Looking For The Veedon Fleece, Van Morrison’s Elusive Treasure

"Facing facts, the rightful retrospective adulation bestowed by critics upon Morrison’s Astral Weeks never matched its contemporary soft sales, only limping to RIAA gold certification some three decades later. Born untrendy amid the tumult of hippie hipness, as was the sad fate of other deprived masterpieces of its era like John Coltrane’s posthumously exploratory Om, the Velvet Underground’s post-Warhol scorcher White Light / White Heat and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band’s self-explanatory The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse, it needed more time to cook in the ears and reveal itself as vital to (sub)culture. It took an entire decade for the oft irascible pen of rock writer Lester Bangs to properly shine his gonzo mercy upon it, personally selecting the album for fellow Astral Weeks advocate Greil Marcus’ literary thought experiment Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island. While Marcus’ positive review of that 1968 classic in the hallowed pages of Rolling Stone led to its final standing as the magazine’s chosen album of the year, it was a different story altogether six years later when Veedon Fleece rolled around. ..."
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