![]() It skitters along on a weird time signature of jazzy triplets played on a lightly brushed drum kit that’s doing it’s best to keep up with a frantically scrubbed acoustic guitar. For me, The Way Young Lovers Do is the stand-out track, but for all the right reasons. It is, ‘serious’ music fans, a 3 minute pop song. It features a lyric that you don’t need a degree in English and/or codebreaking to decipher. Pffffft! What does he know? Compared to the brevity and substance of the majority of the tracks, The Way Young Lovers Do is light and airy. Reviewing Astral Weeks, self-styled barometer of hip opinion Clinton Heylin said it “ sticks out like Spumante at a champagne buffet.” The critics considered The Way Young Lovers Do to be the stand-out track, but, they reasoned, for all the wrong reasons. ![]() It’s a particular kind of album a heady mix of rock, folk, jazz, and soul which doesn’t always hit the mark for me, but, when it does, bullseye! Van Morrison‘s Astral Weeks is a critics’ wet dream of an album, consistently frothed over and placed at the upper reaches of ‘Best Albums Ever’ lists. ![]()
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