ALL IS SAFELY GATHERED IN - AN ANTHOLOGY 1967-1997

Barclay James Harvest

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Crossover Prog

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 2005

Songs / Tracks Listing

Disc 1:
1. Early Morning
2. Pools Of Blue
3. Eden Unobtainable
4. Poor Wages
5. Brother Thrush
6. Taking Some Time On
7. The Sun Will Never Shine
8. The Iron Maiden
9. Dark Now My Sky
10. She Said
11. Song For Dying
12. Galadriel
13. Mockingbird
14. Too Much On Your Plate
15. The Poet
16. After The Day

Disc 2:
1. Medicine Man
2. Song With No Meaning
3. Ursula (The Swansea Song)
4. Child Of Man
5. When The City Sleeps
6. Summer Soldier
7. One Hundred Thousand Smiles Out
8. Moonwater (2002 remix)
9. The Joker
10. Crazy City
11. Child Of The Universe
12. Negative Earth (original mix)
13. The Great 1974 Mining Disaster
14. For No One
15. Song For You
16. Sweet Jesus

Disc 3:
1. In My Life
2. Titles
3. Jonathan
4. Ra
5. Rock'n Roll Star
6. Suicide?
7. Hymn
8. Poor Man's Moody Blues
9. Hard Hearted Woman
10. Sea Of Tranquility
11. Berlin
12. The Closed Shop
13. In Search Of England
14. The Song (They Love To Sing)
15. Sperratus

Disc 4:
1. In Memory Of The Martyrs
2. Life Is For Living
3. Nova Lepidoptera
4. Sip Of Wine
5. Fiftied Child
6. Ring Of Changes
7. African
8. On The Wings Of Love
9. Lady Macbeth
10. If Love Is King
11. Cheap The Bullet
12. The Ballad Of Denshaw Mill
13. Back In The Game
14. Children Of The Disappeared

Disc 5:
1. Dark Now My Sky
2. Medicine Man
3. Ursula
4. Somewhere You Know
5. Moonwater (demo)
6. The World Goes On
7. Capricorn (single edit)
8. Love On The Line (live)
9. For Your Love
10. Lady Macbeth (demo)
11. John Lennon's Guitar (demo)
12. Cheap The Bullet (demo)
13. Three Weeks To Despair

Line-up / Musicians

- John Lees / guitars, recorders, vocals
- Les Holroyd / bass, acoustic guitar, piano, vocals
- Mel Pritchard / drums, percussion
- Woolly Wolstenholme / Mellotrons, organ, piano, synthesizers, guitar, vocals (1967-1979)

Guest musicians:
- Kevin McAlea / keyboards
- Colin Browne / keyboards, guitar
- Bias Boshell / keyboards
- Jeff Leach / keyboards (1977)
- Sam Brown / backing vocals
- Jan Ince / backing vocals
- Helen Chapelle / backing vocals

Releases information

5CD Eclectic ECLBOX1 (2005 UK)

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Review by Nightfly
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator

Barclay James Harvest are not one of the easiest bands to categorise, the task even harder when describing a box set that covers their entire career up to 1997 over 5 discs. To describe them as Symphonic Prog would certainly cover some of their material and in their earlier days resorted to using an Orchestra on many tracks giving them a Symphonic sound in the most literal sense. They were once described as a poor man's Moody Blues (and retaliated by writing a song of the same name) and while there may be similarities on some material I have always preferred Barclay James Harvest. Towards the end of the seventies the band started to take a more mainstream AOR approach to their song writing leading to Wolly Wolstenholme leaving the band. This line continued for pretty much the rest of their recorded output.

The contents of this beautifully packaged box set are well chosen and all their albums are represented here, though not always with the same version that would appear on the final album giving long term fans who already own all the catalogue incentive to invest in this. For example their Everyone is Everybody Else album, a fan favourite has 5 tracks from it here, but only Crazy City is the actual album version. Child of the Universe being an alternative version, Negative Earth and The Great 1974 Mining Disaster being the original mix. For No One is the version that appears on their excellent first Live album. Another fan favourite is the Once Again album and that is well represented with 4 tracks here, all being the original album version in this case. The material is also pleasingly augmented by single A and B sides.

The songs are presented chronologically and most readers here will probably enjoy the first 3 discs best, being their more Progressive material and it's towards the end of disc 3 where we start to enter into their more mainstream Rock phase. However disc 5, titled The Wheat and the Chaff is a full CD of totally unreleased and rare recordings. The liner notes state that "When listened to in the context of the preceding four CDs in this set, they tell their own interesting story..".

Naturally any compilation, even one as comprehensive as this one is going to leave out tracks that fans feel should have been included but an excellent job has been done here. The casual listener of the band has a chance to pick up most of the important tracks but also giving something for the die hard completionists. An added interest is the sixty page booklet accompanying this excellent package which is well worth investing in.

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