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Poll Question: Which is the most considerable song?
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    Posted: February 22 2006 at 08:49

on stage with the orchestra, 1972

Barclay James Harvest on stage with orchestra
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Barclay James Harvest LP cover

It's a difficult one...ehmm...Dark Now My Sky or When the World Was Woken?...ehm....
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"When the World Was Woken", a timeless classic.
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Dark Now My Sky is awesome.

I'm more into the the second album, though.
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And all the rest is just bullsh*t
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Points: 20403 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2006 at 09:16

 

 

 

I think I'd better stay out of this one!!!!!!

 

 

 
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

 

 

 

I think I'd better stay out of this one!!!!!!

 

 

 

C'mon, I asked for the more considerable song of those seven! Not to know if you like BJH...



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Originally posted by Heptade Heptade wrote:

Dark Now My Sky is awesome.

I'm more into the the second album, though.

And soon I'll create a poll on the next one...
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Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

C'mon, I asked for the more considerable song of those seven! Not to know if you like BJH...

it was only a bait

but I do not feel expert enough to rate BJH since I have not heard one of their albums since the late 90's.

I saw them live at Lorelei this summer, though. Can never remember which one of the two line-up is which, but the grey haired fuzzy bassist (Holroyd I presume) was present , but I think he was the only historic member.

I know one of them original four died recently.
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Drummer Mel Pritchard sadly passed on the 28th January 2004

If you have seen Holroyd then you've assisted to Barclay James Harvest Featuring Les Holroyd in which played also Pritchard.

The other side of BJH is named Barclay James Harvest Through the Eyes of John Lees in which plays also Wooly Wolstenholme.

Curious ending for such a prolific band...

I recommed to re-new your BJH' album collection through the recent EMI and Polydor excellent remasters! This is how any remastered cd should be!!
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"Dark Now My Sky"
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Sadly, I have not heard that album, I own only a small compilation of BJH, which one do you suggest I should vote??
yet you still have time!
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Their debut has grown on me greatly recently; initially I was disappointed with it as I'd heard their later work first, but it's full of great tracks. I'd have to go for 'The Sun Will Never Shine' in order to get it at least one vote- it's a great track anyway...
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Well, to me it's "Mother Dear", as I wrote in my review... but whenever I mention a "favourite track" to an album it's about "the way it is" on the album itself, not about "How great the song" itself... that's quite different. If you read my reviews you'll find that, for example, my favourite track on "Everyone is everybody else" is "Negative Earth", but the "best song" it ain't. So for BJH's debut I would go for "Dark now my Sky" as the best composition as such... but i still prefer to hear "Mother Dear", "Good Love Child" and "The Sun will never shine". As any musician I'm a complex kid so it's not quite easy to understand me, I know !
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Dark Now My Sky
In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole
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