Veedon Fleece
by Van Morrison

Veedon Fleece by Van Morrison
Year: 1974
Release date: 1974-10-05
Overall rank: 1,289th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 317 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1974 (24th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (252nd)
Award Best albums of all time (1,289th)

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Van Morrison bestography

Veedon Fleece is ranked 3rd best out of 62 albums by Van Morrison on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Van Morrison is Astral Weeks which is ranked number 68 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 15,644.

Van Morrison album bestography « Higher ranked (172nd)
Moondance
This album (1,289th)
Veedon Fleece
Lower ranked (1,728th) »
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Overall rank: 1,289th | 1970s rank: 252nd | 1974 rank: 24th

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79/100 (from 317 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.0/100, a mean average of 77.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.3.

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80/100
From 09/06/2022 15:53 | #289326
Good record
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From 04/14/2022 07:01 | #284217
A Cohesive, high quality and mind soothing album
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80/100
From 04/05/2022 00:51 | #283824
A great album by Van Morrison that really demonstrates that classic style of his very well and has some truly hidden gems that are well worth discovering. These include songs like Cul De Sac, Bulbs and Streets Of Arklow. All of these and many other songs present on here have such a beautiful display of instrumentation that really tells a story to the listener. For example, the guitar on Cul De Sac which is full of emotion and passion and it matches so well with the vocal delivery from Morrison as they both wail and howl in unison. His vocal is another consistency of this record with every song having that unique and very enjoyable voice dominating every lyric and song. However, I do think the record could be shortened a little with there being a couple of weaker tracks. Overall, a few moments hold the record back from the top 2 or 3 of his discography but having this as a 4th or 5th best album is a testament to how good his records are as this is brilliant.
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From 01/13/2022 08:13 | #279233
Just got this on vinyl today and only listened once so far, but I fell for it immediately. Beautiful record, right up there with Astral Weeks, which admittedly is the only Van album I'm really familiar with to any significant degree. This album really makes me want to just deep-dive right in, though. Magical.
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85/100
Listened to this album for the first time only a few weeks ago.

I already know I’ll be listening For the rest of my days.

He is a genius, no question.
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85/100
From 12/30/2019 15:43 | #246120
Fantastic ambiance
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95/100
Brilliant masterpiece from Van Morrison. Should be receiving the same attention as Astral Weeks on major Greatest Albums of All Times lists.
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80/100
From 11/15/2018 06:35 | #224956
This album caps off a brilliant six year run for Van that started with Astral Weeks in 1968. In fact, this feels like Astral Weeks less heralded rural cousin and also a more personal affair as there were a lot of changes happening in Morrison's life at this time. A gorgeous record.
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From 10/06/2018 16:15 | #222106
Another brilliant masterpiece from Van. "Bulbs" and "Cul de Sac" are tremendous songs, not to mention "Fair Play" or the meandering "You Don't Pull No Punches",,, The closest he ever came to duplicating Astral Weeks.
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