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First released:
Apr 1977

Overview Edit

Over is an album by the English singer and songwriter Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in April 1977. It was issued for the first time on CD on Virgin Records in the early 1990s, and was reissued again in a remastered version in 2006 with bonus tracks.

Over is generally considered to be one of Hammill's most important solo albums, containing as it does some of his most intensely personal songs. The album details the break-up of a long-term relationship with a woman known as Alice.

The album was recorded during a period of line-up change for Hammill's band Van der Graaf Generator. It features VdGG drummer Guy Evans, VdGG's new recruit Graham Smith (formerly of String Driven Thing) on violin, and the return of VdGG's bass player from 1969 to 1970, Nic Potter.

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Record label:
Catalog number:
CASCDR 1125
Release dates:
  • Oct 30 2006 in United Kingdom

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5 stars a painful introspection
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.
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3 stars over-ly wordy; get pH before this to 'get' p. hamill's solo work
i argue this is a tiresome production. agnst and anguish over a failed love is only interesting if the separation of a parallel creative thrust accompanies the theme. a soothing sentimentality or bringing in other love interests would justify such deep mourning, but to deluge the listener with lyrical mass saturated with pathos is almost subconsciously sadistic as a modal choice. >>>>i sympathize with the intent to emphasize the pain, but poetry has an uphill challenge already competing with for…
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Track listing Edit

  • CD

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    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Crying Wolf
    5:13
    		Play Buy track
    2
    Autumn
    4:18
    		Play Buy track
    3
    Time Heals
    8:43
    		Play Buy track
    4
    Alice (Letting Go)
    5:40
    		Play Buy track
    5
    This Side of the Looking Glass
    7:03
    		Play Buy track
    6
    Betrayed
    4:48
    		Play Buy track
    7
    (On Tuesdays She Used to Do) Yoga
    3:58
    		Play Buy track
    8
    Lost and Found
    7:33
    		Play Buy track
    9
    Autumn (Recorded for the John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1)
    4:47
    		Play Buy track
    10
    Betrayed (Recorded for the John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1)
    4:49
    		 
    11
    This Side of the Looking Glass (alternate take)
    4:11
    		Play Buy track

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Over 8 tracks format: 1 x vinyl
record label: Charisma
catalog number: CAS 1125
release dates: Apr 1977 in United Kingdom
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Over 8 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Blue Plate Caroline
release dates: Sep 23 1992
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