Top 10 Roy Harper Albums Accoording to Mojo

**JKL2000** · 08-11-2016

A pretty good roundup:

http://www.mojo4music.com/24458/roy-...eatest-albums/

You click through from album to album, but it seems like a benign clickthrough.

**Reid** · 08-11-2016

I'd have to have Bullinamingvase, and The Green Man in my top ten.

**Mister Triscuits** · 08-11-2016

Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion is an egregious omission; I'd be inclined to favor, say, Dream Society, Unknown Soldier, and Once over some of the listings there, and what's a compilation doing in a Top 10 list?

**Progmatic** · 08-11-2016

HQ should be rated higher

**Trane** · 08-12-2016

Agree that Jugula, Folkjokeopus, Beserk, Lifemask and Styorncock should be in there... Got a little more problems getting into HQ/Bulnamingsvase era stuff

Of this 90's and beyond, I've only heard Myth, it was OK, but no more

**Scrotum Scissor** · 08-12-2016

I'd have Lifemask as my no. 2. Other than that I quite enjoyed the various writeoffs, except for the dubious 'Pink Floyd-collaborator' headline. Christ, they all looked up to the guy as a Saint already by 1970 - Gilmour, Page, Ian Anderson!

Could've been way worse, tho'. For instance if written by some 'well-known journalist' in Prog Mag or what the fuck ever.

**StevegSr** · 08-12-2016

I agree with this list, but in exactly the reverse order.

Songs of Love and Loss, aside from being remixed, remastered and "rescupltured according to Harper," are a coherent collection of his love songs that make little sense when pasted on many of his past albums as they are an ongoing diary of his then current state the ups and downs of love life placed together for the first time to in their order of occurrence. The result is a remarkably cohesive statement about his life and the sound quality is of audiophile grade. I always felt that Stormcock was too verbose and plodding, even with the help of Jimmy Page's remarkable coda on the Same Old Rock. But that's how music works. Imagine if we all loved and hated exactly the same things?

**Kcrimso** · 08-12-2016

Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor

Could've been way worse, tho'. For instance if written by some 'well-known journalist' in Prog Mag or what the fuck ever.

I found Bent Knee because of fucking Prog mag.

**Scrotum Scissor** · 08-12-2016

Originally Posted by Kcrimso

I found Bent Knee because of fucking Prog mag.

Then Fucking Prog Mag is its new name.

**JKL2000** · 08-12-2016

Originally Posted by Trane

Agree that Jugula, Folkjokeopus, Beserk, Lifemask and Styorncock should be in there... Got a little more problems getting into HQ/Bulnamingsvase era stuff

Of this 90's and beyond, I've only heard Myth, it was OK, but no more

My preferences are similar to yours. Jugular is a favorite. I also love Born in Captivity. There's a lot this liist sort of seems to forget about like Loony on the Bus, but it's pretty damn hard to limit Roy Harper to only 10 albums. Descendants of Smith!

**NogbadTheBad** · 08-12-2016

Stormcock, Lifemask & HQ would top my list but I haven't got much beyond that.

**Trane** · 08-12-2016

Originally Posted by Kcrimso

I found Bent Knee because of fucking Prog mag.

Well, you could've found out about them from here last year (a few threads were opened)

Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor

Then Fucking Prog Mag is its new name.

I'd say "Bloody Fucken Prog Rag"

**zombywoof** · 08-12-2016

What's the next logical step for someone who adores Stormcock but has nothing else?

**NogbadTheBad** · 08-12-2016

Originally Posted by zombywoof

What's the next logical step for someone who adores Stormcock but has nothing else?

Lifemask

**zombywoof** · 08-12-2016

Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad

Lifemask

Cool!

**Trane** · 08-12-2016

Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad

Originally Posted by zombywoof

What's the next logical step for someone who adores Stormcock but has nothing else?

Lifemask

or FolkeJokeOpus...

**Kcrimso** · 08-12-2016

Originally Posted by Trane

Well, you could've found out about them from here last year (a few threads were opened)

Sometimes a good 4 page article does a trick better.

Btw. I think that all those cheap list articles that Prog magazine is putting out online are not doing them any favors. Actual magazine is better (although of course it also could be much better!)

**Trane** · 08-12-2016

Originally Posted by Kcrimso

Sometimes a good 4 page article does a trick better.

Btw. I think that all those cheap list articles that Prog magazine is putting out are not doing them any favors. Actual magazine is better (although of course it also could be much better!)

It's probably been three years since I bought a Prog Rag Mag.... I'd even say that I buy its Classy-Crock mother mag more often nowadays (though maybe only once a year)

**Kcrimso** · 08-12-2016

Originally Posted by Trane

It's probably been three years since I bought a Prog Rag Mag.... I'd even say that I buy its Classy-Crock mother mag more often nowadays (though maybe only once a year)

I am proud and happy Prog magazine subscriber.

**Beebfader** · 08-12-2016

`Death Or Glory' is a pretty miserable experience, no way would I put that in the Top 10. The gigs at the time were awful....the woman who had just ended their marriage was still his sound engineer...Roy was a wreck. How `Bullinamingvase' isn't in there at all is also a major oversight. Rather than `Valentine' I would recommend the Volume of BBC Sessions with the 1974 Peel sessions on...they are much better versions.

**JKL2000** · 08-13-2016

And it seems Roy just had his 75th birthday a few days ago and is rereleasing some classic albums on vinyl to celebrate.

**Sordel** · 08-16-2016

It's a pretty fair list but The Green Man should be there near the top and I think there's a strong case to be made for Once near the bottom. It's interesting with Roy that nearly every fan is going to put Stormcock at number one, but after that there would be wide divergence with a lot of albums being named second and third.

**StevegSr** · 08-16-2016

Originally Posted by zombywoof

What's the next logical step for someone who adores Stormcock but has nothing else?

An extremely hard album to find, Born In Captivity (1984) is the acoustic demos for the inferior Work of Heart released in 1982. Had Harper kept this material in it's original form, it would have easily rivaled Stormcock with Lifemask a close second. Perhaps you can get it as a download at Roy Harper's website.

**NogbadTheBad** · 08-16-2016

Originally Posted by StevegSr

An extremely hard album to find, Born In Captivity (1984) is the acoustic demos for the inferior Work of Heart. released in 1982. Had Harper kept this material in it's original form, it would have easily rivaled Stormcock with Lifemask a close second. Perhaps you can get it as a download at Roy Harper's website.

Looks like it's available on his site in CD or download format.