Live [Import]

Barclay James Harvest | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 10, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Esoteric Uk/Zoom
• ASIN: B001UGWYGQ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #202,089 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Summer Soldier

2. Medicine Man

3. Crazy City

4. After the Day

5. The Great 1974 Mining Disaster

6. Galadriel

7. Negative Earth

8. She Said

9. Paper Wings

10. For No One

11. Mockingbird

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered edition of what is considered to be the band's finest hour. Recorded in 1974 on the tour to promote the release of their first album for Polydor, Everyone Is Everybody Else, this live set features all of their classic tracks such as 'Mockingbird', 'Summer Soldier', 'Medicine Man', 'She Said' and 'For No One'. The record was the band's first UK chart album and is constantly cited in internet polls as the group's finest album. 11 tracks. Esoteric. 2009.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 'After the day'...., September 25, 2010

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rob slevin "rob" (southern ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live (Audio CD)

...is as good a title as any for this review , because as i start to type i am listening to the fantastic guitar solo that closes that particular song , track 4 on this stunning album. That just happens to be the track currently playing , and it's beautiful, but yet it seriously rocks...still it is just one of the many BJH classics on this album.
The opening 3 songs are 'SUMMER SOLDIER','MEDICINE MAN',& 'CRAZY CITY'.
3 of the best songs ever written in this genre.
(What genre, hey i'm not getting into it,ha, but yeah they are 'somewhere in between the 'Moody Blues' & 'Pink Floyd',just like everybody says.'Somewhere'.
To my mind , with this live set, BJH released the best album of their career, and easily surpassed The Moodies and drew level with the very best of Pink Floyd. They may not have maintained this standard, actually , lets be honest they made some truly bad albums later in their career,as did the Moodies.
This pinnacle of their releases however ,needs to be heard by everyone who likes the 'genre'.(that word again).
HEY, you can get this information above this review , but still i have to tell ya,..tracks 5 & forwards are...'THE GREAT 1974 MINING DISASTER',the absolutely gorgeous 'GALADRIEL',then ,'NEGATIVE EARTH','SHE SAID','PAPER WINGS','FOR NO ONE',and their all time classic 'MOCKINGBIRD'.Basically this album contains all the best tracks they ever wrote,played with more passion than their studio counterparts.
The guitar solo in 'Negative Earth', is currently giving me goose-bumps,as did the solo from '1974 Mining Disaster', a few mints ago.
Rest assured , this is an album of much more than guitars solo's ,indeed one could argue that the mellotron is the lead instrument ,enriching each and every track as it does here,quite beautifully, and yet as already mentioned, with the help of powerful drums and prominent bass, this album truly rocks. As i write ,the 'wah-wah' has just taken flight in 'For No One'.
I had not heard this album for about 12 years ,so i recently bought the cd,half out of curiousity,not really expecting it to be as good as i seemed to remember,surely it would have dated terribly ?.
I could not have been more wrong. This recording has just jumped into my top 20 albums ever.
Buy it !.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BJH Are Definitely The Goods, March 12, 2011

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Blabberless (In the world somewhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live (Audio CD)

Easily one of my favorite bands ever. Not that I like all of their music... the 80s high tech version of the band was just OK... but from the beginning they have released some amazing songs. On this release, they are probably at one of their strongest periods. Not a huge fan of John Lee's guitar tone on this album (his later live stuff shows a more refined distortion), but for 1974 this is definitely a great live album. Now if there'd just be some live video footage turn up from the Wooly Wolstenholme era.