The Rewind Button is a group blogging project that I’m participating in. We’re taking on Rolling Stone‘s Top 40 albums of all time and writing our own reviews of them.

The air conditioning in my house is not working properly at the time of this review. It’s 105 degrees Fahrenheit outside and 90 degrees inside. This causes me great irritation.

Listening to Astral Weeks does not help. I think, and I’ll have to go back through these reviews, it may be the worse album I’ve listened to so far. Van Morrison’s vocals grate my ear drums. The music is better suited for wakes. Listening to the whole album is an exercise is patience. Saying that, I believe if “Beside You” would have been an instrumental, it would have saved this album from my personal trash heap.

As with anything that I don’t enjoy, I like to figure out why. Perhaps it’s the song lengths. I’m more pop, get in and get out. Maybe it’s the vocals. Actually, I’m sure it’s the vocals. Van Morrison’s vocal style reminds me of Eddie Vedder’s years later. I never cared for Vedder’s vocals either.

Astral Weeks may grow on me with age. That would mean, though, that I’d have to listen to it. Right now, I can barely stand to look at it.

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