CC00015: Van Morrison

Tags: 
  • Astral Weeks (10)
  • Moondance (10)
  • The Best of Van Morrison [Mercury] (10)
  • Irish Heartbeat (9)
  • Into the Music (9)
  • His Band & Street Choir (8.5)
  • It's Too Late to Stop Now [live] (8.5)
  • Veedon Fleece (8.5)
  • Saint Dominic's Preview (8)
  • A Night in San Francisco [live] (7.5)
  • Tupelo Honey (7.5)
  • Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast (7.5)
  • No Guru, No Method, No Teacher (7.5)
  • Poetic Champions Compose (7.5)
  • Avalon Sunset (7.5)
  • The Best of Van Morrison, Vol. 2 (7.5)
  • The Healing Game (7)
  • Hymns to the Silence (7)
  • The Bang Masters (6.5)
  • Beautiful Vision (6)
  • A Sense of Wonder (6)
  • Days Like This (6)
  • Songs of Mose Allison: Tell Me Something (6)
  • The Philosopher's Stone (6)
  • Wavelength (5.5)
  • Enlightenment (5.5)
  • How Long Has This Been Going On? (5.5)
  • Blowin' Your Mind! (5)
  • Best of Van Morrison [Bang] (5)
  • T.B. Sheets (5)
  • A Period of Transition (5)
  • Common One (5)
  • Too Long in Exile (5)
  • Hard Nose the Highway (4)
  • The Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (4)
Author Comments: 

This is an entry in a continuing series I call Critical Consensus. I am averaging the opinions of several excellent music critics to produce a list of each artist's albums. The albums will each have a rating between 1 and 10. The albums will be listed in a recommended purchasing order, so new fans will have an idea of where the best place to start buying an artist's work is. These are not my opinions, although, since I have chosen the critics used (and I'm using many), my taste will perhaps seep through a bit.

Terribly nerdy, I know, but maybe this will help people only now beginning to dabble into certain artists' bodies of work.