"I wanted to do it around the singing, and it had to be kind of jazzy, because that's the way I'm singing it," Morrison says. Still, to hear Morrison tell it, the final outcome wasn't necessarily the result of some inspired vision. Astral Weeks was spare, sprawling and lyrically demanding. The songs on Astral Weeks were a far cry from the blissful pop of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl," which had been released the previous year. Astral Weeks is about a different way of organizing thought, a different way of organizing music. "What I loved out of a Rolling Stones song, or even a Bruce Springsteen song, was how tightly constructed they were," Levy says. And it wasn't long before long Astral Weeks got to him. But he had paid hard-earned cash for it, so he wasn't about to give up. Levy says he didn't like the record - at least not at first.
"I was like, 'What the hell is going on here? Where are the songs? And what is this dude talking about?' Which I still often ask when listening to this record." This will be great.' The music was unusual - not what I was used to. "And I thought, 'Big speakers, new record.
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