Into The Music (studio album) by Van Morrison

Into The Music by Van Morrison
Year: 1979
Overall rank: 1,760th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 187 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1979 (31st)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (349th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,760th)
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Van Morrison bestography

Into The Music is ranked 4th best out of 56 albums by Van Morrison on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Van Morrison is Astral Weeks which is ranked number 67 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,867.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.9/100, a mean average of 77.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.

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90/100
From 03/14/2022 17:15
Van never misses it, fine music and a solid album as a whole.
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From 01/27/2022 10:49
The first half of this album is just incredible and is probably the greatest side of music ever from VM. The rich instrumentation through the whole album is amazing and it creates a dense soundscape with so much to explore and come back too. Instrumentally, it is extremely diverse with some outstanding performances on the trumpet, piano, violin and saxophone, This makes the music so grand and then to add on top the brilliant vocal performance makes for a fantastic listen. It feels so clean and natural to listen too as well and sounds so highbrow and intellectual in terms of its composition. There are one or two tracks closer to filler and it can feel slow at times but these are my only real criticisms of the album. Overall, this album is so under rated on this site and if this is his 4th best album then I am very excited to go back and listen to his other releases.
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From 05/06/2020 01:12
A later highlight. I discovered this after the others from the early 70s.
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From 12/31/2019 16:50
Great album.
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From 06/19/2019 20:16
One of his 3 perfect albums!
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From 06/23/2017 16:45
Vastly underrated. Multiple masterpieces on this one. Side two is the most consistently solid music run of his career.
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From 12/27/2013 08:21
Up there with his finest albums, some lovely songs
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75/100
From 09/29/2012 03:53
This is probably the fourth best VM album, meaning that it is merely beautiful with nary a bad track in sight. I love Bright Side, Full Force Gale and Rolling Hills but the clincher here is the gorgeous meditation The Healing Has Begun.
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From 09/12/2012 19:44
By almost any other artist standard this would be among their very best. This is van in the middle.
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From 08/26/2012 20:21
Van at his romantic best. Strong record with no fillers.
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Best Albums of 1979
1. London Calling by The Clash
2. The Wall by Pink Floyd
3. Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
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