What is your favorite Van Morrison album??

[driver8]

I am looking to expand my collection of Van Morrison music and I need some ideas.

[tjdee]

1. Astral Weeks, Moondance, and St. Dominic's Preview.

I can't stand the song "Moondance" but that album is fanfriggintastic. I like Astral Weeks better than that. SDP is a sentimental favorite.

There are so many good Van songs, it's hard to narrow it down.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. You don't like the song "Moondance"??

*is boggled by that*

:shrug:

[tjdee]

9. Well, my first experience with it was on jukeboxes at the bar, LOL....

So a bunch of drunk frat boys yelling unintelligably to Van isn't the best intro, LOL. It is fun to sing...I dunno, it's kind of overplayed or something. :shrug:

I always apologize to Van when I skip the track on cd!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

17. I just love the kicking piano in it....

Very nice, jazzy sound. :D

[dolo amber]

2. Whichever one has "Into the Mystic" on it

I heard it like...WEEKS ago, can not get it out of my head. :D

[tjdee]

3. That's Moondance, and that is a great earworm.

Great song. :)

[Burma Jones]

4. Band and Street Choir, Astral Weeks and Moondance

Those are the big three for me, but there's just so much to choose.....

[Zomby Woof]

5. Any already listed, and...

He doesn't have any bad albums, but for others from the cream of them:

"Tupelo Honey"

"Into The Music"

"Poetic Champions Compose"

"Enlightenment"

"Hymns To The Silence"

And "The Philosopher's Stone"

and get his mid-60's Them albums.

...and his collaboration with the Chieftains, "Irish Heartbeat".

[mvd]

12. I have a best of collection

Guess I couldn't go wrong with getting any of his popular titles.

[6000eliot]

13. I would add Wavelength

and His Band and Street Choir

[Hobarticus]

6. Hymns to the Silence...

May be a little too "gospel" for some tastes, but I dig it...

[devilgrrl]

15. I love that record!

Why, I think I'll put it on now. :-)

[Hobarticus]

16. Put on "Why Must I Always Explain" for me, willya? n/t

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. Astral Weeks and Moondance, the yin and yang of Van's discography.

I like the title track, especially, on Moondance.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

10. On a slightly off-beat note

"Irish Heartbeat" with the Chieftains is really magical. He manifests a level of soul there that one might not expect.

[Heidi]

14. I love that one, too.

:thumbsup:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. Tupelo Honey