Barclay James Harvest - Progressive Rock Music Forum

dr wu23 wrote:

^They're good but I wouldn't call them 'great'...I reserve that adjective for bands like Crimson. ;)

btw...I accidentally hit option 3 so the 2nd option should have another vote.

ha ha I did the same thing when I voted. Maybe it was a Freudian slip.

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BJH are a strange one for me, "Once Again" would be in my top 5 prog albums but the others I've listened to vary from "ok" to "meh" and I can't really explain why. I do go back to them from time to time and will continue to try, so I've gone "other".

Option 1 for me, great band.

BJH is one of the few bands whose live albums I prefer over their studio albums, especially their 1974 Live, but also Berlin... Hesitated between the 2nd and 3rd option but since at least two miscast their votes I'll go for option 2.

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suitkees wrote:

BJH is one of the few bands whose live albums I prefer over their studio albums, especially their 1974 Live, but also Berlin...

I agree. I prefer their live albums too and two of my favourites are Glasnost and The Ultimate Anthology.

moshkito wrote:

SteveG wrote:

There are similar to the Moody Blues in their early albums and got some flak for that. Very trippy Mellotron drenched stuff. A very good if not great band.

I think they had a song called something like poor man's moody blues ... but I have to look.

An interviewer called them the poor man's Moody Blues in an interview with John Lees. He then wrote a song with that title and put it on the Gone to Earth album. Very much like Nights in White Satin, deliberately. Let none say he has no sense of humor.

The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

I have most of their albums and they are all good to very good, but their live albums are all excellent (especially the 1974 one which is one of the best live albums of all time).

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Psychedelic Paul wrote:

They're great! I love Barclay James Harvest and I listened to all of their albums recently, including their later incarnations: Barclay James Harvest featuring Les Holroyd and Barclay James Harvest Through the Eyes of John Lees. They've never made a bad album in my opinion. I wrote this albums tribute to Barclay James Harvest some time ago for a Top 7 BJH songs thread:-

BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST are the featured artist this time around, as we ONCE AGAIN list our favourite songs and delve into the history of BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST & OTHER SHORT STORIES. Who can forget the cute picture of BABY JAMES HARVEST poking his head out of a plant pot on their fourth album cover. Here at ProgArchives, EVERYONE IS EVERYBODY ELSE in the progosphere, where the classic albums of BJH appear like TIME HONOURED GHOSTS from time to time. The eighth month of the year was OCTOBER ON the ancient Roman calendar, making it the perfect name for the eighth Barclay James Harvest album. The band took a short break, but weren't GONE TO EARTH for long though before returning with their best-selling album of all time in 1977. In the XII Kingdoms of Prog, Barclay James Harvest reigned supreme and the EYES OF THE UNIVERSE were upon them in 1982 for their CONCERT FOR THE PEOPLE IN BERLIN. This landmark gig for BJH preceded a TURN OF THE TIDE in the Cold War when a RING OF CHANGES were on the way and the old Soviet leaders became VICTIMS OF CIRCUMSTANCE, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The world became a safer place with no more FACE TO FACE Cold War confrontations between East and West with the ever-present threat of nuclear Armageddon hanging over the world. History didn't end in 1991 though, and in the prophetic words of Messrs Emerson, Lake & Palmer, WELCOME TO THE SHOW that never ends, because there were new threats on the way in a new century. CAUGHT IN THE LIGHT of a beautifully clear morning on 11th September 2001, an airliner flew low over New York City..... The RIVER OF DREAMS would soon be shattered forever!

All Barclay James Harvest albums in BLOCK CAPITALS in chronological order of release.

Great Band

Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."

Music Is Live

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Keep Calm And Listen To The Music…
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I respect them, but not my cup of tea

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Interestingly enough I heard the song "paper wing" today on the deep tracks channel on Siriusxm in my car.

very neat, and that's a really good song, one of two collaborations between Holroyd and Pritchard on that album, both of which are very good

Edited by kenethlevine - December 04 2020 at 16:37

Poll Question: What do you think of Barclay James Harvest?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
They're great. I love them.	11	[26.19%]
They're good. I like them quite a bit.	10	[23.81%]
They're ok. Some stuff is good and some not so good.	8	[19.05%]
Not into them too much but not they aren't too bad.	1	[2.38%]
Not a fan but I've heard worse.	2	[4.76%]
Bad. Not my cup of tea.	1	[2.38%]
Horrible. One of the most lame prog bands.	0	[0.00%]
Not familiar with them enough to comment.	7	[16.67%]
Never heard of them	0	[0.00%]
Other	2	[4.76%]
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