Everyone Is Everybody Else [UK Bonus Tracks]

by Barclay James Harvest

Overview

The group's first album for Polydor is several steps above their EMI work. Most of the psychedelic-era influences are softened here and broadened, and transmuted into something heavier and more serious, even as the Beatlesque harmonies remain intact. The guitars sound real heavy, almost larger than life here, while the swelling Mellotron and synthesizer sounds give the music the feel of an orchestra. By this time, the group had also mastered the Pink Floyd technique of playing pretty tunes really slowly, which made them sound incredibly profound (it's actually a technique that goes back, in different forms, to Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner). John Lees gives superb, virtuoso performances on lead guitar on "Paper Wings" and "For No One." Les Holroyd's gorgeous "Poor Boy Blues" sounded more like Crosby, Stills & Nash than CSN did in those days, and is almost worth the price of the CD. [Everyone Is Everybody Else was reissued in 2003 with five bonus cuts.]

Product Details

Release Date:	05/27/2003
Label:	Universal I.S.
UPC:	0044006540122
catalogNumber:	654012
Rank:	56390

Tracks

1. Child of the Universe
2. Negative Earth
3. Paper Wings
4. The Great 1974 Mining Disaster
5. Crazy City
6. See Me See You
7. Poor Boy Blues
8. Mill Boys
9. For No One
10. Child of the Universe
11. The Great 1974 Mining Disaster
12. Maestoso (A Hymn in the Roof of the World)
13. Negative Earth
14. Child of the Universe

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Barclay James Harvest   Primary Artist
John Lees   Acoustic Guitar
Mel Pritchard   Percussion,Drums
Woolly Wolstenholme   Keyboards
Mel Holroyd   Acoustic Guitar,Bass,Rhythm Guitar

Technical Credits

Rodger Bain   Producer
Rufus Cartwright   Engineer
Ted Sharp   Engineer
Phil Smee   CD Package Design
Mark Powell   Producer,Liner Notes
Vincent McEvoy   Art Direction