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    Brad Filicky liked and reviewed Astral Weeks
    
    Van Morrison - astral weeks. A challenging work of genius.
    
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    loner_manifesto liked and reviewed Astral Weeks
    
    Sweet Thing!!
    
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    barb sobel liked and reviewed Astral Weeks
    
    this album changed my life. and continues to do so.
    
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    Adrienne "Rorschach" Lawson liked and reviewed Astral Weeks
    
    I love this album.
    
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    Charles Rotramel favorited and reviewed Astral Weeks
    
    In my opinion, this is the greatest album of rock music ever recorded. It is transcendent in every sense of the word... it as if it comes from a different plane altogether. Must be heard in a... more
    
    In my opinion, this is the greatest album of rock music ever recorded. It is transcendent in every sense of the word... it as if it comes from a different plane altogether. Must be heard in a single listen with no distractions. Nothing like this exists in its context. It is poetry, it is art, it is everything that rock music can be.
    
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    Nathan Rein liked and reviewed Astral Weeks
    
    Been having this feeling lately like i need to go bury myself in Astral Weeks for a day or two
    
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    Nina Shen favorited and reviewed Astral Weeks
    
    One of the few artworks in the world I feel totally comfortable calling "perfect." And Van Morrison was all of 23 when it came out! It still blows my mind.
    
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Pressed on 180gram vinyl. Mastered from the original analog master tapes and it features all original packaging 1968's Astral Weeks remains not only Morrison's masterpiece, but one of the greatest records ever made. A haunting, deeply personal collection of impressionistic Folk styled epics recorded by an All Star Jazz backing unit including bassist Richard Davis and drummer Connie Kay, its poetic complexity earned critical raves but made only a minimal commercial impact. Astral Weeks had been dark and anguished.Never mind that Van Morrison is one of the most indelible songwriters of the 20th century--take each album on its own terms. On 1968's seminal Astral Weeks, a twentysomething Van Morrison can be found belting his gospelly, bluesy vocals in just as fine a form as he would be 20 years hence. In the sociopolitical context of the times, the album cried out about such ubiquitous '60s themes as cultural oppression and social upheaval. But it is Morrison's vocal dexterity and passion that maintains such timeless appeal. Take tracks like "Madame George" or "Cyprus Avenue" and you'll find such beautiful mourning, it'll be clear why modern songwriter Sinéad O'Connor once publicly exclaimed: "Van Morrison should be friggin' canonized." --Nick Heil

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