After further stellar work in the ‘70s, his 1980s albums brought some overlooked and under-appreciated pleasures -which Morrison, ever the egoist, took to heart -spending the following few decades writing and releasing palty, easy-listening releases, never quite rekindling his Astral Weeks greatness. To echo DiMartino, “ESTABLISH THE LEGEND, THEN KINDLY EXIT is what’s unspoken. “What’s unspoken in such stories is usually this: it would be better if these people had died.” Morrison had already made his most endearing statements to the masses by the time Astral Weeks was released in 1968, a record Lester Bangs would go on to describe as “proof that there was something left to express artistically besides nihilism and destruction.” From his ‘60s rock-and-rabid blues band Them to his pivotal pop single, 1967’s “Brown Eyed Girl,” and concluding with the cosmic poetry of Astral Weeks, in a five year window, he’d cemented himself as a genre-bending icon.
Most of these stories have words like genius, tremendously influential, tragic, and legendary floating around in them somewhere, right next to other words like disappointing, personal problems and misfit,” he wrote. What if Van Morrison dropped dead following Astral Weeks? Was CREEM contributor Dave DiMartino on to something (despite absurd hyperbole) in April, 1981? “There are stories about people like Iggy Pop, Brian Wilson, Lou Reed and Van Morrison. Lap it up! And check out more from the CREEM archive, here. , or here, in our reevaluation of Van Morrison’s post-Astral Weeks career. Expect the most deliciously spoiled CREEM, like our take on Lester Bangs’ 1972 review of the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. Because we like ourselves a little too much, every now and again, we’re going to review past CREEM pieces in a series called CREEMAINS.
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