Astral Weeks (1968) Album Review

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Music critics combined give Astral Weeks a score of 3.9333 out of 4

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Rolling Stone

He didn't use the phrase for a song title until a year later, but "Astral Weeks" was the album on which Van Morrison fully descended "into the mystic. Read more about Astral Weeks on Rolling Stone

All Music Guide

Astral Weeksis generally considered one of the best albums in pop music history. For all that renown,Astral Weeksis anything but an archetypal rock & roll album: in fact, it isn't a rock & roll album at all. Read more about Astral Weeks on All Music Guide

PopMatters

I was 17 starting fall semester at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, a quaint golden-hilled town in central California. For my first few weeks in the dorms, I had a bovine alarm clock, i.e., mooing cows that decided to test their vocal chords several yards from my window. It felt like, for my citified self, the romantic epitome of the bucolic. Read more about Astral Weeks on PopMatters

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Rolling Stone

He didn't use the phrase for a song title until a year later, but "Astral Weeks" was the album on which Van Morrison fully descended "into the mystic." Morrison's first full-fledged solo album sounded like nothing else in the pop-music world
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Astral Weeks

by Van Morrison

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1960's

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1968

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