Poor man's Moody Blues (Barclay James Harvest) (LP 434 - 438)

Barclay James Harvest Once Again (Vinyl, Harvest, 1971) ***

Barclay James Harvest Everyone Is Everybody Else (Vinyl, Polydor, 1974) *** 

Barclay James Harvest Gone To Earth (Vinyl, Polydor, 1971) ***

Barclay James Harvest XII (Vinyl, Harvest, 1978) *** 

Barclay James Harvest Live (Vinyl, Polydor, 1974) ***

Genre: Progressive rock 

Places I remember: Real Groovy, Chaldon Books and Records (Caterham on the hill)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Fiction: The Streets Of San Francisco (from XII)

Gear costume: Galadriel, Child Of The Universe, Crazy City

Active compensatory factors: I have a soft spot for Barclay James Harvest. For me, the early days, in the seventies, are the best - all that mellotron and guitar and soft vocal style. Lovely.

These albums aren't too distinguisable - I rate them all the same because it's sometimes hard to figure out which songs belong on which albums. 

The double Live album from '74 is a good summation of how things were for the boys in the early days - lengthy guitar wig outs amid indechipherable vocals and mellotron washes are the order of the day. Negative Earth is a great example.  

Where do they all belong? Any of the Greatest Hits style compilations are the best places to start if you are new to BJH.