- folk rock, rock
- 51 min
- 10 tracks
- Polydor
No Guru, No Method, No Teacher is the sixteenth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1986 on Mercury.
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Character-led, spare, grave and intimate.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- Hot Press11/12
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide2/5 ★
- The Village VoiceB−
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Tracks
- 1Got to Go Back5:01
- 2Oh the Warm Feeling3:19
- 3Foreign Window5:23
- 4A Town Called Paradise6:16
- 5In the Garden5:48
- 6Tir Na Nog7:17
- 7Here Comes the Knight3:43
- 8Thanks for the Information7:18
- 9One Irish Rover3:33
- 10Ivory Tower3:34
10 tracks, 51 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Van Morrison
- Label
- Polydor
- Released
- 1986
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- CA
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