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.
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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.
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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.
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