Van Morrison - Still on Top: The Greatest Hits
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Free Music Review: Overall it's not too shabby for the casual Morrison listener
Hit: 4 Stars
40 years of hits crammed onto one CD. That's mighty impressive. I have never claimed to be the biggest Van Morrison follower, but even I can recognize numerous tracks on this one. "Gloria," Brown Eyed Girl," "Wild Night," "Jackie Wilson Said," "Have I Told You Lately?," and "Days Like This" are only a few of the 21 career spanning favorites. There are many Van Morrison hits packages out there, but this one boasts recent favorites as well. Overall it's not too shabby for the casual Morrison listener, but I would have to imagine, with a career so vast, that longtime fans consider more than 21 songs to be the greatest.Free Music Review: Lucky for me.
Hit: 5 Stars
I was in Ireland in Oct '07 and purchased the 2CD 37 song edition of this compilation. Try to find that one instead.Free Music Review: stop your whining
Hit: 5 Stars
Before you start reading the rant below i'd just like to say that this review is geared towards people who for stupid reasons are giving this cd substandard reviews. If you aren't one of these people and your just reading reviews because your curious about van or want a good place to start and get a good sampler of his hits and essential tracks then, this is a perfect cd and i wholeheartly recommend it.
however if your a person looking to bash this cd keep reading.
after reading all the other reviews of people whining and complaing about that its only one disk and the track selection and alot of this aren't hits well, guess what Shut Up !!!.Van Morrison does not live to please you. You should be happy that he replaced the out of print vol.1 and 2 versions and realesed this comprehensive one disc version spanning his entire career from 1965 - 2005.Its impossible to boil down 40 years on a single disc and please everybody but all these are good songs and deserve five stars.if you want more songs from "them" or your mad that half of moondance isn't on here then go buy all the cds!(which are all being remastered and rerealesed this year). In conclusion from his albums with the band Them to his 2005 album Magic Time these are all great tracks and is the best possible cd to pick up if you want a van retrospective.
Thank You for your time and attention
Free Music Review: batcall
Hit: 5 Stars
If you've liked any of Van Morrison, you'll love this one. Rock/Rythem and Blues, he's in a class of his own. It made me feel young again.Free Music Review: Apparently you can't have all the tea in China...
Hit: 4 Stars
I can't help but wonder what the hell they were thinking when I see a Van Morrison-compilation without "Tupelo Honey" on it.
There is a longer 37-track version of this compilation floating around out there somewhere, and that one does paint a more complete picture of Van the Man, but anthologizing Van Morrison is always difficult, kinda like making a Bob Dylan-compilation: There are just too many songs to choose from, and most of them work better in their original settings.
There is no denying, though, that this CD contains some wonderful music. Van Morrison is one of the finest composers and arrangers ever to play R&B, folk, jazz, blues, rock and country (and quite possibly the only one to do it all at the same time), and so it's hard to see how a CD with 21 of his songs could be a total miss.
And it isn't, of course. "Still on Top" contains classic songs like "Wild Night", "Domino", "Brown-Eyed Girl", "The Healing Game", "Bright Side Of The Road", and several others, and the sound is excellent (even if the liner notes aren't).
But I still think that most of Van Morrison's songs work better in their original context. To me, taking songs from 15 different albums and squeezing them together like this doesn't make a really cohesive listening experience. And if it's really Morrison himself who has made the selection, as Amazon claims on this page, he has short-changed some of his finest post-70s albums something terrible.
So this is not a great compilation. It's great music, mostly, but not a truly great (or necessary) compilation. We need a box set instead...