It’s one of the greatest albums ever recorded.įew dispute the endurance of Astral Weeks, and to a lesser extent its follow-up, Moondance – so carefree, infectious, and drunk on life that it often feels like a weekend you never want to end, the kind you haven’t had in a while but still yearn for. There are moments of pure bliss - “The Way Young Lovers Do” is bursting at the seams with euphoric jazz “Sweet Thing” describes a love so encompassing that he “will not remember that I ever felt pain.” Other songs, like “Beside You” and “Slim Slow Slider” are defined by a creeping, raw sense of sadness. It speaks both in cryptic, elusive imagery (see the title song, which opens the album) and in devastating specifics (he paints a picture of “Madame George….in the corner playing dominoes in drag” with a painful, aching sorrow). The emotions expressed throughout could just as easily be either reflections coming from a deathbed, or from a teenager experiencing love for the first time. Rarely has an album so effortlessly managed to feel both modern and centuries old.
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