The Love Songs

1. Just Good Friends -(Patience, 1983)
2. My Favourite -(pH7, 1979)
3. Been Alone so Long (Chris Judge Smith) -(Nadir's Big Chance, 1974)
4. Ophelia -(Sitting Targets, 1981)
5. Again -(In Camera, 1974)
6. If I could -(The Future Now, 1978)
7. Vision -(Fool's Mate, 1971)
8. Don't Tell Me -(Enter K, 1982)
9. The Birds -(Fool's Mate, 1971)
10. This side of the Looking-Glass -(Over, 1977)

All songs written by Peter Hammill, except where indicated.
Peter Hammill - vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass, drums
Graham Smith - violin ( 2)
David Jackson - saxes ( 3/8/9)
Nic Potter - bass ( 5/6/9)
Guy Evans - drums ( 3/5/6/7/9)
Hugh Banton - organ ( 3/9)
Stuart Gordon - violin ( 1/7)
John Ellis - guitar ( 5/6)
Manny Elias - drums ( 1)
David Lord - synthesizer (tr. 1)
G. Brown, S. Power, H. Copp - ( 9)

Produced by Peter Hammill
Engineered by Peter Hammill at Sofa Sound,
Surrey, except 'Just Good Friends' engineered by
David Lord at Crescent Studios, and engineered by
Ted Sharp at Rockfield Studios
Photography by Adrian Peacock
Cover by Paul Ridout
© 1984 Charisma Records Ltd

"I've revisited these love songs with affection and a degree of trepidation... old frames! All of them have appeared on previous albums, as shown above. "Just Good Friends" is a complete reworking, and it was doing this which started me off on this project; "Again" and "If I Could" use live performances as backing tracks. Otherwise, these versions are the original masters, redubbed and mixed. In all but out cast ("Been Along So Long") the lead vocals is new: the tense is present... the song remains the same?"
Release Note by Peter Hammill