Astral Weeks

Yo this guy's voice blows. Hey man you don't have to shout every single note. Sounded like a drunk uncle giving his all at Applebee's karaoke

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all the songs sound the same (bad, annoying)

Dear gods this is dreary. I'm on track 4 and can't stomach the thought of listening to the full 47 minutes of it.

Couldn't get into it. 1/5

Sorry Van. This album is awful. Way too long and way too much whining. I really don't know what this album does on this list. I've asked a Van Morrison fan and they agreed, its one of his weakest. The songs are just way too long and no dynamic on this album whatsoever. Same tempo, same whining. Sorry Van, I know you've tried your best.

point off for antivax nutjobbery

Didn't really enjoy anything here

I don’t know how much of this I can listen to before turning it off. I mean, he hits the notes, but Jesus Christ does his voice piss me off. The instrumentation is good, kinda Van Dyke Parks or something. But it doesn’t make up for the voice one bit. Fuck this. Almost sounds like someone found a lost Nick Drake album but lost the vocals and grabbed some drunk Muppet off the street to provide them. I’ll just never understand the appeal.

Depressing.

I prefer singing. No yelping, please.

No thanks

I'm sorry bu I need hooks in my music, this just borea me. Sometimes Van sings A LITTLE LOUDER, and sometimes he sings a little softer. That's about the only interesting thing here

This was soooo bad. I couldn't finish it, and I'm usually very good about sticking through an entire album so I can properly rate it. His voice was awful and didn't match with the music at all. I was so happy to turn it off. I guess my favourite song was Sweet Thing, but they are all awful.

could not for the life of me get into this

Not for me

I'd love this if i was found of country music

I'm actually really glad I don't like this clown's album. Smacks of sophomoric insights and beatnik-level effort. He's managed to accurately portray the sound of singing with your head lodged completely up your own ass.

boring

Dit is Kut!!!!

really boring, 1.5 but im giving it a 1 im feeling generous

Fuck no! I was made to listen to this on a loop. No!

pure torture. i hate that voice more and more every time i hear it but especially on this record because of how listless and showoffy the melodies are. van morrison is such a one trick pony. and i don’t like the one trick.

Really not good. A couple of songs are high points. But this is clearly thrown together and badly improvised.

Can’t stand his voice. Songs are too long. A prick on stage. Apparently a cranky blunderbuss as a human. Hard no!

Er is maar 1 Van the Man, en dat is Ruud van Nistelrooy natuurlijk. Ik wilde er eigenlijk verder geen woorden aan vuil maken, maar de muziek vraagt toch wel even om een reactie. Het is een soort klaagzang van een knorrige ouwe man, of eigenlijk meer een krijsende baby, met als enige begeleiding twee violen en een trommel en een fluit. Alles draait om de stem van Van Morrison. 1 nummer kan ik best hebben, maar het is allemaal van hetzelfde en de nummers duren maar en duren maar. Geef me dan gewoon Bright side of the road, Gloria of desnoods het grijsgedraaide brown eyed girl. Maar met dit oeverloze en schier eindeloze gemijmer kan ik helemaal niks. Ik probeer het de volgende ochtend voor een 2e keer en ik erger me direct weer mateloos.

Dit vind ik echt saaie muziek. Soort van singer-songwriter, maar dan van heel lang geleden. *

It just didn’t do it for me.

Fuck van Morrison this shit fucking blows

It took me 4 separate listening sessions to get through this album. hated it from front to back

7 Minute Songs but Nothing really happens

Lauluääni. En kestä.

Van Morrison should really stick with the horns section he rarely uses. It always sounds the best of all his songs. Sadly he instead thinks aimless guitar playing a yell talking counts as music and just bad poetry with annoying sound.

Slow dive and MBV are better

As much as I like a soft acoustic album with a wide range of instruments playing beautifully, I cannot stand Van Morrison's whining vocals. That and the fact the beautiful arrangements felt so repetitive made this experience an overlong drag. The only element here I can think to appreciate is Morrison's guitar playing which fair dues, but still doesn't save it.

I assumed I would like this album, but I really didn't. It felt like there was a heavy focus on the vocals, but they wandered all over the map and the timber of Van Morrison's voice just wasn't doing it for me. His held notes grated on me at times.

Shame he's such a shitbird and anti-science. 1 sad little star.

This may be #19 on Rolling Stones' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, but I haaaaaate it. Van's voice is all over the place and the instruments sound equally haphazard; every musician seems to be in their own little world. The harpsichord on 'Cyprus Avenue' is insufferable, partly because the song is 67 minutes long. Oh, holy shit, 'Madame George' is even longer. Really not looking forward to when his other two albums pop up after this miserable mess.

Some of the instrumentals are alright, but Van’s vocals are atrocious and annoyingly repetitive. I listened once through and that was very generous of me. This list can definitely be cut to 1000. 0/5

Oh do shut up!

This album stinks

an incredible waste of new headphones.

Sucks

There's dull, really dull, and this, extremely dull. LSD has a lot to answer for.

He sounds funny

Super not into it.

I will not listen to this orange bastard

Not my cup of coffee…

This moist-eyed camera hogger again. He's recently started texting me again, trying to rekindle our relationship. I'll tell you now, I am not getting back into bed with this superficial, self-obsessed jizz-whistle. His breath stinks of cabbage too.

This was terrible, was looking forward to listening to the great Van Morrison, but this was terrible...didnt make it to the end!!

kurwa co za gówno wydaje mi się, że od słuchania tego cofa mi się muzykalność xD

Didn’t listen all the way through. I don’t like jazzy Van Morrison. Don’t like jazz.

Arduous and thin in writing. And the in and out belts on tracks like “Cyprus Avenue” were beyond irritating and makes me believe there was an pathetic attempt of imitation of bluesy singers like Mavis Staples. Just some gross ass minstrelsy throughout. The production was buried to a degree too.

Not for me.

Usually I quite like this kind of music as long as it's decent quality - and the well-known singer-songwriters usually are. But with the really grating vocals and the completely unimaginative, minimalistic, yet also squeaky instrumentation - no. Just a big and easy, definitive no. There are albums that I hated more than this one but gave a 2 (such as a Jay Z album just before this one). But those may have had at least some redeeming qualities, despite me disliking them. This one just seems bad in every way.

One song was good.

Awful

Tedious

No, just no

Not a fan.

Demasiado tranquilo, no me ha gustado mucho

dislike

Not my favorite work from him.

De esos discos que no vale la pena ni saber que existen.

it's like someone took a bunch of self indulgent spoken word and added some background music.

Nothing stands out as amazing but it was good relaxing background music. Had a sound and feeling of the late 60s.

Been listening to this since the 70s. Hard to listen to anything of Van since his COVID prevention outrage with the douche himself. Eric Clapton.