Peter Hammill - "(No More) The Sub Mariner" - Peel Sessions (1974)

It's a hallmark of adulthood that our options diminish...
Peter Hammill (audio only) plays the song "(No More) The Sub Mariner" from the now seemingly unavailable album solo album "The Peel Sessions", recorded live and solo 19th August 1974 for the BBC Radio One John Peel radio sessions - first broadcast 3rd September 1974 - added as a bonus track to the recently remastered album "In Camera".

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[neckercube1]

In Camera is Peter's best solo album. Discuss.

[professoricon]

@neckercube1:

That's a really difficult choice. I always felt that In Camera was overwhelmed by Gog/Magog, and in turn let down by those tracks. However, the remastered version includes the three Peel Session masterpeices, and those three tracks could indeed turn it into the best solo album. Excluding bonus tracks, my own choice would probably be 'The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage', but there are so many great songs on the first four (solo) albums that I cannot easily decide.

[professoricon]

@neckercube1:

Another favourite of mine is the live "Skeletons of Songs", and also "Typical", because live and solo without the overdubbing, engineering and orchestration is definitely my favourite way of listening to PH.

[pierumberto]

questa canzone mi ha sempre messo i brividi per quanto è bella e profonda...

[professoricon]

@pierumberto:

si prega di consultare i miei altri video e lasciare un punteggio

[professoricon]

Oh! To be the captain of a ship of war!

[Sirengesang]

Hammill at his best

[TeoOrlando]

The verses "It's a hallmark of adulthood/

that our options diminish/as our faculties for choice increase,/till we choose everything and nothing,/too late, at the finish." are truly profound and impressive.

The minutes from 4:02 to 5.45 are very chilling and breathtaking.

This song is an outstanding masterpiece!

[TheLedward]

beautiful, melancholic, and original 

the ledward

[TheLedward]

beautiful, melancholic, and original

[lindavid1975]

Heater Panel at full flow: love his vibrato and falsetto, and his falsetto vibrato too, of course.

[neckercube1]

@professoricon I suppose it's an impossible dilemma, very subjective. The reason I raised the point was that all the 'songs' on In Camera are exceptional and, to my mind, find Hammill at a creative peak (solo-wise). As for Gog/Magog? Yes, not sure if it stands up well to the test of time (and repeated plays). Probably one of the most diverse (and risky?) things he's done. More of a soundscape. But, again, perhaps it's that which makes In Camera that bit special?