Moondance
by Van Morrison

Album
Moondance by Van Morrison
Year: 1970
Release date: 1970-01-27
Overall rank: 173rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
84/100 (from 1,167 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1970 (7th)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 1970s (41st)
Award Top 200 albums of all time (173rd)

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Van Morrison bestography

Moondance is ranked 2nd best out of 62 albums by Van Morrison on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Van Morrison is Astral Weeks which is ranked number 71 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 15,308.

Van Morrison album bestography « Higher ranked (71st)
Astral Weeks This album (173rd)
Moondance Lower ranked (1,306th) »
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Moondance track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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And It Stoned Me
Average Rating: 89 (287 votes)Comments: View 2
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Moondance
Average Rating: 90 (324 votes)Comments: View 2
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Crazy Love
Average Rating: 86 (236 votes)Comments: View 1
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Caravan
Average Rating: 86 (239 votes)Comments: View 0
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Into The Mystic
Average Rating: 90 (311 votes)Comments: View 2
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Come Running
Average Rating: 81 (197 votes)Comments: View 0
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These Dreams Of You
Average Rating: 81 (194 votes)Comments: View 0
8.
Brand New Day
Average Rating: 83 (195 votes)Comments: View 0
9.
Everyone
Average Rating: 79 (191 votes)Comments: View 2
10.
Glad Tidings
Average Rating: 82 (193 votes)Comments: View 0

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Moondance rankings

Moondance rankings summary
Overall rank: 173rd | 1970s rank: 41st | 1970 rank: 7th  Overall chart history
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Moondance ratings

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 83.5/100, a mean average of 82.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.


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Moondance forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 09/15/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5436): By Rivera
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“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Juneof44 () 1. by (1966) 2. by (1969) 3. by (1973) 4. by (1967) 5. by (1971) 7. by (1979) 8. by (1971) 9. by (1986) 10. (1994) 11. by (1959) 12. (1964) 13. by by (1965) 15. by (1975) 16. by by (1969) 18. by (2007) 19. (1972) 21. (1971) 22.…”
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70/100
From 03/05/2026 00:14 | #313437
Easy listening done well (Edited)
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From 02/27/2026 15:13 | #313348
Just purchased because of a recent a recent listen on Astral Weeks. Definitely more diverse and an immediate entertaining listen. How he uses instrumentation is impressive and it makes him uniquely his own, I did like the brass used on this album. As far as I'm concerned, the song "Moondance" is fantabulous, love the sax and bass. Side 1 is near perfect and Side 2 is good but just can't match the solid songs on side 1. Now that I've listen to both albums a couple of times this album (Crazy Love) has a slight edge over Astral Weeks. (Edited)
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From 01/27/2025 18:21 | #307270
a great album that staggers a little in the second half (Edited)
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From 09/14/2024 20:29 | #305282
I,ve got both Moondance and Astral weeks and have listened to both many times ...I don't understand why Moondance is not rated better than Astral weeks ...kinda dents my faith in the ratings system. (Edited)
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From 04/02/2024 20:21 | #302812
This is a really great album. Every song on it is superb. (Edited)
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