Blowin' Your Mind!
| Van Morrison
Blowin' Your Mind!
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.-Wikipedia
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The Vinyl District
2017. It’s a revelation is what it is, and a very fine debut album by one of the greatest artists of our time.
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All Music
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. Songs like "Who Drove the Red Sports Car" look to that song cycle, even as "Midnight Special" nods to Morrison's R&B past. But it's the agonizing "T.B. Sheets" -- all nine-plus minutes of it -- that dominates this record and belies its trendy title and pop association
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Sundazed
Blowin' Your Mind! is a hypnotic tour de force that ranks with the very best material Van Morrison ever recorded.
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Record Collector
This, Morrison’s 1967 debut as a solo artist, didn’t quite hit the ground running, though he certainly began jogging at a brisk pace. There’s the much, much overplayed classic (and George W Bush favourite) Brown Eyed Girl, along with Midnight Special, which tipped a hat to Morrison’s previous post as lead singer of Belfast R&B growlers.
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Rolling Stone
2017. Van Morrison’s well-known distaste for the record business starts here. . . . When the cantina-heat lust of “Brown Eyed Girl” went Top 10 that summer. . . Berns rushed out this eight-song quickie from the sessions, infuriating Morrison. But it catches him in heated, searching form, halfway between his demon bark on Them’s “Gloria” and the Celtic-dream soul of 1968’s Astral Weeks.
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Jon
2014. . . . Van Morrison’s debut album Blowin’ Your Mind! features arguably his most ubiquitous song, “Brown Eyed Girl,” and falls flat most everywhere else.
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Stereogum
2014. Love it or hate it (and it's pretty fair to assume Van hated it) Blowin' Your Mind! is a solid indication of a young songwriter capable of vaulting heights and the mark of the greatness that was right around the corner.
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Treble Zine
2015. Packaged with commercially proper but Van-averse psychedelic symbology, Blowin’ Your Mind feels like a sampler of his raw talent without much context. There’s nothing really wrong with it, especially for a debut album: “Brown-Eyed Girl” remains alluring, “Who Drove the Red Sports Car?” is idiosyncratic and amusing, and the cover of “Midnight Special” is driving and firm.
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Aloha Criticon
It's not "Astral Weeks" or "Moondance" but it's not a despicable album either.
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The Omega
2016. Blowin’ Your Mind!, Morrison’s debut solo album, is a hodgepodge of lazy R&B and rock n’ roll with a few solid tracks sprinkled in. While certainly not a hallmark of Morrison’s discography, Blowin’ Your Mind! presents a few notable tracks amidst a bog of unremarkable tracks.
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Greil Marcus.net
2015. Bert Berns had tried. He and Morrison had followed “Brown Eyed Girl” with a dark, bluesy album called (with too-late trendy hopes) Blowin’ Your Mind; the music was well-made (Eric Gale played first-rate guitar), but also morbid. Sales were minimal.
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Wilson & Alroy's record Reviews
The first of three rip-off records released by Bang to cash in on the success of "Brown Eyed Girl."
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Music On Vinyl
Blowin' Your Mind, the first album by Van Morrison, is generally regarded as the warming up round to Astral Weeks (1968), a critically acclaimed masterpiece by this Northern Irish blues singer. But Blowin' Your Mind really is a masterpiece in its own right, containing truly epic tracks such as the megahit "Brown Eyed Girl", the somewhat funky "Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)" and "Midnight Special", a traditional with a contemporary groove and infectious bass line.
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