- folk rock, rock
- 50 min
- 10 tracks
- Warner Bros. Records
Into the Music is the 11th studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, and was released in August 1979. It includes "Bright Side of the Road", which peaked at number 63 on the UK Singles Chart, and other songs in which Morrison sought to return to his more profound and transcendent style after the pop-oriented Wavelength.
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Character-led, spare, grave and earnest.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- The Great Rock Discography8/10
- Tom HullA+
- MusicHound Rock3.5/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide5/5 ★
- The Village VoiceA
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Tracks
- 1Bright Side of the Road3:47
- 2Full Force Gale3:15
- 3Stepping Out Queen5:29
- 4Troubadours4:41
- 5Rolling Hills2:53
- 6You Make Me Feel So Free4:09
- 7Angelou6:51
- 8And the Healing Has Begun8:02
- 9It’s All in the Game5:09
- 10You Know What They’re Writing About5:43
10 tracks, 50 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Van Morrison
- Label
- Warner Bros. Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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