Noise [Import]

Peter Hammill | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 2, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Fie
• ASIN: B0000248SK
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #568,792 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Noise - remastered and noisier!, May 25, 2007

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Stephen Andrews "salvation21" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Noise (Audio CD)

'The Noise', recorded in 1992, was what many people had been waiting for: a classic rock band line-up, consisting of Hammill on lead guitar, keyboards and vocals; Nic Potter on bass; Manny Elias on drums; John Ellis (borrowed from The Vibrators and The Stranglers) on guitar; and David Jackson on sax and flute. The intention was to be loud, although, in the event, the original release of this album suffered from a somewhat muted production. The format here was the short 'four-to-the-floor' rock song, with Hammill eschewing his more elongated dramas, although Q Magazine at the time noted that: 'Hammill has called on some of the melody mazes and prog-rock density from the Van Der Graaf songbook which...has decorative frills and coarse swagger.' It was certainly an album of some power, Hammill getting stuck into such topics as materialism and fame with full-throated vigour on such classic songs as 'Planet Coventry' and 'A Kick to Kill the Kiss'. But the band was perhaps at its noisiest on stage : the storm they kicked up was captured on the subsequent live release, 'There goes the daylight' recorded at the Clapham Grand in south London. This remastered version, however, puts back some of the fizz that was missing on the original CD issue. Boom. Boom. Rat-a-tat-tat.

5.0 out of 5 stars The title says it all!, September 21, 2010

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Bangsmith (Cumberland, RI) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Noise (Audio CD)

This album is Peter Hammill's heaviest after Nadir's Big Chance, but that one was pretty much a Van Der Graaf Generator album with his name on it. Warning: if you get The Noise, there are no remastering credits in the booklet. Unless you've seen the original CD, you will have no way of telling that this was remastered until you listen to the CD. I've never heard the original, but this has to be remastered, because it is quite noisy, almost as much so as Nadir! As for the music, this sounds like a slightly more industrial version of Peter Gabriel. Enjoy!