It's Too Late to Stop Now

This concert seems like a chore

dont make me listen to a double live album

Livealbum

I like some Van Morrison, but this was bad.

Made worse by the fact it was a rambling double album, it wasn't even the best versions of these songs.

I don't like it

First listen

Absolute dirge

This live album felt flat in a lot of ways, Morrison was low energy, the band was soloing with scales, and the songs didn’t give it up in major ways, like in Caravan where he barely even scats!

Everyday I open this tab and I say the same thing. It’s days like this, where I see a LIVE VAN MORRISON record, that it begins to feel like the sweet release of quitting would be just what the doctor ordered. This album cover is the amalgamation of every stupid music trope I hate, but we’ve come this far. Too late to stop now. Ain’t Nothin’ You Can Do - First song and we’ve already got a loosened bow tie and a lean against a piano. This stinks but the windows are sealed and I’m forced to marinate in the stench emitted by this song. There ISN’T anything that I can do. Warm Love - The stationary stones. Fronted by Dick Bagger. Into the Mystic - Hey, leave the mystic alone. They may be a shyster and a scam artist, but you can’t just go into them, magic school bus style. This is your RECENTLY divorced dad doing karaoke. Like this shit happened on Thursday, and this is Friday night at the local karaoke bar. If I wasn’t laughing, I’d be crying. These Dreams of You - The sitcom intro horns. The goofy ass piano. This is live music for people who are only alive by the biological definition. This SUCKS. I Believe to My Soul - Good voice, but horns? This is the best song so far, without a doubt, and it’s white guy blues. The end is nigh. I’ve Been Working - Alright, we’re getting somewhere. No, shut up, Van. More solos. Never mind, we’re just in a lame Starsky & Hutch funk jam. Help Me - A cry for help of the highest order. His vocal yelps are so funny, that I can’t even hate it. I can imagine people just sort of stifling laughter as he’s gunning it white boy style. Wild Children - Name dropped celebrities? ✅ Chilled out (boring) lounge guitar? ✅ Weird grumbling ✅✅✅. We’re back in our rut. Domino - OOOHHHHAAAHHHOOOO Domino’s pizza. Dominos feel much like diners in the way that old white fucks think they’re cool. Guess what fellas? None of this is cool. If I was at this concert, I would’ve assaulted an usher to be whisked away from this event. I Just Want to Make Love to You - Those ivories are being tickled. For better or worse, I am a heterosexual, so I can only imagine the show being in the other foot. If I was serenaded with this song, and called the ace of spades, the result would not be “making love.” It would probably be a restraining order or an organized hit on the singer carried out by a mafioso. I would then flee to Barbados to live out my days as an outlaw. The one who wouldn’t be loved. Bring it On Home to Me - The boringest white guy blues song going and it’s one again of the seductive variety. We’re also apparently on Disc 2. Each passing second ticks us closer to the end of this. Saint Dominic’s Preview - I am running out of adjectives. Have I used ‘abysmal?’ Unlistenable? Tacky? Embarrassing? Valueless? All apply. Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket - Anti-tax anthem. Actually it’s more sterile “blues.” Will calling it “whites” catch on? No this song is actually about - get this - women who just want your money. An earth shattering concept that is most definitely one of the many valid reasons this album appears on this list. Listen to the Lion - Did he honestly say “for da lion.” He’s doing reggae voice. Ladies, gentlemen and non-binary friends and well wishers. It’s over. This is top 10 worst ever. Jah feel? Here Comes the Night - Into the Night, Into the night. Gloria - Makes me believe in god even less. Caravan - Van on vans. They have a violin, viola and cello player? There are way too many instruments here. For some dumb white blues record? Fucking end this. Cyprus Avenue - One last time through the piano laden whites perpetuated by the van man. He’s not making it easy. This is a horrible song and they’re obviously completely out of steam. Who is amped for this? What is wrong with you? That guy has to be a plant. HEY GUYS, ISN’T VAN MORRISON GOOD?! I can play three chords on this old guitar. Sounds just like Van Morrison in here - Dan Reeder. I was waiting for a swat team to dispel tear gas amongst the crowd and interrupt this. If Van Morrison was a van, he’d be the poorly conceived Mazda MPV. Take me a million miles from this. I think I have to go listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan or something, to prove to myself that the white folks can create reasonable blues music. If you were at this concert, my heart weeps for you, but considering I had to listen to this in its entirety in a random Thursday in October, I feel I am almost as aggrieved. Cast this into the purifying fires of hell. Or at least burn a couple copies at a scrapyard littered with the non-functioning remnants of the Pontiac Montana. Let the motor oil consecrate and create anew. 0.5 HIGHLIGHTS: When he got all worked up and yelled. Hilarious every time.

Fuck Live Albums

Live album

It’s not that he’s now a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxer, it’s just that this album is dull. He takes what should be a thrilling set of soul and jazz songs and somehow turns it into a snooze fest. At no point does he seem to be engaging with the audience in any meaningful way and the whole thing just shambles on without ever grabbing me. This is a double album, and apparently only the first volume. I’ll take a pass on the rest.

Painful to get through. His vocals are horrific.

I like him less now

Not on Apple Music.

generic boomerrock Bra gitarr dock, men för tråkigt

same, no likey

Another live album....why? Like Van Morrison is pretty great, but I have no desire to ever listen to live albums.

I know he is beloved and everyone likes him but I do not like him at all. The live versions are even worse. I could barely listen to the entire album.

This is obviously a performer who's having a great time and is completely in his element as a bandleader. I just don't like it. It's like he took soul music and infused it with the worst kind of blues. Not for me, though I can recognize how it would be great if you like the music.

Live album.

Its ok

Not interesting to me, dull blue eyed soul, unimaginative

Not a fan of live albums. Also, too much trumpet 😂

Remove live albums from the list, did not listen.

Fucking hell. Even on the best day Van Morrison feels like a novelty act to me. That dreadful voice, just a mumbling nightmare of an artist. Inarticulate and annoying. Here an hour and a half asshole. No thank you

Ugh.

Hell no.

He's got a good band behind him, but the music and the vocals left me very disappointed. The songs are indistinguishable and his vocal style grew ever more insufferable as the album wore on. (I remember Bring it on Home and whatever song was about a Lion being especially unbearable -- just awful vocals). None of the songs struck me as different enough or memorable in any way; I think you could put the songs together in a blender and what you get out would be the same result. His songwriting palette is small. At best dull, at worst ear-piercing.

It's a Van Morrison album. Ugh! It's a live album. Ugh! It's a double album. Ugh! It's a double live album. Ugh! It's double live Van Morrison album. Ugh! Fuck Van Morrison!

Live albums are in rare occasions really good or prefered over studio albums in my book. With all these Covers this album didnt felt necessary on this list. Van Morrison is not a bad artist at all but this live album bored me and felt dragging to the end. (1.5/5.0)

Meh

Too lame to give a fuck

It's too late now for me to listen to you.

Hate a live album, unless it's exceptional. This was boring.

I dislike van morrison and found this overly long and shouty. The bluesy band were good but he's still a pig.

It's a multi-part live album. No thank you.

Unnecessary and way too long. Even gentle songs like Into the Mystic get butchered by Morrison's live shout-singing and chirping staccato delivery. This was a real chore to get through.

Liked ir

1.5

Is it really too late to stop now? There are so many points where Van Morrison could’ve stopped. Unfortunately he took none of them. That Sam Cooke cover was criminal. Ugh. 3/10

Another album of live music. Still not a fan. And this time I can't even really say I'd like it all that much if it were the recorded songs. These songs just don't interest me. Many of them are repetitive. None of them are terrible, just nothing worth listening to again. On top of that, this is a double album, over an hour and a half long. That drops this from a 2 to a 1. Best song: Saint Dominic's Preview

Live double album, wow. It may be too late for Van Morrison to stop now, but I can and I will.

The best stuff on here is like Credence doing astral weeks covers. Those songs are great, but the live performance doesn't bring much to them. The majority of it sounds like Van Morrison doing Credence covers though, and it's god awful. The choogle levels are through the roof. I'm curious what the case for including this one is - some live albums are definitive releases either from bands that weren't great in the studio or where live improvisation is central to the music (grateful dead, Allman brothers, lots of jazz), or canonical recordings that're essentially high energy greatest hits collections from singles artists that capture their live talent and charisma in a unique way (James Brown, Al Green), or breakout commercial hits (cheap trick, Peter Frampton) but this is just worse versions of songs that at best show he could sing well.

Not really a fan

This is a very unfair 1, but it is november 7 2024, what I need is some good wallowing music, and this is doing so poorly at getting the job done that i’m furious with it

Yes, it's unfortunately too late to stop this damn challenge.

I can't believe I had to listen to an hour and a half of this crap.

In terms of being aggressively mid, this album is a top of the category. There's a huge band, spotless playing, but... Nothing happens. It's beige from start to finish, completely boring. I would have give 2 stars, but the length of this album is an insult to me.

today's album is a NINETY-TWO MINUTE LONG, LIVE, TWO-DISC album (volume ONE of FOUR) by a COVID CONSPIRACY NUT who had a brief affair with SCIENTOLOGY it's not very good.

I try to like Van Morrison. But omigod. A 2-disc live album? This *did* help me to enjoy his sounds a bit more, but I would have appreciated some moderation....it's like being force-fed something at dinner that you only kind of tolerate,and end up chewing a mouthful of mush that you don't want to swallow. For some reason, I have no emotional connection to Van Morrison's sounds....if boredom was an instrument, this would be it. Like Jimmy Buffett and Dave Matthews, it's hard to listen to somebody enjoying themselves so much by creating something so banal.... I'm glad I was only 3 when this concert happened and that my parents didn't subject me to this vocal masturbation. I know he's loved. And I'm glad people enjoy this muzak. I'm just going to leave the show early and wait for you all in the parking lot. (And I'll be listening to the original version of Ray Charles' "I believe to my soul" rather than this mutated cover version...

Live albums suck

The quality of this recording is outstanding. Unfortunately this list isn't regarding the quality of 1970s pop acts live recordings. If you don't prefer this artist, you will not enjoy this. It's long. And sounds the same throughout.

Didn't have time to listen but Van Morrison is a so 1 star. Though I've never heard anything I liked by him before either. Prick.

I'm a bit torn with this one. I really don't think live albums should have been included on this list at all, especially when the artist has studio albums included. Having said that, this is incredible well performed and recorded. However, it is way too long. I could have done without all the covers. Overall a 3 in normal terms, but shouldn't be in the book.

Chato

I can’t really sum up my feelings about VM but this review comes close: Morrison’s career arc looks something like this: He went from being a brash teenage wunderkind with his band Them, to a promising young solo artist (“Brown Eyed Girl”), to a moody, soulful poet casually creating masterpieces (“Astral Weeks” and “Moondance”), to a middle-aged curmudgeon showcasing occasional moments of brilliance (“Common One”), until he slowly devolved into a boozy-uncle type, cranking out boilerplate blues LPs while leaning on his earlier legacy to fill concert halls.

No more live albums

Not a fan of live albums

How much Van Morrison is too much Van Morrison? Based on the ratings for this one, I'm in the minority here. The album is tight and well-performed, but holy. Jesus. Christ. does Van Morrison vamp too much. Managing to take a Sam Cooke classic and drag it out to nearly 5 minutes is a lot. "Listen To the Lion" being nearly 8 minutes is taking the piss, and the last two tracks taking nearly 20 minutes combined? Oh my god. It's nice of him to shout out the musicians, but he takes his time to shout out the musicians during parts where it would've been nice to, y'know, hear them. It's just far too much for me.

I did not listen to this

Hell yeah another live album I tried but I just can't. Two songs in and I'm done

Double Live album by Van morrison ? Yikes … Band are very good , but his voice is so grating . Thankfully, I can easily not listen to this again.

This was entirely too much Van Morrison. Live albums on this list are too much and I think it should be more discerning on their inclusion. This does not need to be here. It's not a great live mix, and you get real tired of the vibe real quick and it just drags on.

I can't be the only one that finds this stuff utterly tiresome, can I? And yet I might have liked it once.

Never been too keen on Live albums- there's only a handful I like (Cash, Nirvana and Who for instance). This is no exception. I like Van but I'd listen to these tracks in a studio album or go an see him live in person.

not really a fan, its nice but sounds very similar in a way that doesnt attract my ears

Still feel like live albums shouldn't be on this list after about 1964 when studios were well enough established. This is a double disc of Van Morrison that contains neither of his good songs. At its best it's like listening to pub rock with a good soundman. At its worst I envy the deaf, because silence would be less dull than this.

Nothing to see here. Basic, run of the mill, exactly what you'd expect barely-rock. 1.0/5.0: Embarrassing

Irgendwo zwischen Chilbiband und Rolling Stones, die Instrumente werden beherrscht und ausgereizt aber der Funken fliegt nicht bis zu mir.

This was some of the most boring drivel I have listened to in a while. Van Morrison couldn't keep a pet rock alive. Truly don't know how it could be touted as one of the greatest live albums of all time. After sitting through all 92 minutes of it I don't want to hear another Van Morrison Live set again. Best: couldn't tell you Worst: Caravan

I've never spent much time with Van Morrison's music beyond the hits, but after suffering through an hour and a half of this snooze fest of a live album: I think I hate Van Morrison

I got bored

I’m good on the yelling.

Live albums have always been a money grab. But I can respect the fact that someone puts together a live album because they want to give you a sense of what the experience was like at a particular concert. These used to be known as "bootlegs". But this one takes the cake, because it's just combining multiple concerts into a double album and presumably charging twice as much. I'd like to give this a minus 1 star.

Get outta here. A live double album of some guy moaning stupid bullshit while default settings jazz orchestra plays behind him. Feels like being trapped in a time vortex. Van Morrison might a manchild crybaby, but his worst crime is making boring music. Zero out of ten.

Another live album from the 70s

did not like the fact it's a live album. not 4 me.

Fuck this live album shit. It isn’t good, not better than the original at least. He picks from his best songs and still falls short. The production is shotty and he often goes too far from the mic and his vocals cut out. Mainly though, he does this thing when singing a line where he waits until the last second to say the line and it absolutely ruins all of the soul in these beautiful songs he’s covering (also his own). I genuinely had to pause the album after “Bring It On Home to Me” and listen to the original. I can say he brings a unique energy that is sometimes infectious, but for the most part, sloppy and unbearable. Sorry Van, but you’re better than this. 1/5

Is Van Morrison one of the most overrated musical artists out there? Yes, he is. Dreadful, whining vocals to go with a dreadful, whining man.

I like Van Morrison, but any greatest hits or live album with a compilation of possibly the artist's best songs seems unfair when compared to studio albums.

i hate this guy

3/10 Boring, long, slow

Ruined his own songs

Listened to the first half of each song on LP 1 and thought, "is it too late to stop now? No, it is not."

Yay, a live album for an absolute bell end. get fucked.

Wow. Subpar Double Album, subpar Soul, subpar Rock, subpar live album. Just about everything sucked. As boring as music gets in my opinion.

usually pass on live stuff

3rd Van Morrison album on the list... and it's a live album, everything about this just completely turns me off.

This album seems like a Most Boring of Van Morrison collection.

All I can say is thank goodness I finally got through this and don't have to listen to it again.