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The Bargain Nexus - Still on Top: The Greatest Hits
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List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $8.86
Your Save: $ 5.12 ( 37% )
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Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517477933
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Hip-O Records
Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Hip-O Records
Release Date: 2007-11-06
Studio: Hip-O Records
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Killer
Comment: The only reason that I gave this collection four stars is because it doesnt feature my favorite Van track,"I'll be your lover too". Other than that, if you arent going to buy the individual albums(like me), then this is a great collection that summarizes the bulk of Van's most well loved songs. A prolific and beautiful songwriter, Van has penned timeless classics that have endured the test of time. Buy this album and go for a long drive alone with this album as your companion and you'll understand what I'm trying to say.
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Summary: Who Says What Is Great?
Comment: I am now only beginning to get into Van Morrison though I've been aware of him for a while. Who hasn't heard Brown Eyed Girl or Gloria on the radio. This album is probably a good step for some one like me who is just getting started however this album has 21 tracks and his Greatest Hits is a 2 CD set yet neither have Tupelo Honey, and this one is missing In The Mysty. This album would have been complete with those two tracks and there's a couple on here I would have gladly traded for them. So I will now have to add Moondance at some point to get In The Mysty and buy the album Tupelo Honey to get that track. I thought I remembered that song in the Big Chill but it isn't on the soundtrack, so I could be mistaken. One other beef is this album is supposed to be "remastered" yet on several of the early tracks background hiss is easily audible. Even with that the version of Brown Eyed Girl is one of the better ones I've heard. All in all this album has 21 tracks which of most are very good and for the price is a bargain. Van Morrison isn't the norm for me but there is something about his music that just draws me in. He is also very versatile, at home doing his soulful ballads, fun up tempo toe tappers or even the Blues. If you are a fan you may already have all of his albums for the rest of us Still On Top is a good way to start appreciating Van Morrison. If you are on the fence, go for it, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: All the Best
Comment: Love this collection. Has nearly all his best work. I can hear this over and over without tiring of the wonderful songs.
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Summary: Tried and true Van Morrison
Comment: I particularly enjoy 'greatest hits' of most artists because these albums tend to weed out the songs that didn't quite make it for them. This one is typical of that genre so I feel that even though I wasn't a great fan of Van Morrison I appreciate his best efforts and end up feeling like I get my moneys worth.
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Summary: great surprise
Comment: I enjoyed hearing morrisons' great hits on the radio but never purchased an album. This was my first purchase of his works and since I haved purchased three more. This album made me a fan..for life..more music van...
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Editorial Reviews:
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THE FIRST-EVER CAREER-SPANNING SINGLE DISC GREATEST HITS COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS OF OUR TIME One of the best-selling albums of the Nineties, the five-times-platinum, 1990-issued The Best Of Van Morrison, is out of print. For a new, career-spanning collection from the singer-songwriter ranked in the top half of both Vh1's "100 Greatest Artists Of Rock And Roll" and Rolling Stone's "The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time," only one man could possibly handpick the tracks and oversee their mastering -- Van Morrison himself. That is what the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has done for Still On Top - The Greatest Hits. Spanning his work from 1964 to 2005 on a handful of different record labels, Still On Top - The Greatest Hits celebrates a singer who has influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen and The Doors' Jim Morrison to Tom Petty and Elvis Costello. Van the Man has been hailed as one of "popular music's true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon" (All Music Guide).
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