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	Astral Weeks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Astral Weeks is the title of a folk-rock and R and B album by (Northern Irish) musician Van Morrison released in November 1968 on the Warner Brothers Records label.
		Astral Weeks was critically acclaimed upon its first release and remains a cult favorite, in spite of never achieving significant mainstream sales success (although it finally went Gold in 2001).
		Commentary on Astral Weeks by Lester Bangs, from the 1979 anthology Stranded
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Astral_Weeks (2402 words)

	Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Astral Weeks is generally considered one of the best albums in pop music history.
		Astral Weeks was famously recorded in under 48 hours with a backing band he barely knew, yet the quality of musicianship -- most notably jazz veteran Richard Davis' bass playing -- is unsurpassed.But the most outstanding instrument on Astral Weeks is Morrison's voice, which feverishly swoops and crescendos at every turn of a phrase.
		Like most great works of art, Astral Weeks is cathartic, affording listeners a momentary glimpse of the capacity for love -- and its resulting pain and redemption -- in human beings, and Van's voice is the perfect instrument for that catharsis, conveying a multitude of emotions.
	www.xs4all.nl /~fsgroen/Albums-M/VanMorrisonAstralWeeks.htm (3024 words)

	Lester Bangs on "Astral Weeks"
		Van Morrison's Astral Weeks was released ten years, almost to the day, before this was written.
		Astral Weeks would be the subject of this piece - i.e., the rock record with the most significance in my life so far - no matter how I'd been feeling when it came out.
		Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and selves, paralyzed by the enormity of what in one moment of vision they can comprehend.
	www.harbour.sfu.ca /~hayward/van/reviews/astral.html (2581 words)

	StereoTimes - Commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was near explosion during the recording of Astral Weeks, (at times over it, according to stories of breakdowns during the recording sessions,) his vocals seeming to destroy the attempts of the microphone to capture his emotional message and the meaning of his lyrics.
		Astral Weeks, the “In the Beginning” side’s opening song, sets a tone of strange and mysterious other-worldliness, the ‘astral’ aspect of the album.
		There is a mysterious female presence in “Astral Weeks” evoked in a variety of images that do not depend on reference to an actual female person for their evocative power.
	www.stereotimes.com /comm071304loveformusic.shtml (2141 words)

	Head Butler - Music
		"Astral Weeks" is Morrison's first real solo album after leaving Them and cutting some random sessions for Bang that yielded a Top Ten hit in "Brown Eyed Girl." It's drastically different from anything Van the Man had tried in the past or would attempt in the future.
		On "Astral Weeks," Morrison and his band --- a hastily assembled jazz combo featuring the masterful melodic bassist Richard Davis --- hunt for a place beyond words, a peaceful home safe from the tyranny of language.
		"Astral Weeks" is perhaps the only overt jazz-rock mix that works, in part because its sparse settings are ideal counterpoints to the lyrics.
	www.headbutler.com /music/van_morrison_2.asp (658 words)

	Astral Body -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The astral subtle body is said to correspond to the astral plane of the 5th dimension.
		Astral projectors are said to have described details of the outside world whilst in projection that they could not have known beforehand, and this has been studied extensively as remote viewing.
		Astral projectors find their firsthand experiences compelling enough to validate the dualism of body and spirit, and believe they have visited another world.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/8/astral-body.html (955 words)

	Astral Weeks and the Troubles
		They were small understandings: how the strings' entrance on "Astral Weeks" suddenly creates drama; Richard Davis' bass, by jumping up an octave in the trombone solo of "The Way Young Lovers Do" causes the song to tumble into the chorus; how Connie Kaye's off-kilter cymbal work at the end of "Madame George" adds poignancy.
		Before, I believed Astral Weeks was the painful story of one man who, by way of his obsession with a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl, becomes the tragicomic figure of Madame George.
		With extraordinary prescience, Van reconstructed the Belfast of his childhood with Astral Weeks even as it was being destroyed around him (or, to be literal, across the sea from him, as he supposedly wrote the album in Boston before recording it in New York).
	www.furious.com /perfect/astralweeks.html (1754 words)

	Amazon.com: Astral Weeks: Music: Van Morrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ASTRAL WEEKS is about the magic of improvisation-- the suspended thrill of playing (and listening) on the cusp of discovery.
		ASTRAL WEEKS is not a jazz album, but it certainly brandishes a jazz mentality-- the triumph of feel over form, emotional release over craftsmanship.
		Astral Weeks may not sound like rock music, but its place in rock history cannot be ignored or denied.
	www.amazon.com /Astral-Weeks-Van-Morrison/dp/B000002KAT (3126 words)

	VAN MORRISON / ASTRAL WEEKS
		When Astral Weeks was released in 1969, very few people got it.
		Astral Weeks was recorded in a marathon New York session in less than 48 hours.
		Astral Weeks points in four directions—Dylan Thomas, Charles Mingus, Igor Stravinsky, and Ray Charles—with Van’s voice a pulling, powerful, constant magnetic North.
	www.musthear.com /reviews/astralweeks.html (363 words)

	Discography: Astral Weeks
		In the arc of Morrison's development as songwriter and recording artist, Astral Weeks is both the culmination of the tentative, and not always successful, experimentation found in the
		"Astral Weeks," the opening song, introduces a conceit that would become the philosophical and emotional cornerstone of all of Van's subsequent works; the belief that love between a man and a woman is the closest mortal, earthbound beings like ourselves can come to experiencing Heaven (at least in this life).
		Astral Weeks' last note is a cacophony of Morrison slapping the body of his guitar, Davis snapping his bass strings, and Payne forcing stray, ugly notes out of his sax.
	www.harbour.sfu.ca /~hayward/van/discography/astralweeks.html (1194 words)

	Van Morrison: "Astral Weeks" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		To say that Astral Weeks is my all time favourite album is by no means an understatement, having only been privileged to hear it just seven years ago it came as quite a revelation, that there was more to the 1960's than just The Beatles.
		Choosing Astral Weeks over The Beach Boys: "Pet Sounds" was difficult, as I discovered both at the same time and was equally inspired by both, but the simple fact that I play Astral Weeks at least once every single week in my life decided it for me.
		From the open drifting beauty of Astral Weeks to the uplifting optimism of Sweet Thing to the mantra like repetition of Madame George, this is a beautiful album.
	www.mcs.dundee.ac.uk /~sanderso/music/astralweeks.html (273 words)

	Adrian's Album Reviews : Van Morrison
		Astral Weeks, while I don't listen to it often, is a beautiful, poetic masterpiece of introspective, emotional songwriting.
		'Astral Weeks' sold next to nothing at the time of its release, so this moving into simpler song forms was perhaps a necessary thing for Van to have done.
		Van goes back to his 'Astral Weeks' voice for this tune, as he also does, to a greater extent as well, for the glory that is 'Listen To The Lion', the central song of the album.
	www.adriandenning.co.uk /vanmorrison.html (5780 words)

	Buy Astral Weeks - Music - Softpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Astral weeks is however a very pretty title.
		If you're wondering why Astral Weeks is widely considered one of the greatest albums ever, chances are you've never heard it.
		Astral Weeks sounds even less like anything like it than those other "sounds-nothing-like-anything-like-it" records.
	store.softpedia.com /product/Astral-Weeks-B000002KAT.html (391 words)

	Astral Weeks
		When he made Astral Weeks, Van Morrison finally tore away the mask he wore during his days as the angry young front man for Them.
		Released in 1968, Morrison's woeful, bluesy intonations are awash in lush, rich and jazzy instrumentation -- a striking contrast to songs like "Gloria" and the goaded stance he had previously held.
		Whether or not he has another Astral Weeks in him would be -- as is everything about him -- hard to speculate.
	www.ten-years-after.com /alvinlee/astralweeks.htm (2888 words)

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		Astral Weeks has lifted me up, inspired me, challenged me, made me think about life and just made me feel alive for over 30 years.
		But time is the great leveler, and only with the passing of time does it become truly clear (sometimes) which albums are the great ones, and which were a passing fancy.
		Astral Weeks is a work of art; it has the sound of a semi-improvised art piece.
	www.neumu.net /drama/2003/2003-00019/2003-00019_drama.shtml (1251 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Astral Weeks: Music: Van Morrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		To describe Astral Weeks (as I sit here listening to it) is a task beyond my humble abilities except to say that it is as involving and rewarding a piece of music as anything else I have heard.
		I got both Astral Weeks and Moondance on CD and although Moondance still remains one of my all time favourite albums, I really fell head over heels in love with Astral Weeks.
		Spring is always in the air every time opener "Astral Weeks" is played with its fantastic sparse magical orchestration and closing declaration of "I got a home up on high, way up in heaven".
	www.amazon.co.uk /Astral-Weeks-Van-Morrison/dp/B000002KAT (1610 words)

	Van Morrison - Astral Weeks - SH Forums
		The current ASTRAL WEEKS is fine, but I remember buying that disc back in 1987.
		Personally, I'd love to hear a SACD disc of ASTRAL WEEKS as long as the remastering is of the same quality as, say, BLONDE ON BLONDE.
		Since "Astral Weeks" was originally reissued in November of 1968, next year would be an opportune time to release a "deluxe" 35th anniversary version.
	www.stevehoffman.tv /forums/showthread.php?t=8606 (1461 words)

	Amazon.ca: Astral Weeks: Music: Van Morrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was also really good but now i realize that Astral Weeks is much Better.
		Astral Weeks is considered to be his masterpiece.
		I must admit that I haven't heard every single Van album (I missed hearing alot of his earlier albums), but this is the best I heard--better than Moondance, Wavelength, and all his newer stuff--by far.
	www.amazon.ca /Astral-Weeks-Van-Morrison/dp/B000002KAT (1379 words)

	Rolling Stone : 19) Astral Weeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Morrison was newly signed to artist-friendly Warner Bros., after a rough ride with his previous U.S. label, Bang, when he made Astral Weeks in the summer of 1968.
		Years later, Davis claimed that the album's basic tracks were all done in one three-hour session, and that Morrison never told the musicians what he wanted from them, or what the lyrics meant.
		Astral Weeks is Morrison going deep inside himself, to the far corners of his life and art, without a net or fear.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/6598003/19_astral_weeks (223 words)

	Astral Weeks Lyrics - by VAN MORRISON : Lyrics And Songs
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		The Lyrics seem to be the lyrics to Astral Weeks But they are (Wrong)
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	Head Butler - Music
		And so the important thing to know is that, in l968, Morrison went to New York, and, in just two or three days and for a total cost of about $22,000, recorded “Astral Weeks.”
		The great rock critic Lester Bangs wrote reams in praise of “Astral Weeks,” but this passage pretty much sums it up for Butler:
		And who, 35 years after the fact, still believes that if you give “Astral Weeks” a chance, you will play it as long as you live.
	www.headbutler.com /music/van_morrison.asp (514 words)

	BBC - Radio 2 - Critical List - Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
		Whenever polls are conducted for greatest albums of all time, Astral Weeks is inevitably always up in the top ten.
		Although it wasn't a big seller, it established Morrison as one of rock's foremost lyricists, drawing on Joycean stream of consciousness and the Irish tradition of the Aisling, or vision poem, for inspiration as well as the more standard sixties influences of the beat poets.
		Morrison would later refine his visions into a more chart friendly version for Moondance and its successors, but Astral Weeks remains his crowning achievement.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/shows/criticallist/must_have_astral.shtml (411 words)

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	THE BROOKLYN RAIL - MUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is by no means a stretch to compare Morrison with outsiders like Shooby Taylor and George Coleman, who, though they were far from Morrison’s equals in talent, made music that was just as intriguing.
		Originally recorded in 1968 and re-released by Arhoolie Records in 1993, George Coleman’s Bongo Joe is, like Astral Weeks, a dark and moody record.
		Like Astral Weeks, it focuses on the darker aspects of humanity.
	www.thebrooklynrail.org /music/april04/astralweeks.html (1558 words)

	Astral Weeks (The Fall forum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I think this poll has been misunderstood somewhat — it's simply about Astral Weeks, not Van Morrison, his career, his appearance, his TV performances, his weight, etc etc. Just wondered what people thought of that one record...
		You know, it just occurred to me that you could remove Van Morrison's vocals from Astral Weeks and you'd have another pretty nice album to listen to.
		REX was bemoaning the jazz aspects of this record and I see the point.
	invisionfree.com /forums/thefall/ar/t2793.htm (2243 words)

	Astral Weeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This album has very little to do with rock, particularly the rock of the period that it comes from (in fact Morrison has and will always be more of a R&B singer than a rock or pop star).
		Indeed, Astral Weeks is a sophisticated blend of country, folk, and jazz.
		Many people often ask what it is about.
	www.themusicarchive.com /intothemusic/albums/astral.htm (239 words)

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