''The Best of Van Morrison Volume Two'' is a compilation album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter

Van Morrison Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans seven decades. He has won two Grammy Awards. As a teenager in t ...

released in 1993. Morrison chose the tracks for this album himself. It is mostly drawn from his work during 1984–1991. "

Real Real Gone "Real Real Gone" is a hit single written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1990 album '' Enlightenment''. It has remained a popular live performance tune and Morrison has included it on the set lists at many of ...

" from the 1990 album '' Enlightenment'' was the only song included that was a fairly successful single. The other songs were not well known except for among longtime fans. They were a good example of his more idiosyncratic material that had been prevalent during this period when his work was mostly about spiritual searches for fulfillment. But also included were a 1960s

Them Them or THEM, a third-person plural accusative personal pronoun, may refer to: Books * ''Them'' (novel), 3rd volume (1969) in American Joyce Carol Oates' ''Wonderland Quartet'' * '' Them: Adventures with Extremists'', 2003 non-fiction by Welsh ...

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John Lee Hooker John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often ...

's " Don't Look Back" and "

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and featured on his ''Bringing It All Back Home'' album, released on March 22, 1965, by Columbia Records. The song was recorded on January 15, 1965, with Dylan's acoustic ...

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Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...

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Track listing

All songs written by

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" – 3:42 #: from ''Enlightenment'', 1990 #"When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God?" – 5:39 #: from ''Avalon Sunset'', 1989 #"

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", also "Motherless Child", is a traditional Spiritual. It dates back to the era of slavery in the United States. An early performance of the song was in the 1870s by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. "Blue Gen ...

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Traditional A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examples include holidays or ...

) – 4:27 #: from ''Poetic Champions Compose'', 1987 #" In the Garden" – 5:46 #: from ''No Guru, No Method, No Teacher'', 1986 #"A Sense of Wonder" – 7:12 #: from ''A Sense of Wonder'', 1985 #"

I'll Tell Me Ma "I'll Tell Me Ma" (also called "The Wind") is a traditional children's song. It was collected in various parts of the United Kingdom in the 19th century and again appears in collections from shortly after the turn of the 20th century. In Ireland ...

" (Traditional) – 2:31 #: with

The Chieftains The Chieftains are a traditional Irish folk band formed in Dublin in 1962, by Paddy Moloney, Seán Potts and Michael Tubridy. Their sound, which is almost entirely instrumental and largely built around uilleann pipes, has become synonymous wi ...

#: from ''Irish Heartbeat'', 1988 #"

Coney Island Coney Island is a peninsular neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, Manhattan Beach to its east, L ...

" – 2:03 #: from ''Avalon Sunset'', 1989 #" Enlightenment" – 4:07 #: from ''Enlightenment'', 1990 #"Rave on, John Donne/Rave On, Part Two" (Live) – 9:17 #: from ''Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast'', 1984 #" Don't Look Back" (

) – 3:20 #: with

#: from ''The Angry Young Them'', 1965 #"

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) – 3:51 #: with

#: from ''Them Again'', 1966 #"One Irish Rover" – 3:28 #: from ''No Guru, No Method, No Teacher'', 1986 #"The Mystery" – 5:17 #: from ''Poetic Champions Compose'', 1987 #"Hymns to the Silence" – 9:33 #: from ''Hymns to the Silence'', 1991 #"Evening Meditation" – 4:14 #: from ''A Sense of Wonder'', 1985

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Best Of Van Morrison Volume Two, The 1993 greatest hits albums Albums produced by Van Morrison Van Morrison compilation albums Polydor Records compilation albums