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      • I’ve bought it on one of those modern compact disc doohickeys despite Warner Reprise asking 20 of His Majesty’s quids for it. Seems a trifle excessive for 40 minutes of music that’s 50 years old. Rather good though.

          • As Neil has a horrible habit of the standalone discs Neil puts out ending up on future Archives sets, I’ve taken the sensible precaution of paying the US$20 annual. sub for NYA.com.

            Wonder how it’ll be before my resolve cracks. Given my love of all things Neil, not, I suspect, very long

            • I was amazed at the price tag, although I fancy CD prices have gone up recently. They also seem to generally less available with back catalogue disappearing for a lot of artists, so the bargains seem to be fewer now.

              • So, if you can actually find a CD now, it’s a £20 job?
                Maybe that explains the vinlys ‘revival’, cheap at double the price.

                Meanwhile, I’m having the usual conversation about no CDs anywhere to buy with a guy in the chazzer the other day, and we both walk out of the place with a £1 CD to our name. I haven’t stopped playing my purchase, and I don’t think either of us recognised the irony at the time.

                • Chazzers are still worth a look if you can stand flipping through all the usual suspects, and I picked some Manics recently for £1 a pop, but it’s when you want something specific it seems to be harder now. We saw Albert Lee last week and there is very little available online, and there isn’t much on Spotify either.

  3. “ The ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ hitmaker has revealed the record contains just a “small percentage” of the unreleased material he has in his archive that he plans to release….”
    You could hope for something of the quality of Dylan’s Bootleg Series but I suspect his hours of tapes really arent much chop. Too feckin’ lazy.

    Speaking of chop, I predict stinker of the album will be Choppin’ Wood

    And I’m caught one more time
    Up on Cypress Avenue
    I’m carrying my axe
    Got my chainsaw too
    And I’m fixin’ on that cypress
    Not a thing that you can do

      • Dere wus a tree in old Albion planted long ago
        By the mystic Knights of Arthur all dem years ago
        But the record company bastards cut it down
        In its prime an’ it grows no more in the Sycamore Gap
        Dey took an axe to the Holy Tree
        That grew for you and me Sweet Pea
        Got me big boy’s pants on
        In the rain, in the rain
        Down by the abattoir at me Nan’s place
        And the paper shop where I buy me fags
        An’ the Exchange and Mart
        I-Spy Rosicrucians
        The feckin’ bastards cut me tree down
        Where I carved the sacred heart (sacred heart)
        Ooh ooh Sweet Pea, Sweet Pea
        My big boy’s pants, big boy’s pants [to fade]

  4. They’ve released Choppin’ Wood. It’s an OK song, orginally on a decent album, but here is given a sort of swing jazz treatment which absolutely nobody needs to hear.

  7. @Eddie g

    @Black-Type

    The Van Morrison oldies album I’m really looking forward is the added outtakes reissue of Van Morrison at the Movies

    Outtake One

    Van arrives at the local Avalon multiplex to see Monster and is chagrined to find it is a Japanese arthouse movie rather than the CGI-heavy shoot-em-up creature feature he expected

    Outtake Two

    Van is even more outraged when he finds out that the Tuesday afternoon OAPs discount does not apply on the remaining six days of the week

    Outtake Three

    Seeing a saliva-inducing ad for Fusco’s Ulster Fry Cornetto in the pre-main feature ads, Van is disgusted when the usherette informs him the cinema’s supply of said comestible is sold out

    Outtake Four

    Van loses it completely and is ejected from the cinema after a tiny old lady in the seat behind him politely asks him to remove his pork pie hat so she can better see the movie she has just paid £15 to watch .

      • Only new Van Morrison thread showing up on my feed is the duets one from a few weeks back that I’ve commented on here.

        Just checked on your profile and the new thread isn’t showing up there either

        Wonder if that’s something to do with the two thread titles being the same. Or maybe the ghost of Bert Berns has come back to get revenge for the contractual obligation album Van did all those years ago

        Maybe you should have entitled the new thread “Another new VM album” or we could give Van his own section of the board

        • I went to “Track” to find it myself. I think that the board software adds numbers at the end so that the threads are indeed unique. Anyway you should have remembered, it wasn’t long ago and you told us you weren’t going to buy it 😉

          • Eh? I posted about the new old album on your old post about the other new old album because your new post about the new old album did not appear on the feed.

            This would seem to be because the board software is incapable of distinguishing between the deathless prose in your new post about the new old album and your old post about the old new album.

            Silly of me not to have remembered really.

            Only way to get around this is to follow my lead and refrain from buying new old Van M albums until such time as he slows his release schedule and it is easier to tell which new album is in fact new and not the old new album that came out a few weeks before

              • Cuh!

                Do try to keep up, @fitterstoke!

                Rather than a new album It’s a new album of old material (a new old album, if you will).

                Problem is, @Dai who is supposed to be on top of this sort of stuff got the new old album mixed up with the old new old album that came out a few weeks before.

                • I was trying to be kind of ironic by announcing “New Van Morrison album” in the same way every week or two. I won’t bother any more as it confuses you too much.

                  But the other thread automatically then has a 2 on the end, this one doesn’t.

                  Link://theafterword.co.uk/new-van-morrison-album/

                  Link://theafterword.co.uk/new-van-morrison-album-2/

                  • Sadly, the hip ironic look doesn’t really suit you, D.

                    Even if it did, your new new old album post didn’t show up on my -or indeed your – feed.

                    If it had I’d have refrained from adding an innocous post to the old new old album thread and saved us almost as much mental torment as sitting through another inessential collection of Van’s late-career huffing and puffing.

                    • @Dai

                      Reason why I commented on it was that this very morning, Van Morrison’s people emailed my people* to inform me he had a new album out.

                      Look on the bright side, I could’ve stolen some of your thunder by starting a third “Van Morrison New Album” thread before he releases his new new new old album later this week

                      * i.e. me

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