Unlike most artists who put it in neutral and rely on their hits of yesteryear, Van has put out consitently great music all his career thru all his phases.
From the rocking sessions with Them to Astral Weeks (first solo album) to St. Dominics Preview to the Common One to Hymns to the Silence to his latest, Magic Time. Though he has some filler songs, each album has genuine gems to add to his repetoire.
1 posted on
08/22/2006 4:50:42 PM PDT by
pissant
To: scott says
2 posted on
08/22/2006 4:51:00 PM PDT by
pissant
To: pissant
Yup. some of his latest have been some of his best. Long live Van!
3 posted on
08/22/2006 5:01:13 PM PDT by
JennysCool
(Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
To: pissant
Saw him at the Hollywood Bowl last year doing a straight up jazz/blues show. Great stuff.
6 posted on
08/22/2006 5:04:45 PM PDT by
Heyworth
To: pissant
My MOONDANCE cd is one of my "desert island" recordings...Into the Mystic sends chills down my spine.
7 posted on
08/22/2006 5:05:21 PM PDT by
mozarky2
(Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist!)
To: pissant
Van is a true MUSICIAN. He hasn't charted much in 20+ years, but I love every CD, some more than others but each one is listenable. He's had a lot of lousy luck businesswise--managers stealing from him and screwing him over. Some of this stuff is so bitter it's a turnoff. But many of his CDs never go out of rotation here, even such "minor" works as Inarticulate Speech of the Heart. A few years ago on What's Wrong With This Picture? he created one of the catchiest tunes he's ever come up with, with a cha-cha beat, believe it or not, called "Once In A Blue Moon"--that's what I mean about him being a musician--his music isn't just the beats and the notes, it's MUSIC.
Very little coming out these days measures up to that seemingly obvious standard.
To: pissant
Two of my favorites...
18 posted on
08/22/2006 5:20:40 PM PDT by
kanawa
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