The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other

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The least we can do is wave to each other

Studio album by Van der Graaf Generator
Released	February, 1970
Recorded	December, 1969
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	43:10
Label	Charisma Records
Producer(s)	John Anthony
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Van der Graaf Generator chronology
The Aerosol Grey Machine (1969)	The least we can is wave to each other (1970)	H to He, Who Am the Only One (1970)

The least we can do is wave to each other is the second album by the British progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. It was released in 1970. The album was re-mastered, with two bonus tracks in 2005.

While this is the second album in the Van der Graaf Generator catalog, it really is the first album by the band, as such. The previous album, The Aerosol Grey Machine had been written and recorded as a Peter Hammill solo record. When the band was signed to Charisma Records, a deal was worked out whereby lead singer Peter Hammill's album would be released under the Van der Graaf Generator name, in return for Mercury Records releasing him from his earlier contract with them.

The album credited Hugh Banton with writing the cello parts, but he was not given an actual songwriting credit.

The title is taken from John Minton: "We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other".

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
- 2.1 Van der Graaf Generator
- 2.2 Additional musicians

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Peter Hammill, except as noted.

"Darkness (11/11)" – 7:28
"Refugees" – 6:23
"White Hammer" – 8:15
"Whatever would Robert have said?" – 6:07
"Out of my Book" (Hammill, David Jackson) – 4:08
"After the Flood" – 11:29
"Boat of Millions of Years" – 3:50 (bonus track on reissue)
"Refugees" (single version) – 5:24 (bonus track on reissue)
- 7 and 8 were the b- and a-sides of an April 1970 single