Anyone care to wade in about this band. (A poor mans moody blues). All my albums were stolen.

I like the Titles song....all of the lyrics are beatles song titles. I have not listened to the rest of Time Honored Ghosts, though.

[Barclay] James Harvest - WOOLLY and his Mellotron!!

Well now, while not a huge fan I have enjoyed:

BJH: Live* - My Favorite
BJH
Once Again
Everyone is Everybody Else
Gone to Earth

Their work is either rough around the edges, grandiose, lyrical or musical. Most of their LPs are somewhat inconsistent.

Standout tunes for me:
Galadriel
Mocking Bird
The Great 1974 Mining Disaster
Negative Earth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barclay_James_Harvest

http://www.bjharvest.co.uk/

I heard the psychedelic masterpiece "Medicine Man" a few decades ago on the radio, and instantly loved it, so I bought the single(I was a kid), which eventually disappeared into some other dimension :sadwave:, with a lot of other stuff. I spent a lot of time trying to find that particular version again (studio, faster tempo), but I found the next best thing, an incredible live version, which I'm sure you've heard, that sounds almost identical to the studio single version. I've since seen a couple of expensive compilations on line with the original 45 version of "Medicine Man" included, and I'll probably grab one when the live one eventually disappears.

I liked their earlier stuff on EMI/Harvest, although I could never get into their albums on Polydor as they sounded too much like the band America for my tastes. They were a good enough band, although they really lacked in the original ideas department. I think they could be dubbed the "Poor Man's Procol Harum" or the "Poor Man's Pink Floyd" at times. Of course Alan Parson's Project is definitely the "Poor Man's Barclay James Harvest".

"Time Honoured Ghosts" is a classic, anyway yo look at it.