STILL ON TOP: THE GREATEST HITS is a career-spanning anthology of hits by mercurial Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. Starting with two key tracks by his Rolling Stones-like 1960s band, Them--"Gloria" and "Here Comes the Night"--the set passes over Morrison's legendary 1968 album, ASTRAL WEEKS, a jazzy mood piece that works best as a whole, but otherwise cherry-picks a ton of FM radio classics. "Wild Nights," "Domino," "Moondance," and "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" are among the many highlights, presented in remastered sound.

Pressed on 180 gram vinyl, original packaging.

THE FIRST-EVER CAREER-SPANNING SINGLE DISC GREATEST HITS COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS OF OUR TIME One of the best-selling albums of the Nineties, the five-times-platinum, 1990-issued The Best Of Van Morrison, is out of print. For a new, career-spanning collection from the singer-songwriter ranked in the top half of both Vh1's "100 Greatest Artists Of Rock And Roll" and Rolling Stone's "The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time," only one man could possibly handpick the tracks and oversee their mastering -- Van Morrison himself. That is what the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has done for Still On Top - The Greatest Hits. Spanning his work from 1964 to 2005 on a handful of different record labels, Still On Top - The Greatest Hits celebrates a singer who has influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen and The Doors' Jim Morrison to Tom Petty and Elvis Costello. Van the Man has been hailed as one of "popular music's true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon" (All Music Guide).

This CD offer a fine selection of hits from a lifetime of superb songs we all have come to know and love. It's easy to relax with or take a drive with. Live on Air was recorded 1973 and contains all hits and classics.

180 gram vinyl, original packaging.

Import pressing of this ace collection now deleted in the US! Van Morrison has boldly followed his own musical path since the '60s and this compilation proves that he has the talent to match his own vision. From the early days with Them ('Gloria') through his critically successful solo career ('Moondance', 'Brown Eyed Girl', 'Have I Told You Lately'), he remains one of the most beloved and influential artists in modern music, 20 tracks total, also including 'Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)', 'Domino', 'Here Comes The Night' and more. Universal. * Please note this version is not remastered.

Tupelo Honey is a digitally remastered and expanded edition of Van's 1971 release. Two previously unreleased bonus tracks are 'Wild Night' (alternative extended version) and a jazzy reworking of the traditional 'Down By The Riverside'. The opening sax-fuelled, R&B-infected 'Wild Night" is another joyous, soulful offering which earned Morrison a US Top 30 single. This album is a change from his earlier album of R&B flavour, His Band And Street Choir, into a more luminously pastoral drift typified by the nostalgic Old Old Woodstock. Trippy! 11 tracks. Polydor/Universal. 2008.

CD 1

1. Cry For Home - With Tom Jones
2. Too Long In Exile
3. Gloria - With John Lee Hooker
4. Help Me - With Junior Wells (live)
5. Lonely Avenue/4 O'Clock In The Morning - With Jimmy Witherspoon (Live)
6. Days Like This
7. Ancient Highway
8. Raincheck
9. Moondance - With Georgie Fame
10. Centrepiece - With Georgie Fame And Annie Ross
11. That's Life (Live)
12. Benediction - With Georgie Fame And Ben Sidran (Re-himix)
13. Healing Game (Re-mix)
14. I Don't Want To Go On Without You - With James Hunter

CD 2

1. Shanandoah - With The Chieftains
2. Precious Time
3. Back On Top (Re- mix)
4. When The Leaves Come Falling Down
5. Lost John With Lonnie Donegan (Live)
6. Tupelo Honey
7. Meet Me In The Indian Summer (Orchestral Version Live)
8. Georgia On My Mind
9. Hey Mr DJ
10. Steal My Heart Away
11. Crazy Love - With Ray Charles
12. Once In A Blue Moon
13. Little Village
14. Blue And Green
15. Sitting On Top Of The World - With Carl Perkins
16. Early In The Morning - With B.B. King
17. Stranded

2008 newly remastered sound and expanded packaging including lyrics of the 1974 album Veedon Fleece the eighth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. The cover photograph picturing Morrison with two Irish Wolfhounds was taken at the Sutton House Hotel, a converted mansion overlooking Dublin Bay, where Morrison first stayed upon arriving in Ireland for a vacation. The opening track, "Fair Play" derived its name from Morrison's Irish friend, Donall Corvin's habit of using the Irish colloquialism "fair play to you" as a wry compliment.