The entire album is a stream of consciousness, blending together elements of folk, celtic and rock music to create a beautiful and mystical piece of timeless art. They haven’t and they ask me, “Is it good?”Īstral Weeks is brilliance in musical form. They inform me that their favorite song is “Brown Eyed Girl.” Typical. In any conversation I have about music with someone, Van Morrison somehow always gets brought up. Crazy to think that 40 years after its release, it is heralded as one of the greatest albums of all time. Upon its release, Astral Weeks received generally negative reviews from critics who said it was shallow, dull and monotonous. The opposite happened to Van Morrison with the release of his 1968 record Astral Weeks. Contact CU Independent News Staff Writer William Witt at often than not, an album is either thoroughly applauded at the time of its release or is critiqued harshly and never given much of a second thought.