This song<\/a> is from one of his 80s albums.\u00a0 Released in 1986, it’s about as deep into the 80s as you can get.\u00a0 But it’s basically just Mr. Hammill and a keyboard.\u00a0 Some things are sequenced, but there are no overdubs.\u00a0 And this song is the first track.\u00a0 It’s a rather simple tune, and it’s gotten stuck in my head frequently.\u00a0 The subject matter is something I would have really connected with about 10 years ago, when I actually reconnected and started up a long distance relationship with my ex.<\/p>\nBut now, it’s just a beautiful set of poetic words set to a simple and elegant piano tune.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And this reminds me of how I need to go and track down Mr. Hammill’s 90s albums.\u00a0 That might take me a while.\u00a0 “Out of stock” is a reoccurring melody when it comes to buying CDs that aren’t supported by soft drink sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just a dude and a piano. This pic came up for a Google image search of “dude” and “piano”.\u00a0 So here it is. I’ve become quite fond of Mr. Hammill’s solo music, and I even like (most) of his 80s stuff.\u00a0 Some of it is bland 80s pop, but at least he didn’t have entirely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46,160],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-80s","tag-peter-hammill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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