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@tommccafferty5591 Год назад

As others have said, Astral Weeks is one of the greatest albums of all time. You should listen to the entire album. You won't be disappointed.

@gforce4063 5 месяцев назад

Veedon Fleece

@charsibaba6960 4 месяца назад

@@gforce4063 that's a great one too but to me Astral Weeks is his greatest work.

@fuchsiaswing8545 Год назад

The great Richard Davis is on bass. 93 years old and still going strong today.

@jonathanwilkinson1461 10 месяцев назад

Wow, didnae realise he was still at it. He & Connie Kay used to play with Chet way back..

@fuchsiaswing8545 10 месяцев назад

@@jonathanwilkinson1461Sadly, the great Richard Davis passed away last month in September.

@jonathanwilkinson1461 10 месяцев назад

Great shame, thanx for putting me in the picture..@@fuchsiaswing8545

@tonypotts1644 Год назад

Yes, yes, yes, the great album, an absolute must. Sublime. 🥰

@ejtringham 10 месяцев назад

In my universe, this baroque mysticism is as beautiful as music gets. Utterly transporting.

@a.c.hunter8536 4 месяца назад

When I was 15, in 1970, this song was pure food to my young, aching soul... and still is... thank you Van!

@An_Cat_Dubh Год назад

"Astral Weeks" is still one of my favorite albums - after all these years. The arrangements (especially with the strings supporting the other acoustic instruments), the atmosphere created, all hold up. Love Richard Davis' standup bass work. This album, and Brian Eno's "Another Green World", are really unusual in that they could almost be described as "pastoral" (and what other Rock albums are pastoral?!). It's like looking out over a lush valley and noticing that there are various animals in the landscape, and birds, dragonflies, butterflies, etc. darting about - all described by the various backing instruments.

@zappafan3473 Год назад

it's hard to argue that it's not his best, because it's hard to argue that it's not one of the most inspired works of art in music of all time. but in recent years i've been stuck on veedon fleece and encouraging folks to give it a spin. it's also quite extraordinary.

@An_Cat_Dubh Год назад

@@zappafan3473 Morrison definitely went through different phases, and there's usually at least one album that best represents that phase. With a lot of artists I end up loving some lesser known/forgotten album that everyone else passed by. I get bored with the obvious and 'iconic'. But that's just me.

@joanneweigensberg1957 Год назад

This is a timeless masterpiece. It affects me the same as when I first heard it. Absolutely love love love love

@kevinwaters5872 Год назад

Astral Weeks is such a great album. Van’s voice : what an instrument it is.

@carsten1989 9 месяцев назад

This song often makes me weep

@rainydaydreamawy Год назад

Its trance like, One of the all time great songs.

@Kairon111161 Год назад

One of the greatest albums EVER -- and definitely Van's best. You really should give a listen to the entire album ASTRAL WEEKS -- it's a life-changer -- like Marvin Gaye's WHAT'S GOING ON? or Joni Mitchell's HEJIRA. Obviously dating myself here. 😂

@An_Cat_Dubh Год назад

Nice album comparisons.

@noteverton Год назад

Yes. This album, without doubt, changed my life.

@jnagarya519 9 месяцев назад

I bought this LP as a new release back in 1968. Months later saw him perform it live. After awhile it doesn't matter what it "means". Try "Slim Slow Slider".

@Cheryworld Год назад

bass on this album is legend

@r0b0gam3r9 11 месяцев назад

This is a van Morrison classic. You got to be a Van Morrison fan to know this song.

@timgrady4630 11 месяцев назад

Reasonable expectation for Van Morrison = thoughtful , well crafted . Meets and exceeds , routinely . Definition of timeless brilliance .

@josepheastman1719 Год назад

Bought this in 85, been my favorite albulm since.

@willieboy3011 Год назад

So glad ya'll did this. I remember this from his experimental "Astral Weeks" LP. I got lost in the ozone with this LP, which is still my favorite of his.

@isaacvanwart-i2v 29 дней назад

Drienck-You NAILED it. ASTRAL WEEKS and VEEDON FLEECE. Two of the best albums recorded in the 1960s-present era of pop-rock-soul-blues music. VM stands head and shoulders above all. Remarkable songwriter, singer/vocalist, and musician.

@fawltyoldboybasil.2178 Год назад

Apparently Van gave no directions to the accompanying musicians in the studio. The musicians who played with him on Astral Weeks were some of the very best.

@jnagarya519 9 месяцев назад

He lucked in on the players.

@davehagi9883 Год назад

Beautiful album, brings back beautiful memories, worth the tears, please do listen to it, either here or relaxing at home...Peace.

@blue-fj9ky 4 месяца назад

The love that loves to love the love that loves to love the love that loves

@rolandgustafsson5655 10 месяцев назад

Great song🤩and the instruments was fantastic,especially the strings🎻🎻🎻and he always singing very soulful 😇

@AmberPearcy Год назад

I’d love to hear this whole album!

@rickb9201 Год назад

The bass player is just killing it on this song

@jameswiglesworth5004 Год назад

Took me years to be able to appreciate Astral Weeks, but it is a masterpiece and this is the standout track, Two other albums of his I would place on a level are Moondance and the underrated Veedon Fleece

@1957PLATO 5 месяцев назад

Sitting outside with a drink and a tear rolls down my cheek listening to this wonderful song to love the love.

@Driecnk Месяц назад

More brilliance from the 1960s

@seansersmylie Год назад

For me, it's the greatest song on Astral Weeks. Strange album, I didn't like it that much on the first listen but after a couple of plays it's one of the all time top ten. It's also funny that my fellow countryman Morrison is a complete, cantankerous prick of the highest order.

@seansersmylie Год назад

Also, incredible use of the power of repetition in this song. Morrison is the ultimate master of that technique.

@epicurhyss4014 Год назад

I too didn't like on first listen I think because of expectations. Months later I casually listened on headphones, initially as background accompanying some other task I was occupied with, and it was revelatory.

@RMcGivern 11 месяцев назад

Not a prick at all - he just doesn’t suffer fools gladly - he’s one of the few artist that has kept it real over all these years - Love Van’s honesty

@HansBranderhorst 4 месяца назад

@@RMcGivern KLOPT HELEMAAL

@zappafan3473 Год назад

the depth of meaning in these lyrics is just incredible. the line 'and you know you've got to go, on the train from dublin up to sandy row' is referencing a time on our island before the sectarian troubles really took hold. sandy row is a protestant stronghold in belfast, and once the IRA began their campaign in the 1960's there was really not much more traveling to Dublin by the protestant community. it's a throwaway line that is steeped in meaning and reference, a bittersweet nod to calmer more innocent times.

@DanielinLaTuna Год назад

“Get on the train, the train…” “Hey love, you forgot your gloves…” Yes, such depth. The train, the train darling This is the train, this is the train darling This is the train

@joanneweigensberg1957 Год назад

Thank you from Montreal, Canada for this bit of history, to give this more meaning.❤ Very much appreciated. 🫶

@ianburton8050 9 месяцев назад

van didn't give any creadance to that interpretation of the "sandy row" lyric, but when you hear his own "non" explanations you know he's talking crap. my original impression was that sandy row must be a prison then without knowing the real sandy row i agree with you...i thought it was about a duty to a cause.

@denisedoyle3231 7 месяцев назад

The train from Dublin ended at Sandy Row in the 60's...the real historical reference is "throwing pennies at the bridges down below".....this would happen as the train crossed the river Boyne in Drogheda

@paulatkinson7416 4 месяца назад

Absolute masterpiece please appreciate it

@fredshred5194 3 месяца назад

Yes check it out, the whole album is great. His first solo album.

@lowlypeasant Год назад

This entire album was improvised live.

@jimagent1826 Месяц назад

There's a book called Astral Weeks. Gives you all you need to know about the album. Some of the songs he had already been doing prior to the album release. They brought in a group of jazz musicians. There was not much communication as to what he wanted. Most of the album were recorded in a day after drinking some wine. Beside you and Madame George were previously released for Bang records a much different version. Van cut the whole album live for the 40th anniversary in 2008. I can go on and on, but if interested, read the book. And more importantly, listen to the whole album.

@SightAfterDark Месяц назад

Thanks Jim!

@jamesdolan4042 3 месяца назад

Interesting comments. Remember this song was wrote and produced in 1968.

@Shuffle48 Год назад

I like the basplayer, great!!!

@Driecnk Месяц назад

Astral Weeks and Veedon Fleece

@tommccafferty5591 Год назад

There were no real arrangements. This is how it was described. No prep, no meeting", recalls Davis. "He was remote from us, 'cause he came in and went into a booth ... And that's where he stayed, isolated in a booth. I don't think he ever introduced himself to us, nor we to him ... And he seemed very shy".[18] Drummer Connie Kay later told Rolling Stone that he approached Morrison and asked "what he wanted me to play, and he said to play whatever I felt like playing. We more or less sat there and jammed.

@Kairon111161 Год назад

So beautiful -- probably why it's so ALIVE AND JAZZY.

@SightAfterDark Год назад

Wow, that formula made beautiful music! Thanks for the info Tom!

@ferleiva7080 Год назад

It certainly gives you that impression in the climax, when Van starts humming that sort of arpeggio over the melody and then the violins get on it and copy it and take it to the greatest heights. So moving.

@johnhall42 Год назад

I remember as a schoolboy in 1973 buying Rory Gallagher’s Tattoo and reading a review of that album where the writer suggested Rory was coming under the influence of Van Morrison’s music, with its feel and imagery around gypsies and rural Ireland. I bought Moondance (he was right) and Astral Weeks. Two very different records and both excellent in their own ways. Astral Weeks rapidly became my favourite album and fifty years later, it remains so, though I don’t play it so much now. It was good to hear Madam George - along with Cypress Avenue one of the two best tracks on the album. I don’t think I have heard anyone else review it. For a long time end of year polls in the British music press put Astral Weeks and Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde as the great albums in modern music.

@SightAfterDark Год назад

Thanks for sharing!

@dougieyou Год назад

Totally agree with you they are both on my desert Island list...that and beatles White Album are all you really need . They are the best albums ever made !!!

@craigdellapenna7103 3 месяца назад

This album was done in three days by NY studio musicians in a fog of MJ smoke at The PowerStation (I think). I knew the guitarist Jay Berliner, he said that Van Morrison basically gave verbal instructions to the musicians and then they just jammed the song(s) until they clicked. What a magnificent result!

@johnflynn5044 Год назад

My favouite song ever by any artist.. Its not that Im a crazy Van fan .. I just fell in love with this song the first time I heard it and the more I listened the more I heard.. Its so delicately crafted and multi layered .. A beautifully constructed piece, So complex yet so simple. It takes me on a journey every time and its always a pleasure trip ! The violins almost weep and never fail to move me.. A work of art. A work of genius and as detailed and well put together as any classical compositon.. The woman hasno idea and its a shame Van has to be judged by a musical pagan

@SightAfterDark Год назад

It’s a shame that you can’t understand sarcasm. She was literally wiping tears from her eyes 😂😂😂😂😂 musical pagan 😂😂😂😂you must be tons of fun!

@James-hd6ez Год назад

When I first heard this song many years ago when someone played me "Astral Weeks " I was blown away with the beauty dreamlike quality,I still have a copy but only on CD. Near 20 years later another band "The Waterboys " recorded their master piece " Fisherman's Blues " and do a fantastic version of "Sweet Thing " but nearly twice as long as "Vans version on "Astral Weeks " but both brilliant,play them both and see.

@williamkelly9859 2 месяца назад

There is a phograph of van gogh.but no sound. 100 years from now they will listen and still get great music including van morrison. Beautiful .

@chaunapierce8678 9 месяцев назад

I have listened to Van Morrison for years and this sounds like it's a really early recording. Love his stuff it's kind of a jazz blues

@zwieseler Год назад

Have a look at Van doing this in the Hollywood Bowl concert in 2008.... very different.

@rogerlunde8668 Год назад

Van Morrison, his name is George Ivan, Van is short for Ivan.

@MrNormaltoo Год назад

The one album i'm taking to that deserted island ..astral weeks.

@robbiemontgomery581 Год назад

Do Sweet Thing next 🍀

@josephfranco4153 4 месяца назад

Get on the train....the train...train

@squidkid2 8 месяцев назад

If you like this you ought try the book Ulysses by James Joyce. His writting is very stream of consciousness and as a fellow Irishman I'm sure he had a big influence on Van Morrison. BTW FYI every album from Van Morrison is "the" album from Van Morrison!

@merrick2752 Год назад

Lou Reeds walk one the wild side set in steamy New York city story lined a life without the compassion, fragility and humanity a young Van captures emotionally and lyrically for Madam George. Violin and Voice scattering rose petals in the otherwise cynical Cypress Avenue of dealers sailor boys and undercover cops.

@jimdunagan4180 Год назад

ahh such a good song funny how well it fits these days

@seanmcmichael2551 8 месяцев назад

I was almost thrown by Sifa's deadpan first thoughts, until she expanded the feigned dislike to the strings too. :) As others have said, repeated playing and listening really improves the appreciation of this whole brilliant album .... it's not always a first-time lovefest.

@Vinnie-cv5qv 7 месяцев назад

Van sings it as "Madame Joy". It was later that he changed the title to Madame George. Van can't give a specific reason why he changed the title, but kept the original recording where he sand Madame Joy.

@epicurhyss4014 Год назад

So pleased to finally see someone reacting to this so NOT trash of a song. F'ing making me late getting out the house as I encountered this unexpectedly. "Beside You" or "Slim Slow Slider" would be my zero cents worth choices as follow-ups.

@carsten1989 9 месяцев назад

David Gray’s gorgeous song Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, off his album White Ladder, used some lyrics from Madame George in the final third of the song: “the rain, hail, sleet and snow,” “say goodbye..” I’m pretty sure there is an Into the Mystic reference in the song too. To top it off, said David Gray song is a cover of the original 80s Soft Cell song by the same name. It’s all a bit meta 😂 Also, both Van and D. Gray are Irishmen

@denisedoyle3231 7 месяцев назад

David Gray is Welsh and raised in Manchester...you're correct about the Van references though..."we we born before the wind"....

@delorangeade Год назад

I get so lost in this song it was a long while before I became aware just how simple it is. There is a direct line of inspiration from this to Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen, although the two songs are very different.

@denisedoyle3231 7 месяцев назад

Bruce picked this as one of his desert Island discs....he said "Van Morrison taught me to trust in beauty and gave me a sense of the divine"

@m06een00 6 месяцев назад

Did you know that Madam George was a good friend of Lola's.?

@noteverton Год назад

Yep, just three chords all the way through. G,C and D.

@denisharding5606 3 месяца назад

Please realise that Van does not need an arranger, or lyricist or writer. Van does it all. Including getting like minded fantastiic musicians.

@Ron-id1ze Год назад

As great as TB sheets

@apostle6100 10 месяцев назад

Van's voice is an instrument on it's own

@user-lz6uc1wh3j Год назад

The song was about George Bernard Shaw and was not meaningless words.

@Ninang363 Год назад

I saw him live once in the '90s. He was less exciting than this song is. His band was tight and as a musician I was impressed. He was a voice without "presence". There was not one moment where I thought "Wow, what a performer!" It was one of the worst performances I have ever seen. Sure, hit every note perfectly... mind-numbingly boringly perfectly.

@SightAfterDark Год назад

Wow, how disheartening. Thanks for sharing Monica.

@ilikethisnamebetter Год назад

I've hated it for 50 years :)

@1957PLATO Год назад

And here you are, reacting to a song you hate.

@ilikethisnamebetter Год назад

@@1957PLATOAnd there you are (and apparently SAD too, unfortunately) missing the point that I was echoing Sifa's mock reaction 😂

@1957PLATO Год назад

@@ilikethisnamebetter you are far too intelligent for me.

@jameswiglesworth5004 Год назад

Why are you putting yourself through 9 minutes of torture if you hate it ?

@chazblitz Год назад

This sounds remarkably similar to a song called My Pal Foot Foot by a band called the Shaggs. I hate Van Morrison even more now than I did when I was young.