Broken Barricades [Import] [Limited Edition]

Track Listings

1. Simple Sister

2. Broken Barricades

3. Memorial Drive

4. Luskus Delph

5. Power Failure

6. Song for a Dreamer

7. Playmate of the Mouth

8. Poor Mohammed

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Japanese 20-bit K2 digitally remastered reissue of 1971 album. Packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Victor. 2003.

Tracks:

Simple Sister
Broken Barricades
Memorial Drive
Luskus Delph
Power Failure
Song for a Dreamer
Playmate of the Mouth
Poor Mohammed
Broken Barricades [Single Edit][*]
Power Failure [Single Edit][*]
Simple Sister [Mono Version][*]

Album Description

German limited & numbered digipak reissue of 1971 album (deleted domestically). Includes three bonus tracks, 'Broken Barricades' (Single Edit), 'Power Failure' (Single Edit) & 'Simple Sister' (Mono Version). 2002.

Customer Reviews:

One Short but Ohh Soo Good.......2006-08-09

This album provides some fine examples of why Procol Harum was high in the ranks of rock's elite in the late-Sixties spanning flawlessly into the early '70's. Opening with the the catchy hook's on "Simple Sister" followed by the album's lovely flowing three-quarter timed title song ample evidence of Brooker/Reid's writing abilities abound as well the on-occassion penchant for repetition. Trower's influence is apparent on the stright-up rocker "Memorial Drive" as it is his co-writing to a lesser end effect on "Song for a Dreamer", a tribute with strong Eastern stylings to his recently departed friend J. Hendrix and "Poor Mohammed" which could be a near comic yawner if not for the remarkable slide work. Returning to PH's conventional writing team,one can only remark of "Luskus Delph" that gad's this is beautiful from point of title,lyric and composition. From the simple but urgent drum opening of "Power Failure" and the guitar's answer to it's own siren call this song highlights a rare wonderful percussion center that is more than worthy of the over-dubbed audience applause upon conclusion. How does this group manage to get away with such on-occassion repetition? Because they can as few others are able. This being Trower's last effort with the group is it a true sign of the quality of his future solo efforts? Thankfully not. Is this 5th effort therefore the Last of the Great Procol Harem Albums? No, Grand Hotel was yet to come. Why are the Bonus Tracks a bonus? Because they are near repeats of a couple of the best cuts on the disc.

Great Procol and a killer recording.......2006-07-08

Having been in the music and recording business for
over 29 years this Procol album has not only killer
songs"Simple Sister "is a totally masterful recording that holds up and surpasses today's digital standards. You
have remember that this record was made with no computers or digital technology on a 24 track tape recorder!
I still listen to the layering on it and wonder how they did it
back in '71. Much of the credit should go their producer/ engineer Chris Thomas a true giant in the biz. Chris engineered or produced many great recordings most notably The Beatles, Pink Floyd's " Dark Side of the Moon",
all the Pretenders records and the list goes on and on.
Dave Adams

A pretty-much over looked album for it's time.......2006-06-20

Rolling Stone's review in '71 all but gave them up for dead..Hard to imagine that!! In any event, I recall the day the album was played in it's entirety (without commercial interruption)for the first time on the "underground" radio station in Houston where I grew up. I skipped school that day with an acquaintance who had a hot "date" at 10:00 AM or so at this girl's parent's house.The two of them were getting busy upstairs as the album played, while I had more fun listening than they could possibly have, had they only slowed down and joined me 'round the Hi-Fi. We had all dropped some acid, and I was peaking along the same time when the first riffs from Robin Trowers' Strat' came through the speakers.. I was indeed entranced, and I sat there for what seemed an extended period of time, yet merely 40 or so minutes in reality.I can't quite recall the rest of that day, but what a great, over-looked project! I still love it today for the sparkling production, the lyrics, and above all, the almost hypnotic musicality of the whole thing..Not a wasted day of hookey at all, and well-worth it in the long run. I challenge any contemporary of mine at that time to come up with a better first heard scenario for say, "Sticky Fingers", or "Aqualung". Two albums released shortly after "Broken Barricades". Albums that are classics, yet not as unique in some ways as Broken Barricades is for me.

A pretty-much over looked album for it's time.......2006-06-20

Rolling Stone's review in '71 all but gave them up for dead..Hard to imagine that!! In any event, I recall the day the album was played in it's entirety (without commercial interruption)for the first time on the "underground" radio station in Houston where I grew up. I skipped school that day with an acquaintance who had a hot "date" at 10:00 AM or so at her parent's house.They were getting busy upstairs as the album played, while I had more fun listening than they could possibly have, had they only slowed down and joined me 'round the Hi-Fi. We had all dropped some acid, and I was peaking along the same time when the first riffs from Robin Trowers' Strat' came through the speakers.. I was indeed entranced, and I sat there for what seemed an extended period of time, yet merely 40 or so minutes in reality. What a great, over-looked project! I still love it today for the sparkling production, the lyrics, and above all, the almost hypnotic musicality of the whole thing..Not a wasted day of hookey at all, and well-worth it in the long run. I challenge any contemporary of mine at that time to come up with a better first heard scenario for say, "Sticky Fingers", or "Aqualung". Two albums released shortly after "Broken Barricades". Albums that are classics, yet not as unique in some ways as Broken Barricades is for me.

Danged Good Procol!.......2006-05-12

This is possibly my second favorite Procol album. "Grand Hotel" is my first. Though it has some of the hostility that was rife on the previous album, "Home", which I avoid like the plague, it also has some of the most interesting and innovative Procol songwriting on it. Robin Trower makes two significant contributions to the album, with "Song For A Dreamer" and the quirky "Poor Mohammed" and they are great! "Dreamer" is a very spacey sort of a thing, the sort of song that Procol isn't exactly known for producing. Supposedly, this song is a tribute to Jimi Hendrix, a musician that Trower has often been compared to. The lyrics are totally dream-like and ethereal in nature, but "Poor Mohammed" is completely different! This song puts Trower in storytelling mode, with that rough as pebbles voice of his delineating a day in the life of some poor immigrant schmoe as he wanders about a house. The guitar work sets a weird mood for the song. Very rough and tumble!

The "Home"-style hostility comes in with the two major Gary Brooker-sung rockers, "Simple Sister" and "Power Failure". Who is Brooker singing to on "Sister"? The lyrics are so hostile, it's scary, and I am taken back to "Still There'll Be More" from the previous album, a song which wrote the BOOK on hostility! "Power Failure" is less vitriolic, but nonetheless cooks with the same furor that "Sister" does. Other Brooker tunes on the album are so lilting and gentle as to almost be apologies for those two. "Luskus Delph", one of the other tunes, has some of the naughtiest lyrics you'll ever hear issue from a classical rock group. This is one song you'll NEVER hear played on a Clear Channel radio station!

Since they are more focussed on this album, the "madmen" sobriquet doesn't really seem to fit, despite the presence of "Simple Sister" and "Song For A Dreamer". The old Hieronymus Bosch flavor is gone, replaced by what now seem to be only complaints and stories. They also could have peaked with their madness on "Home", (and considering the tone of that album, there's a very good chance somebody had Brooker and Reid committed for their own good!) Instead of Honore Balzac, we have Stanley Kubrick now...not a bad tradeoff!

A must for any new fan of this seminal art-rock band...the band that, in fact, practically INVENTED art rock!

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Broken Barricades
Procol Harum
Manufacturer: Mobile Fidelity
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000008JM7
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Average customer rating:

Nice but no better than the less expensive import
unbalanced album

Broken Barricades
Procol Harum
Manufacturer: Jvc Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music

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Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Classic Rock | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music

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Classic Rock | Imports | Stores | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00006HBQ6
Release Date: 2003-02-24

Tracks:

Simple Sister
Broken Barricades
Memorial Drive
Luskus Delph
Power Failure
Song for a Dreamer
Playmate of the Mouth
Poor Mohammed

Album Description

Japanese 20-bit K2 digitally remastered reissue of 1971 album. Packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Victor. 2003.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

Customer Reviews:

Nice but no better than the less expensive import.......2003-11-28

A great album...and in reference to other reviews, it's great to hear the mark in time when Robin Trower starts to break loose from Procal.And to address the question of only four songs lyrics being provided; I still own the original American album release and it also contains the lyrics for same four songs also. As it was then...it is replicated now.

unbalanced album.......2003-06-02

This Procol album contains some of their best stuff (simple sister, the title track, Luskus Delph) and some of their more inferior work ... and the Robin Trower tracks (song for a dreamer). It is clear from Trower's work on this album that he didn't feel at home in Procol anymore and this was indeed his last contribution to the band before embarking on a solo career.
Pity that the album suffers because of it.
The re-release with bonus tracks doesn't add a lot to the original release (a mono version of Simple Sister and Power Failure doesn't really improve in edited form).
The big mistery with this album is "why are only 4 lyrics to the original 8 songs provided"?

Barricades & Broken Dreams: Conflict Tribute

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Barricades & Broken Dreams: Conflict Tribute
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Cleopatra
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Punk | Compilations | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

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General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00005LNH9
Release Date: 2001-06-26

Tracks:

Ungovernable Force - Freebase
Meat Means Murder - Statement
Berkshire Cunt - Aus Rotten
Mighty And Superior - Four Letter Word
Neither Is This - Medulla Nocte
1824 Overture - Kismet H.C.
From Protest To Resistance - Disruptive Element
Exploitation - In The Shit
The Serenade Is Dead - Labrat
The Arrest - Engage
A Message To Who? - Sunrise
Tough Shit Mickey - Silent Season
Punk Innit? - Rotunda
Positive Junk/The System Maintains - Human Error
War Games - Egg Raid
To Whom It May Concern - Nu Speak
Whichever Way You Want It - Kafka
Young Parasites - Wat Tyler
1824 Overture - Cracked Cop Skulls
Cord Is Cut - Unique Freak
No Island Of Dreams - Kraynium
This Is The A.L.F. - I Oppose Thee
Mighty And Superior - Co-Exist
A Piss In The Ocean - Dogshit Sandwich
Neither Is This - Driller Killer
Ungovernable Farce - Cornflakes
Exploitation - Litmus Green
Cruise - M.T.A.

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Broken Barricades
Procol Harum
Manufacturer: Musea Records France
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000AKOGL
Release Date: 2006-05-31

Tracks:

Simple Sister
Broken Barricades
Memorial Drive
Luskus Delph
Power Failure
Song for a Dreamer
Playmate of the Mouth
Poor Mohammed

Average customer rating:

Broken Barricades
Procol Harum
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000A2Q1PG
Release Date: 2003-03-04

Album Description

Japanese 20-bit K2 digitally remastered reissue of 1971 album. Packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Victor. 2003.

Broken Barricades [Mobile Fidelity] (MFCD 846) Original Master Recording

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Broken Barricades [Mobile Fidelity] (MFCD 846) Original Master Recording
Procol Harum
Manufacturer: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000N9GZUC

Product Description

TRACKLIST: 1. Simple Sister 2. Broken Barricades 3. Memorial Drive 4. Luskus Delph 5. Power Failure 6. Song For A Dreamer 7. Playmate Of The Mouth 8. Poor Mohammed MFCD 846 Procol Harum ~ Broken Barricades.Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab CD. Broken Barricades is one of the most enigmatic, puzzling albums to come down the track in a long time, simply because of the high quality of the albums preceding it. It would be easy to speculate that Procol Harum has of late been overly influenced by the whole Led Zeppelin scene, but hopefully it's more than that. Because if stylistic originality, consistency, and impressive songwriting in bulk are the standards of a great group, Procol Harum has often been one of the very best post-1966 rock groups.

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