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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below : October 2015
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below (an Astral Weeks blog). Friday, October 30, 2015. No one then following Van expected such a statement.". Wednesday, October 28, 2015. Let down and hanging around. Late last month, Rolling Stone. Premiered one of the four bonus tracks— the first take of "Beside You". 8212;that will be featured on the upcoming reissue of Astral Weeks. Offered an exclusive peek of the much-anticipated extended version of "Slim Slow Slider.". Sunday, October 25, 2015. It delivered t...
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below : Unrefined poetry
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below (an Astral Weeks blog). Wednesday, September 30, 2015. The phrases, the words, the repetition, the coarse blend of English and Irish—it all reads like unrefined poetry, like a timeworn incantation that when fervently chanted, rouses the ghosts of far-removed, long-forgotten places. The mouth of, or approach to, the sandbank or crossing . Hurdleford town or the mouth of the pool . A town at the mouth of a river . Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). More Vaniac su...
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below : A first step
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below (an Astral Weeks blog). Sunday, October 25, 2015. No future can be charted without a starting point. For Van Morrison. It was a song recorded in the spring of 1967. It was done in just two takes; even so, upon completion, the artist—the exile—abruptly collapsed in on himself. "He was just torn apart," said the session's sound engineer. "He was sitting on the floor in a heap like a wrung-out dishcloth, completely spent emotionally.". Let down and hanging around.
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below : April 2015
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below (an Astral Weeks blog). Thursday, April 30, 2015. An ode to an ode. Sweet Thing" is a love song, quite different from other love songs on Astral Weeks. In that it's not communicating a love of Belfast or adolescence, but a love of another human being. In the Waterboys'. Cover version of the tune (which appeared on 1988's Fisherman's Blues. Mike Scott doesn't sound like he's emulating Van Morrison. Back in Larry Fallon's room. Awhile back, I likened Astral Weeks.
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below : Workspaces
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below (an Astral Weeks blog). Wednesday, September 30, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The city of superlatives. A brief poetic interlude. Glen meets Van, Van acts like a prick, Glen plays guitar. Glen Hansard discusses the first time he met Van Morrison. Ill give you a very brief version of it, he says at the opening. It had just blown them away". More Vaniac support group. No one then following Van expected such a statement.". View my complete profile.
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below : December 2014
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below (an Astral Weeks blog). Wednesday, December 31, 2014. More Vaniac support group. Checking in with another Van Morrison enthusiast who is well known in the blogosphere . This time we fired off a few questions to John Gilligan, who launched his unofficial Morrison blog, Mystic Avenue. Way back in 2006 (he's currently at 578 posts; amazing). Gilligan throws up photographs, set lists, gig reviews, recent news, and his own Van-related ruminations. How do you think Va...
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below : January 2015
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below (an Astral Weeks blog). Saturday, January 31, 2015. The best song about Belfast? Last week, The Guardian. Titled "the best songs about cities." "Madame George" was included—and was the first song featured. "Morrison is an exquisite painter of cities," writes Guardian. Staffer Laura Barton. (As a side note, I would like to be reminded of the other cities Morrison has painted as exquisitely as he did Belfast.) "Much of the joy of Astral Weeks. I did for Stylus.
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below : "It had just blown them away"
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below (an Astral Weeks blog). Monday, August 31, 2015. It had just blown them away". When I spoke with John Payne last August, here is what he had to say regarding the legendary extended ending of "Slim Slow Slider"—and ending we will now apparently get to hear thanks to Astral Weeks. Finally, finally, finally! Getting the reissue treatment. August 31, 2015 at 6:41 PM. I will be able to rest in peace now. August 31, 2015 at 6:41 PM. I will be able to rest in peace now.
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below : Strange days indeed
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below (an Astral Weeks blog). Monday, October 19, 2015. I listened to Quintet's Astral Weeks Strange Days From Another Star. It delivered the same feeling I get when watching my children spend 10 hours climbing on furniture, cartwheeling down stairs, doing somersaults on the ceiling, swan-diving off top bunks, and perfecting the skill of sprinting full throttle while screaming at top volume: I was simultaneously jealous of and fatigued by their inexhaustible energy.
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below : July 2015
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Throwing Pennies at the Bridges Down Below (an Astral Weeks blog). Thursday, July 30, 2015. Confounded many upon its release. There is no better evidence of this than where the album topped out on the U.K. album charts: #140. No, that extra zero is not a typo. Yes, 140 on the album charts is blushingly low. Some context: Today, the bottom quarter or so of the Billboard 200. It's three spots below Michael Jackson's Bad. Release date: Aug. 31, 1987) and 10 spots above AC/DC's Back in Black. At the time, I ...
