They knew when to end it. "Astral Weeks" A decade later, on the then twenty-three-year-old Van Morrison’s 1968 album Astral Weeks. Mystic Hotline, the second album from San Francis... 'Searching for the Young Soul Rebels is one of the best albums ever made.'. Stranded - Rock and Roll for a Desert Island # 16 ... 50 Days of R.E.M.

# 36 Green Grow The Rushes. afrobeat, afrofunk, afrojazz, afrorock, african boogie, african hiphop ... Atwood Magazine: Celebrating Fresh Creativity.

He was the greatest rock critic who ever lived in my opinion. What, It Starts With a Birthstone - Albums for June, It Starts With a Birthstone - Songs for June, 50 Days of R.E.M. There are a couple books which are collections of his articles/ reviews-“Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung” and ‘Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste”.


It's a mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morr Clearly, Bangs is feeling ostracised and with the help of this album, was able to justify his lonliness. I have been reading rock journalists for forty plus years and this is the best thing I have ever read concerning rock journalism. So begins Astral Weeks, ... paralyzed by the enormity of what in one moment of vision they can comprehend,” the legendary rock critic Lester Bangs wrote on the 10th anniversary of its release. Yes a great show- which stays great until the end. I can't stand it when shops start advertising Christmas at this time of year. You know he lived through music and had such a passion…that is a great review. Because you're in trouble anyway when you sit yourself down to explicate just exactly what a mystical document, which is exactly what, .
In 1979 Lester Bangs was asked to write about his deserted island album in a collection called "Stranded." Change ), Reviews: Robert Chistgau on Bob Dylan and Lou Reed (various articles). The show doesn’t jump that shark!

Now I’m getting the second and third from the lawyer here. The plan now is to post something every day for as long as I can. It isn’t a new album, even when Bangs reviewed it, but he relates the ambiance created by the music and the feeling of the vocals rather than the meaning of the lyrics. Yes it was… near the end I was hoping against hope that the cops would find Wallace or D’Angelo would find out and stop Wallace from getting killed. He died in 1982 at the age of 33. John Cale was making an album of his own in the adjacent studio at the time, and he has said that "Morrison couldn't work with anybody, so finally they just shut him in the studio by himself. I haven't got the slightest idea what that "means," though on one level I'd like to approach it in a manner as indirect and evocative as the lyrics themselves. This is a fairly random music related blog for things that I'm thinking about, listening to, Pop Culture and the like. Bangs uses many descriptions of opposing ‘forces’ like, for example, he describes the characters in various songs as, “transfixed between pure rapture and anguish.” He rants on about mysticism and ‘meaning-of-life’ tropes, and evewn writes about S&M and pedophilia in relation to Van Morrison. ROCK CRITIC LESTER BANGS REVIEW OF VAN MORRISON’S ‘ASTRAL WEEKS’, BILLBOARD #1 HITS: #347: “CAT’S IN THE CRADLE”- HARRY CHAPIN – DECEMBER 21, 1974, 2020 ALBUM DRAFT- ROUND 10 PICK 7- A SOUND DAY SELECTS- R.E.M.- FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION, EVERY BILLBOARD HOT 100 SINGLE 1970: #484: ” FUNKY MAN”- KOOL & THE GANG, HANS REMEMBERS- TUESDAY OCTOBER 13, 1970- 50 YEARS AGO, EVERY BILLBOARD HOT 100 SINGLE 1970: #483: ” LOVIN’ YOU BABY”- WHITE PLAINS.

The whole ensemble - Larry Fallon's string section, Jay Berliner's guitar (he played on Mingus's, ), Connie Kay's drumming - is like that: they and Van sound like they're not just reading but, each other's minds.

Much appreciated. # 47 What's The Frequency Kenneth. 50 Days of R.E.M. I also like Robert Christgau and Greil Marcus. Yes and he ended up being the smartest of them all.