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: #36279 in Music
• Released on: 2007-06-11
• Number of discs: 2

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

Good companion to still on top
Just received this item and seeing the previous reviews i can't understand the three stars rating. As with every compilation there are some tracks missing, even Still on top may seem incomplete for die-hard fans, but having the two compilations together you will have a good overview and vol.3 has many pros and little cons:
- Good price
- 31 tracks
- Complete booklet with album and song information, even players on every song ( that is not very common in compilations, isn't it? )
- Rare tracks included on other artists albums or soundtracks collaborations ( That's life, early in the morning, crazy love, cry for home...)
- Tracks from albums you may not be interested as a whole( Skiffle sessions, Mose Allison, How long...)

Just get it. Its a very good album. If you just want the hits, get Still on top, but this is a very good presented compilation and has a very good price.

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.

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