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moshkito
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Hi, Wow ... and their first live double album is magnificent with an amazing double of Summer Soldier and Medicine Man, that is designed to blast your ears inside out. I think that we have to get off the "impress me" kind of thing that many bands go for, as a juke to catch your attention, and BJH is not for "attention" as it is for solid music and a specially well delivered show. That they did not make it as "big" as others should not be an issue either ... they did just fine, thank you ... and were not in it to be the number one band in the show. It was all about the members and the quality of their work, and it's really hard to find/look for something wrong ... and sometimes, just mean stuff, that many folks can not relate because their lyrics are not that my schlong is bigger than yours and all the groupies like it! Eat your heart out! And that she's a bitch and all that! This is one of the main reasons why I do not go for "top 5" or "top ten" or "top bsandcrap" ... because the over rating of their material ends up hiding the really good stuff that deserves attention but never gets it ... and if it were up to me, things like "punk" would not have made one third of the attention they got ... attention to what? It was all media, not music!
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ProcolWho?
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Some great stuff , some not so great. But this epic is one of my all time faves Edited by ProcolWho? - December 05 2020 at 00:22 |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Barclay James Harvest are much more than just a Poor Man's Moody Blues.
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kenethlevine
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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
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Interestingly enough I heard the song "paper wings" today on the deep tracks channel on Siriusxm in my car.
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Progmind
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I respect them, but not my cup of tea
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A Crimson Mellotron
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Not familiar enough with BJH to choose enything else than 'Not familiar enough'.
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geekfreak
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Great Band |
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Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
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Ronstein
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Agree on the live albums (they were always a great live act) but Live Tapes is my favorite of the live albums.
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Hercules
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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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Progosopher
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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.
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triptych
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Not a fan, but I've heard worse :)
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Psychedelic Paul
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I agree. I prefer their live albums too and two of my favourites are Glasnost and The Ultimate Anthology.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Thanks for helping to balance things out.
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suitkees
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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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Manuel
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Great band, amazing music.
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Ronstein
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Option 1 for me, great band.
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Mormegil
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Option 2 . . .
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Welcome to the middle of the film.
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chopper
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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".
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