Hopefully no complaints about terrible anti-lockdown, anti-recording industry and anti-media lyrics this time as it’s an instrumental album!
New Van album
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Van, you really shouldnāt haveā¦
Love the instrumentals on Inarticulate Speech of the Heart, ok that was 40 years ago, but it could be mildly interesting
Be still my heart.
Just what the world needs
Could be a problem over the label name āEsoteric Recordsā because thereās already āEsoteric Recordings.ā
‘Coycats ripped off my words…’
Celtic yep, RnB yep, cocktail lounge jazz – no thanks
Looks like some Celtic stuff ….
1. BEYOND WORDS
2. JAMMIN’ WITH EDDIE
3. DRIVING ON A COUNTRY ROAD
4. BREADWINNER
5. COOL FOR CATS
6. PARISIAN WALKABOUT
7. SO COMPLICATED
8. KERRY DANCING
9. ALL SAINTS BENEFICIAL
10. CELTIC VOICES
11. MOUNTAINS, FIELDS, RIVERS & STREAMS
12. THE STREET
13. FAR NORTH
14. TIME TO GET READY
15. SONG OF HOME
16. 12 BAR CELTIC
17. GREENWOOD TREE
Interestingly, Brian Kennedy has just announced a covers album of Van’s instrumental release, the track listing for which is shown below
1. BEYOND WORDS
2. JAMMINā WITH EDDIE
3. DRIVING ON A COUNTRY ROAD
4. BREADWINNER
5. COOL FOR CATS
6. PARISIAN WALKABOUT
7. SO COMPLICATED
8. KERRY DANCING
9. ALL SAINTS BENEFICIAL
10. CELTIC VOICES
11. MOUNTAINS, FIELDS, RIVERS & STREAMS
12. THE STREET
13. FAR NORTH
14. TIME TO GET READY
15. SONG OF HOME
16. 12 BAR CELTIC
17. GREENWOOD TREE
Brian Kennedy! Brian Kennedy! Brian Kennedy!
(Brian Kennedy! Brian Kennedy! Brian Kennedy!)
Could someone please explain the Brian Kennedy ājokeā to me . Please? I feel Iām missing out on something culturally important.
(Could someone please explain the Brian Kennedy ājokeā to me . Please? I feel Iām missing out on something culturally important.)
Hah-bloody-hah.
Freddy: BK’s BVs with VTM never extended beyond an echo of Van’s last muttering. That’s it. Hilarious, I know.
FWIW, I vaguely know BK socially, he’s a lovely fella who just wants to sing. All the time. He has little or no filter, which can be entertaining when you’re somewhere quiet and he pipes up.
He pipes up! He pipes up! He pipes up!
Still donāt really get it.
Itās a steep learning curve being an AWer, RD.
Iām still waiting for all those hampers I earned
Love the way the button marked ‘More details’ simply displays the same page minus the strapline and removes the button marked ‘More details’. Genius.
Made you click!
I’m hoping CFC is a cover of the Squeeze classic
I wonder if they will have the rights to sell back catalogue on this site? There’s some ’70s gaps in my Van collection…this is the only product they have at the moment. It could be surprisingly great…
I believe he has promised some archive releases using this new method of distribution
He said that about 10 years ago – still waiting.
Given the minimal level of care and attention VTM has shown to his back catalogue thus far, I wouldn’t hold my breath, J
Probably worried that paying attention to his back catalogue would affect sales of his current output. Which it might well do.
A few years back, there were two omissions from VTM’s CD sleeve jacket catalogue of album covers.
Anyone here care to hazard a guess what those omissions are and what they had in common?
They were the only two decent ones?
Pork pie chapeau
I know Veedon Fleece was apparently unavailable a while ago – I was filling in CD gaps and annoyingly it was nowhere to be seen. Just checkedā¦no CD but I can have a vinyl copy for Ā£142 from the dodgersā¦..er, maybe not.
Nope, not Veedon Fleece
Tupelo Honey and You Win Again. No-one will miss the latter, but the former is a really gorgeous record that deserves better.
The common link? The album covers feature Van with former squeezes, respectively, Janet Planet and Linda Lee Lewis. Petty, Van? Perish the thought.
Give that man a hamper!
TH is a truly bizarre omission
You could be on to something there lads – I just pre-ordered the instrumental album from the site (I have a good feeling about it) and there’s an album discography there with THREE albums not listed (that I know of) There’s the two albums you point out above and one more, also featuring a former partner – Days Like This.
https://www.vanmorrison.com/music
Name changed from Esoteric Records to Orangefield Records BTW.
I like Days like this – thankfully I already have it.
TH – former lover
SYWA – former lover
DLT – former lover and two dogs
The way this is going, the next to be cancelled will be Veedon Fleece
And another!
A covers album called “Accentuate the Positive”
Release date Nov 3rd.
What’s that? 3 this year or is it 4?
Canāt be too long before he does a duets album with Neil Young
Why canāt the auld eejit do Philosopherās Stone Vol II or a series of
Bells and whistles classic album re-releases
@Dai
Track listing as per Oh-ohhhhhhh the Hoffmanites
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/new-van-morrison-album.1183995/
I saw it on Facebook @jaygee but couldn’t copy and paste it here for some reason. Gonna be another masterpiece š
OMG
The cover illustration makes the one on Whatās it Gonna Take Skiffle look like it was done by Will Eisner
WARNING
Once seen cannot be unseen!
https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/110/#cv/priority/%5Eu/18a8a8abff76ad4c