Bang Masters

Bang Masters is a compilation album by Van Morrison released by Columbia's Legacy Records imprint in 1991. The tracks were remixed from the original multi-tracks and were given a wider stereo spread with less compression. The alternate version of "Brown Eyed Girl" included on this album was according to Bill Flannagan take six out of the twenty-two takes before the final form released in 1967 on Blowin' Your Mind!.[3]

Bang Masters
Compilation album by
Van Morrison
ReleasedFebruary 1991
Recorded1967
StudioA&R Studios, New York
Century Sound, New York
GenreRock & roll, R&B
Length77:50
LabelEpic, Legacy
ProducerBert Berns
Van Morrison chronology
The Best of Van Morrison
(1990)		 Bang Masters
(1991)		 The Best of Van Morrison Volume Two
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide[2]

Track listing

All songs by Van Morrison except as noted.

  1. "Brown Eyed Girl" – 3:03
  2. "Spanish Rose" (alternate version) – 3:52
  3. "Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)" (Wes Farrell, Bert Russell) – 2:57
  4. "Ro Ro Rosey" – 3:03
  5. "Chick-A-Boom" (Bert Berns, Morrison) – 3:12
  6. "It's All Right" – 4:58
  7. "Send Your Mind" – 2:52
  8. "The Smile You Smile" – 2:54
  9. "The Back Room" – 5:30
  10. "Midnight Special" (traditional) – 2:45
  11. "T.B. Sheets" – 9:36
  12. "He Ain't Give You None" (alternate version) – 5:50
  13. "Who Drove the Red Sports Car?" – 5:39
  14. "Beside You" – 6:05
  15. "Joe Harper Saturday Morning" (alternate version) – 4:15
  16. "Madame George" – 5:17
  17. "Brown Eyed Girl" (alternate take) – 3:40
  18. "I Love You (The Smile You Smile)" – 2:22

Notes
  1. AllMusic Review
  2. Christgau, Robert (2000). "Van Morrison: Bang Masters". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 0312245602. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  3. Heylin. (2003). p152

References
  • Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press, ISBN 1-55652-542-7


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