where is the love for BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST?

Here's the live version of "Summer Soldier" as a tribute to recently-deceased BJH keyboard dude Woolly Wolstenholme. In retrospect, they're pretty good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr4bSorgv4A

i think i own, at last count, 9 BJH albums. i don't know how this happened. it just happened.

the only two i have are the first one and once again. am i missing out?

prog-country songs like "one night" on time honoured ghosts could almost be by poco or new riders of the purple sage. why these guys aren't listened to more i'll never understand

Haha that's funny.

For No One! Shredddder + cool lyrics actual topics go!

"Everyone's a loner 'till he needs a helping hand"

taking a James Barclay Harvest dive today...this is really good! Very different than I expected, prog but not from the Yes/Genesis/King Crimson chopsy school, they stretch out but at the end of the day they have really strong classic Beatles songwriting chops

Almost like if early Bee Gees were heavier and prog?

Or sometimes you know how you read something about the Moody Blues and think you should listen to them then you do and you're like god fuck this shit

Just finished the first album...cool. even bits of SF Sorrow in there.

They are good at stretching out but are def more of a songwriting band than most prog

I've heard their first two records plus Octoberon, and only really enjoyed Once Again.

It's a little strange to put down The Moody Blues to promote BJH, because I'm sure their fanbases have a lot of overlap. In a blind listening test, they both have songs that could be mistaken for the other. Admittedly, BJH drop some of the tweeness, and add some obscurity and darkness, particularly on Wolstenholme's songs. I'm curious what you make of Once Again.

i guess it's more just this is kinda what i wanted from moody blues based on reading stuff before i heard them (outside of knights, wildest dreams, etc)

i should be that harsh i don't feel strongly about MB

i came to praise BJH not bury Moody Blues!

Almost like if early Bee Gees were heavier and prog?

They (kind of) covered the Bee Gees' "New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have You Seen My Wife, Mr. Jones)", so the comparison is pretty apt.
The guy who later ended up forming The Enid did the orchestral arrangements on the first couple of albums, but then they all fell out and it ended up in costly and futile court cases.

their only Dutch hit (in 1975) was in fact a song made up of titles of Beatles songs (no prizes for guessing its eh... title). it was also their only (minor) US hit.

and, as I just found out, they literally have a song that’s called “Poor Man’s Moody Blues”, you can’t make it up. it’s on their 1977 album Gone to Earth.

I have no further knowledge of or opinions about BJH.

Saw them when they toured Time Honoured Ghosts, having liked Everyone Is Everybody Else. On stage they inflated a large plastic butterfly (their motif?), which I guess was intended to look beautiful/majestic, but I only remember it looking like a bunch of condoms during the inflation process.