Maida Vale (album) explained

Maida Vale: The BBC Radio One Sessions
Type:live
Artist:Van der Graaf Generator
Cover:Maida_Vale.gif
Released:June 1994
Recorded:1971, 1975 and 1976
Genre:Progressive rock
Length:71:09
Label:Band of Joy Records
Producer:John Muir (tracks 1 and 2) and Tony Wilson (rest)
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Maida Vale: The BBC Radio One Sessions is a compilation album by Van der Graaf Generator, containing eight songs from four different recording sessions at Maida Vale Studios for BBC Radio 1 in 1971, 1975 and 1976, three of which were Peel Sessions. It was released in June 1994 on Band of Joy Records.

All tracks were re-released on the 2015 2CD BBC compilation After the Flood: At the BBC 1968-1977, together with all the other BBC sessions, which survived in good audio quality.

The versions of "When She Comes" and "Masks" found here were also released as bonus tracks on the 2005 Charisma reissue of World Record.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Hammill, except where noted.

  1. "Darkness" - 7:17 (Sounds of the Seventies, 10 June 1971)
  2. "Man-Erg" - 11:00 (same)
  3. "Scorched Earth" - 9:40 (John Peel Show, 3 July 1975) (Hammill, David Jackson)
  4. "Sleepwalkers" - 8:58 (same)
  5. "Still Life" - 7:20 (John Peel Show, 1 April 1976)
  6. "La Rossa" - 10:00 (same)
  7. "When She Comes" - 8:08 (John Peel Show, 11 Nov 1976)
  8. "Masks" - 7:22 (same)

Personnel

Van der Graaf Generator

External links

Notes and References

  1. The instruments played are taken from the album notes by Peter Hammill in the booklet of Maida Vale, cd (1994), Band of Joy Records.