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Artist:Barclay James Harvest
Title:XII
Label:  Polydor
Country:UK
Catalogue:POLD 5006 / 2442 153
Date:Sep 1978
Format:LP
Collection:  I Own It     I Want It 
Community: 8 Own
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Barclay James HarvestFantasy : Loving Is EasyJohn LeesRate
A2Barclay James HarvestBerlinLes HolroydRate
A3Barclay James HarvestClassics : A Tale Of Two SixtiesJohn LeesRate
A4Barclay James HarvestTurning In CirclesLes HolroydRate
A5Barclay James HarvestFact : The Closed ShopJohn LeesRate
A6Barclay James HarvestIn Search Of EnglandStuart John WolstenholmeRate
B1Barclay James HarvestSip Of WineLes HolroydRate
B2Barclay James HarvestHarbourStuart John WolstenholmeRate
B3Barclay James HarvestScience Fiction : Nova LepidopteraJohn LeesRate
B4Barclay James HarvestGiving It UpLes HolroydRate
B5Barclay James HarvestFiction : The Streets Of San FranciscoJohn LeesRate


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Produced by Barclay James Harvest & Martin Lawrence

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Hawkmarty SUBS
6th Nov 2022
 I wonder if the copies with the poster came first or were a marketing gimmick to boost lacklustre sales.
 
 
Magic Marmalade
21st Jul 2017
 Review
As uninspiring as it is uninspired.

Although I've only had experience of Barclay James Harvest from a copy of "Once Again" (their second), that I picked up a while back, that casued me to have high hopes for this one, that I'm afraid to say, have been pretty much dashed...

This could be the definition of the "phoned-in" album.

... A lacklustre, flat, and lifeless porridge of a music, which, although there are some potentially good musical ideas and motifs in it, are as weakly presented as the almost demo quality vocal delivery.

It sounds an effort, and barely even that, from the same group who delivered that other fantastic record I mentioned.

Maybe they had just run out of steam by this point, or were depressed by having to contend with a world with punk in it, I don't know, but it is, at times, somewhere between the schloppy singer songwriter-y stuff of the seventies, a bland version of easy listening country music, and at others a kind of Lindisfarne tribute act... only without the tunes.

If I'm being generous, I'd say that at other times, there are suggestions in the instrumentation of a later (Gilmour era) Pink Floyd, and the odd resemblance to the band: America... but this is only fleeting, and it sighs those comparisons, rather than suggest them.

There are only two songs I thought were really worth anything here: Turning In Circles does find them waking up long enough to give you a fairly strong tune, and Harbour, is a also, a nice, if sedate song... otherwise, it's inhumanly dull.

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Magic Marmalade
21st Jul 2017
 My copy of this has an embossed butterfly image and roman numerals on the front cover.

Did this remain, or are there "smooth" copies about?

(I also see some with a poster about on the net)
 

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