Van Morrison - Keep It Simple
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Free Music Review: The Van is Back
Hit: 5 Stars
Another great Van Morrison record. Classic, cool, not with his big band this time, but
more of an intimate side. The best part is its $2 dollars less than I tunes and the tracks
are MP3 open..that is if you can live without the bonus track. Well worth the money.
Free Music Review: Van, keep telling the story.
Hit: 5 Stars
For those that have much or all of Van's music, one could argue that this is just like all the rest. However like Italian or Mexican food, which I both love, one could contend that the same ingredients are used in each, just cooked or prepared differently. With Van, he may go over similar topics, but cooked up a different way. The blues, gospel, soul and country vibe is ever present. When will listeners/fans learn that it is giving artists liberties to do what interests or inspires, that makes for an enjoyable listen. I have my favorite Van albums like everyone else. Some I listen to more than others, however, I love them all like children. Please let this and every album stand on its own and do not try to always compare to the past.
That being said, buy this as you will love it at first listen or it will grow on you. The band is stellar and on time and note. Van, keep telling the story.
Free Music Review: Uninspired & Boring ... "Blah Blah Blah"
Hit: 2 Stars
This CD by the legend Van Morrison is a huge disappointment. The songs are uninspired and boring, as the lyrics in the last tune Behind the Ritual prove ... Van drones on the repeated phrase "blah blah blah". Come on Van, you couldn't come up with better lyrics to accompany the song than "blah blah blah" for nearly a minute? The only thing that saves this CD is the fine supporting musicianship, particulary the organ throughout and steel guitar playing on two tracks by the excellent Cindy Cashdollar of Asleep at the Wheel fame. This CD pales in comparison to Van's earlier recordings.Free Music Review: the ritual , the spiritual, the voice.
Hit: 5 Stars
the best van album from hyms to the silence? probably.
behind the ritual is trascendent and spiritual...sublime.
lover come back , song of home and end of the land are classic tracks.
very good keep it simple, soul, that's entrainment too.
i love it.
Free Music Review: Van is not a hobgoblin
Hit: 4 Stars
I have almost all of Van's output--minus "The Skiffle Sessions" and the Mose Allison tribute--but I very much agree with Colin Spence's review. The album is not "simple," and the melodies aren't "gorgeous." Also, in the years since "Veedon Fleece" (1974), Van has been a regular whiner about the music business; his complaints were already old on "Hymns to the Silence" (1991).
Yet, as Van has said himself, he makes magic in the studio, so "Keep It Simple" is like every other VM album: damned fine to listen to.
I find Spence's perspective, based as it is on Van's now-early albums, very useful for this particular artist. Unlike Bob Dylan, Van hasn't changed so much as grown. There haven't been any surprises in voice or songwriting style since the "Astral Weeks" and "Moondance" diptych. He's been more of a conservative alchemist than a revolutionary, with a resulting consistency of sound.
That said, there have been albums since 1974 that mean as much to me or more than the ones Spence mentions. (Frankly, I've never been a fan of "Tupelo Honey" except for the title track.)
"It's Too Late to Stop Now" (1974)--the version of 'Wild Children,' especially. It's his best live album.
"Common One" (1980)--criminally underrated. 'Haunts of Ancient Peace' and 'Satisfied' are keynotes.
"Inarticulate Speech of the Heart" (1983)--a bit heavy on the keyboards, but the title track (both vocal and instrumental versions) and 'September Night' are exceptional, as are several other tracks.
"Irish Heartbeat" (1988)--routinely and appropriately acknowledged as one of his finest albums. 'Raglan Road' and 'My Lagan Love' rank with 'Madame George' and 'Comfort You' in the mood department. Not to mention 'She Moved Through the Fair.' (The title track first appeared on "Inarticulate Speech of the Heart.")
"Avalon Sunset" (1989)--This should by all accounts be a really great one (check out 'Coney Island' and 'I'm Tired Joey Boy'), but there's no pleasing everybody.
Many of the bootlegs deserve to be heard as well.