Jeff Buckley's 1993 recorded but posthumously released (in 2004) live album Live at Sin-é (Legacy Edition) includes a live extended version. German indie band Flowerpornoes did a cover on their 1996 album Ich & Ich. The Waterboys covered the song on their 1988 album Fisherman's Blues, which also interpolates the Beatles' ' Blackbird'. It provides the title and closing music for the 2020 movie Sweet Thing by Alexandre Rockwell. The song can also be heard in the final scene of the AMC television show Preacher during the suicide of the Vampire, Cassidy. It is also featured in its entirety during the ending of the movie Moonlight Mile, written and directed by Brad Silberling. It is playing when the two main characters first meet. The song is featured two times in the 2012 movie The Five-Year Engagement. It was also featured on Morrison's album Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl, released in 2009 to celebrate forty years since Astral Weeks was first released

'Sweet Thing' is the only song from Astral Weeks included on the 1990 compilation album The Best of Van Morrison. Mark Seymour on The Guardian called it 'the most perfect song of all time'. 415 on the All Time 885 Greatest Songs compiled in 2004 by WXPN from listener's votes. It's a romantic love ballad not about anybody in particular but about a feeling.' Acclaim It contemplates gardens and things like that.wet with rain. Van Morrison described the song to Ritchie Yorke: ' 'Sweet Thing' is another romantic song. It is the only song on the album that looks forward instead of backward: You shall take me strongly in your arms again And I will not remember that I ever felt the pain It was recorded during the last Astral Weeks session on 15 October 1968, at Century Sound Studios in New York City with Lewis Merenstein as producer. 'Sweet Thing' was written by Morrison, aged c.22–23, after he had met his future wife Janet while on tour in the US in 1966 and during the year of separation after he returned to Belfast. The song was later used in 1971 as the American B-side to Morrison's single ' Blue Money'. It was on the first side of the album, that was under the heading: In the Beginning.

' Sweet Thing' is a song by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released on his second studio album Astral Weeks (1968).

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