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Title: A ho-hum album
Review: I was already a fan of Van from his Moondance album (which I rank among the top 10% of all classic rock albums I own) when I picked up Astral Weeks ... But after giving it several chances I've found nothing special about it.The music conveys a languid mood that shifts back and forth between blues and jazz. That's good, but there's nothing novel in the arrangement and there are no standout performances. The music's simply adequate. Same with the lyrics. They don't reach out to themes of social consciouness, fire the imagination with evocations of time and place, or touch upon fundamental truths of the human experience. The best lyricists of the late 60s and early 70s did this. Morrison achieves it on Moondance. On Astral Weeks one track (Like Young Lovers Do) comes close, but the rest are just someone singing. Without anything special happening musically or lyrically, the album is simply mediocre....
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