Van Morrison - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
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Release date: 30 June 2008
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- Got To Go Back (2007 Remastered)
- Oh The Warm Feeling (2007 Remastered)
- Foreign Window (2007 Remastered)
- A Town Called Paradise (2007 Remastered)
- In The Garden (2007 Re-mastered)
- Tir Na Nog (2007 Remastered)
- Here Comes The Knight (2007 Remastered)
- Thanks For The Information (2007 Remastered)
- One Irish Rover (2007 Re-mastered)
- Ivory Tower (2007 Remastered)
- Oh The Warm Feeling (Alternative Previously Unreleased)
- Lonely At The Top (Previously Unreleased)
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Van Morrison - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher: Wikipedia Album Entry
No Guru, No Method, No Teacher is the sixteenth album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1986 on Mercury.
Biographer Clinton Heylin referred to this album by Morrison as "His most consummate record since Wavelength and his most intriguingly involved since Astral Weeks, this is bursting to saturation point, Morrison at this most mystical, magical best."
Upon release in 1986, it charted at number twenty-seven in the UK and number seventy on the Billboard 200.
The album was recorded at Studio D and Record Plant Studios in Sausalito, California in 1985 with Jim Stern as engineer. The basic takes were recorded at Studio D with Chris Mitchie, Jef Labes, Baba Trunde, David Hayes and Morrison. Overdubs, guitar solos, strings and back-up vocals were added at the Record Plant with the masters taken to Townhouse Studios in London. Overdubs with Ritchie Buckley on saxophone, Martin Drover on trumpet and oboe played by Kate St. John were added in the London studio.
The song "In the Garden" was a favorite fan concert performance for years. Morrison told Mick Brown in 1986 on the Interview Album: "I take you through a definite meditation process which is a form of transcendental meditation. It's not about TM, forget about that. You should have some degree of tranquillity by the time you get to the end. It only takes about ten minutes to do this process." There are references back to Astral Weeks with gardens wet with rain and a childlike vision. The words are poetic as in the line "you are a creature all in rapture/You had the key to your soul".
"Got to Go Back" features Kate St. John's oboe and reminisces of school days back in the singer's childhood in Belfast. "Oh, The Warm Feeling" is also a song of feeling the safety of family and love in childhood.
"Foreign Window" is a song concerned with dealing with some sort of self imposed therapy and having to go on no matter what. Brian Hinton remarks, "There is a grace and majesty here which I have experienced from little else in rock music."
"Here Comes the Knight" is a pun on the Them song, "Here Comes the Night" and quotes from the epitaph on the gravestone of one of Van's favorite poets, W. B. Yeats. The Yeats Estate had denied Morrison's request to transform a Yeats poem to music, but the gravestone was considered public property: "Here come horsemen through the pass/They say cast a cold eye on life, on death".
"Ivory Tower" echoes Yeats once more.
The song, "Thanks For the Information" is a comment on the cliches of the business world.
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Van Morrison - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher Lyrics
Van Morrison - A Town Called Paradise Lyrics
Copycats ripped off my words
Copycats ripped off my songs
Copycats ripped off my melody
It doesn't matter what they say
Van Morrison - Thanks for The Information Lyrics
Thanks for the information
Never give a sucker an even break
When he's breaking through to a new level of consciousness
There always seems to be more obstacles in the way
Van Morrison - One Irish Rover Lyrics
Tell me the story now, now that it's over
Wrap it in glory for one Irish Rover
Tell me you're wiser now, tell me you're older
Wrap it in glory for one Irish Rover
Van Morrison - Oh The Warm Feeling Lyrics
Oh, the warm feeling
As we sat beside the sea
Oh, the warm feeling as I
Sat by you
Van Morrison - Ivory Tower Lyrics
When you come down
From your Ivory Tower
You will see how it really must be
To be like me, to see like me
Van Morrison - In The Garden Lyrics
The streets are always wet with rain
After a summer shower when I saw you standin'
Standin' in the garden, in the garden wet with rain
Van Morrison - Here Comes The Knight Lyrics
On the road with my sword
And my shield in my hand
Pressing on to the new day
This love will surely last forever
Van Morrison - Got to Go Back Lyrics
When I was a young boy back in Orangefield
Used to look out my classroom window and dream
And go home and listen to Ray sing
'I Believed In My Soul' after school
Van Morrison - Foreign Window Lyrics
I saw you from a foreign window
Bearing down the sufferin' road
You were carryin' your burden
Van Morrison - Tir Na Nog Lyrics
We were standing in the kingdom
And by the mansion gate
We stood enraptured by the silence
As the birds sang their heavenly song
