Van Morrison - The Complete Bang Sessions (2009)
Artist: Van Morrison
Title: The Complete Bang Sessions
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Purple Pyramid - Cleopatra
Genre: Folk Rock, Classic Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:52:16
Total Size: 270 mb | 660 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: The Complete Bang Sessions
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Purple Pyramid - Cleopatra
Genre: Folk Rock, Classic Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:52:16
Total Size: 270 mb | 660 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
2. Van Morrison - He Ain't Give You None
3. Van Morrison - T. B. Sheets
4. Van Morrison - Spanish Rose
5. Van Morrison - Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)
6. Van Morrison - Ro Ro Rosey
7. Van Morrison - Who Drove The Red Sports Car
8. Van Morrison - Midnight Special
9. Van Morrison - Beside You
10. Van Morrison - Its Alright
11. Van Morrison - Madame George
12. Van Morrison - Send Your Mind
13. Van Morrison - The Smile You Smile
14. Van Morrison - The Back Room
15. Van Morrison - Joe Harper, Saturday Morning
16. Van Morrison - Chick-a-Boom
17. Van Morrison - I Love You
18. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl (alt version)
19. Van Morrison - Twist And Shake
20. Van Morrison - Shake And Roll
21. Van Morrison - Stomp And Scream
22. Van Morrison - Scream And Holler
23. Van Morrison - Jump And Thump
24. Van Morrison - Drivin' Wheel
25. Van Morrison - Just Ball
26. Van Morrison - Shake It Mable
27. Van Morrison - Hold On George
28. Van Morrison - The Big Royalty Check
29. Van Morrison - Ring Worm
30. Van Morrison - Savoy Hollywood
31. Van Morrison - Freaky If You Got This Far
32. Van Morrison - Up Your Mind
33. Van Morrison - Thirty Two
34. Van Morrison - All The Bits
35. Van Morrison - You Say France And I Whistle
36. Van Morrison - Blow In Your Nose
37. Van Morrison - Nose In Your Blow
38. Van Morrison - La Mambo
39. Van Morrison - Go For Yourself
40. Van Morrison - Want A Danish
41. Van Morrison - Here Comes Dumb George
42. Van Morrison - Chickie Coo
43. Van Morrison - Do It
44. Van Morrison - Hang On Groovy
45. Van Morrison - Goodbye George
46. Van Morrison - Dum Dum George
47. Van Morrison - Walk And Talk
48. Van Morrison - The Wobble
49. Van Morrison - Wobble And Ball
The Bang Sessions, as most fans of Van the Man know, present Morrison when he is very good and when he is absolutely wretched. The good, of course, is his first solo album, Blowin' Your Mind, an engaging set of ambitious folk-rock which borrows equally from R&B and jazz, winding up with songs as ebullient as "Brown Eyed Girl" and as haunting as "T.B. Sheets," with a lot of ground covered in between. The bad is the songs that he wrote and recorded in a bid to get out of his contract with Bang obstinate, stream-of-conscious ditties and nonsense that he wrote on the spot; it's interesting in theory, but nearly unlistenable in practise. By bringing together both in one collection, appropriately entitled The Complete Bang Sessions, Purple Pyramid has given collectors an easy way to get it all at once. And this is for collectors it might not be deluxe packaging, but it's a well-packaged digipack with good sound, and only collectors will want all of this in their collection. Other fans of Van will be better-served by either his debut or the Epic/Legacy Bang Sessions CD, since it contains the cream of the crop, leaving the 30 "demos" behind, since they are the ephemera Morrison intended them to be.