#56
February 1985
Van Morrison
A Sense of Wonder
Genre: Celtic Rock/Soul
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Tore Down ala Rimbaud
Tore Down ala Rimbaud
After two great albums my experience with Van was verging on torpor, reaching a nadir on Inarticulate Speech of the Heart.
He’s much more approachable here but that doesn’t mean he isn’t unimpeachably dull. He is. That starts on song three and goes all the way to “A Sense of Wonder” so I imagine you could turn the cassette over and skip all the boredom and have a nice little ep. But that would mean you would miss the Celtic-Country (Celtry?) instrumental “Boffyflow and Spike”, which is really no great loss. And then you would find yourself thinking, Hey, this cover of “If You Only Knew” is pretty good! And then stab yourself in the ear for sitting through “Let the Slave (Incorporating the Price of Experience)” with it’s lyrics taken from William Blake and such.
God, fuck you, Van.
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