Roaring Forties (album)


Roaring Forties is the 21st studio album by Peter Hammill, released on his own Fie! label in 1994. It, and the following album, X My Heart, are Hammill's most recent albums that primarily contain an organic, full-band rock style. While there are occasional tracks on later albums in this style, Hammill's principal mode has moved since this album towards a more intimate, chamber-music style.
The album also contains "A Headlong Stretch", one of Hammill's occasional long, episodic song suites.

Track listing

  1. "Sharply Unclear" - 5:42
  2. "The Gift of Fire " - 8:31
  3. "You Can't Want What You Always Get" - 9:36
  4. "A Headlong Stretch" - 19:32
  5. *Up Ahead
  6. *Continental Drift
  7. *The Twelve
  8. *Long Light
  9. *Backwards Man
  10. *As You Were
  11. *Or So I Said
  12. "Your Tall Ship" - 4:58

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