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Still On Top - The Greatest Hits
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THE FIRST-EVER CAREER-SPANNING SINGLE DISC GREATEST HITS COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS OF OUR TIME One of the best-selling albums of the Nineties, the five-times-platinum, 1990-issued The Best Of Van Morrison, is out of print. For a new, career-spanning collection from the singer-songwriter ranked in the top half of both Vh1's "100 Greatest Artists Of Rock And Roll" and Rolling Stone's "The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time," only one man could possibly handpick the tracks and oversee their mastering -- Van Morrison himself. That is what the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has done for Still On Top - The Greatest Hits. Spanning his work from 1964 to 2005 on a handful of different record labels, Still On Top - The Greatest Hits celebrates a singer who has influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen and The Doors' Jim Morrison to Tom Petty and Elvis Costello. Van the Man has been hailed as one of "popular music's true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon" (All Music Guide).
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 5.57 x 4.94 x 0.41 inches; 3.36 ounces
- Manufacturer : Polydor
- Date First Available : September 12, 2007
- Label : Polydor
- ASIN : B000VWYNOG
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #43,170 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #957 in Folk Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,355 in Pop Singer-Songwriters
- #1,826 in Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) (CDs & Vinyl)
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The packaging, on the other hand, leaves a lot to be desired. The standard for boxed sets was established by the Chuck Berry Chess Box Chuck Berry (Chess Box) , and similar boxed sets. The Chuck Berry Set has 71 tracks on 3 CDs and comes in a nice presentation box with a large format (11" x 11") booklet providing extensive information. The present pinch penny packaging for Van Morrison is in a cheap guadfold cardboard case containing a discography for the third CD only. It's an example of producers turning out one more collection of the same old same old to extract more money from his fans.
So, perhaps five stars for the music averaged with three stars for the packaging (and that is being generous).
But this group of songs shows how consistent he is and how he has been able to sustain his jazzy/bluesy style at such a high level for decades.
I love the horn arrangements. He himself plays the sax, along with piano and guitar.
My favorite, which I hadn't heard before, is Could Ye be Healed or something like that.
Here Comes the Night from his Them days doesn't sound like him and is probably Cliff Richard as it says.
A great song.
Irish mysticism meets the Blues.
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Nach den ersten beiden Best Ofs (1990 und 1993) erschienen 2007 plötzlich fünf Compilations: im Februar "Van Morrison At The Movies", im Juni "The Best Of Volume 3" und im November "Still On Top" in drei Versionen (mit 1, 2 oder 3 CDs). Meine Hoffnung war natürlich, dass dieses 3 CD Paket alle anderen Compilations überflüssig macht. Kann "Still On Top" das erfüllen?
Von der ersten Best Of sind tatsächlich alle Titel dabei, bis auf "Sweet Thing" von "Astral Weeks" (wahrscheinlich aus rechtlichen Gründen). Schade, aber "Astral Weeks" sollte man eh komplett erwerben.
Von der Best Of Nr.2 vermisse ich vor allem schmerzlich "It's All Over Now", aber auch einiges andere fehlt hier ("A Sense Of Wonder", "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child", "I'll Tell Me Ma", "Enlightenment", "Evening Meditation", "The Mystery", "Don't Look Back" und eine Live-Fassung von "Rave On John Donne"). Von den 15 Tracks sind also nur 6 auch auf "Still On Top"enthalten. "The Best Of Volume Two" lohnt sich also durchaus zusätzlich zu erwerben (gibt's allerdings nur noch gebraucht) oder zu behalten, sofern man sie schon besitzt.
"Van Morrison At The Movies" ist eine völlig überflüssige Zusammenstellung, deren Daseinsberechtigung sich mir nicht erschließt. Nix für Neulinge und auch nicht für Fans. Einzig interessant ist hier eine 2007er Neueinspielung von "Brown Eyed Girl", die auch in "Still On Top" gut gepasst hätte. Auf "Comfortably Numb" (vom Berliner Roger Waters "The Wall" Spektakel) singt Van Morrison nur wenige Parts und auch dort kann man ihn kaum hören. Muss man also eh nicht haben.
Mit "The Best Of Volume 3" gibt's releativ wenig Überschneidungen. Hier sind nur "Shenandoah" (von den Chieftains mit Morrison als Gastsänger), "When The Leaves Come Falling Down" und "Ancient Highway" drauf, die meiner Meinung nach auf "Still On Top" gehört hätten.
Fazit: Taugt "Still On Top" - zumindest in der 3er Variante - nun als "All-In-One-Best Of"? Naja, es ist keine perfekte Zusammenstellung, aber wann gab es je eine? Ein Track von "Veedon Fleece" ist auch schon nah an der Schamgrenze. Warum eigentlich keine 4 CD-Box? Für eine 43 Jahre währende Karriere (mittlerweile sogar 47) wär das mehr als angemessen. Vielleicht gibt es die ja 2014 zum 50. Jubiläum.
Bleibt noch der Sound dieser Compilation von 2007. Das Remastering bringt die Aufnahmen auf den Stand der Zeit, mit anderen Worten: lauter und mehr Höhen.
Alles in allem schon eine klare Kaufempfehlung ... wenn man auf die genannten Tracks verzichten kann.