Typical (album)

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Typical
Peter Hammill Typical.jpg
Live album by
ReleasedApril 1999
Recorded1992
Genre Art rock
Length130:13
Label Fie! Records
Producer Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill chronology
This
(1998)
Typical
(1999)
None of the Above
(2000)
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Typical is a live album by Peter Hammill, recorded in 1992 and released in 1999. It is a double CD and was released on Hammill's own Fie! Records label. The album was recorded at nine concerts in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "My Room" (7:30)
  2. "Curtains" (6:06)
  3. "Just Good Friends" (4:55)
  4. "Too Many of My Yesterdays" (4:23)
  5. "Vision" (4:32)
  6. "Time to Burn" (5:08)
  7. "The Comet, The Course, The Tail" (9:12)
  8. "I Will Find You" (3:55)
  9. "Ophelia" (4:14)
  10. "Given Time" (4:46)
  11. "Modern" (9:30)
  12. "Time for a Change" (4:14)
  13. "Patient" (8:43)
  14. "Stranger Still" (5:51)
  15. "Our Oyster" (5:46)
  16. "Shell" (4:44)
  17. "A Way Out" (9:06)
  18. "Traintime" (6:10)
  19. "The Future" Now (4:03)
  20. "Afterwards" (6:00) (hidden bonus track)
  21. "Darkness (11/11)" (5:13) (hidden bonus track)
  22. "Central Hotel" (6:12) (hidden bonus track)

Personnel

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References

  1. McDonald, Steven. "Typical - Peter Hammill | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 21 January 2012.