- jazz, blues rock, rock
- 48 min
- 11 tracks
- Mercury Records
Poetic Champions Compose is the seventeenth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1987 on Mercury Records. It received generally positive reviews from critics, most of whom viewed it as adequate mood music.
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Spare, character-led, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- AudioA
- Chicago Sun-Times3/4 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide2/5 ★
- The Village VoiceB+
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Tracks
- 1Spanish Steps5:24
- 2The Mystery5:17
- 3Queen of the Slipstream4:55
- 4I Forgot That Love Existed4:20
- 5Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child4:29
- 6Celtic Excavation3:20
- 7Someone Like You4:09
- 8Alan Watts Blues4:26
- 9Give Me My Rapture3:46
- 10Did Ye Get Healed?4:08
- 11Allow Me3:54
11 tracks, 48 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Van Morrison
- Label
- Mercury Records
- Released
- 1987
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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