To the 5 Boroughs. By the time of Astral Weeks, Morrison had moved from New York City to rural Woodstock, NY, and organized his own backup band, which played on Moondance. [10], According to a BBC survey, because of this song's cooling, soothing vibe, this is one of the most popular songs for surgeons to listen to while performing operations. And when the foghorn blows. Into The Mystic Retreat is an indigenous fynbos land with breaktaking views. C [Bridge] Em F When that foghorn blows, C you know I will be comin' home Em F G And when that foghorn whistle blows, G I've gotta hear it, I don't have to … "[8], "Into the Mystic" is No. On the original 1970 pressings of the Moondance LP, "Into the Mystic" is presented in a mix done on 10 December 1969, featuring a prominent tambourine throughout the song. [23] The Mike McClure Band covers the song on their 2005 album, Camelot Falling. And I wanna rock you gypsy soul. Astral Weeks had been dominated by meditations on his youth in Belfast, Northern Island, with an unusual musical mélange that combined elements of folk, blues, jazz, and classical music, played by session musicians. Later LP pressings, and all CD reissues of the album prior to 2008, contain an alternate mix of the song done on 5 January 1970, lacking the tambourine and with a more muted foghorn sound. It reached the Top 40. An instrumental version of the song is played in a medley with "Inarticulate Speech of the Heart" on the 1984 live album Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast. The song has an easy groove, beginning with acoustic guitar and including isolated horn and string charts, as Morrison evokes a sailor's pledge to come home from the sea to his lover and "rock [her] gypsy soul." It's all major scale, btw. Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic. My intent is not to sound overly dramatic, but there was something about this … 288 likes. Later LP pressings, and all CD reissues of the album prior to 2008, contain an alternate mix of the song done on 5 January 1970, lacking the tambourine and with a more muted foghorn sound. And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home. [15] Johnny Rivers covered the song on his album Slim Slo Slider,[15] and Esther Phillips from her 1977 album You've Come a Long Way, Baby. Just like way back in the days of old. [13] The original tambourine mix of the song made its CD debut in a 2008 Japanese Moondance remaster, and was also restored for a vinyl reissue of the album on Rhino Records later that year. Hark, now hear the sailors cry. That song is kind of funny because when it came time to send the lyrics in WB Music, I couldn't figure out what to send them. And magnificently we will flow into the mystic. Urban Mystic Movement & Sound, San Francisco, California. When that foghorn blows, I wanna hear it, I don't have to fear it. The exception was the ethereal "Into the Mystic," the only song on the album that might have fit on Astral Weeks. The only dictionary definition for the noun "mystic" (a favorite word of Morrison's, which he previously used as an adjective in Them's "Mystic Eyes") is a person who practices mysticism, and that is not the sense in which the word is used in the song. He used the phrase (borrowed by Jon Landau for the title of a 1972 book of essays) as the name of his 1974 live album, which featured both "Into the Mystic" and "Cyprus Avenue." In his concert performances of the early '70s, Morrison took the phrase "too late to stop now," which he had muttered at the end of his recording of "Into the Mystic," and moved it over to his song "Cyprus Avenue," ending it with what became a fierce declaration, "It's too late to stop now!" But later I thought that it had something of an ethereal feeling to it so I called it 'Into the Mystic'. ... She hears the foghorn calling out across the sound. "Into the Mystic" was recorded during the Moondance sessions at A&R Recording Studios in New York City in September to November 1969. The original version is one of the songs included in the 2007 compilation album, Still on Top - The Greatest Hits (UK edition only). But can we also have a show of hands for the foghorn’s funereal dirge. 1 was here. 42 on The 885 Essential XPN Songs compiled in 2008 by WXPN from listener's votes. Also younger than the sun. As Nate-O-Phonic pointed out in another thread, the current Warner Japan remaster includes the original Into the Mystic mix, with the tambourine and the louder foghorn. Hark, now hear the sailors cry. [14] It was one of the songs played in the 1998 movie Patch Adams and again in the 1999 movie Kate's Addiction. )[3] Compared to "Yesterday" by The Beatles, it has been described as "another song where the music and the words seem to have been born together, at the same time, to make one perfectly formed, complete artistic element.“[4]. "Into the Mystic" has featured in several movies beginning in 1971 with Sweets McGee and two movies in 1989: Dream a Little Dream and Immediate Family. We were born before the wind. Sound the Foghorn is FanSided’s flagship SF Giants podcast hosted by Around the Foghorn co-site expert Marc Delucchi. (The initial run up is one horn only.) Astral Weeks/Moondance/His Band and the Street Choir, Songs: The Very Best of Acoustic - The Collection. Reiki Master, Healer, Channeled messages from guides, Psychic Medium messages [14] The song can also be heard on the soundtrack of the HBO television show The Newsroom in the 2013 Season 2 premiere. 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