The musicians and Morrison are true to the record but not too true as to be calculated. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Morrison and Co. In Mojo’s ranking of the top one hundred albums ever made, Astral Weeks came in number two. Songs have the power to do this more regularly, but rarely can an entire record, start to finish, provide such an encounter. The idea that there is just “great music, period”-whether it be John Coltrane or Nina Simone or Bob Dylan-is the idea that something is communicated that is beyond music, something that is mutually glimpsed, or revealed. But the eclipse of categorization is a result of the transcendental spirituality of the album, not the cause of it. With Morrison’s indelible vocals, adventurous arrangements, and evocative lyrics, the album manages to encompass pop, rock, jazz, folk, blues, and even classical categorizations without being merely a pastiche of them all. First appearing in 1968, Astral Weeks has become one of the most critically acclaimed records of all time.
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