Van Morrison Moondance

Van Morrison - The Alternative Moondance (2018) {Warner Bros 180g Limited Ed. Record Store Day R1566244} (Vinyl LP rip 16-48)
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© 2018 Warner Bros. Records / Rhino | R1 566244
Rock / Blue-Eyed Soul / Jazz / Folk / Jazz-Rock / Soft Rock

An alternative version of Van Morrison’s landmark studio album Moondance, featuring the alternative versions from the 2013 deluxe edition. Featuring two previously unreleased alternative mixes of “And It Stoned Me” and “Crazy Love”. LP cut by Chris Bellman and Bernie Grunman mastering. Limited edition of 10,000 on heavyweight 180 gram vinyl.

Often cited as one of the best live albums ever made, Van Morrison's original „..It's Too Late to Stop Now…“ has been remastered in 24-bit high-resolution audio for the very first time in history.

Van Morrison has performed many times at the Montreux Festival from the early seventies to the present day. This two disc set brings together two of his finest performances from 1980 and 1974, featuring classic tracks such as "Wavelength", "Moondance", "Street Choir" and "Tupelo Honey". With carefully restored footage and sound newly mixed from the original masters, this DVD shows Van Morrison at his very best.

This very well-assembled, handsomely packaged bootleg gathers interesting odds and ends, mostly unreleased, from Morrison's early career. His very early career, actually; ten of the 18 songs were done by his pre-solo career group Them in 1964-1966, while the remaining eight are publishing demos from the summer of 1968. Leading off the set are two unreleased June 1964 versions of songs Them later released, "Stormy Monday" and "Don't Start Crying Now." The "Stormy Monday" take is definitely rawer than the released one, with the kind of eerie knife-scraped descending guitar swoops that prove that Jimmy Page probably didn't play all of the guitar parts on Them's early records. "Don't Start Crying Now" isn't as good as the official version (put out as Them's first single), particularly since one verse or so seems to have been hacked out of the early part of the tape. Then there are four good 1965 BBC live-in-the-studio performances, including…

There are 21 cuts on this Hip-O collection of Van Morrison's Greatest Hits. The interesting thing is that of these 21 cuts, only about half of them will be recognizable to the casual Van Morrison fan, as they come from his Bang sides and the far more popular Warner Brothers singles of the early '70s. As it should be, although there is one glaring omission: "Tupelo Honey" is absent from the song list. The rest may not have been greatest hits in America, but they do represent a fine – if arguable – selection of the material from the late '70s, '80s, and '90s. "Dweller on the Threshold" is here (though it sounds like an alternate take!) There is a bona fide alternate take of "The Healing Game" that sounds more like a well-executed demo and has plenty of Celtic soul.