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1990 live album by Peter Hammill
Room Temperature
Live album by Peter Hammill
ReleasedNovember 1990
RecordedFebruary–March 1990
VenueVarious concerts in the US, UK and Canada
GenreArt rock
Length145:43
LabelEnigma
ProducerPeter Hammill
Peter Hammill chronology
Out of Water
(1990)
Room Temperature
(1990)
The Fall of the House of Usher
(1991)
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Room Temperature is a live album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Enigma Records in 1990. On its initial release, the album was only available in North America. It was subsequently re-released on Hammill's own Fie! label.

The album documents Hammill's 1990 tour of Europe and North America. Hammill's group for this tour consisted of Stuart Gordon on violin and former Van der Graaf Generator bassist Nic Potter on bass. There was no drummer, hence some of the songs on these recordings have a stripped down, chamber music feel. The group was briefly billed as the Peter Hammill Band.

Initial copies of this double live CD came in a longbox.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Peter Hammill; except where indicated

Disc one
  1. "The Wave" (03:43)
  2. "Just Good Friends" (05:15)
  3. "Vision" (04:52)
  4. "Time to Burn" (05:00)
  5. "Four Pails" (Chris Judge Smith, Max Hutchinson) - (06:42)
  6. "The Comet, the Course, the Tail" (09:19)
  7. "Ophelia" (04:20)
  8. "Happy Hour" (09:14)
  9. "If I Could" (06:03)
  10. "Something About Ysabel's Dance" (07:27)
  11. "Patient" (10:02)
Disc two
  1. "Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever (Running)" (Graham Smith, Peter Hammill) - (06:06)
  2. "Skin" (05:30)
  3. "Hemlock" (08:23)
  4. "Our Oyster" (07:12)
  5. "The Unconscious Life" (06:03)
  6. "After the Show" (10:57)
  7. "A Way Out" (08:46)
  8. "The Future Now" (04:06)
  9. "Traintime" (06:40)
  10. "Modern" (10:03)

Personnel

References

  1. Prato, Greg. Room Temperature at AllMusic
Peter Hammill
Studio albums
Live albums
Singles
  • "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)
Live videos
  • In the Passionskirche (1992)
  • Live at Rockpalast - Hamburg 1981 (2016)
Compilation albums
  • 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)
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