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Flat Baroque and Berserk (CD)

Roy Harper

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Released: 1970 List Price: 21.98
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Roy Harper's fourth album found him in an acoustic folkie mode more often than not, though as usual (for circa late-'60s Harper) there were detours into pretty rocky items on occasion. It's not much of either a progression or a slide from the lyrically convoluted, somewhat but not incredibly melodic path he had established with his prior work. "I Hate the White Man," however, is certainly one of his most notable (and notorious) compositions, a spew of lilting verbiage that's hard to peg. It could be irony, it could be ironic self-hatred, it could be muddled reflections on the chaos that is the modern world, or it could be a combination of all of them. There are gentler items, sometimes with subdued harmony vocals and orchestration, that sound rather like Harper's most acerbic side sanded off with edges of Al Stewart, Donovan, or Tim Hardin; "Another Day" is the prettiest of those. The atypical "Hell's Angels," on the other hand, has a twisted, chunky rock feel rather like the solo work of another of producer Peter Jenner's clients, Syd Barrett. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Tracklisting
Disk  | 1 
1Don't You Grieve
2I Hate the White Man
3Feeling All the Saturday
4How Does It Feel
5Goodbye
6Another Day
7Devey
8East of the Sun
9Tom Tiddler's Ground
10Francesca
11Song of the Ages
12Hell's Angels

 

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