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Title: He just caught it out of the cloud floating by...
Review: With great art like this, it is nearly pointless to analyze the quality of the songs, or the meaning of the words. Someone said this is music of a particular time - that time being the 1967-68 period when the Summer of Love turned into the Long Bad Trip. Astral Weeks transcends the time, but it's as good a guess as any that Van caught these thoughts in his net as the cloud bearing them floated by. It is so dense, so personal, so real, that if ou pay attention you can smell the wet wool of the schoolboys' coats as they traipse in to visit Madam George.For an American parallel creation, check Love's Forever Changes - another particularly haunting tho much, much darker collage of impressions gathered from the collective unconscious of that time.Has so-called popular music produced two finer achievements since? I'm stuck as to what they might be.
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