The Noise (album)
The Noise | ||||
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Studio album by Peter Hammill | ||||
Released | March 1993 | |||
Recorded | January–September 1992 | |||
Genre | Art rock, Pop rock | |||
Label | Fie! | |||
Producer | Peter Hammill | |||
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The Noise is the 20th studio album by the English singer and songwriter Peter Hammill.
As the title implies, the album is a collection of uptempo rock songs, in sharp contrast to Hammill's previous album, Fireships, which consisted mainly of ballads. The album was announced on its sleeve as "Number 1 in the A Loud series" (Fireships had similarly been labelled as "Number 1 in the BeCalm series"). At the time, Hammill intended these labels to continue, and to separate his loud and quiet songs between different albums. The idea did not, however, continue beyond these two albums.
The song "Primo on the Parapet" is a tribute to the writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, and has been performed many times by Hammill in concert.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Peter Hammill
- "A Kick to Kill the Kiss"
- "Like a Shot, the Entertainer"
- "The Noise"
- "Celebrity Kissing"
- "Where the Mouth Is"
- "The Great European Department Store"
- "Planet Coventry"
- "Primo on the Parapet"
Personnel
- Peter Hammill – vocals, guitar, keyboards
- Manny Elias – drums
- Nic Potter – bass
- John Ellis – guitar
- David Jackson – saxophone, flute
Technical
- Peter Hammill - recording engineer, mixing (Terra Incognita, Bath)
- Paul Ridout - cover design
References
- ^ Sinclair, Ali. The Noise at AllMusic
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- Fool's Mate (1971)
- Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (1973)
- The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974)
- In Camera (1974)
- Nadir's Big Chance (1975)
- Over (1977)
- The Future Now (1978)
- pH7 (1979)
- A Black Box (1980)
- Sitting Targets (1981)
- Enter K (1982)
- Loops and Reels (1983)
- Patience (1983)
- Skin (1986)
- And Close As This (1986)
- Spur of the Moment (1988)
- In a Foreign Town (1988)
- Out of Water (1990)
- The Fall of the House of Usher (1991)
- Fireships (1992)
- The Noise (1993)
- Roaring Forties (1994)
- X My Heart (1996)
- Sonix - Hybrid Experiments 1994-1996 (1996)
- Everyone You Hold (1997)
- This (1998)
- The Appointed Hour (1999)
- None of the Above (2000)
- What, Now? (2001)
- Unsung (2001)
- Clutch (2002)
- Incoherence (2004)
- Singularity (2006)
- Thin Air (2009)
- Consequences (2012)
- Other World (2014)
- ...All That Might Have Been... (2014)
- From the Trees (2017)
- In Translation (2021)
- The Margin (1985)
- Room Temperature (1990)
- There Goes the Daylight (1993)
- The Peel Sessions (1995)
- The Union Chapel Concert (1997)
- Typical (1999)
- The Margin + (2002)
- Veracious (2006)
- Pno Gtr Vox (2011)
- Pno Gtr Vox Box (2012)
- Peter Hammill & The K Group Live at Rockpalast 26/11/81 (2016)
- X/Ten (2018)
- Not Yet Not Now (2019)
- "Red Shift" (1973)
- "Birthday Special" (1975)
- "Crying Wolf" (1977)
- "If I Could" (1978)
- "The Polaroid" (1979)
- "My Experience" (1981)
- "Paradox Drive" (1982)
- "Film Noir" (1983)
- "Just Good Friends" (1985)
- "Painting by Numbers" (1986)
- A Fix on the Mix (1992) (CD, EP)
- In the Passionskirche (1992)
- Live at Rockpalast - Hamburg 1981 (2016)
- Vision (1978)
- The Love Songs (1984)
- The Essential Collection (1986)
- The Storm (Before the Calm) (1993)
- The Calm (After the Storm) (1993)
- Offensichtlich Goldfisch (1993)
- After the Show - A Collection (1996)
- Past Go: Collected (1996)
- The Thin Man Sings Ballads (2002)
- Judge Smith
- David Jackson
- Guy Evans
- John Ellis
- Nic Potter
- Roger Eno
- Stuart Gordon