Van Morrison has completely lost it with new album

Amazing. During my lifetime there’s been a nuclear Cold War that nearly went hot, then a global pandemic, and now the world seems to be sliding into fascistic nativism. Oh the joys of life!

Is this posthumous, he can’t possibly be still alive?

Do you notice how all of the MAGA celebs are like the lowest of the low in terms of how they've lived their own lives? None of these people could even qualify to be a part of this ideal America they envision. Multiple marriages, drug problems, fucked up kids, adultery, etc.

Meanwhile, the immigrant families they think are ruining America are hard-working people in "traditional" long term marriages and their kids are getting educated.

He releases about an album a year. They come & go with no real effect. This will do the same. Van has long been over but for his touring.

I feel vindicated that I never liked his music.

I thought it was weird a few years ago when Van was in a documentary about Bang! Records and Bert Berns, where he talked about how great Berns had been, yet in reality Berns had screwed Van over repeatedly. Said screwing was legendary and Van wouldn't shut up about it for decades, then suddenly, "Oh Bert was fine, he helped me with some stuff" in this documentary, it was crazy. I wondered if he was getting paid for it.

I’d rather hear from that guy who spoke of a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain.

This is the kind of thing that was inevitable if Boomers lived long enough. And not only is he still alive, he's one of those geezers like Neil Young who somehow became *more* prolific in old age. Though at least Neil hasn't gone full MAGA and regularly releases good stuff from the vaults.

"Latest Record Projrct Volume 1" is an inspired title, must say. A double album, no less.

I watch/listen to the "Talking Soprano" YouTube/podcast with two of the actors from The Sopranos (Christopher & Bobby Bacala actors). They have a lot of guests, other actors. I noticed that they all kind of bitch about what coronavirus has done to their lives. Stevie Nicks bitched about how she can't tour.

In reality, they're so much luckier than the rest of us -- multiple houses on west & east coast, can still work as an actor with different protocols.

Hes coming back in the year of the cat R7.

R10 Will he be bringing back Peter Lorre as well?

Rickie Lee Jones has an anecdote about meeting Van in the early 80s in her new memoir. Get the feeling they're both a little nuts, but the thought of him suddenly getting pissed off about this strange woman in his limo (after praising/inviting her) is hilarious.

He has always been an idiot. Good voice and talent, but total asshole.

I used to have a live album by Rickie Lee Jones. She told some very funny anecdotes, including one about a backing vocalist stint for a recent ex-con who was on the comeback trail, where he sung his hit, "Hully Gully", oh and the follow up, "Hully Gully... Again."

Rickie Lee is delightfully eccentric.

Van is a huge bitch baby.

Glad I could clear that up.

A music critic wrote about encountering Van unexpectedly outside a bar:

I recognized not just the voice, but who it belonged to: Van Morrison. Without thinking, I launched into a little heartfelt speech about “how much I have loved your music for many years…loved your concerts…drove all over the place with your tapes playing… some of best memories in life…” etc, etc. Through all this, he just stood there, looking at the ground where the tip of his cane was grinding into the soggy soil. I finally ran out of words at about the same time embarrassment hit, and shut up. After a moment of silence, Van “The Man” Morrison looked up, slowly shook his head, and said: “I sure don't know why people feel the need to tell me this kind of shite.”

That's funny. At least he waited.

One of my favorite singing voices.

Who can forget this purple, Bedazzled ensemble, low kick at the end of the song (4:20 or so).

[quote] and now the world seems to be sliding into fascistic nativism

What the fuck are you talking about??!

This is just too hilarious:

When Van Morrison first announced his new double album, Latest Record Project, Vol. 1, back in March, we were immediately apprehensive. The legendary singer-songwriter had just come off a highly productive but highly problematic quarantine that saw him spewing his controversial beliefs about COVID-19 in the form four anti-lockdown, anti-mask songs (“Born to Be Free,” “Stand and Deliver” featuring Eric Clapton, “No More Lockdown,” and “As I Walked Out”). Thankfully, those were nowhere to be found on the new record’s tracklist, but other titles like “Where Have All the Rebels Gone?” “They Control the Media,” and — most embarrassingly — “Why Are You On Facebook?” indicated that the project would be plagued by Morrison’s conspiracy theories and anger about the state of the world.

We were right to be worried. Latest Record Project, Vol. 1 is a total shame of a record, so bad that it actively taints the legacy of one of the 20th century’s finest musicians and makes the case that it’s time for him to hang it up. As expected, it’s full of references to the COVID-19 safety measures Morrison was so outspoken against, as well as more general paranoia (“I’m a targeted individual,” he sings on “The Long Con”) and vague criticisms of the media (we never do find out who specifically the “they” refers to on “They Control the Media”). He rails against everything from what he perceives as the downfall of Western civilization (“Western Man”) to gold-diggers (“No Good Deed Goes Unpunished”) and yes, the social media platform founded by Mark Zuckerberg. (There are plenty of valid criticisms to be levied at Facebook, of course, but all we get here is “Why do you need second-hand friends?” and “Get a life/Is it that empty inside?”)

No, “Corn? When Did I Eat Corn?” song?

He makes Joni Mitchell look like an affectionate, generous person in comparison.

And I think he may just have outcunted Morrissey.

I’m glad my dearly departed older brother died before this came out. Brother was the ultimate Van Morrison fan.

I never could get the appeal.

Let your soul and your spirit fly, as we sail into the mystic.

This is my confession. I will fuck off anyman who loves Van Morrison.

Hark now and see the sky. Also I meant suck off.

Wow, when did he go nuts? “Madame George” was a great song.

Aside from Moondance, I've never liked him. Total asshole.

This makes me sad but he has plenty of greatness in his past. I watch that version of Caravan every now and then for a few moments of joyful nostalgia.

I don't care what he's like, I don't have to live with this man.

I want to suck him off.

He is a Scientologist AND a tranny lover. Of course he’s a creep.

He's a scientologist? I know he dabbled in it as well as other religions later in life but he was born and raised a Jehovah's Witness.

I loved his "Poetic Champions Compose" album from the mid 80s. It had a smooth jazz theme throughout, but it held to an undeniably Morrison quality. It's a shame to see what he's become.

Unfortunately, Clapton has become his partner in crime. So many former friends and much of my extended family have turned like this. We are living in scary times.

St. Dominick's Preview was my last Van Morrison album until I bought the two-CD set in the early '90s with "Just a Closer Walk with Thee." That one reminded me so strongly of the guy who'd just broken my heart, it went posthaste to the used-CD store.

First Clapton. Now Morrison. Any more music psychos della pandemica?