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Tracklist (Vinyl)
A1 | | Haunts Of Ancient Peace | | 7:05 | A2 | | Summertime In England | | 15:30 | A3 | | Satisfied | | 6:00 | B1 | | Wild Honey | | 5:47 | B2 | | Spirit | | 5:06 | B3 | | When Heart Is Open | | 15:03 |
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Review Van Morrison has an extraordinary knack for inventing brick walls to butt his head against, whereas anybody else would just walk right through. If an explanation were asked for, Morrison, resting between blows, would most likely answer: "Because it's there." This artist has staked his whole career on a wrestle with the unnamable. And unless you're sympathetic to such obsessions from the start, he can be a closed bookseemingly obscure, willful, often portentous, humorlessly full of himself. Morrison's argument is intractable by definition:… Read More he can change lives, but only if they chance to rhyme with his. Lately, though, Morrison has been trying to change himselfinwardly, by way of an evermore-overt turn toward Christianity, and outwardly, via a revitalization of his recording career. On Common One, there's almost none of the knotty darkness and cryptically private imagery that have made him so difficult to many in the past. Instead, as befits the next step in his recent groping for serenity that began with the deck-clearing of Wavelength (1978) and continued on last year's Into the Music, the current mood seems calm and soothing. Yet, in other ways, Common One draws the line more starkly between those who take Morrison the only way he can be taken (on faith), and those who don't take him at all. The material's open-ended, eddying musical structures (two cuts clock in at over fifteen minutes each) practically eliminate the hooks and ledges of conventional rhythmic machinery, leaving your ears with next to nothing on which to cling. And if the lyricsfor the most part, bald homilies about living in the country and being happy are simple enough on the surface, much of their significance is still locked inside Morrison's head. In "Summertime in England," one of the fifteen-minute epics, the singer's penchant for the blandly pastoral is blended with a name-dropping guided tour of British poetry that initially sounds close to self-parody. Since Van Morrison has always seen life as a mystic experience, his acceptance of orthodox Christianity can't help but reduce him in scale. Religion regularizes his cosmology and solves the mysteries he's forever chasing by offering the answers secondhand. In an everyday context, a line like "And the sufferin' so fine" is striking. Put inside the box of Christian theology, however, it comes out not merely trite but distasteful. What saves Morrison and makes Common One, despite its narrowness, boring stretches and large and small retreats, impossible to dismiss is his unwilling, embattled awareness that inner peace is every bit as demanding as emotional warfare. Time and again, he finds that nothing is more difficult than becoming simple, and this makes him seem, paradoxically. more hermitically alone than ever. Morrison is attempting to explain his discoveries to an old audience (or a former self) from which he now fe
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Common One
Year Released: 1980 Used Lp Vinyl Record - Full Refund Satisfaction Guaranteed - 6 Songs 1. Haunts Of Ancient Peace 2. Summertime In England 3. Satisfied 4. Wil... |
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Common One
Original Edition With Custom Lyric Inner Sleeve. Slight Wear, Very Small Saw Mark. Warner Brothers, 07599234621, 1980 |
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Common One
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Common One
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Common One
Cover Good Has Light Rub Wear And Light Surface Creases. Usa, Warner Bros., 23462, 1980 |
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Record Warehouse United States
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Common One
1980 Warner Bros. Records 6 Track Lp W/ Inner Lyric Sleeve, And Back Cover Promotional Stamped In Gold. Vg++/m-. Played Perhaps A Few Times. Beautiful Play Copy. Usa |
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Common One
1980--light Wear On Cover And Spines--slight Wrinkles On Cover--small Cut Out On Cover And Inner Sleeve Can, Warner Bros, Xbs 3462 |
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Pleasure Of List Canada
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Common One
Ring Wear On Cover/ Tear On Cover/ Au, Mercury, 6302021, 80 |
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Timewarp Records Australia
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Common One
(mercury 6302021) Original Australian Pressed Vinyl Lp. Great Clean Vinyl.complete With Lyric Insert. Australia, 1980 |
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Oz Music Online Australia
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Common One
Us, Warner Brothers, Bsk 3462, 1980 |
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Bad Cat Records United States
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Common One
Usa, Wb, 23462 |
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Beverly Records United States
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Common One (1980 Original + Lyric Sleeve!)
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Common One
Warner Brothers R1 3462 / 081227950972(937) 2016 Reissue. Sealed |
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Beaver Hut United States
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Common One
Printed Inner. 32 Netherlands, Mercury, 6302021, 1980 |
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Grooveadelic Germany
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Common One 2 copies |
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Brothers Records United States
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Common One
Wbros Bsk-3462, 1980, Lyric Sleeve, Notch, Shrinkwrap, Moisture Damaged Jacket |
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Brothers Records United States
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Common One
Wbros Bsk-3462, 1980, Lyric Sleeve, Notch |
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Brothers Records United States
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Common One
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Common One
Dutch Mercury 6302 021 With Lyric Inner. Light Marks To Vinyl, General Wear To Sleeve. |
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Vinylnet Scotlan United Kingdom
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Common One
Mercury Price 1 |
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Hip City records United Kingdom
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Common One
Co United States Of Ame, Warner Bros., Bsk 3462, 1980 |
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Steamhead Record Germany
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Common One
Italy, Mercury, 6302021, 1980 |
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wizardrecords Italy
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Common One
Aust, Polygram, 1980 |
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Timber Rain Reco Australia
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Common One
Price 1 Mercury |
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Acousticsoup United Kingdom
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$15.22 |
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Common One
Netherlands, Mercury, 6302021, 1980 |
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Alessandro BAGLI Italy
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Common One
Excellent Condition, A Few Light Marks But Nap, Properly Graded, Collectors Will Not Be Disappointed. Uk, Mercury, 6302021, 1983-05 |
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Common One
Close To A Vg+ Us, Warner Bros. Records, Bsk3462, 1980 |
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Common One
Lower End Vg+. Sleeve Is Closer To A Vg+. Us, Warner Bros. Records, Bsk3462, 1980 |
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Common One (uk Polydor)
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Common One (white Label)
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Common One (dutch Mercury With Inner Sleeve)
6302 021 |
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Common One 2 copies |
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Nice Copy. Name Is Written On The Front Of Jacket Lightly Us, Warner Bros. Records, Bsk3462, 1980 |
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Ring, Edge And Corner Wear Us, Warner Bros. Records, Bsk3462, 1980 |
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Inner Us, Warner Bros, 1980 |
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Common One
Still In Original Shrink With Very Clean Vinyl And Lp Cover (as Pictured And Frame-ready W/no Holes/slices). Includes Original Green Lyrics Insert Sleeve (no Seam Splits). See O... |
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Common One
From A $million+ Museum-quality Collection! Still Sealed, No Cuts, No Holes, All Seams Intact, Shrink 99% Intact. Perfecto! Fast Shipping! Us, Warner Bros. Records, R13462, 2016... |
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