Van MorrisonAstral Weeks

Label:

Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records – WS 1768

Format:

Vinyl , LP, Album, Stereo

Country:

UK

Released:

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 ByPye Records (Sales) Ltd.
  • Printed ByGarrod & Lofthouse
  • Made ByGarrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
  • Mastered AtPye Studios
  • Produced ForInherit Productions
  • Published ByW-7 Music
  • Published ByVan-Jan Music

Credits

  • Arranged ByLarry Fallon
  • Art DirectionEd Thrasher
  • BassRichard Davis (2)
  • DrumsConnie Kay
  • Flute, Soprano SaxophoneJohn Payne (4)
  • GuitarJay Berliner
  • Mastered ByT*
  • PercussionWarren Smith
  • Photography ByJoel Brodsky
  • ProducerLewis Merenstein
  • Written-ByVan 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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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
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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, Promo) Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records WS 1768, 1768 US 1968

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Reviews

  • mars_records1620's avatar
    this is expensive but worth it considering it is one of the greatest albums of all time
    • plaffey's avatar
      plaffey
      Edited one year ago
      Definitely 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 .
      • willyrobinson's avatar
        willyrobinson
        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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