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Showing posts with label Van Morrison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Van Morrison. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Dr. Giraffe's Cellophane Cruise Ship: Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Recordings (1967)
To sever his increasingly acrimonious relationship with Bang records, Van Morrison had to record 31 songs. They never said the songs had to be any good, though, so Morrison did what any disgruntled musician would do, and completely phoned it in. I can't emphasise that enough; this is nothing like the pointed, bitter Here, My Dear, Marvin Gaye's answer to a different contractual stipulation. If Morrison had any fucks to give, they didn't make it into any these songs. The first five songs - essentially a five part suite - all use the same song title template - "body movement and/or vocalisation instructions": "Twist and Shake", "Shake and Roll", "Stomp and Scream", "Scream and Holler" and "Jump and Thump". Things don't get weightier from there. There's even a meta wink of a song called "Freaky If You Made It This Far", although the brevity of these songs makes that easier than it could have been. Morrison's musicianship can't save any of this, because it doesn't make an appearance; he didn't even bother to tune the guitar.
https://media.gunaxin.com/van-morrison-worlds-strangest-album/141941
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Sessions_%2767
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