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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2015 at 15:05
For me, Everyone Is Everybody Else is the best album.
No real classic tracks, but all the songs are quite good and the album has grown on me through the years. It's good from beginning to end.

As for songs, "Mocking Bird" and "Galadriel" from Once Again and "Beyond The Grave" from Time Honoured Ghosts are my favorite studio tracks. "The Poet"  and "After The Day" are my favorite BJH tracks and maybe in my top 10 of best songs overall, from any artist. Absolutely stunning, those two songs.
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One of my favourite bands, to me they do not do much wrong.

From their later output, Ring of Changes is highly recommended.
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Points: 20035 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2015 at 11:21
Originally posted by Sagichim Sagichim wrote:

I love Once Again very much and it was my introduction to the band, I've never really got into Time-Honoured Ghosts and never listened to Baby James Harvest, but the ones I do like are BJH & Other Short Stories, Everyone Is Everybody Else and Octoberon.
First of all BJH were never that progressive but their arrangements were always rich and interesting plus they did have their more progressive songs.

BJH & Other Short Stories is my favourite although I've seen many mediocre reviews for it, anyway for me it's kind of a magical album with such a cool atmosphere, beautiful, sad and disturbing, It's their most orchestrated album too, filled with beautiful orchestrated arrangements and some heartfelt melodies, check out the songs Medicine Man and The Poet, those are stunning.
Everyone Is Everybody Else is probably their strongest with some of their best material, also contains some of their progiest moments, I'd suggest start with this one. Octoberon is also good and worth checking out if you'll like the others.

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Thanks for the advice, I'll try those ones.
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Points: 9319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2015 at 10:37
Octoberon is the only BJH album that I own but I haven't listened to it in years. 
After reading these comments I will dig it out and play it today.
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I love Once Again very much and it was my introduction to the band, I've never really got into Time-Honoured Ghosts and never listened to Baby James Harvest, but the ones I do like are BJH & Other Short Stories, Everyone Is Everybody Else and Octoberon.
First of all BJH were never that progressive but their arrangements were always rich and interesting plus they did have their more progressive songs.

BJH & Other Short Stories is my favourite although I've seen many mediocre reviews for it, anyway for me it's kind of a magical album with such a cool atmosphere, beautiful, sad and disturbing, It's their most orchestrated album too, filled with beautiful orchestrated arrangements and some heartfelt melodies, check out the songs Medicine Man and The Poet, those are stunning.
Everyone Is Everybody Else is probably their strongest with some of their best material, also contains some of their progiest moments, I'd suggest start with this one. Octoberon is also good and worth checking out if you'll like the others.

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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2015 at 07:04
Ah, so RJG was on that album. That's a good enough incentive to check it out..
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

I'll give Once again a listen..

I don't know anything about this band, apart from the fact that Robert John Godfrey was in them for a while. I had Mockingbird on a compilation ablum many many years ago, and it bored me to tears, sounding like something the Moody Blues would have probably rejected.

This does appear to be one of their more popular albums though, so it deserves a listen.

Godfrey did the orchestral arrangements for "Once Again" (and they are some of the best I've heard in prog, listen to "Galadriel").
"Mockingbird" is the track that normally pops up on compilations and, whilst it is a fine song, there are several better ones on the album (imo).
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I'll give Once again a listen..

I don't know anything about this band, apart from the fact that Robert John Godfrey was in them for a while. I had Mockingbird on a compilation ablum many many years ago, and it bored me to tears, sounding like something the Moody Blues would have probably rejected.

This does appear to be one of their more popular albums though, so it deserves a listen.
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"Once Again" is easily one of my top 10 prog albums (and possibly top 10 albums), there's something quite magical about this album from start to finish, yet everything else I've listened to by BJH is a bit, well, average. I've just listened to Time-Honoured Ghosts and Baby James Harvest and they don't really do anything for me. Am I alone in this? Which other album of theirs should I listen to?
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