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Still On Top: The Greatest Hits | 
 enlarge | Artist: Van Morrison
Label: Polydor
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
Buy New: £4.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 196
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 156
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602517474833
EAN: 0602517474833
ASIN: B000WAEK04
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| » | Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) | | » | Dweller On The Threshold | | » | Whenever God Shines His Light - Van Morrison, Cliff Richard | | » | Moondance | | » | Bright Side Of The Road | | » | Brown Eyed Girl | | » | Wavelength | | » | Crazy Love | | » | Someone Like You | | » | When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God? | | » | Tore Down A La Rimbaud | | » | Wild Night | | » | Gloria - Them | | » | Real Real Gone | | » | Into The Mystic | | » | In The Garden | | » | Saint Dominic's Preview | | » | Stranded |
Disc 2
| » | Precious Time | | » | Domino | | » | Here Comes The Night - Them | | » | Little Village | | » | And It Stoned Me | | » | Days Like This | | » | Have I Told You Lately? | | » | Cleaning Windows | | » | Baby Please Don't Go - Them | | » | Back On Top | | » | Vanlose Stairway | | » | Celtic New Year | | » | Irish Heartbeat | | » | The Healing Game | | » | Full Force Gale | | » | Warm Love | | » | Did Ye Get Healed | | » | Tupelo Honey | | » | Wonderful Remark |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Definitely 'still on top' November 16, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is great! There is not ONE song that isn't worth five stars. I have loved Van Morrison's music since the 60's & this compilation shows just how great a writer & performer he is. He might be a bit of a miserable sod most of the time, but I wasn't inviting him for dinner so that isn't a problem. Add this to your CD collection. You will love it.
 No Astral Weeks???!!!!!!???!!!! November 2, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Don't get me wrong, there are some fantastic songs on this set, but to completely miss out what is arguably and certainly critically the man's best work is inexplicable. Surely 'Sweet Thing' could have replaced that terrible duet with Cliff Richard for starters. Even the box set version doesn't have any songs from his most famous album, it's baffling. Nice to have the addition of 'Crazy Love' which was missing from the 80's Best Of, but that's still a stronger collection. It's a much better idea to get all the albums from Astral Weeks to Veedon Fleece. They're all essential and you'll no doubt buy them after hearing this collection anyway, so save yourself some money and time.
Van is the Man November 2, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Whilst the man himself may be a mumbling incoherent miserabalist this belies the soul of one of the great romantic poets of our time.
From the early years as front man of Them, a kind of forgotten band but their classics Here Comes the Night and Gloria are widely known. His solo canon is quite incredible, he has a style of his own, soulful in a way that polished, modern, oversung "R&B" can never be, love songs of impossible, impassioned and often fragile beauty - everyone knows Have I Told You Lately and uplifting songs such as Domino, Brown Eyed Girl and Jackie Wilson. But there is plenty more light and shade in between.
This is a great sampler that is well remastered and does his legacy justice. Not a duff track to be found. Hell, I even like his duet with Cliff Richard, which has two things that make me rabid, Cliff and God. Now, that is power.
Be warned though - you will be off buying Astral Weeks, Moondance and the rest of his albums now that your appetite is whetted. You won't be disappointed.
 Alison October 30, 2007
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
Another cynical attempt to re-package and flog tracks that can be found on any one of a number of compilation albums (including 2 released this year), probably just trying to cash in on the christmas market.
Van your music is wonderful but give us something new, rather than another rehash,
Another Gem from the Belfast Cowboy.... October 24, 2007
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
Agree with everything said here already. However if you plan on getting his back catalogue, don't leave it too long as loads of his albums are no longer in CD production. You may see these from 50 -200 on EBay!! So you have been warned.
Also don't forget there is a 3-CD version of this Greatest Hits (Special edition)- for the sake of a few pounds more - get that one instead. It has the same cover.
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