![]() ![]() I bought the album that summer at the closed-soon-after FYE store in Philadelphia and it’s been a favorite ever since. I remember sitting on a ratty couch in a frat house with my laptop and some Bose headphones and just getting lost in the music (disturbed only by Spotify commercials because my broke ass wasn’t paying for Premium) as people stomped around, drank Natty lights, and yelled at the Maury Povich show in the background. I discovered Astral Weeks during my sophomore year of college, when I happened upon a review by the legendary music critic Lester Bangs that basically called it the best album of all time. This time around, I liked him a little more-and then a lot more-as I started listening to his catalogue in more depth. Fast forward to freshman year of college, and Van Morrison found his way on to my freshman finals playlist in the form of the song “Caravan,” off 1970’s Moondance. Little Me found his bluesy caterwaul out of place alongside Kevin Conneff’s chipper Irish tenor. In fact, I distinctly remember telling my mom that Morrison ruined all of the songs on that album, which I loved otherwise. I first became familiar with Van Morrison when I heard him feature on an album my parents used to play when I was a kid-1988’s Irish Heartbeat, a collaboration with Irish folk group the Chieftains. ![]() Van Morrison- Astral Weeks (1968, Warner Bros) ![]()
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