The Essential Van Morrison
28 August 201537 tracks, 2 hours 38 minutes
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The Essential Van Morrison is a two-disc compilation album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released on August 28, 2015. It is part of Sony BMG's Essential series of compilation albums and includes tracks from Morrison's solo output, as well as tracks from his days with Them. The tracks consist of some of Morrison's biggest hits and popular album tracks from 1964 as leader of the Northern Irish band Them through his 2009 release Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl. The liner notes were contributed by David Fricke.
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- Genres
- Garage rock, avant-garde, pop rock
- Length
- 37 tracks, 2 hours 38 minutes
- Released
- 28 August 2015
- Label
- legacy
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Disc 1
1Gloria2:38
2Here Comes the Night2:46
3Spanish Rose3:06
4Brown Eyed Girl3:05
5Astral Weeks7:06
6The Way Young Lovers Do3:11
7Moondance4:32
8Crazy Love2:36
9And It Stoned Me4:33
10Into the Mystic3:30
11Domino3:09
12Wild Night3:33
13Tupelo Honey6:57
14Jackie Wilson Said (I’m in Heaven When You Smile)2:58
15Warm Love3:23
16Fair Play6:15
17Caravan (live)5:56
18Hungry for Your Love3:44
19Cleaning Windows (live)4:24
Disc 2
20Bright Side of the Road3:46
21And the Healing Has Begun7:59
22Tore Down a la Rimbaud4:08
23Someone Like You4:05
24Irish Heartbeat3:51
25Whenever God Shines His Light4:54
26Have I Told You Lately4:20
27Real, Real Gone3:41
28Enlightenment4:06
29Why Must I Always Explain?3:51
30Days Like This3:13
31That’s Life3:49
32Rough God Goes Riding6:18
33Precious Time3:49
34Once in a Blue Moon3:30
35Magic Time5:08
36Playhouse4:13
37Sweet Thing (live)5:37
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Produced by Van Morrison, Dick Rowe, Bert Russell Berns and Lewis Merenstein and others. Engineered by Sam Miller, Brooks Arthur, Elliot Scheiner and Stephen Barncard and others. Recorded by Brooks Arthur, Jim Stern, Mick Glossop and Brian Masterson and others.