Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
Label: |
Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records – WS 1768 |
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Vinyl
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Country: |
UK |
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Genre: |
Rock |
Style: |
Avantgarde |
Tracklist
| In The Beginning | |||
| A1 | Astral Weeks | 7:00 | |
| A2 | Beside You | 5:10 | |
| A3 | Sweet Thing | 4:10 | |
| A4 | Cyprus Avenue | 6:50 | |
| Afterwards | |||
| B1 | Young Lovers Do | 3:10 | |
| B2 | Madame George | 9:25 | |
| B3 | Ballerina | 7:00 | |
| B4 | Slim Slow Slider | 3:20 |
Companies, etc.
- Distributed By – Pye Records (Sales) Ltd.
- Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse
- Made By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
- Mastered At – Pye Studios
- Produced For – Inherit Productions
- Published By – W-7 Music
- Published By – Van-Jan Music
Credits
- Arranged By – Larry Fallon
- Art Direction – Ed Thrasher
- Bass – Richard Davis (2)
- Drums – Connie Kay
- Flute, Soprano Saxophone – John Payne (4)
- Guitar – Jay Berliner
- Mastered By – T*
- Percussion – Warren Smith
- Photography By – Joel Brodsky
- Producer – Lewis Merenstein
- Written-By – Van Morrison
Notes
1st press with orange labels.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Side A): WS 1768A-2 ✳T STEREO
- Matrix / Runout (Side B): WS 1768B-1 ✳T
- Matrix / Runout (Matrix variation Side A): WS 1768A-1 ✳T STEREO
- Matrix / Runout (Matrix variation Side B): WS 1768B-2 ✳T
- Rights Society: M.C.P.S.
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Astral Weeks (LP, Album, Stereo) | Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records | WS 1768 | 1968 | |||
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Astral Weeks (LP, Album) | Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records | WBS.1768, WBS 1768 | New Zealand | 1968 | ||
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Astral Weeks (LP, Album) | Warner Bros. Records | WS 1768 | Canada | 1968 | ||
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Astral Weeks (LP, Album, Stereo) | Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records | WS 1768, 1768 | US | 1968 | ||
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Astral Weeks (LP, Album, Promo) | Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records | WS 1768, 1768 | US | 1968 |
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Reviews
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this is expensive but worth it considering it is one of the greatest albums of all time -
Edited one year agoDefinitely a shimmering magic to the sound of this UK 1st press . The best sounding pressing I've heard by a mile , and that includes the Kevin Gray version .
Wonderful pressing . -
In common with other orange label releases and other UK releases of Warner seven arts/reprise/Elektra albums at the time, the original UK pressing sounds (to my ears) superior to the origanal US green label pressing in of clartity and texture and focus. There are a number of reasons why this may be the case, but I suspect it's not so much an EQ issue as a phasing issue - I suspect the US masters may have been processed in some way using the Haeco-csg device in order to sound better on AM radio. The difference is staggering rather than subtle, with so much virtuoso double bass playing ringing true and full instead of the flat dum dum dum of the US or Canadian pressings.
Later UK pressings made at the CBS plant with the Kinny number don't have the same sound quality though, and were probably pressed from tapes of US masters thoroughly different to what Pye had been using.
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