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词条 Blowin' Your Mind!
释义

  1. Recording and release history

  2. Songs and reviews

  3. Reception

  4. Track listing

  5. Personnel

  6. Charts

      Album    Singles  

  7. Notes

  8. References

  9. External links

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| producer = Bert Berns
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Blowin' Your Mind! is the debut album by Northern Irish musician Van Morrison, released in 1967. It was recorded 28–29 March 1967 and contained his first solo pop hit "Brown Eyed Girl". It was included by Rolling Stone as one of the 40 Essential Albums of 1967.[3]

Recording and release history

Morrison does not regard this record as a true album, as Bert Berns compiled and released it without his consent. A few months previously, Morrison had carelessly signed a contract that he had not fully studied and it stipulated that he would surrender virtually all control of the material he would record with Bang Records. The songs were recorded in March 1967 and had been intended to be released on four separate singles. The album jacket became notorious as a model of bad taste, a perception shared widely by Morrison himself. It featured a strange swirl of circling brown vines (and drug connotation) surrounding a sweaty looking Morrison. Greil Marcus described it as a "monstrously offensive, super psychedelic far out out-of-sight exploding" design.[4] Morrison's then-wife, Janet Planet, said "He never has been, never will be anything approaching a psychedelic user – wants nothing to do with it, wants nothing to do with any drug of any kind".[5] As the singer recalls, "I got a call saying it was an album coming out and this is the cover. And I saw the cover and I almost threw up, you know."[6] Later, after Berns' death, Morrison would express his displeasure on a couple of "nonsense songs" he included on the contractual obligation recording session. One was titled "Blow in Your Nose," and another was titled "Nose in Your Blow."[7]

Songs and reviews

Of the eight songs on the album, all were composed by Morrison except "Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)" and the last song, "Midnight Special". Clinton Heylin contends that the first side of the album "makes for one of the great single-sided albums in rock",[5] whereas Greil Marcus, the album's most hostile critic, found it "painfully boring, made up of three sweet minutes of 'Brown Eyed Girl' and... the sprawling, sensation-dulling 'T.B. Sheets'".[8] "He Ain't Give You None" is an urban tale of "lust, jealousy and sexual disgust." It references Notting Hill Gate and Curzon Street in London, England, places Morrison would have been familiar with when he lived there during his earlier touring days. It contains the words, "You can leave now if you don't like what is happening." Brian Hinton compares "the delighted contempt of the singer, the song's graveyard pace, the stately organ and stinging guitar" to the Highway 61 period of Bob Dylan.[9]

Reception

Allmusic gave the album a 3-star rating and wrote that "Although Van Morrison's first solo album is remembered for containing the immortal pop hit "Brown Eyed Girl," Blowin' Your Mind! is actually a dry run for his masterpiece, Astral Weeks."[1] Entertainment Weekly gave it a B-rating, noting that it "displays the pitfalls of late-'60s blues rock: meandering solos, hippie sentiments, and the occasional fuzz-tone guitar. But in the hand of Van the Man, those vices are virtues, and what could have been tedious is often hypnotic."[2]

Track listing

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| title1 = Brown Eyed Girl
| length1 = 3:03
| title2 = He Ain't Give You None
| length2 = 5:13
| title3 = T.B. Sheets
| length3 = 9:44
}}{{Track listing
| headline = Side Two
| title1 = Spanish Rose
| length1 = 3:06
| title2 = Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)
| writer2 = Wes Farrell, Bert Russell
| length2 = 2:57
| title3 = Ro Ro Rosey
| length3 = 3:03
| title4 = Who Drove the Red Sports Car?
| length4 = 5:35
| title5 = Midnight Special
| writer5 = Traditional
| length5 = 2:51
}}{{Track listing
| headline = 1994 CD reissue bonus tracks (alternate takes)
| title1 = Spanish Rose
| length1 = 3:38
| title2 = Ro Ro Rosey
| length2 = 3:09
| title3 = Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)
| writer3 = Farrell, Russell
| length3 = 2:39
| title4 = Who Drove the Red Sports Car?
| length4 = 3:49
| title5 = Midnight Special
| writer5 = Traditional
| length5 = 2:46
}}

Personnel

Musicians
  • Van Morrison – guitar, vocals
  • Al Gorgoni and Hugh McCracken - guitars
  • Eric Gale – bass
  • Russ Savakus – bass
  • Gary Chester – drums
  • Paul Griffin - piano
  • Garry Sherman - conductor, organ, actual arranger, musical supervisor
  • The Sweet Inspirations - back-up vocals for "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Midnight Special"
Production
  • Vic Anesini – Mastering
  • Brooks Arthur – Engineer
  • Bert Berns – Arranger, director, producer, Liner Notes
  • Adam Block – Project Director
  • Bob Irwin – Liner Notes, Reissue Producer
  • John Jackson – Project Director
  • Garry Sherman – Music Supervisor

Charts

Album

Billboard
YearChartPosition
1967Pop Albums182

Singles

Billboard
YearSingleChartPosition
1967"Brown Eyed Girl"Pop Singles10

Notes

1. ^[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r13453|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,296037,00.html|title=Music Review: Blowin' Your Mind|publisher=Entertainment Weekly|date=10 February 1995|last=Cannon|first=Bob|accessdate=7 November 2011}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/15327933/the_40_essential_albums_of_1967/photo/26/large |title=40 Essential Albums of 1967 |publisher=rollingstone.com |accessdate=2008-08-06}}
4. ^Hinton. 1997. p78
5. ^Heylin. 2003. p158
6. ^Rogan. 2006. p204
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Morrison,_Van/Discography/album/P107175/R579041/ |title= Van Morrison Millenium Collection |publisher=starpulse.com|accessdate=2010-10-01}}
8. ^Hinton. 1997. p79
9. ^Hinton. 1997. p80

References

  • Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press {{ISBN|1-55652-542-7}}
  • Hinton, Brian (1997). Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison, Sanctuary, {{ISBN|1-86074-169-X}}
  • Rogan, Johnny (2006). No Surrender, London:Vintage Books {{ISBN|978-0-09-943183-1}}

External links

  • WFMU'S: Beware of the Blog Morrison's Contractual Obligation Album
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