Compilations

Boxset-Compilation

Disc 1:

1. America (Second Amendment) (2009 Digital Remaster) The Nice 6:08
2. Witchi Tai To (2009 Digital Remaster) Topo-D-Bill 3:31
3. Sympathy (2009 Digital Remaster) Rare Bird 2:35

16. Theme 1 (2009 Digital Remaster) Van Der Graaf Generator 2:54

I found this on a compilation CD from "The Famous Charisma Label"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002P8RYI6/ref=dm_sp_alb
I can't find anything about it either on Sofasound or here, so I've got no idea what it is.
Is this may-be never released before? Can someone enlighten me?

North was somewhere years ago and cold:
Ice locked the people's hearts and made them old.
South was birth to pleasant lands, but dry...
I walked the waters' depths and played my mind.

East was dawn, coming alive in the golden sun:
the winds came gently, several heads became one
in the summertime, though august people sneered;
we were at peace, and we cheered.

We walked along, sometimes hand in hand,
between the thin lines marking sea and sand;
smiling very peacefully,
we began to notice that we could be free,
and we moved together to the West.

Recently mentioned on the Sofa Sound news page, featuring THAT single, so I've bought a copy of this 3CD monster. It's absolutely superb - nearly 4 hours of Underground reefer madness - many legendary names but mostly stuff which I'd never heard before. A true revelation - and that's without resort to technicolor blotting paper. You get a nice booklet too - with potted histories of all the bands.
The weakest thing on there is the VdGG offering - which PH himself says he redid much better on Nadir. I also prefer the demo verion of Firebrand.

1. Ophelia (3:10)
2. Shell (4:15)
3. After The Show (4:16)
4. Stranger Still (4:54)
5. You Hit Me Where I Live (4:50)
6. Sitting Targets (5:20)
7. The Spirit (2:35)
8. Porton Down (3:39)
9. Nobodys Business (4:07)
10. Sunshine (3:58)
11. Lost And Found (7:11)
12. Sign (3:45)
13. Just Good Friends (3:50)
14. If I Could (4:59)

Released on Virgin Records Ltd

1. A Kick To Kill The Kiss
2. I Will Find You
3. Accidents
4. His Best Girl
5. Sharply Unclear
6. Patient
7. Planet Conventry
8. A Ritual Mask
9. The Noise
10. The Gift Of Fire
11. Traintime
12. Gaia
13. Your Tall Ship

All voices and instruments by Peter Hammill except:
Drums/Percussion: Manny Elias (2,5,8,9)
Violin: Stuart Gordon (3,5)
Organ: Hugh Banton (2,7)
Keyboards: David Lord (1)
Soprano Vox: Holly & Beatrice Hammill (5)

All songs by Peter Hammill except
Phosphorescence - Cosentino/Hammill
Personality - Peter Hammill/Holly Hammill

1. Nadir's Big Chance
2. Golden Promises
3. A Perfect Date
4. The Spirit (A Black Box)
5. Sitting Targets
6. Tapeworm
7. Nobody's Business
8. Crying Wolf

BBC radio sessions 1974-1988

1. Faint Heart And The Sermon
2. The Emperor In His War Room
3. (No More) The Sub-Mariner
4. Betrayed
5. Afterwards
6. Autumn
7. Mr.X (Gets Tense)
8. Faculty X
9. Mediaevil
10. Time For A Change
11. The Plays The Thing
12. Auto
13. Invisible Ink
14. Time To Burn

Peter Hammill - Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Graham Smith - Violin ( 4 to 6)

Nick Gomm ( 4 to 6) - Engineer

1. Afterwards
2. Necromancer
3. Refugees
4. The Boat of Millions of Years
5. Lemmings (including Cog)
6. W
7. Arrow
8. La Rossa
9. Ship of Fools
10. Medley (Parts of "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" and "The Sleepwalkers")

All songs written by Peter Hammill

Recorded at Rockfield (1, 3)
Ross-on-Wye (6, 10)
Norton Canon (2, 4, 9)
Crowborough ( 8) between 1971 and 1975.
© 1993 Virgin Records Ltd

Release Notes

01. Shell
02. Not For Keith
03. Rain 3am
04. Just Good Friends
05. (on Tuesdays she used to do) Yoga
06. Shingle Song