Blowin' Your Mind! | 
 enlarge | Artist: Van Morrison
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $7.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1175772
Media: Audio Cassette
UPC: 074646575147
EAN: 0074646575147
ASIN: B00000DM0J
Release Date: October 13, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Brown Eyed Girl | | • | He Ain't Give You None | | • | T.B. Sheets | | • | Spanish Rose | | • | Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) - Van Morrison, Farrell, Wes | | • | Ro Ro Rosey | | • | Who Drove the Red Sports Car | | • | Midnight Special | | • | Spanish Rose | | • | Ro Ro Rosey | | • | Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) - Van Morrison, Farrell, Wes | | • | Who Drove the Red Sports Car | | • | Midnight Special |
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After a young Van Morrison left his Belfast R&B-pop band Them following a couple of U.K. hits in "Gloria" and "Here Comes the Night," American producer-songwriter Bert Berns brought him to New York for 48 hours in early 1967 to record the tracks that would become Blowin' Your Mind! Berns died shortly thereafter, but the tracks he cut included the song that launched Morrison's solo career--the U.S. top 10 hit "Brown Eyed Girl." Most of these songs have been released on early Morrison compilations, including some on this same label. But this is the original album (plus alternate takes) in its original format with the great psychedelic artwork, and it contains some youthful vocal magic on the soul standard "He Ain't Give You None," the stark and graphic "TB Sheets," and the strange and wonderful "Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)." This was undoubtedly Morrison's first period of transition. After the release of Blowin' Your Mind! he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to work on his next album, the landmark Astral Weeks. --John Sutton-Smith
Album Description
It was a brand new day for Van Morrison when the Belfast, Ireland legend cut Blowin' Your Mind!, his spellbinding 1967 debut solo album! Fresh from a string of smash singles fronting British Invasion heroes Them, Van rode "Brown Eyed Girl," one of the all-time great teen-angst tales, to the top of the charts, then sailed off into the mystic with haunting, slowed-down classics like "He Ain't Give You None," "T.B. Sheets" and "Who Drove the Red Sports Car." Blowin' Your Mind! is a hypnotic tour de force that ranks with the very best material Van Morrison ever recorded.
Album Description
Millenium digipak edition, with original artwork plus bonus alternate tracks not available on the original album, 'Spanish Rose', 'Ro Ro Rosey', 'Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)', 'Who Drove The Red Sports Car' & 'Midnight Special'. 2001.
Album Details
Digitally Remastered Millennium Edition with Tri-fold Digipack Packaging.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Van would improve by leaps and bounds October 5, 2007
finulanu (Here, there, and everywhere)
A lower-tier release with some truly high points, most notably the wonderful pop tune "Brown Eyed Girl" - still today his most famous song; the claustrophobic, melancholic, drawn-out blues "T.B. Sheets"; and the rocker "Goodbye Baby", which makes up for its idiotic lyrics and cheesy backup vocals with a stingni guitar riff. Elsewhere, there are all kinds of ill-advised, clunky experiments, including Latin ("Spanish Rose") and psychedelic blues ("He Ain't Give You None"), as well as a miserable "La Bamba" rip-off with clumsy acid guitar ("Ro Ro Rosey"), and the turgid blues "Who Drove the Red Sports Car"; the cover of "Midnight Special" has a bass line remarkably similar to "Get Ready"'s, and is laced with really cheesy backing vocals. Van gives his all on the track, but the fact is it's not much of a song at all: that, and I've heard way too many covers of it. For those curious, these same recordings have been repackaged under a huge variety of different names - most of them contain awful early versions of "Madame George" and "Beside You", without the mystique the takes on Astral Weeks would have: the former is remade as a ho-hum psychedelic rocker with frustrating shouts from partygoers, and the latter is a dorky soul-blues hybrid. The fact is that very few of the Bang recordings are worth investigating in the first place, so it's annoying that they were re-released so often, and it doesn't help that the record company gluttons most likely keep all the money they make off them from Van, the guy who deserves them. Morrison would jump leaps and bounds above this one on the next album (Astral Weeks) alone. Not a single song on this album really points in that direction, so it's of minimal interest to collectors either. Since you've heard "Brown Eyed Girl" a quagagoolion times on the radio anyway (and the fact is I absolutely adore that one - never get tired of it), the only real find is "T.B. Sheets". I would definitely pick Astral Weeks, Moondance, His Band and the Street Choir, Tupelo Honey, Veedon Fleece and Magic Time above this one as starting points.
 Necessary for your rock collection February 11, 2007
Rhys M. Berryman (Great Falls, MT (USA))
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Van Morrison was actually an excellent vocalist, and a few cuts on this album prove his abilities. Unfortunately, he makes an early attempt at rap, which adds nothing to the program. Brown-Eyed Girl is a classic, and there are a few other cuts nearly as good. If you collect classic rock, this album is a must, even though it is mediocre. However, Van Morrison is NOT a mediocre performer or songwriter. The CD is worth buying.
 IT AINT ALL ABOUT BROWN EYED GIRL September 20, 2005
wally gator (USA)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Since I've heard that song Ten thousand bagillion times since I was like two years old, I can't say that BROWN EYED GIRL really gets me all that excited. You know, its cool.
VAN MORRISONs first solo record is probably my favorite of VANS. I like others, (though definatley not all of his highly ecclectic collection).
This is an "on-the-fly" sounding album, where BROWN EYED is the only song that actually sounds produced. DONT BE FOOOLED, this was no accident. This is how it was s'posed to sound.
VAN still had the raw voice in him from his THEM days ( check out a THEM collection also, very cool ) yet was becoming more refined. Somewhere in the middle we get these rambling, half singing, half talking rants where the band rocks on half blues half jazz jams. Together it makes a hell of a package.
THERE ARE PACKAGES out there that contain this album, less BROWN EYED and more jam material under different names but BLOWIN YOUR MIND is the original cut.
NOTEWORTHY:
TB SHEETS: is absolutely the JAM! I cant say anymore, you may have seen it featured in the opening credits of BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, the movie with Nicholas cage.
RO RO ROSY: another good jam
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL: good stuff.
SHAME on the bonus cuts, there are a lot of tracks that can be found on other mixes of this album that are not here and instead of all alternate cuts there could have been some of these. IN THE BACKROOM is a track that is greatly missed here.
P.S the one star rating was a mistake, I'd change it if I could, but it actually gets 4 1/2. The only reason it ain't five is cuz no IN THE BACKROOM.
i love this album December 14, 1999
Evan Streb (ohio)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I think "Brown Eyed Girl" is a great pop radio hit, but my favorite song on the album is "TB Sheets". Probably Van Morrison's all time best song, "TB Sheets" is about how Van watches his girlfriend die from tuberculosis and all the feelings that go through his mind at that time. This song is very personal to me because I've had a similar event happen to me in the past few days.
Fine & dandy December 10, 1999
Ali Moeller (Nebraska)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sure, it's Van Morrison. With his raspy blues voice and swaggering lyrics, that seem to get lost numerous times in the music within this album. It's a raw record, with many of the songs recorded on improv, but still, it's worth a listen. If only for the Berns number Goodbye Baby, which is a 3 minute CCR rave up, before Fogerty was every humming about Suzie Q or that crazy Proud Mary prowling down the Mississippi River. If not for undeniably one of the greatest rock songs ever, Brown Eyed Girl. If only for the excellent remastering Legacy did when they cleaned this record up. The quality is tremendous, and the songs come alive like they never did on the older T.B.'s Sheets and the numerous bootlegs that offer the same thing here, but with a minimal quality. If you love Them, you must pickup this record. There are numerous improv blues numbers, and Morrison's lyrics may not be poetic, but they'll get a laugh or two. "I've done more for you, than your daddy's already done". Recomended, but pick up Astral Weeks & Moondance first.
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