No Guru, No Method, No Teacher

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No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
by Van Morrison
from Polydor / Umgd

Features:

• Extra tracks
• Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Tranquil and serene
  Enhanced by two additional tracks, No Guru No Method No Teacher is an album of gentle ballads and meandering instrumental passages that reveal an understated mood of contentment. The mellow rumination on childhood, Got To Go Back, has undulating instrumentation, on both versions of Oh The Warm Feeling Van's characteristic spirituality shines through whilst Foreign Window with its lovely female backing has a dreamy texture.
  The tempo picks up for the catchy song A Town Called Paradise with its gripping... more info

• Born again Van....
  Aside from having one of the best titles in the Van catalog, it's also a great, great album. I don't know if critics (or music watchers) ever dubbed Van's 80's period his "born again" phase, but they might as well have. There was (and still is) an element of God and Christianity in much of Van's work, but in the 80's on albums like this one and the underrated Poetic Champions Compose (another great title), there's a lot of talk of the Lord in both albums. I think this one is better. It's beautifully... more info

• One of Van's best...
  No Guru, No Method, No Teacher is probably Van's best effort of the 1980's and easily his best album since 'Into the Music' in 1979. As far as the bonus tracks go, "Lonely at the Top" is a great song and would have fit on the album nicely. The alternative version of "Oh the Warm Feeling" is nice, though hardly essential. This is a personal favorite of mine and one of Van's greatest triumphs. A must have!!!

• "A creature all in rapture..." "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher" Gets A Superb Remaster & Two Fairly Good Bonus Tracks!
  "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher" is part of the 2nd wave of Van Morrison remastered reissues to hit the shops in 2008 (see full list below). Released Monday 30 June 2008 in the UK and 1 July 2008 in the USA, it boasts truly superlative remastered sound quality, an upgraded booklet and 2 bonus tracks for the first time - one of which is an entirely new song.
  Here's the layout (60:26 minutes):
  Tracks 1 to 10 make up the original album - it was released in July 1986 on Mercury
  Tracks 11 and 12... more info

Tracks:

1. Got to Go Back
2. Oh the Warm Feeling
3. Foreign Window
4. A Town Called Paradise
5. In the Garden
6. Tir Na Nog
7. Here Comes the Knight
8. Thanks for the Information
9. One Irish Rover
10. Ivory Tower
11. Oh the Warm Feeling
12. Lonely at the Top

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