Everyone Is Everybody Else

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Everyone Is Everybody Else
Studio album by Barclay James Harvest

Publication
(s)

LP: June 14, 1974 / CD: June 2, 2003

admission

LP: March and April 1974

Label (s) Polydor    / Polydor / Universal

Format (s)

LP , MC , 8-track cassette    /    CD

Title (number)

LP: 9 / CD: 14

running time

LP: 39:22 / CD: 01:02:01

occupation see below

production

Rodger Bain

Studio (s)

Olympic Studios , London

chronology
Baby James Harvest
(1972) 		Everyone Is Everybody Else Time Honored Ghosts
(1977)

Everyone Is Everybody Else is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Barclay James Harvest (BJH). With nine songs it was released on June 14, 1974 by Polydor as LP ; On June 2, 2003, Polydor / Universal released a remaster version on CD that was expanded by five bonus songs .

Creation and publication

After the fourth album Baby James Harvest , whose reviews and sales figures remained below expectations, the band left their previous record company EMI and switched to Polydor. With the new label and the new producer Rodger Bain , an album with an expensive orchestra should not be recorded again. The collaboration with Bain, who had previously mainly produced hard rock bands like Black Sabbath , was not to the satisfaction of the band. The first CD version of the album (Polydor) was released in 1987, and a remaster (Polydor / Universal) containing five bonus songs was released in 2003.

On the tour that followed the release of Everyone Is Everybody Else , Barclay James Harvest's first live album was recorded; it was released in 1974 with the name Live .

Track list

Original album

The original album ("Polydor 2383 286") from 1974 contains 9 songs; it totaled 39 minutes and 22 seconds.

Page 1 (running time 19:36) :

  1. Child of the Universe - 5:06 (John Lees)
  2. Negative Earth - 5:32 (Les Holroyd / Mel Pritchard)
  3. Paper Wings - 4:19 (Les Holroyd / Mel Pritchard)
  4. The Great 1974 Mining Disaster - 4:39 (John Lees)

Page 2 (running time 19:46) :

  2. Crazy City - 4:09 (Les Holroyd)
  3. See Me See You - 4:37 (John Lees)
  4. Poor Boy Blues - 3:05 (Les Holroyd)
  5. Mill Boys - 2:47 (John Lees)
  6. For No One - 5:08 (John Lees)

Remaster album

The remaster album ("Polydor / Universal 065 401-2") from 2003, which contains the 9 songs of the original album and 5 bonus songs with slightly different lengths, is 1 hour, 2 minutes and 1 second long.

Original songs (running time 39:31) :

  1. Child of the Universe - 5:06 (John Lees)
  2. Negative Earth - 5:34 (Les Holroyd / Mel Pritchard)
  3. Paper Wings - 4:18 (Les Holroyd / Mel Pritchard)
  4. The Great 1974 Mining Disaster - 4:45 (John Lees)


  2. Crazy City - 4:08 (Les Holroyd)
  3. See Me See You - 4:37 (John Lees)
  4. Poor Boy Blues - 3:04 (Les Holroyd)
  5. Mill Boys - 2:48 (John Lees)
  6. For No One - 5:11 (John Lees)

Bonus songs (running time 22:30) :

  2. Child of the Universe - 2:55 (John Lees)
    recorded and mixed at Polydor studios, London, January 5, 1975; US single version, April 1975
  3. The Great 1974 Mining Disaster - 4:51 (John Lees)
    Original mix - previously unreleased
  4. Maestoso (A Hymn in the Roof of the World) - 5:30 (Woolly Wolstenholme)
    BJH version: recorded at Olympic Studios , London, March 1975
  5. Negative Earth - 5:37 (Les Holroyd / Mel Pritchard)
    Original mix - previously unreleased
  6. Child of the Universe - 3:37 (John Lees)
    recorded and mixed at Advision Studios , London, February 21, 1975; Remake for planned US single

style

With the new producer, Barclay James Harvest largely leave the opulent orchestral arrangements of the previous albums behind and turn more towards art pop and art rock with harmony vocals and occasional folk influences. There are echoes of the styles from The Beatles , Crosby, Stills and Nash, and Pink Floyd .

reception

Although the band themselves weren't happy with Everyone Is Everybody Else , the album became a critical and sales hit. In Allmusic it is described as the best by Barclay James Harvest to date - partly because of its "incredibly profound" sound. The baby blue pages read, among other things: “A rich mid-70s soft rock prog sound in the musical tension between Beatles, Crosby Stills & Nash and Pink Floyd; Sound quality significantly better than on the otherwise almost comparable Once again . ”The eclipsed magazine praised the“ engaging, tasty, short numbers ”and included the album in its list of the 150 most important prog albums.

occupation

Recording and production

Original album

The studio album Everyone Is Everybody Else was recorded in March and April 1974 in the London Olympic Studios ( Barnes , London Borough of Richmond upon Thames ). It was mixed in April of the same year in the Trident Studios there ( Soho , West End , City of Westminster ).

Remaster

The remastering of all songs on the 2003 remaster album - based on the original tapes - took place in November 2002 in the London studios of The Audio Archiving Company ( South Hampstead , London Borough of Camden ) by Paschal Byrne . The cover was designed by Phil Smee .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barclay James Harvest Album Portfolio: Everyone Is Everybody Else , accessed August 6, 2015, at bjharvest.co.uk
  2. ↑ a b Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Barclay James Harvest: Everyone Is Everybody Else , Baby Blue Pages , accessed on August 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Bruce Eder: Everyone Is Everybody Else at Allmusic , accessed on August 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ eclipsed , No. 144, October 2012, p. 29.