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Peter Hammill | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 1992)
• Original Release Date: 1977
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Plate Caroline
• ASIN: B000000I0C
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #255,074 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Crying Wolf

2. Autumn

3. Time Heals

4. Alice (Letting Go)

5. (This Side Of) The Looking Glass

6. Betrayed

7. (On Tuesdays She Used to Do) Yoga

8. Lost and Found

Editorial Reviews

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Virgin. 2007. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a painful introspection, October 17, 2007

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Pierre (France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Over (Reis) (Audio CD)

Peter Hammill wrote this album after his wife left him. It is a sincere account of his feelings at that time, his questions on himself, on humanity, on what went wrong... This kind of album can be ridiculous when it's by a lesser artist, but Peter Hammill is a talented one, and it's hard not to be moved by this album.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peter's most personal album, December 7, 1999

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Lorne Murphy (Burlington, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Over (Audio CD)

Heartbreak and the subsequent anger it spurns are the main topics of this, my personal favorite Hammill album. He never really made another one like this. I think it's one of those love-it-or-hate-it albums... the drenched-in-sorrow cuts "Autumn", "This side of the looking glass", and "Alice (Letting go)" are possible tear-inducers. The anger felt on "Betrayal" will touch anyone who has ever felt betrayed, particularly in a relationship. Absolutely an excellent album, which does not fit at all with it's harder-edged progressive predecessors, but rather stands beside them as a different perspective.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps Hammill's most painful release, July 16, 2007

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Eclectically Inclined - See all my reviews

This review is from: Over (Reis) (Audio CD)

It has been said this is Hammill's most personal release. I am not sure about that. But I feel it is his most painful. Breakups can be acutely painful and that formed the setting, the catalyst for this gem. Peter Gabriel would do his own broken relationships album with "Us" many years later. That too is a gem but not the subject at hand.

When I went through my second divorce this CD became my friend. I knew there was someone out there who had felt like I did , who had anguished like I was doing. Someone who had been both very sad and very angry. Someone who knew. Someone who knew intimately the pain of a breakup. Peter Hammill. Got to love him. I do.

This is an essential release for the Hammill fan. I am not going to review each song. That I am sure is covered elsewhere. Get the CD and discover it for yourself. But I would be amiss if I did not mention a few titles. Like the achingly sad but beautiful "Looking Glass" or the following track "Betrayed". Betrayed is one of the most if not the most vitriolic angst filled Hammill songs ever. Last mentioned here is "On Tuesdays..." which to me is almost unbearable to listen to. It has on more than once occasion reduced me to tears. Incredible stuff.

Powerful music. Inspired music. Music born of raw emotions. In the vast catalogue of Hammill releases this must be considered a must have, no questions asked.