The Love Songs (Peter Hammill album)

The Love Songs
The Love Songs
Studio album by Peter Hammill
Released	20 August 1984
Studio	Sofa Sound, Surrey
Genre	Art rock
Length	41:53
Label	Charisma
Producer	Peter Hammill, David Lord
Peter Hammill chronology

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Allmusic	^[2]

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 re-recorded 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 "Been Alone So Long" written by Chris Judge Smith.

Side one
No.	Title	Original albums	Length
1.	"Just Good Friends"	Patience	4:00
2.	"My Favourite"	pH7	2:58
3.	"Been Alone So Long"	Nadir's Big Chance	5:00
4.	"Ophelia"	Sitting Targets	3:05
5.	"Again"	In Camera	3:30
Total length:			18:33

Side two
No.	Title	Original album	Length
6.	"If I Could"	The Future Now	4:58
7.	"Vision"	Fool's Mate	3:14
8.	"Don't Tell Me"	Enter k	4:38
9.	"The Birds"	Fool's Mate	3:35
10.	"This Side Of The Looking Glass"	Over	6:55
Total length:			23:20

Personnel

Peter Hammill – vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums
Graham Smith – violin (2)
David Jackson – saxophone (3, 8, 9)
Nic Potter – bass (5, 6, 9)
Guy Evans – drums (3, 5, 6, 9)
Hugh Banton – bass (3), piano (7), organ (9)
Stuart Gordon – violin (1, 7)
John Ellis – guitar (5, 6, 8)
Manny Elias – drums (1)
David Lord – synthesizer (1)
Robert Fripp – guitar (9)

Technical

Paul Ridout – cover
Adrian Peacock – photography

References

^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 29.
^ Thompson, Dave. The Love Songs at AllMusic

[1] "Music Week" (PDF). p. 29.

[2] Thompson, Dave. The Love Songs at AllMusic

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Peter Hammill
Studio albums	Fool's Mate (1971) Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (1973) The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974) In Camera (1974) Nadir's Big Chance (1975) Over (1977) The Future Now (1978) pH7 (1979) A Black Box (1980) Sitting Targets (1981) Enter K (1982) Loops and Reels (1983) Patience (1983) Skin (1986) And Close As This (1986) Spur of the Moment (1988) In a Foreign Town (1988) Out of Water (1990) The Fall of the House of Usher (1991) Fireships (1992) The Noise (1993) Roaring Forties (1994) X My Heart (1996) Sonix - Hybrid Experiments 1994-1996 (1996) Everyone You Hold (1997) This (1998) The Appointed Hour (1999) None of the Above (2000) What, Now? (2001) Unsung (2001) Clutch (2002) Incoherence (2004) Singularity (2006) Thin Air (2009) Consequences (2012) Other World (2014) ...All That Might Have Been... (2014) From the Trees (2017) In Translation (2021)
Live albums	The Margin (1985) Room Temperature (1990) There Goes the Daylight (1993) The Peel Sessions (1995) The Union Chapel Concert (1997) Typical (1999) The Margin + (2002) Veracious (2006) Pno Gtr Vox (2011) Pno Gtr Vox Box (2012) Peter Hammill & The K Group Live at Rockpalast 26/11/81 (2016) X/Ten (2018) Not Yet Not Now (2019)
Singles	"Red Shift" (1973) "Birthday Special" (1975) "Crying Wolf" (1977) "If I Could" (1978) "The Polaroid" (1979) "My Experience" (1981) "Paradox Drive" (1982) "Film Noir" (1983) "Just Good Friends" (1985) "Painting by Numbers" (1986) A Fix on the Mix (1992) ‎(CD, EP)
Live videos	In the Passionskirche (1992) Live at Rockpalast - Hamburg 1981 (2016)
Compilation albums	Vision (1978) (1984) The Essential Collection (1986) The Storm (Before the Calm) (1993) The Calm (After the Storm) (1993) Offensichtlich Goldfisch (1993) After the Show - A Collection (1996) Past Go: Collected (1996) The Thin Man Sings Ballads (2002)
Collaborators	Judge Smith David Jackson Guy Evans John Ellis Nic Potter Roger Eno Stuart Gordon