Track Two, The Hook
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OK, so if the first track is good, generally you're going to keep listening. And a strong track two can't disappoint. It has to expand on the mood of the first track while solidifying the theme of the entire album. It has to make you want to _keep_ listening to said album. It needs to make you wonder what could come next to continue the strong beginnings and thematic scheme presented by the first two tracks.Van Morrison, having already proven himself both a jazzy soulful crooner and a windswept Irish Bard during a four year span in the mid to late Sixties, combined the two elements to achieve a spiritual soul album which would come to be revered by by fans on both ends of that spectrum, _Moondance._After setting the table with _And It Stoned Me_, the title track here brings together both worlds for Morrison. On one hand the breathy shouting shown markedly on _Astral Weeks_, while bringing together the jazzy base of that record and tightening the groove throughout. _Moondance_ proved the blueprint for much of Morrison's work of the next decade and set the stage for countless crooners, followers and imitators. But the original is still the best. 
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