Van Morrison - What's Wrong with This Picture?
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Artist: Van MorrisonEdition: Music CD
Published: 2003
CD Release Date: 2003-10-21
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- What's Wrong With This Picture?
- Whinin Boy Moan
- Evening in June
- Too Many Myths
- Somerset
- Meaning of Loneliness
- Stop Drinking - Van Morrison, Hopkins, Lightnin'
- Goldfish Bowl
- Once in a Blue Moon
- Saint James Infirmary - Van Morrison, Traditional
- Little Village
- Fame
- Get on With the Show
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Free Music Review: Magnetise the leaves.....
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember watching a TV show with Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot (rock critics from the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Tribune respectively), and they reviewed this album. They trashed it, essentially calling Van washed up and whiny. What album were they listening to?
I've been on a Van Morrison tear since I got his latest album, Keep It Simple, and absolutely loved it. So I bought the "infamous" Van album, What's Wrong With This Picture?, and I loved this one too. It's positively gorgeous and infectious, with some of the best music of Van's career. It's appropriate that this album was released on the Blue Note label, as it is Van's jazz and swing album. It has one of the best horn sections on any of his albums. It also has one of Van's best organ players, Richard Dunn, shining on many tracks, especially Goldfish Bowl. This album wouldn't have been too out of place in the swing in the 1920's. It really swings. Van doesn't pay tribute to that kind of music, he just does it.
The lyrics are generally good, and there are a number of tracks where Van goes after the music business (Fame, Goldfish Bowl, Get On with the Show, Too Many Myths). One reviewer told Van to "get over yourself, fat boy" about his disdain for the biz, but it isn't that bad. Usually there's one song on the evil music biz, but we have four here. But the other songs especially The Meaning of Loneliness (where Van mentions Albert Camus, and says his last name correctly, which most people don't), the great blues Stop Drinking (which Van's vocal really takes off), and the great title track, where Van actually cracks up and leaves it in. It's kind of awesome to hear Van laugh; most people seem to think that he's humourless. Maybe that's one of those "too many myths" floating around him. I love Goldfish Bowl, despite its angry lyrics, as Van's vocal and Richard Dunn's organ make it a great, great song.
This is yet another great Van album. I'm glad I ignored those critics, who obviously didn't listen to the same album I did.
To quote Van from Goldfish Bowl, "the newspaper barons are the scum of the lowest degree/and they prey on everybody/they prey on you and me". Great one, Van.
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