Name	Artist	Time	Price
1.	Haunts of Ancient Peace	Van Morrison	7:10	$1.29
2.	Summertime In England	Van Morrison	15:38	Album Only
3.	Satisfied	Van Morrison	6:04	$1.29
4.	Wild Honey	Van Morrison	5:50	$1.29
5.	Spirit	Van Morrison	5:11	$1.29
6.	When Heart Is Open	Van Morrison	15:04	Album Only

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Our Review

Though Irish R&B singer Van Morrison is best known for such hits as “Brown Eyed Girl,” “Moondance” and “Wild Night,” he is most critically respected for the intensity of his extended works: 1968’s Astral Weeks, 1974’s Veedon Fleece and 1980’s Common One, a six-song album that features two 15 minute tracks where his improvisational skills are stretched to the breaking point. “Summertime in England” is simply nuts, featuring several distinct passages, including a string section arranged by Pee Wee Ellis, that comprise a stream-of-consciousness epic that namechecks Wordsworth, Coleridge, Yeats and James Joyce. Morrison’s voice, his higher range dulled over time, still crackles here with bristling energy. “When Heart is Open” reflects Miles Davis’ In a Silent Way with Mark Isham’s muted trumpet recreating the placid waters from which Morrison grumbles in a meditative state. “Wild Honey” and “Satisfied” retain their R&B roots, but the soothing brood of “Haunts of Ancient Peace” points towards the vague new-age tonality that would shape much of Morrison’s work in the 1980s. One of Morrison’s finest.

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Customer Reviews

You'll be Happy Dancing (5 stars)
My Uncle gave me his huge record collection when I was 14 - this album was the only Van one in it. I used to put it on the record player and fall asleep on the floor in front of the fireplace. 17 years later and Summertime in England is still the greatest song Van has ever done. It ain't why why why - it just is.

A Special Gift... (5 stars)
I received this one as a gift from my girlfriend, who worked at a record store. I still have the record, and wish I had kept the girlfriend too. Love to Becky Lowell...

This is amazing. (5 stars)
A fantastic listening experience. Summertime In England is truly remarkable. This album is super. Thanks iTunes.

Biography

Born: August 31, 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music's true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon. Subject only to the whims of his own muse, his recordings cover extraordinary stylistic ground yet retain a consistency and purity virtually unmatched among his contemporaries, connected...

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Top Songs By Van Morrison
	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	Brown Eyed Girl (Single Version)	Super Hits	3:02	$1.29
2.	Into the Mystic	Moondance	3:30	$1.29
3.	Moondance	Moondance	4:36	$1.29
4.	Crazy Love	Moondance	2:36	$0.69
5.	Domino	His Band and the Street Cho..	3:09	$1.29
6.	Brown Eyed Girl	Blowin' Your Mind!	3:03	$1.29
7.	Tupelo Honey	Still On Top - The Greatest..	6:55	$1.29
8.	And It Stoned Me	Moondance	4:33	$1.29
9.	Bright Side of the Road	Into the Music	3:47	$1.29
10.	Someone Like You	Still On Top - The Greatest..	4:05	$1.29

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