Blowin Your Mind [Original recording remastered]

Van Morrison | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 13, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1967
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000DCH4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,855 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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After a young Van Morrison left his Belfast R&B-pop band Them following a couple of U.K. hits in "Gloria" and "Here Comes the Night," American producer-songwriter Bert Berns brought him to New York for 48 hours in early 1967 to record the tracks that would become Blowin' Your Mind! Berns died shortly thereafter, but the tracks he cut included the song that launched Morrison's solo career--the U.S. top 10 hit "Brown Eyed Girl." Most of these songs have been released on early Morrison compilations, including some on this same label. But this is the original album (plus alternate takes) in its original format with the great psychedelic artwork, and it contains some youthful vocal magic on the soul standard "He Ain't Give You None," the stark and graphic "TB Sheets," and the strange and wonderful "Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)." This was undoubtedly Morrison's first period of transition. After the release of Blowin' Your Mind! he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to work on his next album, the landmark Astral Weeks. --John Sutton-Smith

Product Description

Millenium digipak edition, with original artwork plus bonus alternate tracks not available on the original album, 'Spanish Rose', 'Ro Ro Rosey', 'Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)', 'Who Drove The Red Sports Car' & 'Midnight Special'. 2001. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars i love this album, December 13, 1999

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Evan Streb - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blowin Your Mind (Audio CD)

I think "Brown Eyed Girl" is a great pop radio hit, but my favorite song on the album is "TB Sheets". Probably Van Morrison's all time best song, "TB Sheets" is about how Van watches his girlfriend die from tuberculosis and all the feelings that go through his mind at that time. This song is very personal to me because I've had a similar event happen to me in the past few days.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fine & dandy, December 9, 1999

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Ali Moeller (Nebraska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blowin Your Mind (Audio CD)

Sure, it's Van Morrison. With his raspy blues voice and swaggering lyrics, that seem to get lost numerous times in the music within this album. It's a raw record, with many of the songs recorded on improv, but still, it's worth a listen. If only for the Berns number Goodbye Baby, which is a 3 minute CCR rave up, before Fogerty was every humming about Suzie Q or that crazy Proud Mary prowling down the Mississippi River. If not for undeniably one of the greatest rock songs ever, Brown Eyed Girl. If only for the excellent remastering Legacy did when they cleaned this record up. The quality is tremendous, and the songs come alive like they never did on the older T.B.'s Sheets and the numerous bootlegs that offer the same thing here, but with a minimal quality. If you love Them, you must pickup this record. There are numerous improv blues numbers, and Morrison's lyrics may not be poetic, but they'll get a laugh or two. "I've done more for you, than your daddy's already done". Recomended, but pick up Astral Weeks & Moondance first.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This man is the greatest ever!, December 17, 1998

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[e-mail] Jana (Southern Ca.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blowin Your Mind (Audio CD)

Brown-eyed girl ws always my favorite. You just have to love his music now. He has eaten the dirtand now he spits it out he is so changed and his music and lyrics say so. His music now as always is so beautiful that I could cry. You have to be able to relate to this man in order to appreciate his message. I have never heard a song of his that I did not like.This cd is excellent.