What's your favorite Peter Hammill album?
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Topic: What's your favorite Peter Hammill album?
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Subject: What's your favorite Peter Hammill album?
Date Posted: January 25 2019 at 18:03
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Lots of Van Der Graaf Generator polls lately but what's your favorite Peter Hammill solo album? I have a feeling The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage will probably blow away the rest but give me a second runner up. That may vary a lot more. -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 25 2019 at 18:06
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Yes, The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage wins for me! Second is a tie between In Camera and Over. I can't decide. While i love ever VdGG album i've not yet listened to most of the albums of Hammill after the 80s and there are many. If anyone can recommend some particularly good ones, i'd love to check them out! ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 25 2019 at 18:15
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Patience!(Furthermore Sitting Targets over all those listed.) |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: January 25 2019 at 18:28
I consider very similar the level reached by Hammill with Chameleon and Silent Corner (very high level, very few artists have reached it and consolidated in two consecutive Lp). The first is more a singer-songwriter album, the latter is more progressive. I have not yet chosen my favorite between the two, and if I had the multiple choice I would have voted both, but being the only choice, go for Chameleon. ------------- "Happiness is real only when shared" |
siLLy puPPy wrote:Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 25 2019 at 18:44
Nice! You are a diehard fan indeed :) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: January 25 2019 at 18:50
In my opinion (and watching my photo you can see who I am  ) And Close As This (1986) is very good. But there are only vocals and keyboards. Very good even Out of Water (1990) with Stuart Gordon on violin, David Jackson on sax. Then Fireships (1992) is quite good. Roaring Forties is maybe the more progressive (1994).After that, since Clutch (2002) Hammill came back inspired and he has largely done good records, particularly Singularity (2007) and Consequences (2012). ------------- "Happiness is real only when shared" |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 25 2019 at 19:00
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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. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 25 2019 at 21:53
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In Camera ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: January 26 2019 at 00:02
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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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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 26 2019 at 03:03
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The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 26 2019 at 03:28
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Chameleon. ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 26 2019 at 08:38
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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). ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: January 26 2019 at 11:25
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  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: January 26 2019 at 15:32
Chameleon, coz I’m such a miserable b*****d 
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 05:37
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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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 05:53
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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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Posted By: Braka
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 06:22
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Always had a soft spot for 'Enter K' (Side one, anyway) |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: January 29 2019 at 10:58
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Many favorites but... No...Everyone You Hold it is. ------------- |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: January 30 2019 at 10:00
| Nadir, Baby!!! |
Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: January 30 2019 at 10:36
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Will go with the majority on this one, Silent Corner it is. ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 02 2019 at 05:47
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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........ |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: February 02 2019 at 11:17
I also like the cover of that album:  It is what I imagine the security at Porton Down to be like.  ------------- 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. |
Posted By: HAL 9000
Date Posted: February 03 2019 at 06:54
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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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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: February 03 2019 at 14:29
------------- 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. |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: April 16 2019 at 07:02
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