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VAN MORRISON - ASTRAL WEEKS - 1967 WARNER BROTHERS STEREO LP WS-1768
GENUINE U.S. PRESSING
STILL SEALED WARNER BROTHERS LP, UNKNOWN GENERATION OF THE PRESSING, BUT BELIEVED TO BE EITHER THE SECOND 1970-1973 OR THE THIRD 1973-1977 WARNER BROTHERS PRESSING
ALMOST CERTAINLY PRESSED ON THE EARLY MID-70 S LABEL WITH THE BURBANK BOULEVARD PALM TREES LABEL , BUT MAY ALSO BE AN EARLY 70s PRESSING ON GREEN WARNER LABEL WITH THE SHIELD LOGO
TWO BREATHE AIR HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP
THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, RECORD CLUB RELEASE OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER AMERICAN STYLE
THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
A NOTE ON THE ALBUM S TITLE: WHILE NOBODY SEEMS TO KNOW FOR SURE HOW THE ALBUM GOT ITS NAME OR WHAT IT WAS NAMED AFTER, WE HAVE A THEORY THAT IT WAS NAMED AFTER THE ASTRAL BUILDING NOW A NEW YORK CITY LANDMARK IN GREENPOINT, NORTH BROOKLYN AND WE SPECULATE THAT VAN THE MAN HAD SPENT A FEW WEEKS LIVING IN THE BUILDING IN THE WAKE OF HIS LEGAL AND FINANCIAL WOES FOLLOWING HIS BREAK-UP WITH THE BANG RECORDS IN LATE 1967 OUR LITTLE THEORY MAY BE ENTIRELY WRONG YOU D HAVE TO ASK THE MAN FOR VERIFICATION, UNFORTUNATELY, IN A BAD CASE OF WHEN IRISH EYES ARE FROWNING HE S BEEN A LITTLE UNCOMMUNICATIVE AND CRANKY AS OF LATELY .
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Astral Weeks is generally considered one of the best albums in pop music history. For all that renown, Astral Weeks is anything but an archetypal rock roll album: in fact, it isn t a rock roll album at all. Employing a mixture of folk, blues, jazz, and classical music, Van Morrison spins out a series of extended ruminations on his Belfast upbringing, including the remarkable character Madame George and the climactic epiphany experienced on Cyprus Avenue. Accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, Morrison sings in his elastic, bluesy voice, accompanied by a jazz rhythm section Jay Berliner, guitar, Richard Davis, bass, Connie Kay, drums , plus reeds John Payne and vibes Warren Smith, Jr. , with a string quartet overdubbed. An emotional outpouring cast in delicate musical structures, Astral Weeks has a unique musical power. Unlike any record before or since, it nevertheless encompasses the passion and tenderness that have always mixed in the best postwar popular music, easily justifying the critics raves.
EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY WILLIAM RUHLMAN, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/
For its extraordinary contribution to the contemporary music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, songwriters and general public, or for some other inherent quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, show business professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, the legendary BBC Radio A R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye, Bruce Morrow a/k/a Cousin Brucie , Tim Rice , Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton, Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc. . For more details, see: Critics Choice: Top-200 albums , Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565 or click here for the complete album listing
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CONDITION:
THE RECORD
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a THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records click here PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID .
b The record is GUARANTEED to come in its original stock inner sleeve
c The record is apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording
d Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording
THE COVER
COVER IS STRONG NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP
The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:
