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Poll Question: Pick your favourite from my favourite ignored bands
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8 [19.05%]
6 [14.29%]
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    Posted: March 16 2020 at 06:11
Three albums from each of four of my favourite bands, none of which get much of a mention on here. I hope that this might encourage some to look at their work if they haven't already because all are 4/5* albums.
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One Again by Barclay James Harvest.
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Hero and Heroine for me
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Nightingales and Bombers - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
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Of these, A Grave New World is my favorite, but you're right:  I haven't taken the time to get to know any of these bands to the degree that they deserve. Perhaps you will have started something! (I hope so.)

Great poll idea.

P.S. I do happen to prefer Ghosts from all of the Strawbs catalogue, though.
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Manfred Mann "Nightingales and Bombers" edges out "Solar Fire"

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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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great idea.  BJH and Strawbs were well regarded in their day but neither classic rock fans nor prog fans seem to pay them much attention these days.  In the 1970s these bands were an important face of prog, and now they are considered too tame compared to the really out there stuff or the shiny new stuff.

I decided to add to the Grave New World pile but could have chosen Hero and Heroine, a couple of the BJH albums, and a couple Horslips albums


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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Of these, A Grave New World is my favorite, but you're right:  I haven't taken the time to get to know any of these bands to the degree that they deserve. Perhaps you will have started something! (I hope so.)

Great poll idea.

P.S. I do happen to prefer Ghosts from all of the Strawbs catalogue, though.

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Ya might as well have chosen Nightingales, but will give some credit to 
Solar Fire as it is also a great album.
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Of these, A Grave New World is my favorite, but you're right:  I haven't taken the time to get to know any of these bands to the degree that they deserve. Perhaps you will have started something! (I hope so.)

Great poll idea.

P.S. I do happen to prefer Ghosts from all of the Strawbs catalogue, though.

Ghosts would have been the 4th choice from Strawbs; it's a great album.

My own choice from this poll would be The Tain, an album which comes close to perfection. Grave New World would be a close second and Solar Fire third with the Book of Invasions fourth. But all the albums are well worth owning. My only concern with the BJH albums is that better versions of some of the songs appear on BJH Live, one of the best live albums ever.
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I'm REALLY loving the Barclay James Harvest albums you've suggested! Once again reminds me of the best of the Moody Blues sound with a more progressive-psych angle, while Baby James Harvest has a little more poppy sound as if mixing in elements of Traffic, Caravan/Soft Machine, The Youngbloods, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and even Bread and The Association, while Everyone is Every Body Else shows the band putting on more of a Pink Floyd, King Crimson Court of the Crimson King and Moody Blues mantle. All three albums have their own distinct feel and sound, imho. Upon first listens, I think I'm most attracted to Once Again, but I'm looking forward to getting to know all of the band's catalogue. 

And, yes, it's true: I've never heard any of this music before! (Which amazes even me!)

Thanks, Tony, for the prompt to get me to try BCH! (Now on to Manfred Mann--another band I've never heard other than their big Bruce Springsteen cover hit.) Then more of Horslips (whom I already know from their excellent album, The Tain).
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Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

Three albums from each of four of my favourite bands, none of which get much of a mention on here. I hope that this might encourage some to look at their work if they haven't already because all are 4/5* albums.
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I've mentioned The Tain here and there. Classic album. My vote.
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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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Hero and Heroine. One of the few prog albums that still knocks me out when I hear it.
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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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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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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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Solar Fire +1
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