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geekfreak ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 21 2013 Location: Musical Garden Status: Offline Points: 9872 |
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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HAL 9000 ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: February 02 2019 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 26 |
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Peter Hammill is one of my favourite solo artists besides Peter Gabriel.
It's a hard choice between "The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage" and "In Camera". "In Camera" contains pure darkness, especially the last 2 tracks have a long lasting effect on my mood. It wins slightly over "The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage" because of its consistency which has been disturbed by the too folky track "Rubicon". In the phase of the late 70's, I appreciate The Future Now which is the considerably more experimental and daring effort than "pH7" which suffers from a more acoustic and conventional approach in terms of songwriting. And my secret highlight is "Sitting Targets" - a perfectly balanced album which entails both sides of Peter Hammill's qualities.
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I prophesy disaster ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 31 2017 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 4621 |
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I also like the cover of that album: ![]() It is what I imagine the security at Porton Down to be like. ![]() |
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Tom Ozric ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15916 |
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Oh sh*t, I’m spinning Hammill / K Group Live - The Margin.
OUT- f**kING - STANDING stuff after all these years...... A stranger, a worldly man........ |
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Imperial Zeppelin ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 14 2013 Location: Kuwait Status: Offline Points: 6116 |
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Will go with the majority on this one, Silent Corner it is.
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miamiscot ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 23 2014 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 3472 |
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Nadir, Baby!!!
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Barbu ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30845 |
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Many favorites but...
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Braka ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 04 2017 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 181 |
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Always had a soft spot for 'Enter K' (Side one, anyway)
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Saperlipopette! ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 20 2010 Location: Tomorrowland Status: Offline Points: 10116 |
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1. Silent Corner - It might have been my favorite VdGG-album as well... followed by: 2. Over 2. In Camera 4. The Future Now 4. A Black Box |
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Lewian ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: August 09 2015 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 14242 |
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Not so sure... there is a fair quantity of Hammill's albums that I don't like much, and I don't know every single one. I think the thing is that in his solo work I appreciate his idiosyncratic songwriting combined with arty intelligent but accessible music rather than him serving the prog and VdGG crowd, as he had done better in earlier days. I like most of his 70s output, but with Patience in particular and a number of other later recordings he took a turn to more personal and direct music that I can appreciate (although I also find some of his more song oriented albums too one-dimensional music-wise, and I also know that the turn actually started already in the 70s, but it seemed more tentative before Patience; surely none of those gets close to Patience's rate of almost 100% of songs that I really love).
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Chameleon, coz I’m such a miserable b*****d
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The.Crimson.King ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 29 2013 Location: WA Status: Offline Points: 4591 |
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Really tough choice between Silent Corner & In Camera. In Camera has the brilliant Gog Magog, but Silent Corner opens with my favorites Modern and closes with A Louse so gets my vote. Also almost voted for the 1990 'Room Temperature Live' since I saw the tour at San Francisco's club Slims and it's such an amazing live album, but I'm always a bigger fan of studio than live albums. Still, anyone who hasn't heard Room Temperature Live owes it to themselves to hear the live versions of many songs from those great 70's albums
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 33119 |
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I voted for The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage, but I like many of his albums very much (and many more I have never heard).
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My 1960 to 2024 youtube playlist, one track per act and one track per year.
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Chameleon.
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Frenetic Zetetic ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 09 2017 Location: Now Status: Offline Points: 9233 |
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The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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I prophesy disaster ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 31 2017 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 4621 |
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In contrast to Van der Graaf Generator, which define me on this forum (my username, avatar, and signature are all connected to VdGG), I do not consider myself a "fan" of Peter Hammill's solo work, and have comparatively few of his solo albums. Most of the Peter Hammill solo albums I have are from the late '70s - early '80s period, which is when I got those albums. I do like that Peter Hammill's solo music is distinct from the music of VdGG (even if other band members contributed). However, I also consider Peter Hammill's solo work to be somewhat uneven in appeal. But, of the albums that I have, my favourite is pH7, which was the first Peter Hammill solo album I got.
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In Camera
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^ another true fan! And you're both in Italy! He really did strike an Italian chord, huh?
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll get to all of them eventually.
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In my opinion (and watching my photo you can see who I am ![]() After that, since Clutch (2002) Hammill came back inspired and he has largely done good records, particularly Singularity (2007) and Consequences (2012). |
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