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Van Morrison "Astral Weeks" tickets are on sale
His first album for Warner Bros. Records was Astral Weeks (which he had already performed in several clubs around Boston), a mystical song cycle, considered by many to be his best work. Morrison has said, "When Astral Weeks came out, I was starving, literally." Released in 1968, the album achieved critical acclaim, but it originally received an indifferent response from the public. To this day, it remains in an unclassifiable music genre and has been described variously as hypnotic, meditative, and as possessing a unique musical power. It has been compared to French Impressionism and mystical Celtic poetry. A 2004 Rolling Stone magazine review begins with the words: "This is music of such enigmatic beauty that thirty-five years after its release, Astral Weeks still defies easy, admiring description." Alan Light would later describe Astral Weeks as "like nothing he had done previously--and really, nothing anyone had done previously. Morrison sings of lost love, death, and nostalgia for childhood in the Celtic soul that would become his signature." In 1979, prominent and influential journalist Lester Bangs wrote one of the best-known reviews in rock music history in Stranded, describing the effect that Astral Weeks had on his life. It has often been placed on the most authoritative lists of best albums of all time. In the 1995 MOJO list of 100 Best Albums, it was listed as number two and was number nineteen on the Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003. [Wikipedia]Tickets are on sale for the two Van Morrison "Astral Weeks" shows @ MSG Theater.
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Comments (9)
for these prices jim morrison should be performing
Posted by Anonymous | January 25, 2009 12:17 PM
DAMN! Those are expensive. No way I can swing that one.
Posted by wembley | January 25, 2009 12:19 PM
ouch 90 dollars for the cheapest ticket. i will listen to the album really loud in my room instead
Posted by Anonymous | January 25, 2009 12:26 PM
The Hollywood Bowl shows in LA a few months ago (where he did the same show) were only half-sold, thanks to the ticket prices. Wonder what will happen here.
Posted by Anonymous | January 25, 2009 12:57 PM
I got a ticket, I would honestly cut off my legs to go see this, so $105 wasn't that bad
Posted by Anonymous | January 25, 2009 5:45 PM
It's a gorgeous record, I wish I had the money to go. Of all my old school favorites, it took my kids (20 and 22) till they were out of high school to finally appreciate Van Morrison. I never pushed it (much too into new music myself) but it was kinda neat when they came around--something just clicked when they were older and his rather whiny voice didn't bother them anymore.
Posted by Deb | January 25, 2009 8:40 PM
I would totally go to this...if I were employed.
Posted by Monk | January 25, 2009 8:42 PM
absolutely amazing album. sounds like Van is finally getting paid (ALOT) for it.
good
Posted by Anonymous | January 26, 2009 11:06 AM
Well, yes, Morrison knows how to forge an excellent music of high quality and that is really popular among the true connoisseurs. It isn’t the meaningless words when it says: “If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts”.
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