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Poetic Champions Compose | 
 enlarge | Artist: Van Morrison
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music
Buy Used: $23.14
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 40299
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 042283258525
EAN: 0042283258525
ASIN: B000001FMO
Release Date: June 14, 1994
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Spanish Steps | | • | The Mystery | | • | Queen of the Slipstream | | • | I Forgot That Love Existed | | • | Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Van Morrison, Traditional | | • | Celtic Excavation | | • | Someone Like You | | • | Alan Watts Blues | | • | Give Me My Rapture | | • | Did Ye Get Healed? | | • | Allow Me |
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Album Description
Japanese-only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) pressing of this rock album. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Universal. 2008.
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| Customer Reviews:
His best work August 22, 2008
H. Parker Kelley (New Canaan, CT)
This is my favorite Van album. It really is a secret gem of his extraordinary discography. You will not be disappointed if you buy this album.
Beautiful Sound May 25, 2008
J. Fiore (Pittsburgh, PA)
This is by far my favorite Van Morrison album. Bluesy, jazzy, soulful. It's Van Morrison at his best. Put it on, pour a glass or wine. Enjoyed in solitude or in the company of another, this music will ignite your senses, your breath, your heart, and remind you why you are glad to be alive. Believe it. It's magic.
Jazzy and atmospheric March 16, 2006
Pieter (Johannesburg)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The instrumental Spanish Steps is the languid jazzy introduction to this album of understated songs. The album takes it name from a line in Queen Of The Slipstream, a gentle ballad with a haunting melody. I Forgot That Love Existed is another jazzy number with gorgeous instrumental flourishes, whilst Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child has more of a soul or R&B feel in its yearning vocals and has something of the same effect as Blind Faith's Can't Find My Way Home.
Celtic Excavation is an ethereal and evocative instrumental with tinkling piano and a lovely lilting flow and Someone Like You is a slow and moving love song. My favourites include the bouncy Alan Watts Blues with its twanging guitar and the rhythmic uptempo Give Me My Rapture, a catchy inspirational song with great organ flourishes.
The piece Did Ye Get Healed? has swirling female backing vocals and the album concludes with another jazzy instrumental titled Allow Me. The album is quite cohesive in creating a mood of contented contemplation with Morrison's characteristic spiritual undertone. It is probably not considered to be amongst his greatest work, but still a classic in my opinion.
A must-have for Van Fans October 12, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is one of my three favorite Van Morrison albums, the others being "No Guru" and "Moondance". This is one that even non-fans will love. Beautiful instrumentals, love songs, songs of spiritual longings. The best from the best.
A classic May 28, 1998
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This and "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher" are my personal favorites out of Van Morrison's many albums. The instrumentals are among his best efforts in the jazz vein, the Black spiritual "Motherless Child" is done with great depth of feeling, and the other songs run the emotional gamut from the cheery "Give Me My Rapture" to the deeply touching "I Forgot That Love Existed." This album shows off Morrison at his best, and I still listen to it often.
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