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Poll Question: What do you think of Barclay James Harvest?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
11 [26.19%]
10 [23.81%]
8 [19.05%]
1 [2.38%]
2 [4.76%]
1 [2.38%]
0 [0.00%]
7 [16.67%]
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    Posted: December 05 2020 at 08:37
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

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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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!


Edited by moshkito - December 05 2020 at 08:39
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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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Barclay James Harvest are much more than just a Poor Man's Moody Blues. Smile
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson 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
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Interestingly enough I heard the song "paper wings" today on the deep tracks channel on Siriusxm in my car. 

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - December 04 2020 at 17:19
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I respect them, but not my cup of tea
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Not familiar enough with BJH to choose enything else than 'Not familiar enough'.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul 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.
 


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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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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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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG 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.
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Not a fan, but I've heard worse :)
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Originally posted by suitkees 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. Thumbs Up
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Originally posted by suitkees 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... Hesitated between the 2nd and 3rd option but since at least two miscast their votes I'll go for option 2.

Thanks for helping to balance things out. Wink
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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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Great band, amazing music.
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Option 1 for me, great band. 
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Option 2 . . .
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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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