Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-93045
Style: Pop Rock, Art Rock
Country: Oldham, England
Time: 74:15
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 410 Mb
For
me this album is fantastic, a summa of Barclay James Harvest kind of
music. It opens with a classic with an optimistic note from the pen of
Les Holroyd titled "The World Goes On". This is the first use of the
orchestra from Moonwater (1972). Other two Holroyd's' contributions are
Believe In Me and Rock'n'Roll Star which is a beautiful live classic for
the band, with an obvious reference to the Byrds "So You Wanna Be A
Rock'n'Roll Star". It was also compared to the Eagles "One Of These
Nights". John Lees' pieces are all very good, expecially the explosive
Polk Street Rag, inspired by the porno film Deep Throat, starring Linda
Lovelace (Polk Street is in San Francisco's red light district). The
final song Suicide? is simply one of the best songs for John Lees. This
beautiful ballad, in predominant acoustic guitar, ends with sounds
effect of the death of the character of the songs, falling from the top
of a building. The question, marked in the titled, underline the central
point: did he jump or was he pushed?. Stuart "Wooly" Wolsteholme
composition is the epic of ancient Egypt "Ra" wich demonstrates the high
synphonic ideas of this great composer.
Octoberon (only n.19 in the
U.K. charts) is a title that combine the fact that is the eight album
for Barclay james Harvest and the shakespearen character Oberon.
I highly recommend this pearl to all the people who love melodic/synphonic/prog.
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3388) Review by Andrea Cortese. August 8, 2005
Ew,
guys, no. Barclay James Harvest's Octoberon sees the band moving to
counterbalance the soft rock influences that had crept into their sound
by amping up the orchestral content of their music, but this is applied
tastelessly and occasionally simply to provide filler. Too often the
band are entirely overwhelmed and you're just left with the orchestra
noodling away prettily but aimlessly, as though they are performing the
into for a song which never quite starts. There's indications of rifts
opening up within the band too, with the different songwriters'
contributions not really coming together to form a cohesive aesthetic
whole - Polk Street Rag, for instance, really doesn't fit the rest of
the album, or the band's direction in general. Tasteless bilge.
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3388) Review by Warthur. June 25, 2013
01. The World Goes On (06:30)
02. May Day (07:58)
03. Ra (07:20)
04. Rock N' Roll Star (05:17)
05. Polk Street Rag (05:38)
06. Believe In Me (04:23)
07. Suicide? (07:59)
08. Rock N' Roll Star [Early Mix] (04:55)
09. Polk Street Rag [First Mix] (05:34)
10. Ra [First Mix] (07:24)
11. Rock N' Roll Star [Recorded at Marquee Studios] (03:19)
12. Suicide? [First Mix] (07:53)
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