Wavelength | 
 enlarge | Artist: Van Morrison
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy Used: $7.25
You Save: $4.73 (39%)
New (5) Used (17) from $7.25
Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 132539
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731453745827
EAN: 0731453745827
ASIN: B000002GNQ
Release Date: June 3, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: 100% GUARANTEED! Fast shipping on more than 1,000,000 Book, Video, Video Game & Music titles all in one location! Discover Your Entertainment at goHastings.
| |
| Tracks:
| • | Kingdom Hall | | • | Checkin' It Out | | • | Natalia | | • | Venice U.S.A. | | • | Lifetimes | | • | Wavelength | | • | Santa Fe/Beautiful Obsession | | • | Hungry for Your Love | | • | Take It Where You Find It |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Universal. 2008. * Please note these are issued on Universal EU barcodes but are in fact pressed in Japan and include an OBI and booklet.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Or five, depending on your point of view. September 12, 2007
B. Marold (Bethlehem, PA United States)
'Wavelength' written, sung, and produced by Van Morrison is, as many other reviewers have stated, is not his best. It is certainly not as good as 'Moondance', and I'm not even sure it's as good as his collaborations with the Clancy Brothers. But, if Morrison in any way qualifies as a candidate for the new Gershwin award for popular music writing, this album at least is evidence, as with the credentials of the first winner, Paul Simon, of writing high quality songs across several decades. I happened to listen to this album after not listening to Morrison, except on the radio, for several years, and it struck me that one may describe his style on this album as 'Celtic Motown'. Personally, I find him just on that cusp which divides quirky performers who I like, such as Randy Newman and Joe Cocker, and quirky performers (of equally high repute) which I find hard to take, such as Neil Young. And yet, I constantly enjoy listening to this and other Morrison albums, as they are ambassadors from a different shore of taste and aesthetic. I get a bigger rush listening to Jim Morrison, but Van is good too.
 latinodeluxe January 13, 2007
Latinoworm (Texas, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
While this album jams and "Van the Man" is at his best - he's intense and soulful; you gotta be a chump or on drugs to pay $39 for this CD!!! Do what I did (don't get taken), drive to your nearest Best Buy and pay just $11.99 for a new Remastered copy of Wavelength. Enjoy!!
Highly underrated January 2, 2007
Andrew Gondzur (St. Louis, MO United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album is too often overlooked, dismissed and underrated. Listen again, more carefully, from start to finish. Open your minds. Ride the wave(length).
GOOD ROCKING TIME March 16, 2006
Pieter (Johannesburg)
Wavelength from 1978 is an album of melodic rock and soul that ranks amongst Van Morrison ten best albums. Kingdom Hall is a full bodied rock song with a great hook and rousing vocals, Checkin' It Out is a lilting mid-tempo ballad with baroque instrumental passages, Natalia is a meandering love song, Venice USA has a bouncy reggae rhythm, lovely organ and an addictive sing-along chorus.
The slow song Lifetimes with its unusual instrumental mix is quite special whilst the title track with its handclaps and R&B vocals is Van at his most soulful. I love the guitar textures on Santa Fe/Beautiful Obsession, the brooding vocals on Hungry For Your Love and the intricate piano rolls on the mournful Take It Where You Find It, the most spiritual song here.
Wavelength may not be a classic in the league of Astral Weeks, Moondance, Tupelo Honey or Hymns To the Silence, but it still deserves its five stars through and through.
Unfairly disregarded February 1, 2006
Steven Lyle (Sacramento, Ca United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Too slick...too seventies...too shallow...too "poppy". Wavelength gets a very bad rap. From the sturdy opener, Kingdom Hall, to the fabulous title cut with the sublime guitar solo, to the spectacular closers Hungry For Your Love and Take It Where You Find It, this record stands the test of time, sounding just as strong now as it did in 1978. While Wavelength may not quite measure up, in the eyes of some, to Astral Weeks, Moondance and St. Dominics Preview, there hasn't been much better released since then--by anyone--except for a few Van Morrison records.
|
|
|
