12 albums from 4 bands
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Topic: 12 albums from 4 bands
Posted By: Hercules
Subject: 12 albums from 4 bands
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 06:11
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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. Pick away! ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 06:36
| One Again by Barclay James Harvest. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 06:49
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Hero and Heroine for me ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 06:58
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Nightingales and Bombers - Manfred Mann's Earth Band |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 07:17
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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. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 10:24
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Manfred Mann "Nightingales and Bombers" edges out "Solar Fire" ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 10:55
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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) |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 11:02
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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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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 11:03
me too
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BrufordFreak wrote:Posted By: tamijo_II
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 11:18
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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. ------------- Same person as this profile: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=22524" rel="nofollow - Tamijo |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 14:24
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Grave New World ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 14:38
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. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 14:48
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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). ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 14:56
I've mentioned The Tain here and there. Classic album. My vote. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 14:57
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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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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 15:10
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Hero and Heroine. One of the few prog albums that still knocks me out when I hear it. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 15:39
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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. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 15:48
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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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 15:59
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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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Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 16:12
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Solar Fire +1 ------------- 
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 16:51
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Hero and Heroine............but love Solar Fire,,, and all those others are good. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 17:13
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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. ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 17:39
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The Book of Invasions. Prog-Folk bliss. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 17:57
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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.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: March 16 2020 at 17:57
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 01:23
| 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! |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 01:29
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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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[16.13%]Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 04:07
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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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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 06:32
| 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. |
Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 14:51
This. ------------- Shake & bake. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 08:34
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. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 08:48
This. One of my Top Ten prog albums.
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Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 00:09
| Close call between Solar Fire, Once Again and From the Witchwood. Give it to Once Again. |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: April 14 2020 at 00:08
Me Too! ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |