VAN MORRISON Days Like This LP POLYDOR 1995 EU orig+inner 527 307- 1 THEM
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THIS IS THE 1995 EUROPEAN ORIGINAL PRESSING on POLYDOR label. SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE. The cover is in VG(+) condition: normal wear and without any major deterioration, BUT light discolouration/wear on spines/corners, surface ringwear/edgewear, mild creases on edges, left spine is readable; INNER in great condition; please for details see photos (with and without flashlight). The vinyl is ifrom VG(+) to VG+ condition (barely played but light clicks/mild crackles, to clean?) and plays wonderfully and without lessening in sound quality. RARE ALBUM.
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VAN MORRISON
Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music's true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon."DAYS LIKE THIS"
tracklist
Side A: PERFECT FIT - RUSSIAN ROULETTE - RAINCHECK
YOU DON'T KNOW ME - NO RELIGION - UNDERLYING DEPRESSION
Side B: SONGWRITER - DAYS LIKE THIS - I'LL NEVER BE FREE - MELANCHOLIA
ANCIENT HIGHWAY - IN THE AFTERNOON
1995 LP POLYDOR RECORDS 527 307- 1
MADE IN EU ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 7 31452 73071 8
Label Code: LC 0309
Price Code: PY281
Rights Society: BIEM/STEMRA
LABEL: POLYDOR/EXILE - BLACK LABEL w/WHITE RIM & TEXT
Catalog on cover: 527 307-1
Catalog on labels: 527 307-1
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): DFI 95 4 5 2 7307 -1 A1 Ⓜ
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): DFI 95- 4 527 307 1 B1 Ⓜ
On labels: rim text reads
"The copyright.....to Polydor Ltd (UK).....© 1995 Exile Productions Ltd. LC0309 PY281 BIEM STEMRA Stereo"
On Back Cover: Tracklist
The copyright..............prohibited.
Polydor Exile (logos)
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RECORD from VG(+) to VG+ but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Van Morrison's 22nd album of new studio material will have a familiar sound to anyone who has followed his career thus far. The songs are set to steady mid-tempo grooves, with tasty guitar and organ solos and warm horn charts, over which Morrison sings in his butterscotch baritone, employing his characteristic slurs and repetitions, exploring topics that have interested him over the years. If there is any difference from earlier works, it is one of degree: Days Like This is typically introspective and given over to spiritual, psychological, and romantic concerns, but its songs are unusually straightforward. Beginning with a direct, up-tempo love song, "Perfect Fit," Morrison provides a statement of purpose in "Raincheck" ("Won't let the bastards get me down...I don't fade away, unless I want to"), yet confesses to doubt ("Underlying Depression," "Melancholia"). He matter-of-factly describes his profession ("Songwriter"), and discounts spirituality, at least in formal terms ("No Religion"), though in the extended song "Ancient Highway" he prays to "my higher self." In the title song, he turns the usual cliché on its head -- the "Days Like This" he means are the good ones, "when everything falls into place like the flick of a switch." Morrison changes the pace with two covers of 1950s oldies, the '56 Eddy Arnold hit "You Don't Know Me," and the '50 Kay Starr and Tennessee Ernie Ford hit "I'll Never Be Free," on both of which he duets with his daughter Shana. As he approaches 50, Van Morrison remains interested in the same subjects and is able to sing about them with the same forcefulness. "I cleaned up my diction, I had nothing left to say," he confesses at one point. Nothing new, perhaps, but on Days Like This Morrison says some of the same things with a new clarity...(AllMusic)
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