THE CHARISMA & VIRGIN RECORDINGS 1971-1986

CD1
"Fool's Mate"
Imperial Zeppelin
Candle
Happy
Solitude
Vision
Re-Awakening
Sunshine
Child
Summer Song in the Autumn
Viking
The Birds
I Once Wrote Some Poems

Bonus tracks:

Demo session
Recorded in January 1971

Re-Awakening (demo)
Summer Song in the Autumn (demo)
The Birds (demo)
Sunshine (demo)
Happy (demo)

CD2
"Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night"
German Overalls
Slender Threads
Rock and Role
In the End
What it's Worth
Easy to Slip Away
Dropping the Torch
(In the) Black Room / The Tower

Bonus tracks:

Rain 3am

Recorded in 1973

Time for a Change
German Overalls
Easy to Slip Away
In the End

BBC Radio John Peel session - 9th July 1973

CD3
"The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage"
Modern
Wilhemina
The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa)
Forsaken Gardens
Red Shift
Rubicon
A Louse is Not a Home

CD4
Live Recordings 1974
Rubicon
Red Shift
BBC Radio John Peel session - 18th February 1974
Solitude
Time for a Change
The Birds
Out of My Book
Slender Threads
German Overalls
Live at Montreal University Sports Centre - 21st April 1974

CD5
"In Camera"
Ferret and Featherbird
(No More) The Sub Mariner
Tapeworm
Again
Faint Heart and the Sermon
The Comet, The Course, The Tail
Gog
Magog (In Bromine Chambers)

Bonus tracks:

The Emperor in His War Room
Faint Heart and the Sermon
(No More) The Sub Mariner

BBC Radio John Peel session - 3rd September 1974

CD6
"Nadir's Big Chance"
Nadir's Big Chance
The Institute of Mental Health, Burning
Open Your Eyes
Nobody's Business
Been Alone So Long
Pompeii
Shingle Song
Airport
People You Were Going To
Birthday Special
Two or Three Spectres

CD7
"Over"
Crying Wolf
Autumn
Time Heals
Alice (Letting Go)
This Side of the Looking Glass
Betrayed
(On Tuesday's She Used to Do) Yoga
Lost and Found

Bonus tracks:

Afterwards
Autumn
Betrayed

BBC Radio One John Peel session - 21st April 1977

CD8
"The Future Now"
Pushing Thirty
The Second Hand
Trappings
The Mousetrap
Energy Vampires
If I Could
The Future Now
Still in the Dark
Mediaeval
A Motor-Bike in Africa
The Cut
Palinurus (Castaway)

CD9
The All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, USA
16th February 1978
House With No Door
Time Heals
This Side of the Looking Glass
My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)
Easy to Slip Away
Still Life
Lizard Play
Time for a Change
Been Alone So Long
Modern
If I Could
Last Frame

CD10
The All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, USA
16th February 1978
The Comet, The Course, The Tail
The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa)
The Mousetrap (Caught In)
In the End
Medley: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers / The Sleepwalkers
Man-Erg

CD11
"pH7"
My Favourite
Careering
Porton Down
Mirror Images
Handicap and Equality
Not for Keith
The Old School Tie
Time for a Change
Imperial Walls
Mr X (Gets Tense)
Faculty X

Bonus tracks:

Mediaeval / Time for a Change
Mr X (Gets Tense)
Faculty X

BBC Radio John Peel session - 24th September 1979

The Polaroid

A-side of single - Released as Charisma CB 399 in August 1979
Credited to Rikki Nadir

CD12
"A Black Box"
Golden Promises
Losing Faith in Words
Jargon King
Fogwalking
The Spirit
In Slow Time
The Wipe
Flight
Flying Bird
The White Cave Fandango
Control
Cockpit
Silk Worm Wings
Nothing is Nothing
A Black Box

CD13
"Sitting Targets"
Breakthrough
My Experience
Ophelia
Empress's Clothes
Glue
Hesitation
Sitting Targets
Stranger Still
Sign
What I Did
Central Hotel

CD14
"The Love Songs"
Just Good Friends
My favourite
Been Alone So Long
Ophelia
Again
If I Could
Vision
Don't Tell Me
The Birds
(This Side of) The Looking Glass

Bonus track:

Just Good Friends (instrumental)

B-side of single - Released as Charisma CB 414 in May 1985

CD15
"Skin"
Skin
After the Show
Painting By Numbers
Shell
All Said and Done
A Perfect Date
Four Pails
Now Lover

Bonus track:

You Hit Me Where I Live

CD16
"And Close as This"
Too Many of My Yesterdays
Faith
Empire of Delight
Silver
Beside the One You Love
Other Old Cliches
Confidence
Sleep Now

CD17
"The Future Now"
Stephen W Tayler stereo remix
Pushing Thirty
The Second Hand
Trappings
The Mousetrap (Caught In)
Energy Vampires
If I Could
The Future Now
Still in the Dark
Mediaeval
A Motor-Bike in Africa
The Cut
Palinurus (Castaway)

CD18
"pH7"
Stephen W Tayler stereo remix
My Favourite
Careering
Porton Down
Mirror Images
Handicap and Equality
Not for Keith
The Old School Tie
Time for a Change
Imperial Walls
Mr X (Gets Tense)
Faculty X

Blu-ray1
"The Future Now"
Stephen W Tayler High resolution 5.1 Surround Sound mix / new stereo remix
Pushing Thirty
The Second Hand
Trappings
The Mousetrap
Energy Vampires
If I Could
The Future Now
Still in the Dark
Mediaeval
A Motor-Bike in Afrika
The Cut
Palinurus (Castaway)

"pH7"
Stephen W Tayler High resolution 5.1 Surround Sound mix / new stereo remix
My Favourite
Careering
Porton Down
Mirror Images
Handicap and Equality
Not for Keith
The Old School Tie
Time for a Change
Imperial Walls
Mr X (Gets Tense)
Faculty X

Blu-ray2
The video vaults
In the End
German Overalls

French TV - Rock en Stock 1973
The Lie
Forsaken Gardens
A Louse is Not a Home

Swiss Television 1974
Energy Vampires
My Room

French TV - Chorus 1979
Tintagel By the Sea

BBC TV - "Playaway" 15th December 1979

- Peter Hammill / vocals, guitar, keyboards, producer

Format: 18CD / 2Blu-Ray Box Set
September 26, 2025