Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Cry For Home
2. Too Long In Exile
3. Gloria
4. Help Me
5. Live Medley
6. Days Like This
7. Ancient Highway
8. Raincheck
9. Moondance
10. Centrepiece
11. That's Life
12. Benediction
13. Healing Game
14. I Don't Want To Go On Without You

Disc 2:

1. Shanandoah
2. Precious Time
3. Back On Top
4. When The Leaves Come Falling Down
5. Lost John
6. Tupelo Honey
7. Meet Me In The Indian Summer
8. Georgia On My Mind
9. Hey Mr DJ
10. Steal My Heart Away
11. Crazy Love
12. Once In A Blue Moon
13. Little Village
14. Blue And Green
15. Sitting On Top Of The World
16. Early In The Morning
17. Stranded

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14665 in Music
• Released on: 2007-06-11
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Album Description
A 2 CD collection featuring 31 tracks, The Best of Van
Morrison is a comprehensive collection of Van's later material and includes
two previously unreleased tracks and features collaborations with Tom
Jones, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and Ray Charles amongst others.

Customer Reviews

Could have been much better
Whereas the first two volumes in the "The Best of Van Morrison" series contained many well chosen classics and favourites, this new addition seems to focus more on live versions, remixes and rarities - which is a shame. It's perfectly okay to release a rarities compilation - but why then call it "The Best of Van Morrison Vol. 3"? In my opinion the compilers should have focused more on the newer "hits" and some of the old classics which were missing on the first two volumes, such as (to name a few) "Into The Mystic", "Caravan", "Hungry For Your Love", "Ivory Tower" and the original (superior) studio versions of "Crazy Love" and "Tupelo Honey". And where are late-career favourites such as "Wasted Years" (with John Lee Hooker) and "Gypsy In My Soul"? Okay, it does contain a handful (or two) of his better songs, but all in all this is a wasted oppurtunity.

Curates Egg
I checked out the listing and decide that there were sufficient tracks that I didn't possess to spend my hard earned £10.99 on a purchasing a copy. I agree that it's hardly a best of compilation but its interesting
none the less. My favourite tracks tend to be the ones that I already have
the John lee Hooker duet on Gloria and the sublimely magnificent Healing Game. Of the less well known tracks I like his version of Shenandoah with the Chieftains . Some of the jazzier tracks leave me cold . My main grouse is why on earth did they include four tracks from the less than wonderful Down the Road ( He ruins Georgia) and only one from The Healing Game. Not including 'Rough God' with its fabulous Pee wee Ellis solo is a terrible ommission

Continuing writers block
Despite having most of this already I paid out my money and what did I get? A reasonable overview with some obscurities, one of which "Blue and Green" is worth the cost on its own. While the music is all first class the compiling has created some jarring between tracks. I've always loved The Skiffle Sessions album but Lost John between Leaves Come Falling Down and Tupelo Honey sounds bizarre. Nearly all the tracks he has re-recorded are done better in their original incarnation and one gets the feeling that with this, the movie "best of" and the country abomination Pay The Devil before them that he has nothing to say at present. I love Morrison's music and sincerely hope there is more of it to come, its now been a fair number of years since there has been an album of original material and he is overdue for his muse to return.