"Fighting back is the new normal, gonna take a tip from the French."
That's one catchy lyric! A smash, I tell ya!
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Van Morrison's new album, "What's It Gonna Take" is out today, featuring the hits "Dangerous," "Fodder For The Masses," "Not Seeking Approval," and "Fighting Back Is The New Normal."
Bonus tracks on the Japanese CD include "Hospitalizations Are Up, But My Record Sales Are Down," "I'm Fine, It's Just Allergies" and "Have I Told You Lately To Go Fuck Yourself?"
But seriously, have you listened to any of this record? It has the quality of an Enbrel commercial.
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Its very hard for me to reconcile the artist that made Astral Weeks with what he is now releasing. Oh well, "Memories......."
I did listen to part of this yesterday, and didn't hate it as much as the last one. Musically, I liked the sounds (IMO similar sounding to some of The Healing Game) but lyrically it was just as bad as its predecessor. I found it amusing that he released a song called "Money From America" where he declares 'no more/money from America' while he is currently on tour in the US and taking money from Americans.
Bottom line, it's a terrible record. Again. Maybe an instrumental version would be tolerable.
Sal:
Is this his "Old Sock?"
Van the man has earned the right to record whatever he wants. Of course, after buying most of his records, I have earned the right to pass on this one. I have listened to five cuts so far and only one had a memorable melody. Politics aside, the lyrics were boring. Its just not that interesting. Sorry.
It's never about the "right" to record. That's a given. But when something is this blatantly laughable, it's hard to just pass it off as a bad record. Artists have gotten trashed for a lot less.
Van would have been better off doing an album of She & Him covers.
- Paul in DK
I see some parallels between Van and Neil Young here.
Me, before listening to the new record: Yeah! Go older artists! Follow your muse! Keep creating new things! Love it!!!
Me, after listening to the new record: What the hell's this crap??!!??
Bill, who won't be listening to the new Van album
Paul in DK - Ha Ha Ha! Good one!
I'd rather have a VAn M record than not, even if he has gotten a wee bit crazier...and Van was never really from this planet, anyway.
I have every Van Morrison studio album on CD except for the last one. Looks like I won’t be getting this new one either. He’s probably the most-represented artist in my music library. I try to be something of a completist with certain artists, but unless I find cheap used/bargain bin copies of these last two, Van the World’s Grumpiest Crazy Man will come up short.
I'm not crazy about old curmudgeons. Their hermetic thinking is a bore.
Right there with you, Jeff. I have them all except Hard Nose the Highway, which I sadly lost sometime last year. And neither Latest Record Project nor this one is anywhere remotely near my shopping list.
I grabbed his last album for free and gave it one listen. I deleted it. After seeing the song titles for this one and listening to about two minutes of those two songs, I won't be repeating that experience. One of the other songs would have been a nore appropriate title: "Sometimes It’s Just Blah Blah Blah". I hope that "Can’t Go On This Way" is a plea for help, and someone actually listens to it and gets him some help.
Alternate studio tracks for the Deeluxe version:
"What’s It Gonna Take For Me To Realize I'm Making A Huge Mistake?"
"It's Just Blah Blah Blah Forever To Infinity"
"Absolutely Positively The Most Worst Album I Ever Recorded"
"I Should Have Released This Under A Stage Name"
One more- "Not Seeking Approval, Not Getting It, Either"
"Senility, Here I Come" . . .
It's a shame. And yes, there are parallels to Neil. Musically, I love both dearly - dozens and dozens of their records. But both really, really need a good editor.
It's not just Van's recalcitrant 'tude towards a global pandemic that's boring or offensive; in other words, it's not just that I don't agree with that part of his politics. Because I might be turned off by an album of all far-left lyrics too (like some of Neil's?).
It's that it's all just uninspired!
That said, since I'm a lefty and progressive, Van's current themes have a special distate for me - such that I even passed on his Atlanta show 3 weeks ago. Now THAT is a crying shame; that I didn't want to pay to hear his music right now. That kills me, because his back catalog is my favorite of anyone's, along with Dylan, Paul Simon, and a precious few others.
Damn, Van.
All that said - Paul in DK had the best comment yet, lol
fodder knows best
No....no you people are mistaken. A little known fact is that Van was a passenger in the car crash that killed him and a Mr. Paul McCartney. At that point Warner Brothers records was on the hook for the enormous amount of money that they had advanced him. WB quickly decided that rather than eat the loss of all the cash they had given him they would replace him with an imposter by the name of a Mr. T Carlson. Just thought that you should know
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