Your 10 favourite....Van the Man songs
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Your 10 favourite....Van the Man songs
It was only a matter of time:
Astral Weeks
And It Stoned Me
Caravan
Crazy Love
Into The Mystic
Listen To The Lion
St Dominic's Preview
Full Force Gale
Spirit
Carrickfergus
(I don't generally approve of covers in these, but the latter just stands out for me as one of Van's finest moments.)
Another absurdly impossible one.
Astral Weeks
And It Stoned Me
Caravan
Crazy Love
Into The Mystic
Listen To The Lion
St Dominic's Preview
Full Force Gale
Spirit
Carrickfergus
(I don't generally approve of covers in these, but the latter just stands out for me as one of Van's finest moments.)
Another absurdly impossible one.
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Madame George
Tupelo Honey
Stepping Out Queen
Cyprus Avenue
Listen to the Lion
Caravan
Its All In The Game
Summertime In England
Bright Side of the Road
Gloria
Tupelo Honey
Stepping Out Queen
Cyprus Avenue
Listen to the Lion
Caravan
Its All In The Game
Summertime In England
Bright Side of the Road
Gloria
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
What a huge body of work to go through!
1. T.B. Sheets
2. The Way Young Lovers Do
3. Sweet Thing
4. Into The Mystic
5. Blue Money
6. (Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball
7. Gypsy
8. I've Been Working
9. Bright Side Of The Road
10. Fast Train
1. T.B. Sheets
2. The Way Young Lovers Do
3. Sweet Thing
4. Into The Mystic
5. Blue Money
6. (Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball
7. Gypsy
8. I've Been Working
9. Bright Side Of The Road
10. Fast Train
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
This was so difficult I felt guilty of how little attention I have paid Van in recent times.
Ballerina
These Dreams Of You
Cleaning Windows
Rave On, John Donne
Haunts Of Ancient Peace
Youth Of 1000 Summers
Let The Slave (Incorporating The Price Of Experience)
Almost Independence Day
Coney Island
Tore Down (A La Rimbaud)
Ballerina
These Dreams Of You
Cleaning Windows
Rave On, John Donne
Haunts Of Ancient Peace
Youth Of 1000 Summers
Let The Slave (Incorporating The Price Of Experience)
Almost Independence Day
Coney Island
Tore Down (A La Rimbaud)
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Is it because I nicked the gems off side 1 and you want to be original with These Dreams of You and Glad Tidings? Side 1 for me is streets ahead of side 2, so I was interested.
Been enjoying your flurry of top 10s, Richard. Lots of interesting choices!
Been enjoying your flurry of top 10s, Richard. Lots of interesting choices!
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Madam George
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
Ain't Nothing You Can Do
Caravan (Last Waltz version)
And The Healing Has Begun ("I can't stand myself!" favourite ad lib)
Cleaning Windows
Foreign Window (by the Acropolis with Dylan on harmonica from that documentary)
Raglan Road (Van on drums!)
I'm Tired Joey Boy
Real Real Gone
(Really hard, obviously. Lots of runners-up: Astral Weeks, Glad Tidings, Domino from It's Too Late, Snow In San Anselmo, Not Supposed To Break Down, Bright Side Of The Road, Scandinavia, Carrickfergus, Did Ye Get Healed? from Frisco, Going Down Geneva, When The Leaves Come Falling Down, Meet Me In The Indian Summer - my most hummed Van song of recent years, and Send In The Clowns from the Chet Baker at Ronnie Scott's dvd. Yeah. Hard.)
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
Ain't Nothing You Can Do
Caravan (Last Waltz version)
And The Healing Has Begun ("I can't stand myself!" favourite ad lib)
Cleaning Windows
Foreign Window (by the Acropolis with Dylan on harmonica from that documentary)
Raglan Road (Van on drums!)
I'm Tired Joey Boy
Real Real Gone
(Really hard, obviously. Lots of runners-up: Astral Weeks, Glad Tidings, Domino from It's Too Late, Snow In San Anselmo, Not Supposed To Break Down, Bright Side Of The Road, Scandinavia, Carrickfergus, Did Ye Get Healed? from Frisco, Going Down Geneva, When The Leaves Come Falling Down, Meet Me In The Indian Summer - my most hummed Van song of recent years, and Send In The Clowns from the Chet Baker at Ronnie Scott's dvd. Yeah. Hard.)
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Otis, You certainly did select some greats from side one of Moondance. It would be hard to argue that Into The Mystic is not one of the all-time greats. Same as Listen To The Lion off St Dominic's Preview.
Still I stand by These Dreams Of You. I certainly wasn't trying to be willfully obscure, but picked what I loved the day I made the list.
Still I stand by These Dreams Of You. I certainly wasn't trying to be willfully obscure, but picked what I loved the day I made the list.
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I like it and other side two songs well enough, but have always viewed that first side as one of the strongest sides ever. It's a mark of its quality that the only song missing is the title track, which is great, of course, but overly familiar. Listen to the Lion on It's Too Late To Stop Now is a strong rival to the studio version.
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Re: Your 10 favourite....Van the Man songs
Otis speaks the truth (for once). When Van sings the bit about being "drunk today and I'm rarely sober", it gets me every time.Otis Westinghouse wrote:Carrickfergus
(I don't generally approve of covers in these, but the latter just stands out for me as one of Van's finest moments.)
Another absurdly impossible one.
So...
1. Brown eyed girl (occasionally the most popular songs are so for a reason; no matter how many times I hear this, it still brings a smile and I know I'll never tire of it, which is very rare)
2. Carrickfergus
3. Fair play
4. Bein' green (not many other Muppet covers work as well as this)
5. Someone like you
6. You make me feel so free
7. Goin' down Geneva
8. Domino
9. Have I told you lately that I love you?
10. Joyous sound
Not forgetting: I forgot that love existed, Warm love, Wild night, Back Street Affair, Queen of the Slipstream, Snow in San Anselmo, And it stoned me, Dweller on the threshold, Cleaning windows etc etc
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The Way Young Lovers Do
Wild Night
When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Sweet Thing
Into the Mystic
Coney Island
Jackie Wilson Said
In the Garden
Fire in My Belly (I dunno why, it just sticks to me)
Ask me tomorrow, and it will include at least 5 different songs...
Wild Night
When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Sweet Thing
Into the Mystic
Coney Island
Jackie Wilson Said
In the Garden
Fire in My Belly (I dunno why, it just sticks to me)
Ask me tomorrow, and it will include at least 5 different songs...
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Re: Your 10 favourite....Van the Man songs
Is this a ref to my dislike of Jeff Tweedy (on certain songs, anyway, listen to his opening line on YHF and tell me that isn't truly dire, and I will roll over laughing? Or just a sore Gooner?Fishfinger king wrote:Otis speaks the truth (for once).
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Re: Your 10 favourite....Van the Man songs
Have been trolling the 'back pages' of the annex and came upon this one amongst many such '10 Best' threads. Thought I would have a go at it but I do find it very daunting- it being such an extensive catalog. Fortunately the last couple of decades have been spotty as to real excellence. Here goes:
1 Brown Eyed Girl
2 And It Stoned Me
3 Moondance
4 Crazy Love
5 Caravan
6 Into the Mystic
7 Jackie Wilson Said
8 St Dominic's Preview
9 Autumn Song
10 Linden Arden Stole the Highlights
11 Full Force Gale
12 These Are the Days
13 Cleaning Windows
14 Real, Real Gone
15 Rain Check
16 What's Wrong With This Picture?
17 Once in a Blue Moon
18 Carrickfergus
Now I know this is not 10 but I just cannot leave out the entire first side of Moondance which has always seemed to my ears to be one of the perfect album sides. If that is removed I have a good baker's dozen but that would not allow for any of the Moondance songs. As said earlier, just too many top notch to keep to only 10 choices.
1 Brown Eyed Girl
2 And It Stoned Me
3 Moondance
4 Crazy Love
5 Caravan
6 Into the Mystic
7 Jackie Wilson Said
8 St Dominic's Preview
9 Autumn Song
10 Linden Arden Stole the Highlights
11 Full Force Gale
12 These Are the Days
13 Cleaning Windows
14 Real, Real Gone
15 Rain Check
16 What's Wrong With This Picture?
17 Once in a Blue Moon
18 Carrickfergus
Now I know this is not 10 but I just cannot leave out the entire first side of Moondance which has always seemed to my ears to be one of the perfect album sides. If that is removed I have a good baker's dozen but that would not allow for any of the Moondance songs. As said earlier, just too many top notch to keep to only 10 choices.
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Re: Your 10 favourite....Van the Man songs
CS -- for the record, I don't hate any of those songs. Nice picks.
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Re: Your 10 favourite....Van the Man songs
Too much of the dull later stuff for my tastes. With you all the way re side 1 of Moondance (I almost never used to turn the vinyl over), so I'd stick with all 5 of those and cull the likes of 'What's Wrong With This Picture?' (there's a much better Lloyd Cole song with the same name!).
Nice to see a revival of one of the many 10 favourites threads. Used to enjoy all that silly listomania.
Nice to see a revival of one of the many 10 favourites threads. Used to enjoy all that silly listomania.
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Re: Your 10 favourite....Van the Man songs
Otis- as previously stated a lot of vapid material in the Man's later material- in particular over the last two plus decades- but I have a special place in my listening heart for the "What's Wrong With This Picture" album. I think he caught the old spirit on that one despite the usual plethora of hateful 'industry' rags. It is the one record over that time span I play with regularity and truly enjoy.
"....there's a merry song that starts in 'I' and ends in 'You', as many famous pop songs do....'
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Re: Your 10 favourite....Van the Man songs
Fair enough. Yes, it was the 'grumpy and wealthy old man biting the hand that's fed him for decades' aspect that turned me off on my one and only listening (at someone else's house, fortunately!).
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Re: Your 10 favourite....Van the Man songs
Hymns to the Silence was the last album I really loved but Enlightenment ran it close.
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Re: Your 10 favourite....Van the Man songs
I recall your liking Enlightenment from a perusal of back pages and your personal 20 favorites list. The single from that album has stayed with me as evidenced by my list[not so oddly it was intended originally for the Common One album and never really did seem to fit the mood of the rest of the record you find it on]. Have a deep respect for the song "Start All Over Again" from that record.
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