- blues rock, blue-eyed soul, r&b
- 47 min
- 11 tracks
- Polydor
The Healing Game is the twenty-sixth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1997 by Polydor. It reached the Top Ten in four countries, and the Top Twenty in three more. Following two overtly jazz albums, it saw Morrison adding blues and a pop sensibility. It is the only album recorded after 1980 which Rolling Stone judged to be among his ten best, calling it "a clear highlight of his mid-period discography".
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Spare, character-led, classical in form and grave.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
What critics gave it
Each outlet on its own scale.
- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- NME3/10
As listed in the ratings box of Wikipedia’s article (CC BY-SA). Not part of Tastebuds's numbers.
Tracks
- 1Rough God Goes Riding6:12
- 2Fire in the Belly6:28
- 3This Weight4:31
- 4Waiting Game5:50
- 5Piper at the Gates of Dawn3:47
- 6Burning Ground5:33
- 7It Once Was My Life5:05
- 8Sometimes We Cry5:05
- 9If You Love Me4:55
- 10The Healing Game
- 11At the End of the Day
11 tracks, 47 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Van Morrison
- Label
- Polydor
- Released
- 1997
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- CA
From MusicBrainz, the earliest official release of this album.
Where to listen
Each opens a search for this album on that service.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
- 461 Ocean Boulevard 197490% alikeBoth character-led, grave, classical in form.
- Hard Nose the Highway 197390% alikeBoth spare, grave, character-led.
- Days Like This 199589% alikeBoth spare, character-led, classical in form.
- Reptile 200188% alikeBoth spare, classical in form, grave.
- There’s One in Every Crowd 197588% alikeBoth spare, classical in form, character-led.
- Chrome Dreams II 200788% alikeBoth spare, grave, character-led.
- M.P.G. 196987% alikeBoth spare, character-led, grave.
- Sigh No More 200987% alikeBoth spare, character-led, classical in form.
How Do You Live? 202170% alikeBook · Both classical in form, earnest, spare.
Tom Lake 202369% alikeBook · Both classical in form, spare, grave.