Track Listing

1. Prisoner Of Your Love
2. He Said Love
3. Alone In The Night
4. Turn The Key
5. Guitar Blues
6. African
7. Following Me
8. All My Life
9. Panic
10. Kiev
11. You Need Love
12. On The Wings Of Love
13. Panic
14. He Said Love
15. On The Wings Of Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74727 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

Paul Turner. Wakefield
Having this Album years ago on tape. I have decided to buy it on CD.
There is not one song on the album I dislike. Alone in the Night is exellent as well as many others like Wings of Love.
The album in my opinion is as good as Welcome to the Show.Instrumentely good by a band that sadly never got decent recognition. Brilliant!

BJH return from their euro-pop adventure...
1987`s "Face to Face" is the album with which Barclay James Harvest began the final phase of their long career, which delivered 17 studio albums in all. The band had always been in the habit of releasing roughly one studio album a year, a habit they maintained up until the release of "Victims of Circumstance" in 1984. They were at or near the pinnacle of their commercial success; "Victims..." sold well both in the UK and n Europe and the band headlined their biggest show in the UK at Wembley Arena.

However, the fans were not getting any younger and a three-year absence of new albums and touring was to see the fan base much diminished with concerts in the UK no longer playing to sold-out audiences and the "Face to Face" album faring less well in the shops than its predecessors.

But what of the album itself? Well, it heralded a new era for the band after their "euro-pop" albums ("Eyes of the Universe", "Turn of the Tide", "Ring of Changes" and "Victims..."). For me, the main difference on "Face to Face" (and thereafter) is that John Lees seemed to revert back to the song-writing style that he had used in the 70s, his songs feeling less commercialised than on the previous albums but Les Holroyd's writing, on the other hand, continued in much the same way. The overall result sounded much like a return to form, at least for the British fans of the band who always preferred their less commercially oriented days.

It's a pleasing album then, with Les's poppier numbers nicely offset by John's compositions. Both writers put in some strong songs. The opener "Prisoner of Your Love", the very catchy "Following Me" and the jazzy "All My Life" are my favourites of Les's songs with my picks from John being "All Alone in the Night", "He Said Love" and the superlative "African". The fan club's favourite is "Guitar Blues", John's wistful song about lost love which has some sparkling trademark guitar work on it, but I find it lyrically too sad!