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Music CD - Van Morrison: Moondance
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Music CD: Moondance
Artist: Van Morrison
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $5.87
Your Save: $ 6.11 ( 51% )
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Tracks:
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1. And It Stoned Me
2. Moondance
3. Crazy Love
4. Caravan
5. Into The Mystic
6. Come Running
7. These Dreams Of You
8. Brand New Day
9. Everyone
10. Glad Tidings
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075992732628
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Weak lyrics
Comment: I like Van, and this is a pretty good CD,I guess. I just find that I'm not that motivated to listen to it very often. Moondance has been played to death and the rest of the songs are just okay to me. Actually, most of Van's stuff is just okay. This CD's best songs are at the beginning, the songs diminish in quality as the CD progresses. As usual, the lyrics are never beyond servicable. Van has a tendency to write rhymes instead of interesting lyrics. "These dreams of you. So real and so true", "Everyone, everyone, everyone ,everyone", "And it stoned me to my soul, stoned me just like going home". Not very inspiring, or interesting. It's a nice Sunday morning CD, I suppose, but not as good as Astral Weeks--another CD with its share of bad lyrics. "As I venture in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dream." Pretentious and sometimes, unintentionally funny. You're better off downloading individual songs form Van's catalog. His CDs are just too spotty.
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Summary: TURN IT LOOSE!!!!!!
Comment: I wish Warners/Reprise/Elektra/Asylum/Atlantic/Time-Warner/RHINO,Polygram,WHOEVER! would get "Moondance","Astral Weeks" and "Band and Street Choir" remastered and RELEASE THEM!!! For some of us, these were the albums that are truely "Unforgetable".
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Summary: Moondance
Comment: Van Morrison-Moondance ****1/2
Moondance is the album that broke Van Morrison in to the mainstream as a major solo artist. While Astral Weeks is clearly his strongest album, as well as his most criticly acclaimed album, and still to this day concidered to be one of the top albums of all time, it is Moondance that really broke him through to the rest of the world. Of course he always had the success of Them, and 'Gloria' which went on to be just a classic, and 'Brown Eyed Girl' may have been his first hit single, many did not relealize that was Morrison on his own.
'And It Stoned Me' the fantastic title track 'Moondance' along side 'Crazy Love' and 'Caravan' were the first four songs to lead off the album and all four went on to be hit singles for Morrison making him a major pop star. His soul-ful vocals and heartfelt lyrics can be heard through out the entire album on songs like the cleaver title track, and 'Brand New Day' but maybe most importantly on the albums strongest track, the chilling 'Into The Mystic' which aside from 'Sweet Thing' off Astral Weeks may be Van Morrisons Best song ever. "We were born before the wind, but so younger then the son," how can you even compare another lyric to that genius?
Moondance solidified Van Morrison as not only a brilliant Irish poet, but a major musical attraction. Along with his first album Astral Weeks, these two albums help so growth in Van Morrison as well as depth, in that there was much more to him then garage rock, even though he may have written the greatest garage rock song of all time in 'Gloria.' Moondance is a special album that you can play during any mood, and one that is reccomended to all along side Astral Weeks.
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Summary: Perfect, start to Finish
Comment: This CD is currently available used for less than two bucks. If you don't have it and don't buy it for two lousy bucks, you are a fool. It is the best album from the most gifted singer songwriter of his or any era. If you don't like it, you don't like music.
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Summary: AN OCTOBER CLASSIC ! (Moondance is Irish soul music)
Comment: Van Morrison's Moondance (1970) is quite simply, a classic. The songs, the sound, the lyrics. All classic. The album jumps right out of the gates with And It Stoned Me, Moondance, Crazy Love, Caravan, and Into The Mystic. These five songs are all rock classics by any standard. Come Running and These Dreams Of You are not quite on the same level, but still excellant songs and very enjoyable. The underrated and gospel-influenced Brand New Day probably should be a classic, too, as it is very good, and the heartfelt inspirational performance really hits home. The musical arrangements of the songs are a balanced blend of a very well played acoustic guitar, a humble horn section, and Van's soulful, laid-back vocals. The theme and sound are uncomplicated, poetic, and autumnal. In Moondance, Van sings:
A fantabulous night to make romance,
Neath the cover of October skies.
And all the leaves on the trees are falling,
To the sound of the breezes that blow.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Van Morrison went a long way towards defining his wild Irish heart with his first two classic albums: the brooding, introspective Astral Weeks (1968), and the expansive, swinging Moondance. If 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 on "Moondance" and plays it soulful on "These Dreams of You." The album includes both Morrison's most romantic ballad ("Crazy Love") and his most haunting ("Into the Mystic"). "And It Stoned Me" rolled off Morrison's tongue like a favorite fable, while "Caravan" told a tale full of emotional intrigue. Moondance stood out in the rock world of 1970 like a grownup in a kiddie matinee. --John Milward
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