Van Morrison - Enlightenment (Reis)
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Artist: Van MorrisonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-07-01
Music Label: Polydor / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Real Real Gone
- Enlightenment
- So Quiet In Here
- Avalon Of The Heart
- See Me Through
- Youth Of 1000 Summers
- In The Days Before Rock'n'Roll
- Start All Over Again
- She's My Baby
- Memories
- Enlightenment
- So Quiet In Here
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Free Music Review: Here's Your Pain Medication
Hit: 5 Stars
Instead of perscribing percocet for pain they should just perscribe Van Morrison.This album would work great for that,but then again so would pretty much all of his albums.This is if not his best,certainly one of his best of the 90's.The first half from "Real Real Gone" to "See Me Thru" is as clear and refreshing as water and just flawless.I mean the whole album is great,but I would be surprised if a person could listen to the first half of this album and not feel better than they did before.That's the game Van plays:"The Healing Game".The early nineties albums(This one,Hymns to the silence,etc.)would be the last he did with that great Van mixture of Celtic,Rock,R@B,Soul,Blues all mixed into one.His newer albums are great too,they just seem to cover the same musical style unlike this one where you really can't call this music any one style other than good music from the soul.I am so grateful for all the music that Van Morrison has out there to share with us.This would be the one I would call the best of his last twenty years.You can turn the volume up all the way on "So Quiet in Here" and some how it will still be quiet.I find it extremley ironic that Van was one of the few artists of the late 60's who wasn't all about doing drugs for mind expansion and yet all these years later he still is making mind expanding music while most of the other artists of that era have either died or burnt out long ago.If you want to be enlightened by "Enlightenment" don't try to analyze the lyrics and figure out what it means,Just Listen and be healed.
Enlightenment (Reis) Poster
2008 newly remastered sound and expanded packaging including lyrics of Enlightenment, an album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1990. It reached No. 5 on the UK charts. Exile/Polydor releases this album as part of a batch of two of the four catalogue reissues of Morrison's albums dated from 1971 through 2002. In "Enlightenment" Van once again ruminates on spiritual matters, but this is probably the most sober and matter-of-fact expression of his personal struggle toward understanding that he has ever offered. "I'm in the here and now and I'm meditating / But still I'm suffering," Morrison admits, "But that's my problem."Its title seems squarely in the pilgrim's camp, where much of Van Morrison's '80s music dwells, but 1990's Enlightenment offsets new glimpses of Morrison's oft-sought Avalon ("Avalon of the Heart") with darker confessions of human frailty and challenged faith. The opening "Real Real Gone" belies its hard-charging R&B verve (a welcome return to high-octane soul after his relatively becalmed, then-recent work) with admissions of weakness, and even the lyrical title song reveals confusion more than salvation. A few years later, such defeats might have prompted one of his crankier outbursts, but this set is brightened by the joyful reminiscences of "Youth of 1,000 Summers" and the epic "In the Days Before Rock 'n' Roll," in which Morrison's declamatory fervor is matched by poet Paul Durcan. The latter song is a gloriously apt Morrison moment, exulting in Little Richard as though he walked the same astral plane as William Blake--which, in Morrison's world, is exactly the point. --Sam Sutherland
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