Barclay James Harvest

The 1970s album track.

Yes, celebrating the album sales overtaking single sales, Barclay James Harvest is coming up now from an album called Time Honoured Ghosts.

And this is In My Life.

In my life, I have seen so many things Some were true and some were not what they seemed In my life, I've seen love and I've seen a loss There have been times when I did not count the cost.

where chaos rules.

In the caves of the dark and stormed the fools Seen the stars plant their seeds and watch them grow Just to keep mystery but never souls Never souls Never souls Never souls Never souls In my life I've seen greed and I've seen hate Seen the first to accuse the last to praise I tried so hard to find just one saving grace In the middle of the road Leave what you sow Leave what you sow Leave what you sow

Barclay James Harvest from Time Honoured Ghosts and In My Life.

Well done to Steve and Jenny in Withall who have numbers one and two correct on the triple decker.

Boy, listen to me now.

rock and roll from the velvet underground and before that the title track from bebop deluxe's fourth album and the first part of a suite of songs on that album that were inspired by the band's first experience of touring in the u.s in which they were bizarrely mismatched as the support act for Ted Nugent and Barclay James Harvest.

Terrible choices.

Modern music came directly from my experiences on the American tour, Nelson later told Guitarist magazine.

[instrumental music] Bringing you the best in progressive music from around the world, this is Progzilla Radio.

Now Barclay James Harvest released the album Octoberon in '76, the album that I consider to be my favorite of BJH's work, and on there was the track Mayday.

[rock music]

The rock on which I stand, slowly sinking in the sand.

He said, "Don't you know?" I said, "Can't you see? Is there something in between? Is it something I've not seen? Did it change so fast or was it just a dream?" Time and time again I try to recreate the past few days Evaluate the constants from the haze But every time I think I'm right They say I'm wrong, this day is night And night is day, it's there in black and white Night is light and dark is day If I disagree they say I'm insane And the treatment will begin If I say that the day is light They just point my eyes to the blinding night Saying we can't set you free If you always disagree So the state is going to pay your doctor's fee They put me out in the pouring rain To enjoy the sun or to feel the pain Of the night where life began I asked a man in the street today Or was it yesterday or the day before? Is there something I've not seen? Is there something in between? Did it change so fast or was it just a dream? The rock on which I stand Is now beneath the ever-flowing sand The sheer realities are here to stay I'm looking out at life And now I know what's wrong and right It's what you hear and what you read and what they say I saw a man in the street today Ask another man is it night or day He just stirred and missed the plea He said, "Friend, it's your lucky day I'm a party man, won't you step this way? I've got something you've not seen Now I know it's not a dream It just came so fast, that something in between"

[choir music]

[choir music]That was Mayday by Barclay James Harvest.

[rock music]

And then there was, you know, the older boys at school who were very, I don't know if you remember, but I'm three years older than you, but I don't know if you remember how the terrors of the sixth form common room when it came to music happened.

that you were expected to like Barclay James Harvest and Yes and Genesis and this horrific music to me, absolutely horrific, boring, terrible, dull music made by people that wore really terrible clothes.

Yes.

And then, you know, there was only Roxy, Bowie.

Experimental, improvised, and I prefer that end of it.

I've discovered Henry Cow, Gong, people like that.

And I'll never like Yes or Genesis or Barclay James Harvest.

It's impossible for me.

Um, their, the '74 album, the one I have, uh, they toured to support that album.

They toured with Barclay James Harvest.

Nice.

Yeah.

Be... obviously prefer the Let It Be version.

Um, but, uh, it's also, of course, uh, part of the lyrics of Titles by the aforementioned Barclay James Harvest from last week.

Um, isn't it?

Oh, it is mentioned, yeah, the One After 909, yeah.

Uh, David H., yes, you've got the right answer.

More to check as we go to a BBC session recorded in 1972 by Barclay James Harvest.

Well, not all of it, just a song called Child of Man.

The Son of God was born today.

Salvation.

Salvation.

Barclay James Harvest and a, a BBC version of a song called Child of Man, which was a bonus track on one of their CDs.

Now, well done to Anita and to Richard G., who have both got the right answer to this.

Now, they were one of the most prominent bands of the Neue Deutsche Welle scene, or German new wave, along with artists like Nena and Nina Hagen and her band that became Spliff, and Trio and DAF.

Now, Ideal really took off after opening up for the British prog pop band Barclay James Harvest at a free show, I think it m- it may have been by that gate, uh, in Berlin.

There was roughly 150,000 people there.

So that's, I mean, that's a pretty good crowd to get you started.

So if you are offended by bad language, please turn off now.

is it fuck it is an original piece of music it is a commentary on a society and a commentary on a way of doing things which whether you like it or not is an intelligent observation of that society and it it it's brilliant uh third barclay james harvest often abused by the mainstream press, by the mainstream radio as being a bunch of old hippies in a bunch of caftans who essentially were the type of people for whom punk was made and deserved to get shot in 1976, 1977 and never heard of again.

And again, I hate that because Barclay James Harvest, now John is a proud Yorkshireman, And of course, Barclay James Harvest were proud Lancastrians from Oldham.

But they were a great, great working class band.

And they're another band who actually, I think, their 80s output in particular was... was panned a little bit by the purists.

My favorite LP of theirs is Ring of Changes, which I believe was about 82, 83, around about that sort of time span.

And Waiting for the Right Time is simply a... it's a love song it's about yearning for somebody and not knowing when to go up to that lady and say do you know what i think you're absolutely gorgeous how about it and i think in terms of john lee's never sounded better so those are my three anna patan iq and barclay james harvest thomas over to you first

I'm still stunned about that whole IQ rant.