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Peter Hammill: The Love Songs

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Label: Charisma Records
Released: 1984.08.01
Time:
 37:13
Category: Progressive Rock
Producer(s): Peter Hammill, David Lord
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.sofasound.com
Appears with: Van der Graaf Generator, David Jackson
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Just Good Friends (P.Hammill) - 3:55
[2] My Favourite (P.Hammill) - 3:04
[3] Been Alone So Long (Ch.Smith) - 5:03
[4] Ophelia song review (P.Hammill) - 3:11
[5] Again (P.Hammill) - 3:38
[6] If I Could song review (P.Hammill) - 5:04
[7] Vision (P.Hammill) - 3:18
[8] Don't Tell Me (P.Hammill) - 4:43
[9] The Birds (P.Hammill) - 3:43
[10] (This Side Of) The Looking Glass (P.Hammill) - 6:59

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Peter Hammill - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Digital Remastering, Liner Notes, Producer, Reissue Compilation, Reissue Producer

David Lord - Engineer, Producer, Synthesizer
David P. Jackson - Saxophones
Hugh Banton - Keyboards
Helen Copp - Vocals
Manny Elias - Drums
John Ellis - Guitar
Guy Evans - Bells, Drums, Percussion
Robert Fripp - Guitar
Stuart Gordon - Violin
Shena Power - Vocals
Nic Potter - Bass

Ted Sharp - Engineer
Adrian Peacock - Photography
Paul Ridout - Artwork, Sound Effects
Phil Smee - Packaging
Kathy Bryan - Transfers

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1984 LP Virgin Records - CASCD 1166 (UK)

Original album released as Charisma CAS 1166 in 1984.
Remastered at Sofa Sound.
Analogue to digital transfers at Abbey Road Studios, London.

Comes in a CD sized papersleeve album replica, with obi-strip, lyric-sheet and insert of notes mostly in Japanese.



This odd collection delves, seemingly at random, into the corpus of Peter Hammill songs that, inasmuch as they discuss the fraught path of romantic entanglements, can be construed as "love songs" -- although anybody picking up a copy as a Valentine's gift for his or her own significant other might well regret it. And not only because the sentiments and emotions expressed are often a long way from love itself. Re-recordings and remixes dominate, but that cannot disguise the album's failings. The ten songs here date, in the main, from the sequence of albums Hammill cut for the Charisma label during the 1970s, and that is where they are best experienced. Although the revisions have certainly tightened some hitherto loose arrangements (most noticeable on Over's "(This Side Of) The Looking Glass"), the frail immediacy of the original recordings has been surrendered in favor of a lush homogeny that disguises the songs' roots beneath a uniformity that, frankly, grows a little wearing after a time. Unleashed within the proto-punk apocalypse of Nadir's Big Chance, for example, "Been Alone So Long" emerged a shocking oasis of spellbinding longing. Sandwiched between the never-especially-great "My Favourite" and the drab "Ophelia," it simply sits and scratches itself. "Again" (from In Camera) similarly loses impact within its new surroundings, while the two cuts from Hammill's Fool's Mate debut, "Vision" and "The Birds," sound positively maudlin when divorced from the earnest poetry that once surrounded them. And so forth. In terms of the actual songs, The Love Songs is an excellent digest of one side of Hammill's mighty muse. Lumped together on the off chance that the emotions they share might bind them as a musical experience, however, they instead emerge a one-dimensional and ultimately dispiriting collection of moans.

Dave Thompson - All Music Guide



The Love Songs is an album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Charisma Records in 1984. The album is a compilation of ballads from Hammill's previous solo albums, re-recorded in new versions; all reworked, redubbed and remixed to form this album. The lead vocals were replaced on all tracks, except "Been Alone So Long". All tracks were based on the original multitracks, except "Again" and "If I Could", which are based on live K Group performances taken from the Margin Tour.

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