The Love Songs (Peter Hammill album)

The Love Songs is an album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Charisma Records in 1984.

The Love Songs
Studio album by
Peter Hammill
ReleasedAugust 1984
GenreArt rock
LabelCharisma Records
ProducerPeter Hammill, David Lord
Peter Hammill chronology
Patience
(1983)		 The Love Songs
(1984)		 The Margin
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

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.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Hammill, except where indicated.

  1. "Just Good Friends"
  2. "My Favourite"
  3. "Been Alone So Long" (Chris Judge Smith)
  4. "Ophelia"
  5. "Again"
  6. "If I Could"
  7. "Vision"
  8. "Don't Tell Me"
  9. "The Birds"
  10. "(This Side of) The Looking Glass"

Original albums

The tracks were taken from these albums:

  1. Patience
  2. PH7
  3. Nadir's Big Chance
  4. Sitting Targets
  5. In Camera
  6. The Future Now
  7. Fool's Mate
  8. Enter k
  9. Fool's Mate
  10. Over

Personnel
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gollark: You *can* just electrolyze water for hydrogen.
gollark: Mekanism? Why Mekanism?
gollark: (My pack has two, kind of: orechids and the lens of the miner)
gollark: Theoretically you can get INFINITE POWER via any method of materializing ores from energy.

References
  1. Thompson, Dave. The Love Songs at AllMusic
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