Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
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Free Music Review: Just another voice in praise...
Hit: 5 Stars
...I can't really say any more about this album as all others have simply drained my thoughts. Something very special happening here. Lay back and drift along with this and at the end you feel as if you've just been on a long revealing journey. Not many albums can transport me like this one. Vintage Van; as I said twenty years ago, I continue looking forward to growing old with this unique talent.Free Music Review: He really doesn't get the credit he deserves
Hit: 5 Stars
This is simply my opinion and I don't want to be a preachy, but this is probably one of the best albums I've heard. Not many people can sing like Van. I'm not talking about how long he can hold a note, but how much soul he can put into his words is just amazing to me. For me, this album is just great art and to try to describe it any better than that would be impossible.Free Music Review: the best cd i own
Hit: 5 Stars
this cd veedon fleece is my favorite of all time the songs bring out emotions in me i cannot control a lot of tears shed of love life and just plain nature the song comfort you is on my list as maybe my wedding song to my bride shela im tryin to get her into van maybe she will i hope she buys this one it is a treasure not duplicated or ever will be from the greatest artist ever sorry elvisFree Music Review: veedon fleece revisited
Hit: 5 Stars
there's simply no standard to apply to this album. it sold too poorly. it was recieved indifferently, and it is not stocked in record stores today next to astral weeeks, moondance, tupelo honey, etc., etc. no, no, not at all. [...] still gives it a four-and-a-half outta five stars---sales have simply been far too poor. [....] i got this album at a local record shop who had it stashed behind a bunch of kingston trios and neil diamond vinyl forgettables. the vinyl seemed to have sat on a shelf far too long. the only label was the one recently applied by its then owner, the record store---[....] i had not heard a single track off the lp. i was frankly a bit scared. would this soil me on morrison? i had purchased a very good condition vinyl copy of another side of bob dylan. i had heard a few of the tracks---chimes, back pages, all i really wanna do, and some others; i put it on first. it was good dylan, it's considered the end of dylan's solo records. so i put on veedon fleece. my jaw drops; racin' thru my mind: wow! that's his best singing he's ever put on record! laudy laud! and look at this sequencing, he starts out with a dreamy, surreal track, completely different than the driving astral weeks, the slick nostalgia of "and it stoned me," and the dance floor classic "domino," no, this one had no place, kinda like the record released in 1974--not the kinda thing an audience primed for the explosion of disco wants to hear. but low and behold it goes on--a recorder, a flute, beautiful celtic touches morrison was just starting to fully explore. and then the C&W of "cul-de-sac," wow. van can still scream. it's astral weeks revisted, but not. it's got the arrangement genius of moondance and the protaganist is now adult. compare "comfort you" to "the way young lovers do" and you see my point. and then there's oscar wilde, poe, thoreau, and of course the radio, and paperback novels, and architecture, and this is the veedon fleece: this is why van morrison disappeared for three years after this recording. he went, as jason searched for the golden fleece, to search for the veedon fleece, van's personal symbol of all that is essential and good. veedon fleece is an incredibly personal album, filled with heroism and history and everything in between. it got morrison moving, and it can do the same to the listener; at least to those fortunate to come in contact with this album. to finish my story about the dylan-morrison thing, well, morrison's official output was zero. dylan left the folk world after his "other side." it seems i was about to change too.Free Music Review: One of Van Morrison's True Masterworks
Hit: 5 Stars
In my estimation, Veedon Fleece, among Van Morrison's albums, is second only to the incomparable Astral Weeks. While this album is composed of songs as strong as those on Astral Weeks, it does not function quite as well as an album. "Fair Play" is arguably the best fall asleep on a summer day song ever, and "You don't Pull No Punches" the best of his epic vocal improvisation songs. My only real problem with this album is that Van employs an upright bass for the first few tracks, switching over to an electric bass guitar for the majority of album. Though all the tracks with the electric bass are eccellent, I think they would have been better with the upright. It would most likely lent the coherency that would have made Veedon Fleece function better as an album. That said, it is still one of Van Morrison's best recordings, and one of pop music's best albums of all time.