Harvest Festival focuses on the label's two more successful styles.
First
there's the folkier side, comprising ardent traditionalists like
Shirley and Dolly Collins, Martin Carthy, and The Albion Band;
folk-influenced individualists like Michael Chapman and the great Roy
Harper; and exceedingly twee folk-poppers like Panama Limited Jug Band,
Third Ear Band and Gryphon. Between them, this lot contribute many of
Harvest Festival's most appealing moments, especially if you have a
taste for finger-picked acoustic guitars and hand percussion.
But
the majority of Harvest Festival is devoted to post-psychedelic artists
who were able to skew pop-song conventions just enough to turn them
into something totally unique. Syd Barrett, Kevin Ayers, Be-Bop Deluxe,
and the grand Roy Wood dynasty -- The Move (was a better single than
"Do Ya" released in the '70s?), the Electric Light Orchestra, Wizzard
and his solo records -- are the true stars of Harvest Festival. It's
their songs, not those of their better-selling brethren like Deep
Purple and the Barrett-less Pink Floyd, that make it sound like simply
the next step, not a revolution, when the buzzsaw pop-punk of the
Saints and the thorny experimentalism of Wire appear late in the set
with classics like "(I'm) Stranded" and the seven-minute
beautiful-noise soundscape "A Touching Display."
V.A. - Harvest Festival Box Set_disc 01
1. Edgar Broughton Band - Evil 2. Michael Chapman - It Didn't Work Out 3. Deep Purple - Wring That Neck 4. Roy Harper - Tom Tiddler's Ground 5. Pete Brown And His Battered Ornaments - Morning Call 6. Third Ear Band - Stone Circle 7. Greatest Show On Earth - Real Cool World 8. Syd Barrett - Octopus 9. Panama Limited Jug Band - Round And Round 10. Barclay James Harvest - Mother Dear 11. Tea & Symphony - Maybe My Mind (With Egg) 12. Michael Chapman - Postcards Of Scarborough 13. Forest - A Glade Somewhere 14. Edgar Broughton Band - Out Demon's Out 15. Pete Brown & Piblokto - Living Life Backwards 16. Quatermass - Black Sheep Of The Family 17. Bakerloo - Big Bear Ffolly 18. The Pretty Things - The Good Mr Square 19. Kevin Ayers - The Lady Rachel 20. Shirley & Dolly Collins - A Foresaking - Our Captain Cried
V.A. - Harvest Festival Box Set_disc 02
1. Deep Purple - Speed King 2. Pete Brown and Piblokto - Things May Come And Things May Go But The Art School Dance Goes On Forever 3. Edgar Broughton Band - Apache Drop Out 4. Climax Chicago Blues Band - Everyday 5. Kevin Ayers - Butterfly Dance 6. Barclay James Harvest - Mocking Bird 7. Michael Chapman - Kodak Ghosts 8. The Move - The Words Of Aaron 9. Deep Purple - Fireball 10. Electric Light Orchestra - 10538 Overture 11. Ron Geesin & Roger Waters - Breathe 12. Barclay James Harvest - Medicine Man 13. Kevin Ayers And The Whole World - Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes 14. Michael Chapman - Fennario 15. Roy Harper - The Same Old Rock 16. Edgar Broughton Band - Hotel Room 17. Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant 18. Kevin Ayers - Song From The Bottom Of A Wall
V.A. - Harvest Festival Box Set_disc 03
1. Pink Floyd - Money 2. Roy Harper - South Africa 3. Kevin Ayers - Interview 4. Babe Ruth - The Mexican 5. The Move - Do Ya 6. Southern Comfort - Something Said 7. Be-Bop Deluxe - Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape 8. Roy Wood - Dear Elaine 9. Kevin Ayers - Take Me To Tahiti 10. Edgar Broughton Band - Things On My Mind 11. Babe Ruth - Hombre De La Guitarre (from Amar Caballero) 12. Roy Harper - Another Day (live) 13. Electric Light Orchestra - Roll Over Beethoven 14. Be-Bop Deluxe - Maid In Heaven 15. Climax Chicago - You Make Me Sick 16. Electric Light Orchestra - Showdown 17. Wizzard - Ball Park Incident 18. Roy Harper - I'll See You Again
V.A. - Harvest Festival Box Set_disc 04
1. The Albion Band - Poor Old Horse 2. Martin Carthy - Old Hog Or None 3. The Albion Dance Band - Hopping Down In Kent 4. Ashley Hutchings - Postmans Knock 5. Gryphon - Spring Song 6. Unicorn - Have You Ever Seen The Rain 7. Be-Bop Deluxe - Fair Exchange 8. Kevin Ayers - Ballad Of A Salesman Who Sold Himself 9. Be-Bop Deluxe - Electric Language 10. David Gilmour - Short And Sweet 11. Roy Harper - When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease 12. The Saints - Erotic Neurotic 13. Wire - Reuters 14. The Saints - (This) Perfect Day 15. The Shirts - Lonely Android 16. The Banned - Little Girl 17. Wire - I Should Have Known Better 18. The Saints - Swing For The Crime 19. Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Revolt Into Style 20. Wire - A Touching Display
V.A. - Harvest Festival Box Set_disc 05
1. Deep Purple - Black Night 2. Pete Brown & Piblokto - Flying Hero Sandwich 3. The Move - California Man 4. Greatest Show On Earth - Magic Woman Touch 5. Kevin Ayers - Caribbean Moon 6. Trinidad Oil Company - The Calendar Song 7. Matumbi - Rock 8. Wire - I Am The Fly 9. Ivor Cutler - Life In A Scotch Sitting Room Vol 2 (excerpt) 10. Vivian Stanshall And Kilgarron - The Young Ones 11. Spontaneous Combustion - Sabre Dance 12. Be-Bop Deluxe - Ships In The Night 13. Bombadil - Breathless 14. Marshall Hain - Dancing In The City 15. Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Radar In My Heart 16. Strapps - Child Of The City 17. Deep Purple - Hallelujah 18. Babe Ruth - Wells Fargo 19. Professor Longhair - Mess Around 20. Syd Barrett - Golden Hair 21. Edgar Broughton Band - Up Yours
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