Stream of consciousness is only interesting when the consciousness being streamed is interesting, and Van Morrison’s is really not that interesting. So what if it was “stream of consciousness”? Big deal. Jazz musicians had been doing that for years. So what if they improvised a lot? Big deal. As much as I love the 60’s, I’ll never understand the era’s fascination with Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, an album that should appear next to the dictionary definition of colossal bore.
