Barclay James Harvest (1970)
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Topic: Barclay James Harvest (1970)
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Subject: Barclay James Harvest (1970)
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 08:49
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Barclay James Harvest on stage with orchestra |
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 08:50
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It's a difficult one...ehmm...Dark Now My Sky or When the World Was Woken?...ehm.... |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 09:10
| "When the World Was Woken", a timeless classic. |
Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 09:15
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Dark Now My Sky is awesome.
I'm more into the the second album, though. ------------- The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning And all the rest is just bullsh*t -Steve Kilbey |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 09:16
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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 rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 09:43
C'mon, I asked for the more considerable song of those seven! Not to know if you like BJH... |
Sean Trane wrote:Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 09:45
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And soon I'll create a poll on the next one... |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 10:10
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. ------------- 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 rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 10:20
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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!! |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 12:50
| "Dark Now My Sky" |
Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 04:29
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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! |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 15:24
| 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... |
Posted By: rupert
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 12:55
 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 !------------- ...I'm a musician/singer/songwriter, visit me on www.reverbnation.com/rupertlenz and there you can choose from 125 recordings you can listen to ( for free ) if you're not limited to prog-rock ! |
Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 14:31
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Dark Now My Sky ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |