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Poll Question: Pick your favourite from my favourite ignored bands
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    Posted: April 14 2020 at 00:08
Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

One Again by Barclay James Harvest.
 

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Close call between Solar Fire, Once Again and From the Witchwood. Give it to Once Again.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

One Again by Barclay James Harvest.
 
This. One of my Top Ten prog albums.
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Originally posted by BarryGlibb BarryGlibb wrote:

My beloved Horslips are getting a lot love lately on PA...and about time too!

The Tŕin and The Book of Invasions are absolute classic 5 star prog albums, while Dancehall Sweethearts is a fantastic rock/pop album with folk prog overtones....4.5 stars.

Please read the fantastic current review by Hercules of The Book of Invasions on PA's main page.........well done!!!

Such a sublime group was/is Horslips.

Indeed - and they are still active at a sporadic level, though Eamonn Carr and Charles O'Connor have retired. Charles co-runs a wonderful B&B in Ruswarp, near Whitby and I've met him several times. I saw them over 20 times in the 70s and got to meet them at the Student Union ball. Great blokes who always put on an amazing show.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Nightingales and Bombers > Solar Fire > The Good Earth > the rest (some of which are good though, and I don't know the Horslips, I check 'em out)

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This is a great list, a lot of great music on these albums. I voted for Book of Invasions, but any of them would be fine with me.
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My beloved Horslips are getting a lot love lately on PA...and about time too!

The Tŕin and The Book of Invasions are absolute classic 5 star prog albums, while Dancehall Sweethearts is a fantastic rock/pop album with folk prog overtones....4.5 stars.

Please read the fantastic current review by Hercules of The Book of Invasions on PA's main page.........well done!!!

Such a sublime group was/is Horslips.
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For sure, when I see MMEB in a poll I vote, is one of my fav bands ever, The good earth my vote, very very  un noticed, Nightingale and bombers aswell a masterpice, Solar fire also top


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certainly Solar Fire although I prefer the later MM stuff when Chris Thompson joined. Live In Budapest is probably my favourite album by them , sort of 'greatest hits' played live. I also quite liked Masque for my sins!
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Originally posted by VianaProghead VianaProghead wrote:

There's an amount of albums from these four bands that I love. After some reflection, I decided to choose Grave New World, which always was one of my favourite prog albums ever.
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There's an amount of albums from these four bands that I love from. After some reflection, I decided to choose Grave New World, which always was one of my favourite prog albums ever.
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The Book of Invasions. Prog-Folk bliss.
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Some superb Strawbs albums.... and you could have added Ghosts and Bursting at the Seams too. I went for Hero and Heroine over Grave New World, but not a great deal of difference, to be honest. Good albums by BJH and Manfred Mann too. I was a huge fan of The Book of Invasions in my youth and played it to death at the time - but I don't think it's aged so well.
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Hero and Heroine............but love Solar Fire,,, and all those others are good.
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Solar Fire +1
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Two of these are 5* and I like them equally. I pick The Book of Invasions, the other is Solar Fire.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

I was very much into BJH in my late teens but haven't listened to them very often afterwards. However the Live album is really great, and Live Tapes also very good. I think these days I would be happy with these two alone, although of course their good material is sourced from the other albums. And maybe XII, which is still very good and not represented on the live albums. 

yes XII was a grower for me.  I was a bit put off by the first few songs though eventually came to like "Loving and Easy" and "Berlin" (another of their very popular songs in Germany).  The rest of the album is classic BJH, but with a surprise in the form of "Streets of San Francisco" which is pretty different yet still very much theirs.  It contains 2 superb contributions from the late great Stuart Wolstenholme in the form of "In Search of England" and "Harbour", which very much hearkens back to the early days


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I was very much into BJH in my late teens but haven't listened to them very often afterwards. However the Live album is really great, and Live Tapes also very good. I think these days I would be happy with these two alone, although of course their good material is sourced from the other albums. And maybe XII, which is still very good and not represented on the live albums. 
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Hero and Heroine. One of the few prog albums that still knocks me out when I hear it.
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I love both Once again and Everyone is Everybody Else very much.  Baby James Harvest I'm less keen on.
I agree that so many great versions exist on live albums, both "Live" and "Live Tapes".  Check out my reviews, Drew.  When they did "Live", a mellotron monster, they didn't yet know how big the song "Child of the Universe" would become.  on "Live Tapes", they did an incredible version of it, with a gorgeous synth outtro.
Also highly recommended are "Octoberon" and "XII", but both "Time Honoured Ghosts" and "Gone to Earth" are just fine.  The latter has a beautiful song "Hymn" that was so huge in Germany that the album was literally on the German charts for years.  It also has "Poor Man's Moody Blues" that was a deconstruction and reconstruction of "Nights in White Satin". "live Tapes" has a great version of this as well.
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