An album whose claim for perfection stands even the scrutiny of the term “perfection” itself being oxymoronic.īecause oxymoronic is also what you could call those fleeting, airbound, full-of-life, spontaneous moments that occur in eveyr song of this album. When Van Morrison was 23, he created perfection. I was 23 when I started my research-process for this list’s reviews. And even if something is perfect, any change to it will render it imperfect. So, if you could theoretically have a perfect hammer, it can’t serve you perfect drinks or give you a perfect massage. And no object could ever be perfect for all uses. In the second case, one could argue that no things are perfect, as they could always be improved, in some way. And a brand-new iPhone 12 is perfect as a brand new iPhone 12. Basically, a worn-down iPhone 5 is perfect as a worn-down iPhone 5. Both of them are perfect at being themselves, the one you changed is just different. The thing was already perfect before, and still was, now that you’ve changed it. How else could they be? If you change something about the way things are, they aren’t the way they were anymore. Let me explain: In the first case, the state of perfection stems from the way things are as they are. Perfection is defined as a state without faults, but depending on your way of measuring faults, either all things must be perfect, or none of them are.

(Originally Minecraft-oriented) YouTuber GabeSweats made my favorite #short I’ve ever seen. I think I’m just as speechless as Nas must have felt when he becan to record N.Y.

Sweet Thing is the single’s B-side, making it the only Astral Weeks-track ever to drop as a single. Blue Money (1971), a single from Van’s 1970 album His Band and the Street Choir.

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