Track Listings (15) - Disc #1| All Artists: Barclay James Harvest Title: Sea of Tranquility: Polydor Years 1974-1997 Members Wishing: 4 Total Copies: 0 Label: Esoteric Release Date: 11/24/2009 Album Type: Box set, Original recording remastered, Import Genres: Pop, Rock Style: Number of Discs: 3 SwapaCD Credits: 3 UPC: 5013929725720 |
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 | Barclay James Harvest Sea of Tranquility: Polydor Years 1974-1997 Genres: Pop, Rock
2009 three CD collection from the British Prog Pop band containing digitally remastered tracks that span the band's entire career with Polydor Records from 1974-1997. This extensive compilation covers their 23 year tenure ... more » |
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Album Description 2009 three CD collection from the British Prog Pop band containing digitally remastered tracks that span the band's entire career with Polydor Records from 1974-1997. This extensive compilation covers their 23 year tenure with Polydor Records, beginning with material from the album Everyone Is Everybody Else plus tracks from albums such as Time Honoured Ghosts, Octoberon, Gone To Earth, XII and ending with tracks from the German-only album River Of Dreams. Features such classic tracks as 'Mockingbird', 'Galadriel', 'She Said', 'Child Of The Universe', 'Jonathan', 'Rock 'n' Roll Star', 'Hymn', 'Poor Man's Moody Blues', 'Berlin', 'In Memory Of The Martyrs' and much more. This extensive history of the band's most successful recorded work is a long overdue reappraisal of their music. Esoteric. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsBest of Best of from BJH Colin Logue | Melbourne, Australia | 11/27/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "'Sea of Tranquility' is by far the best collection of BJH songs ever to grace a CD. Polydor circumvented the restriction of using any of their EMI output by culling them from live performances while the band recorded under the label. One track in question is 'Medicine Man' which is taken from a 1976 live recording and sounds better than the studio version with beefed up guitar and rhythm section.
Their first album with Polydor was 'Everyone is Everybody Else' with 5 tracks featured, 3 of which were remastered in 2003 and sound bigger for that. The tour de force from that album was 'For No One' (not the Beatles song) but mysteriously did not get the remastered treatment. The following 3 live tracks are all from the 1974 live album and represent material from their days on EMI's Harvest label, 'She Said She Said' along with concert favourite 'Mocking Bird' and 'Galadriel', a song eluded to in later years on the song 'John Lennon's Guitar'. The superb self mockery of 'Poor Man's Moody Blues' appears in its' full 7 minute glory and a surprisingly good live version of 'Suicide' from 'Live Tapes'. To make it interesting for long time fans some tracks appear in their single release form and actually sound better than the original album versions. The much maligned 'Face to Face' album is well represented and it has to be said that the compiler(s) have selected the strongest material from every album. It's all presented in a beautiful package complete with copious and infromative liner notes. This is the best of to buy if you have little of no BJH in your collection and given it's a triple CD set the price is pretty fair. Enjoy this highly recommended set. " |
