Quote Originally Posted by Derby Tup View Post
Forget your Beatle band, the Pink Floyd, Led Zep and the Rolling Stones. Van’s Astral Weeks is the work of a genius and a high-water mark in rock music. It’s the perfect day today I reckon to have a listen but then every day is
In view of the recent adoration of Astral Weeks on here, and not for the first time either, I actually sat down and listened to it all yesterday. Every track, in its entirety, in the correct order.

Whilst the music was quite pleasant, and the guitar and flute was good, the vocals and lyrics ruined it for me. Unless they take the vocals off it, to make an instrumental version, I won't be listening to it again.

I gather it wasn't that well received when it was released in 1968. Had I had been a music-buying youngster in 1968, rather than 1978, I wouldn't have bought it; not when I could have bought A saucerful of secrets, Waiting for the sun, Electric Ladyland, Beggars banquet or possibly Bookends or In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida instead.