ROY HARPER Come out fighting V Rare UK CBS LP Folk Rock
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Roy Harper
Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith
Very Rare UK LP released on CBS Records in 1967. This is a slightly later pressing still on the Orange label and still with a front laminated sleeve.
Matrix No's
Side One - SBPG 63184 A1
Side Two - SBPG 63184 B1
On Harper's second album (and first for a major label), he strode further into folk-rock as opposed to folk, with sympathetic production from Shel Talmy; there was light electric backing and drums, as well as occasional orchestration. Harper remained, however, overly verbose, his observational lyrics tending to jam too many thoughts into too little time. Often this is stream-of-consciousness songwriting, proving that such a strain existed in alternative rock long before Jandek and Lambchop's Kurt Wagner. Harper is far more tuneful, and a much better singer and instrumentalist, than either Jandek or Wagner, which makes this much more accessible on a surface level. Still, it's music that demands a lot of concentration to apprehend, and ultimately doesn't fully reward the effort, the listener's attention tending to drift off amidst Harper's inscrutability. Far be it from a mere critic to suggest such a thing decades after the fact, but it may have been that Harper could have well done with a songwriting collaborator who could have extracted Roy's most coherent ideas and sanded off the most incoherent ones. Especially befuddling are the epic-length cuts ("Circle" and the title track), which seem to wish to be making a grand point, but are only intermittently interesting winding roads, the pseudo-humorous spoken dialogue in "Circle" falling especially flat. He is best when he is most restrained, as on "All You Need Is" and "What You Have."
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1. Freak Street
2. You Don't Need Money
3. Ageing River
4. In a Beautiful Rambling Mess
5. All You Need Is
6. What You Have
Side Two
1. Circle
2. Highgate Cemetary
3. Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith
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Released on 'CBS Records' in 1967
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Catalogue No. SBPG 63184
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Disc is in Ex ++ condition (couple of very fine hairlines from the inner sleeve)
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Sleeve is in Near Mint condition
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