Title: Only buy if you have a perverse need to complete collection
Product review: .This was recorded before CD's, and times at about 50 minutes (vs. the 74 minutes some artists expanded to with the new format), and it's good it's no longer (kind of like what Johnson said about "Paradise Lost": no one ever wished it longer).The songs sound shallow both lyrically (yes, he really wrote "on a magic night like this, I hunger for your kiss") and in performance. The band is not his normal band, and comes off sounding like a cold group of session performers, with obligatory this and obligatory that.Many of the songs are padded with nonsense syllable refrains (dum diddy ah diddy ah diddy ah ah... etc).None of these songs make it into greatest hits packages, and I don't recall hearing him do any of them live. (They also haven't made it onto any of his live abums -- at least three since this was recorded.)Morrison does the best he can when singing though, bringing his usual passion, but this is really a forgettable disc.
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