Listening to Barclay James Harvest: Gone To Earth (Part 2)

[@teddy1066]

The most underrated album of the Seventies. I adore this album.

[@ivogil4]

In my city there was a record shop and they recommend this group to me also they recommend Marillion to me. Good shop it was. I loved the music choice. Good to hear them again. BJH is a great band with good musicians. I love your reaction. It brings memory's back. Thanks for that.

[@tritop]

Hard hearted women 1977 often played in the Disco when we watched the girls dancing brings back that particular magic feeling

[@nizararabi7467]

The very best 👍💫🤩

[@stevesnailfish]

Cracking album.....so laid back and phaser guitars and harmony vocal heaven.....Great choice Jim....

[@Bobsy-c6k]

Love your reaction to their music Jim. Can you explain why on earth BJH were overlooked by the British & American public...?? For people who have been listening to them for decades now, like me growing up in Beirut, we are baffled by this. It would be good to get your feedback on this... Respect!

[@andresskl1]

I've never heard this band before, but I've seen it around and never gave the chance to listen to it. Thank you!

[@theheepster]

Wonderful Musicianship. Love it since it came out.

[@urbangardener66]

I keep hearing a Beach boys vibe. I've had this album since it first came out, but haven't listened to it in ages...thanks for reminding me

[@tommac215]

Jim if you like this so much why dont you play more of Barclay James Harvest. I traveled all the way from new Zealand to London just to see them live in 1987 and they were bloody amazing.

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

Very pleasant! :)

[@THFCTim]

I’ve had the album since it first came out & it sounds as good now as when I first listened to it. I can’t believe that’s 45 years. Good grief.

[@wicky4473]

Good grief is about right! I’m with you on that one…

[@clairwalshe9468]

Thank you so much, I have their vintage Vinyl and they are so forgotten.

[@JimNewstead]

They're not forgotten round these parts! Thanks for the comment and listen!

[@Socrates99]

I bought this album from a record shop in Glasgow called "Listen" in September 1977. Still have the album. Enjoyed your reaction.

[@freak49]

I could say so much about this. Two of them are no longer with us. I never understood the emotion when people like Michael Jackson, Prince, John Lennon died, but when Woolly Wolstenholme died, I understood. I had been listening to BJH since Once Again way back in '71 in high school and its way too bad they didn't break into the US market. Gone to Earth is by far their most polished album, on par with anything Led Zepplin or Pink Floyd, etc were doing at the time.

[@francismercik8393]

I've been listening to your channel for about a month now and this is the second album I've heard you do and said I've got to go out and get this. Thanks keep up the good work.

[@TheFilwud]

So good to see you liked it! Ooh, Time Honoured Ghosts, production is much more primitive (which is not a bad thing) and some absolute classics on it, One Night is still one of my all time favourite songs. You are going to enjoy it. I must admit I prefer Everyone is Everybody Else which was either the one before or the one after. Sorry, been a bad day and alcohol has happened!

[@wicky4473]

It looks the correct speed to me!

[@threestringsomg]

Yeah Spirit On The Water sounds like something off Surf's Up combined with ELO....awesome...

[@m0rafic1]

My cassette of this album (bought on release) is long gone sadly, but I did manage to sing along to all the tracks on both sides ...... Glad you enjoyed the album, I'm now going to listen to the two live albums fro the '70s

[@rachidalmadani8303]

You should listen to the album ' Life Tapes' it has the greatest hits

[@TheFilwud]

Yep, Gone to Earth is one of their best albums, so sad to think that from Mel, Les, John and Woolly, only Les and John are still on this planet and cannot work together. But they left so much good music before things all started to go wrong.

[@profahn7353]

Both John and Les continue to make gorgeous music, so not everything is "wrong"

[@michaelcapewell4811]

Woolly!!! ❤

[@palantir135]

Gone to earth, is a more than excellent album by David Sylvian that I like very very much. Indeed, seventies music sounds a lot better than current productions where everything is as loud as possible. First song starts a lot more energetic than those on side one but quickly goes back to tamer music. Second song is much more to my liking. I would have like some tempo shifts though. Remember the third song now I hear it. A great start of the next song; it’s the best so far for me; it’s a bit heavier. I think I know why I didn’t buy their music. Every song stays more or less in the same (slow) tempo; (almost) no tempo shifts which could make the music more exiting.

[@relayer27]

Wooly Wolstenholme tended to only get one or two songs per album but they were always epic in there feel as he was something of a maestro on the Mellotron . Les Holyroyd's songs sometimes had a kind of Eagles/ Beach Boys feel to them

[@actorJSB]

Do enjoy 'our' album listen-alongs. Have a couple of best-ofs and a couple of albums by BJH and whenever I listen to them I think I should do it more often. Have enjoyed the John Lees iteration live a few times as well, he's a superb guitarist, even if he looks more like a Grandad come to teach the kids how to play the recorder. Knew Hymn and PMMB on Side 1, and thought those were the highlights, but side 2 was all new to me and highly enjoyable.

[@JimNewstead]

I’ve stopped judging a book by its cover…. Great music is what you hear, not what you see!

[@drjsac57]

Very nice album. I too really enjoy that warm pristine production from the seventies! Nice variety in the songs, and in regards to “A Poor Mans Moody Blues”, you can definitely hear the shades of “Nights in White Satin”. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5PUqZV9op6beKs

[@stealthracer]

In Sea Of Tranquillity, I can hear the influence of Robert John Godfrey, who was their musical director in the seventies. Listen to his band The Enid to see what i mean.

[@nizararabi7467]

🤔💫🤩👍👍

[@wicky4473]

Wooly’s songs have a hint of early Genesis, methinks. Peter Gabrielesqueish.

[@Bobsy-c6k]

p.s. Listen to all these songs LIVE, they are even better!! LIVE TAPES is my favourite album of theirs, its a double Live album from 1977/1978... Although a lot of pundits seem tp prefer their LIVE album from 1974... Enjoy!!

[@Marknorthway]

Taking Me Higher is gorgeous - as you say, just "Wow." just listen to it adequately loud in the dark. Now go and listen to Mobb Deep "Getaway" and see what they did there.

[@atlanteanlost]

At some point you should listen to Wolstenholme's solo album Maestro

[@melvinwomack3717]

You should get into some greensalde bedside manner

[@ginoskokkinos9923]

A listening to Pavlov s dog pampered menial album

[@MartinCymru]

they came from Oldham, ok I am from North Wales but what the heck

[@MartinCymru]

Pete Townshend copied one their rifts I will leave you to work it out which rift

[@Ifyoudonttakeitucantfakeit]

I assume you have heard X11? If not why not??

[@JimNewstead]

I don’t even know what that means so no, obviously I haven’t!

[@relayer27]

Xii was their album after Gone to Earth and their last as a foursome as Wooly left.

[@jenzhede5989]

“XII” is Barclay’s follow-up to “Gone to Earth” , presumably named like that since it was their 12th album (9 studio, 2 live and one compilation) and possibly marking 12 years of the band being in existence. Some fans like it a lot, while others (…) feel it is generally moving forward at a rather (too) slow pace… As a fan of BJH it is very satisfying to see and hear someone else enjoy their diversity and sublime musicianship, so thank you for that.

[@robertgrosek1124]

When are you going to do more Dead?