Your favourite 3 Van Morrison al***s

About a month ago I got "A sense of Wonder" (on cd) second hand in Freebird records in Dublin. It was one of the half of his catalogue to be remastered 2008. I never had it before and it was just excellent (as well as great sounding - as Vans' productions usually are).

I decided to do an Amazon trawl of this series and get some of the albums I don't already have. While not adhering to the Greil Marcus view of a 15 year dearth of good albums I had really thought Avalon Sunset was probably his last top notch one.

Then I put on




The Healing Game from 1997 and was immediately entranced and wondered how on earth I had managed to miss such a superb album.

We had a mini Naim night in Dublin last Tuesday and David from this parish was talking about Hymns to the Silence as one of his favourites and this is another I have not really heard.

One often sees the odd Van album showing up in the "What are you...." thread and it would be interesting to see what the forum's favourite Van Morrison albums are.

so here's my (current) 3 (no order)



Common One




A period of transition




You know this one


and as it's my thread I'm allowed a top 5



Moondance





Into the Music



I could go to ten no trouble. For all the adulation he gets he is "criminally overlooked" compared to some artists who seem to make the cover of Mojo every 3rd month


SJB