Peter Hammill discography
This is the discography of Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, and a founding member of progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. For albums released by Van der Graaf Generator, see Van der Graaf Generator discography.
Studio albums
Fool's Mate Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage In Camera Nadir's Big Chance Over The Future Now pH7 A Black Box Sitting Targets Enter K Loops and Reels Patience Skin And Close As This Spur of the Moment In a Foreign Town Out of Water The Fall of the House of Usher Fireships The Noise Roaring Forties X My Heart Sonix Everyone You Hold This The Appointed Hour None of the Above What, Now? Unsung Clutch Incoherence Singularity Thin Air Consequences Other World ...All That Might Have Been... From the Trees In Amazonia In Translation- ''In Disequilibrium''
Live albums
The Margin Room Temperature There Goes The Daylight The Peel Sessions The Union Chapel Concert Typical The Margin + Veracious Pno Gtr Vox Pno Gtr Vox Box Peter Hammill & The K Group Live at Rockpalast 26/11/81 X/Ten- ''Not Yet Not Now''
Singles
- "Red Shift 1" c/w "Red Shift 2"
- "Birthday Special" c/w "Shingle Song"
- "If I Could" c/w "The Future Now"
- "The Polaroid" c/w "The Old School Tie"
- "My Experience" c/w "Glue"
- "My Experience" c/w "What I Did"
- "Paradox Drive" c/w "Now More Than Ever"
- "Film Noir" c/w "Seven Wonders"
- "Just Good Friends" c/w "Just Good Friends "
- "Painting By Numbers" c/w "You Hit Me Where I Live"
Videos
In The Passionskirche- ''Peter Hammill & The K Group Live at Rockpalast 26/11/81''
Compilations
Vision The Love Songs The Essential Collection A Fix On The Mix The Storm The Calm Offensichtlich Goldfisch After The Show Past Go: Collected- ''The Thin Man Sings Ballads''
Other compilation album appearances (incomplete)
Charisma Disturbance – track 4: "German Overalls"Charisma Festival – track 16: "Crying Wolf"Music and Rhythm – track 16: "A Ritual Mask" The Enigma Variations – side 2, track 5: "Too Many of My Yesterdays"; side 4, track 5: "Painting by Numbers"The Enigma Variations – track 10: "Too Many of My Yesterdays"Der Sampler 1 – track 3, side 2: "Painting by Numbers"Der Sampler 16 – track 1, side 2: "Too Many Of My Yesterdays"Der Sampler 31 – track 1: "Hemlock"Der Sampler 36 – track 6: "Painting by Numbers"Der Sampler 39 – track 21: "Too Many Of My Yesterdays"Plus from Us – track 3: "Oasis"Sometimes God Hides: The Young Person's Guide to Discipline, Volume 1 – track 11: "A Better Time "Sometimes God Smiles: The Young Person's Guide to Discipline, Volume 2 – track 9: "Nothing Comes"The Roots Of The Sex Pistols – track 12: "Nadir's Big Chance"Refugees: A Charisma Records Anthology 1969-78 – CD1 track 8: "Re-awakening"; CD2 track 15: "Red Shift"; CD3 track 3: "Nadir's Big Chance"Separate Paths Together: An Anthology of British Male Singer-Songwriters 1965-75 – CD1 track 15: "Easy to Slip Away"Steven Wilson Presents: Intrigue - Progressive Sounds In UK Alternative Music 1979–89 – CD3 track 7: "Comfortable"Round and Round – Progressive Sounds of 1974 – CD2 track 2: "Tapeworm"; CD4 track 7: "Red Shift"Guest appearances
- Colin Scot, Colin Scot – provided backing vocals on several tracks
- Le Orme, Felona and Sorona – wrote English language lyrics for the Charisma Records UK release of the Italian album Felona e Sorona
- Robert Fripp, Exposure – co-wrote and sang lead vocals on "Disengage", sang lead vocals on "Chicago", and duetted with Terre Roche on "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me but I've Had Enough of You"
- Ludus, The Visit – provided "attention and advice"
- Peter Gabriel, Security – sang backing vocals on "The Family and the Fishing Net", "Shock the Monkey" and "Lay Your Hands on me"
- Georgia II, The Flag / Tunnel Vision – sang backing vocals and played guitar
- The Long Hello, The Long Hello Volume 3 – played organ solo and keyboard sounds on "The Honing of Homer"
- Miguel Bosé, Bandido – wrote the lyrics of "South of the Sahara" and "Domine Mundi"
- Islo Mob, Wir Sind das Abendland – sang backing vocals
- Damian Hawkyard, Ill at Ease – sang backing vocals on one track
- Ayuo, Nova Carmina – sang lead vocals on some tracks
- Kazue Sawai, Eye To Eye – contributed on "A Song To Fallen Blossoms"
- Herbert Grönemeyer, What's All This – wrote the English lyrics
- Crazy House, Still Looking For Heaven On Earth – played piano on "Feel That Way"
- Alice, Il sole nella pioggia – co-wrote and sang on "Now and Forever"
- Nic Potter, The Blue Zone – played guitar on "Ocean Blue"
- Judge Smith, Democrazy – co-wrote and played on various songs
- Peter Gabriel, Us – sang backing vocals on "Digging in the Dirt"
- Christian Demand, Kleine Fluchten – sang and played midi-guitar
- The Stranglers, The Stranglers and Friends – Live in Concert – sang on "Tank" and "The Raven"
- Ayuo, Songs from a Eurasian Journey – sang lead vocals on several tracks
- Saro Cosentino, Ones And Zeros – co-wrote and sang on "Phosphorescence" and "From Far Away"
- David Cross, Exiles – sang lead vocals on "Tonk" and "Troppo"
- Moondog, Sax Pax for a Sax – sang backing vocals
- Wolfram Huschke, Alien Diary – sang lead vocals on "Black Rose"
- Pale Orchestra conducted by David Thomas, Mirror Man Act 1: Jack & The General – played harmonium, guitar and keyboards
- Alice, Exit – wrote the lyrics of "Open Your Eyes"
- Various Artists, Hommage to Polnareff – sang lead vocals on "Jour Après Jour"
- Jackie Leven, Defending Ancient Springs – played harmonium, guitar and keyboard on "Morbid Sky"
- Judge Smith, Curly's Airships – performed the part of Lord Thomson
- Ayuo, Earth Guitar – 1000 Springs And Other Stories – sang the gothic choir and did poetry reading
- Premiata Forneria Marconi, PFM Live in Japan 2002 – sang lead vocals on "Sea of Memory"
- David Rhodes, Bittersweet – sang backing vocals
- Memories of Machines, Warm Winter – played guitar
- Tim Bowness, Stupid Things That Mean the World – backing vocals and slide guitar
- Notopia, Celebrating Life – lead vocals on "Celebrate" and "Connect"
- Tim Bowness, Flowers at the Scene – vocals, guitar on "It's the World"; vocals on "Killing to Survive"
- Tim Bowness & Peter Chilvers, Modern Ruins – stealth guitar on "Blog Remember Me"
- Jakko Jakszyk, Secrets & Lies – vocals, guitar and co-wrote one song
- The Amorphous Androgynous, We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal – co-writer; lead vocals
- Lush Fresh Handmade Sound, Tales of Bath – vocals on Track 6 "The Cutty Wren"; voice on Track 10 "In a Bath Teashop"
- Tim Bowness, Butterfly Mind – vocals, guitar on "Say Your Goodbyes", "We Feel"
- Saro Cosentino, The Road To Now – vocals, guitar on "The Joke", "November", "Time to Go", "When Your Parents Danced"
As producer
- Random Hold, Random Hold
- Random Hold, The View From Here
- Random Hold, Etceteraville / Precarious Timbers
- Random Hold, Cause & Effect / What Happened
- Random Hold, Etceteraville
- Random Hold, Avalanche ; re-released as The View From Here
- Essential Bop, The Bristol Recorder 3
- Julia Downes, Playing For Time / Romantic – track "Romantic"
- Julia Downes, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie – two tracks
- Essential Bop, The Flick Was Boss
- Crazy House, Still Looking For Heaven On Earth - track "Feel That Way"
- Crazy House, Burning Rain / Garden Of Luck – track "Burning Rain"
- David Jackson, Fractal Bridge
- Tim Bowness & Peter Chilvers, Modern Ruins – album mixing