Still on Top: The Greatest Hits | 
| Artist: Van Morrison
Label: Hip-O Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 509
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001007002
UPC: 602517477933
EAN: 0602517477933
ASIN: B000VWYNOG
Release Date: November 6, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Gloria | | • | Here Comes the Night - Van Morrison, Berns, Bert | | • | Brown Eyed Girl | | • | Moondance | | • | Crazy Love - Van Morrison, Morrison, Love | | • | Domino | | • | Wild Night | | • | Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) | | • | Warm Love | | • | Wavelength | | • | Bright Side of the Road | | • | Dweller on the Threshold | | • | Tore Down a La Rimbaud | | • | In the Garden | | • | Someone Like You | | • | Have I Told You Lately? | | • | Real Real Gone | | • | Days Like This | | • | The Healing Game | | • | Precious Time | | • | Stranded |
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Album Description
THE FIRST-EVER CAREER-SPANNING SINGLE DISC GREATEST HITS COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS OF OUR TIME One of the best-selling albums of the Nineties, the five-times-platinum, 1990-issued The Best Of Van Morrison, is out of print. For a new, career-spanning collection from the singer-songwriter ranked in the top half of both Vh1's "100 Greatest Artists Of Rock And Roll" and Rolling Stone's "The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time," only one man could possibly handpick the tracks and oversee their mastering -- Van Morrison himself. That is what the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has done for Still On Top - The Greatest Hits. Spanning his work from 1964 to 2005 on a handful of different record labels, Still On Top - The Greatest Hits celebrates a singer who has influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen and The Doors' Jim Morrison to Tom Petty and Elvis Costello. Van the Man has been hailed as one of "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" (All Music Guide).
Album Description
Japanese only 2 x SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.
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 Missed Opportunity October 29, 2007
B. W. Thew (Australia)
38 out of 54 found this review helpful
Its not easy to rate this, the music is terrific but what is the idea behind it? Who is it for? I'm a fan and I have all his official releases and lots more but this is not a Greatest Hits, he has hardly had any. It isn't a best of either, how can it be with nothing from Astral Weeks on it. The packaging (I bought the 3CD version) is nothing special, the notes are very poor, just a list of what and when things were released. There is only one "rarity" and while its Ok the original release is better. It is now some time since Morrison released anything original. This is a greatest hits, the previous one was a best of and the one before that was a movie compilation. The release before that was Pay The Devil a third rate country pastiche that is perhaps his second worst release of all time. It is apparent that these releases are part of a retirement plan and if so how about the long promised box set? I am more convinced than ever that he has nothing more to say and that rehashed compilations will be the order of the day for some time. I hope I'm wrong but things look distinctly unpromising.
 Outstanding collection November 6, 2007
Harvie fan (los angeles, CA)
28 out of 32 found this review helpful
I'm a longtime fan and finally, this the perfect collection of Van's best songs. All my favorites are on this one CD, especially "Days Like This" and "Moondance" and they sound amazing. I'll be putting my other compilations into storage and will keep this around me at all times. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is also a longtime fan or espcially to someone who needs to discover this unique and incredible voice.
Sampling from a long and varied career November 24, 2007
hyperbolium (Earth, USA)
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
The aggregation of record labels into media conglomerates like Universal is turning out to be both a blessing and a curse. For an artist of Morrison's longevity, it means that a career-spanning retrospective can be assembled without the difficulties of cross-licensing. But doing so in only 21-tracks invariably short-changes important aspects of an artist's career, leaving off some hits (e.g., "Blue Money" and "Come Running") and benchmark album tracks in favor of covering beginning-to-end. On yet another hand, this anthology's producer has done a nice job of selecting tracks that demonstrate the evolution of Morrison's career, and sequencing them in a very palatable flow.
The collection spans Morrison's mid-60s rock with Them, an iconic string of turn-of-the-70s pop-soul hits, '80s ballads, and through to 2005's soulful "Stranded." But in the end, the limited space of a single disc, stretched across 40 years of recording, ends up serving neither Morrison the hit singles artist, nor Morrison the album artiste. In addition to the missing hits named above, key radio tracks ("Mystic Eyes," "Tupelo Honey," and "Into the Mystic") were also omitted, and the holistic sense of landmark albums "Astral Weeks," "Moondance," "Tupelo Honey" and "Wavelength" is left as additional purchase.
That said, what's here is magnificent, starting with the garage staple "Gloria" (a U.S. hit for Chicago's Shadows of Knight, but not for Them) and the impossibly blissful "Brown Eyed Girl." Morrison's voice transforms to a jazz instrument for "Moondance," and the trio of "Domino," "Wild Night," and "Jackie Wilson Said" are among the greatest blue-eyed soul ever committed to record. Morrison dialed it back for 1973's "Warm Love," but re-discovered his faith and backbeat for the joyous gospel-soul of 1978's "Wavelength." He continued to explore soul and jazz in the '80s, adding rootsy sounds on songs like "Tore Down ala Ribaud."
The mid-80s selections show Morrison mellowed but still soulful, his husky voice providing counterpoint to smoother backings on "In the Garden" and "Someone Like You." The latter is probably best known for its appearance in 2001's "Bridget Jones's Diary, Part 2," though it was originally recorded fourteen years earlier. The string-lined 1989 love song "Have I Told You Lately" became a new Morrison signature, turning up on the soundtrack of "One Fine Day" and spawning dozens of cover versions. More blue-eyed soul followed, including the sumptuous "Days Like This," the autobiographical "The Healing Game," and the '50s R&B of "Precious Time."
It's a terrific and surprisingly organic journey from Morrison's garage rock roots through his authoritative, pop, soul, jazz and R&B sides. This is a well selected anthology that could easily turn Morrison's more recent fans onto his classics, or clue early fans into his terrific body of later work. But in both cases, listeners will need to supplement the overview with deeper helpings from the original albums. Alternatively you could pick up a greatest hits collection for Them, and purpose-built anthologies of his early Bang-era material, seminal '70s work for Warner Brothers and Mercury, and the Morrison-curated anthologies of his later work "Best of Van Morrison" Vols. 2 and 3. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a truly satisfying one-stop shop - and with a catalog this sprawling and deep, there may never be. [ 2007 hyperbolium dot com]
So many non-hits and no "Blue Money" November 18, 2007
Delton Perrodin (Louisiana, USA)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
It would have been great to replace my Van Morrison "Best of" CDs with one comprehensive disc and when I saw the title of this new collection, I was certain that "The" greatest hits CD was the one.
With only a handful of hits here in the States, how is it that two of Van's biggest hits are not among the 21 tracks (!) on this CD? Sure, the big hits - "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Domino" - are here. But where are "Blue Money" and "Come Running"?
As a young boy who began purchasing 45 RPM singles around 1970 (at age 5), "Blue Money" was one of the first records I ever bought. I admit, it wasn't the best song I had ever heard, but it had a good beat and the kids could dance to it, you know?
Now that I think about it, I haven't seen "Blue Money" on any of Van's compilation CDs. I have to believe that some music snob (maybe more than one) will write about its non-worthiness or something about how Van always hated that song, but I would say that it was certainly among Van Morrison's greatest hits.
And another thing: How is it that "Into the Mystic" and "Tupelo Honey" didn't make the cut? Did I miss the Van Morrison "Anthology" CD??
Cheese its Van! November 6, 2007
Larry Weinberg (San Francisco, CA USA)
6 out of 19 found this review helpful
I can't say this is not a CD full of great Van-songs but I am bothered (especially on the 3 disc import version of this CD) by his insistence on putting songs on that are not necessarily hits or favorites but carry the message of his born again self. They are preaching and unfair to include on a set that is supposed to be a "best of." There would be nothing wrong with putting out a collection of these songs but then we would know what we were getting.
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