Van Morrison: Astral Weeks

There's very little I can say about this that I didn't say before. Today's entry is the CD copy that I bought sometime in the 1990s for convenience.

Those opening bars of Astral Weeks may be my favourite beginning of any album. The way that bass line half swings, half chugs, setting up the rest of what's to come just perfectly.

Now, is this album going to be included in Van's current re-issue programme (or is it perhaps on the wrong label, being part of Warners rather than all his post-1971ish stuff which is on Universal)? If it were, and if there were extra tracks, I just might have to buy it a third time.

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