The Best of Van Morrison

Infobox Album | Name = The Best of Van Morrison
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Van Morrison


Released = start date|1990|01
Recorded = 1965-1989
Genre = Rock
Length = 75:54
Label = Polydor Records
Producer = Bert Berns, Van Morrison
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:83220r3ac48b link]
Last album = "Avalon Sunset"
(1989)
This album = "The Best of Van Morrison"
(1990)
Next album = "Enlightenment"
(1990)
Misc = Singles
Name =The Best of Van Morrison
Type =compilation
Single 1 =Gloria" b/w "Rave on, John Donne
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"The Best of Van Morrison" is a compilation album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1990 (see 1990 in music).

This was his first ever "Best of" album and was one of the best-selling albums of the 90s, spending a year and a half on the UK charts [Heylin, Can You Feel The Silence, p. 437] after charting at #4 and at #1 in Australia on the ARIA Albums Chart. [web cite|url=http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Van+Morrison&titel=The+Best+Of&cat=a |title=The Best of Van Morrison |publisher=australian-charts.com |accessdate=2008-08-05] With the combined success of this album and the previous album, "Avalon Sunset", Morrison was once again in the pop/rock mainstream after a decade. The songs on the album were pulled from twenty-five years of material.One of the songs, "Wonderful Remark" had previously only been available on the soundtrack of the film, "The King of Comedy".

Track listing

All songs written by Van Morrison except as indicated.
#"Bright Side of the Road" – 3:45
#"Gloria" – 2:37
#"Moondance" – 4:31
#"Baby, Please Don't Go" (Big Joe Williams) – 3:03
#"Have I Told You Lately" – 4:18
#"Brown Eyed Girl" – 3:03
#"Sweet Thing" – 4:22
#"Warm Love" – 3:21
#"Wonderful Remark" – 3:58
#"Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)" – 2:57
#"Full Force Gale" – 3:12
#"And It Stoned Me" – 4:30
#"Here Comes the Night" (Bert Berns) – 2:46
#"Domino" – 3:08
#"Did Ye Get Healed?" – 4:06
#"Wild Night" – 3:31
#"Cleaning Windows" – 4:42
#"Whenever God Shines His Light" – 4:54
#"Queen of the Slipstream" – 4:53
#"Dweller on the Threshold" (Morrison, Hugh Murphy) – 4:47

The 1998 Australian/New Zealand re-release of the album also includes "Days Like This" (3:13) as the seventh track, for a total of 21 tracks.

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References

*Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press ISBN 1-55652-542-7

succession box
before = "Cuts Both Ways" by Gloria Estefan
title = Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
years = August 19 - September 8 1990
after = "Two Fires" by Jimmy Barnes