life and existence. It brings me to tears whenever I listen to it. I’m grateful that I grew up with music like this playing in the background, I never knew how much it would mean to me as I grow up. I truly love to see other people feeling what I feel when I hear this song, thank you for showing us. And thank you Van Morrison for your wonderful gift to mankind.
Thanks Jamel! LOVE LOVE LOVE ❤️!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of my late husband’s most favorite songs! I spread his ashes in the ocean off the cost of Florida at St. Augustine . . . Into the mystic.
Every time I listen to this song, it puts me into an almost trance-like state. My muscles relax, my eyes close, my mind lets go of all its worries. No other song in existence can do that to me.
A lot of his reactions do that to me> I'm a big RUSH fan and his reactions to those videos bring me way back. I'm a 54 yr old Canadian country boy. Cheers, stay safe!
This was on the Moondance album. One of the greatest albums. At about the age of 13 I was fortunate to buy this on the Columbia House 12 albums for $1 record club. That was about 1970. This album, the Who Who's Next, and the James Gang started my rock and roll journey. 50 Years later the great music is still alive.
I was 21 in 1970 and join the Columbia record club and damned if I didn’t buy his album… And I continue to buy just one of the greatest singer songwriters ever
With the inclusion of this song Jamel , just sit back for a few minutes and think about all the incredible music that you have been introduced to since starting this channel ! Your library of music has exploded to include so many artist you may never have heard before but i know you will listen to from this day forward. Bro just keep on doing what you do cause it brings so many such joy. Thanks to you & all the best to you & your family.
I'm 68 years old now but when I first heard MADAM GEORGE by Van Morrison 50 years ago something extraordinary happened! I knew right then and there that I had soul. INTO THE MYSTIC is the one and only piece of music that I want played when I die. Floating away now...... X.
Trish I know exactly what you are saying. I was 18 when a friend gave me Astral Weeks when it first came out. Never forgot how it changed my life and my start of a long love of all the different and wonderful music through the decades.
This song is considered one of the best songs ever produced by Rolling Stone Magazine. I must say, I agree ❤. Released in 1970. Van Morrison is truly one of the greatest!
Absolutely my favorite song. In 2007 my grandmother passed away shortly after I moved to Japan and I wasn't able to make it home for her funeral. The cemetery was my first stop on my first trip back to Baltimore. As I turned the car on to leave after paying my respects to her "Into the Mystic" was playing on the radio. It was as though she was saying she heard and was with me. I lived with my grandmother for a number of years and probably drove her crazy playing this song over and over again. I feel every emotion when I listen to Van Morrison sing it.
Ever song on his album "Moondance" as moving and magical as this song. I'd say the same for his album "Astral Weeks" (one of my top three albums of all time) but it isn't as an easy album for people to get into.
Yay!! I never heard of anyone else who liked Someone Like You !!! Perfect love song. People always recommend his "hits" but there is so much more of his music.
At the height of his popularity, Van Morrison was an ornery, temperamental, unpredictable bastard...but _damn_ he could write and sing with flow like few others.
Seriously...and playing entire shows with his back to the audience?! That takes some serious stones-if someone in the crowd ever got it into his/her head to throw something at him, he’d never see it coming. Not a risk _I’d_ be willing to take just to prove some fickle little point, but I sure can understand the principle.
He still is an onery fuck, with his Anti pandemic lockdown protest songs. Look, I loved the man's music withevery single women I ever loved, it was the soundtrack to my teen youth and adulthood, sang cried and loved to his songs, ignoring his orneriness, but after the lastest shit I politely say Fk Him
Jamal; never heard of you, but I love watching your facial reactions to this magnificent song. Your expression when you hear the "foghorn" blow for the first time is priceless. You seem truly surprised. Also, "if you dont like this song, go check in the mirror because there might not be a reflection. You might be dead...". Love it! OK, I'm subscribing.
I don't know, but there's something old and glorious in the souls of Irish and Scottish singers and Irish and Scottish songwriters. The old Scottish hymns of the Protestant Church always make me cry too.
My wife cries every time she hears this as it reminds her of one of her dearest friends who passed away. They listened to the song countless times together back in the '70s and Van Morrison's voice just cuts right through to one's heart and soul.
This song is about death, not about a sailor. "We were born before the wind, also before the sun…let your soul and spirits fly into the mystic". The fog horn is a metaphor for a signal that it is time to go back into the mystic, i.e. death, and that I don't have to fear it, as I fold back into the mystic. I've been listening to "Into the Mystic" off and on for literally 50 years! Van Morrison has other great songs on that Moodance album but this one always brings tears to my eyes as I lament the day that fog horn whistle blows calling me home.
My absolute favorite Van Morrison song and one of my favorite songs,of all time! I get teary eyed, every single time I hear it! God bless Van Morrison!
Once you hear this mans voice, it’s instantly recognizable. You never forget. Absolutely beautiful and Moondance has been my favorite too. Thanks for doing Van The Man. ✌️ out.
This was my husband and my song. He loved the ocean and going fishing. 33 years married listening to this song. I played this at his funeral. It’s been 6 years , and I still can’t hear this song without crying. Taken on so much more significance since his passing. Love you Bill.
Mr Jamel aka Jamal, you will never go wrong with a Van Morrison song. I have a different meaning for this song for me. I believe it is about the journey of life, sailing into the unknown at the beginning of your journey. When the fog horn inevitably blows, don’t be afraid, but know that the journey is over and you are going back to your eternal home. It is one of the songs I want played at my funeral.
This is my song for my father who sailed half way around the world in it. He lived to write about his adventures...and has recently passed. RIP Dad! #SailOnSailOnSailor #IntoTheMystic ❤️🌟🌊 Thank you for this Jamel...today is his birthday.....
