Procol Harum/Shine on Brightly [Import]

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. Conquistador

2. She Wandered Through the Garden Fence

3. Something Following Me

4. Mabel

5. Cerdes (Outside the Gates Of)

6. Christmas Camel

7. Kaleidoscope

8. Salad Days (Are Here Again)

9. Good Captain Clack

10. Repent Walpurgis

See all 13 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2

1. Quite Rightly So

2. Shine on Brightly

3. Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)

4. Wish Me Well

5. Rambling On

6. Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)

7. In Held Twas in I: Glimpses of Nirvana/'Twas Tea Time at the Circus/In

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
UK remastered two-fer includes, 'Procol Harum' (1967) & 'Shine On Brightly' (1968), both deleted domestically. Features the bonus tracks 'Whiter Shade Of Pale', 'Line Street Blues' & 'Homburg'. 2002.

Tracks:

Quite Rightly So
Shine on Brightly
Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)
Wish Me Well
Rambling On
Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)
In Held Twas in I: Glimpses of Nirvana/'Twas Teatime at the Circus
In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence [*]
Tuo Diamante [*]
Homburg [Stereo Version][*]

Album Description

Reissued 1968 album. Digi Pack. 'Quite Rightly So' is the opening cut on Procol's 1968 offering which has the band exploring all the facets of its unique style and sound, so firmly established in the wake of its original chart hits. Here are the resounding themes, the soulful vocals and swelling organ chords backed by a firm and steady beat, all matched by Keith Reid's lyrical imagery.

Album Details

Tracks: Quite Rightly So/ Shine on Brightly/ Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)/ Wish Me Well/ Rambling On/ Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone).

Customer Reviews:

In the beginning . . ........2007-05-06

there was Procol Harum, the "inventors" of Crock Rock -- pretentiousness for the "classical" music aspirant without the necessary effort.

From this point, those who couldn't compete with such as The Beatles in the field of creativity opted instead for being consciously "different," thereby trumping the merely excessively self-indulgent rockers.

It wouldn't be long before rock 'n roll, the democratic alternative to white-only MOR, and classist "classical" music, renamed "rock" by its second generation, would splinter and devolve into numerous "alternative to rock" "rock" musics, each ahistorically claiming to be the True One.

There is nothing in the history of "rock" more retrogressive than crock rock mysteriously labelled instead "Progressive Rock" (or, if one is "hip," "Prog Rock"). Anyone for "Rage Rock"?

Kill the phony beast before it pollutes the minds of future generations.

In Held Twas In I.......2005-10-03

Procol Harum's second album found lyricist Keith Reid developing a song cycle around a specific theme, in this case insanity. Reid and Procol Harum would continue this pattern of themed albums through their next series of recorings.

Shine on Brightly begins quite well with the classic title track and "Quite Rightly So" before stumbling just a bit on the rest of the old side one. "Wish Me Well" sounds like they were attampting to ape the American west-coast sound of the time, but Moby Grape or the Dead they were not meant to be. "Rambling On" (NOT the Led Zep song!) features some excellent distorted guitar lines from Robin Trower that sound kind of like something Phil Manzanera would do years later.

Things pick up again on "Magdalene" before the band gets to the mammoth "In Held Twas In I" which is to my knowledge the first-ever sidelong symphonic prog epic. Things start out a bit rough with some sub-Moody Blues poetry but once it finally gets going during the "In The Autumn of My Madness" section, sung by Matthew Fisher, it turns into a real treat. Robin Trower's heavy guitar lines star on "Look to Your Soul" along with Gary Brookers soulful singing before the powerful "Grand Finale" wraps things up in style. It may take a while to get going, and little if any attempt was made to tie the segments together musically, but this piece provided the blueprint for every "Suppers Ready" and "Close to the Edge" that followed, while still being an entertaining piece of art in it's own right.

The four stars is completely subjective to the high quality of this band's work. Shine On Brightly is excellent and entertaining, and a five star CD by anyone else, but I have to reserve five stars for the next two albums, "A Salty Dog" and "Home" which found the band matching the song cycle themes with more cohesive music and produced a couple of classic masterpieces.

So Brightly Insane.......2004-11-15

Procol Harum's remarkable self-titled debut album clearly revealed a deep baroque influence, but it did so in more than just a musical sense. I think there are many P H listeners who are familiar with the word baroque as a term describing a certain style of European music, but do not know that the term also applies, among other things, to a style of European literature and that, in fact, out of all the forms of baroque art emerges a vision of reality that can itself be termed baroque. It is this larger sense of the term that really applies more meaningfully to P H.
This baroque vision can be described both in terms of form and content. In form, it is generally very precise and multi-layered and multi-currented so that it tends toward a certain expansiveness and these different layers and currents elaborately and dynamically relate to each other, but in a peculiar way that gives a paradoxical self-enclosing feeling in spite of its expansiveness. It is precise, but seems haunted. This latter quality is taken up and developed by its content. In content, that is, in terms of its ideas and images, it is intense and ambiguous. It is emotionally powerful and intellectually stimulating, but it is virtually impossible to pinpoint what it is all exactly about. All of this very well applies to that fabulous first P H album.
With SHINE ON BRIGHTLY it appears on the surface that P H decided to present a more definite "theme" of content than on the first album. But it is easy to be mislead by this appearance with a resulting lack of proper appreciation for this great album.
SOB presents the subject-idea of spiritual life and struggle in a modern setting through obvious and traditional Buddhist and Christian terms and the overall extended musical structure itself seems to imply along with this that there is a definite laid out program being presented here. In other words, we might suspect that we are being preached to by way of a somewhat pretentious "concept album". But a close look at the content, that is, the ideas and images and way in which the music supports these reveals an ambiguity no less intense than that of the first album. What SOB actually presents us with that the first album lacked, is a sort of great wall of definite traditional spiritual-religious content against which is very artistically and intensely projected a darkly flaming ambiguity that represents the pleasurable-painful, heavenly- nightmarish, reality-unreality of the actual human condition. To demonstrate what I mean, I will look at the title song which is the heart of this album, the dark-fire core from which all the rest radiates. It is no accident that it is the Title Song.
First of all, before looking at its content, I want to state my view that this song is musically a genuine step forward in P H's modern-baroque style. It is a direct extension of the style presented on the first album but with a new subtle depth and range. The music is structurally divided into three repeating sections: 1) the refrain with its two guitar notes shrilly echoed at the octave. 2) the beginning of the beautiful chord progression proper filled out by the piano's steady chords at every half beat. 3) then the stunning sudden dropping out of the steady piano and its change to a purely percussive parallelling of B J Wilson's wonderful dynamic accenting of this part of the song. And with this dropping out of the piano there is the focus on Matthew Fisher's glorious, eerie, finely slithering ascending and descending organ lines extending fully through and defining the now hollow chords in the most moving and suggestive way. This is modern-baroque discovering new mysterious, ominous, carnival places in itself.
Content: His Prussian blue electric clock's alarm bell will not stop ringing. It is an electric clock, a modern clock, it is a modern alarm that can not be turned off and he can see no end to this alarm. He turns and searches for an answer by an older, even ancient, way, through the old venerated spiritual traditions symbolized by candle light, but the search is in vain for "some long road that goes nowhere, some signpost that is not there."
Suddenly he is plunged in a nightmare vision where the chandelier wildly swings over a scene where he finds that he himself, this lost and searching soul, is, impossibly, the Christ Child and the Three Wise Kings are bringing him gifts. But these wise men are not wise at all, but rather full of desire and envy and carry darkly telling gifts such as "fat old Buddhas carved in gold." The Kings are not what they appear to be, but then how could he himself possibly be the Holy Child? And yet...
He is his ordinary self again watching the huge and eerie Ferris wheel (so awesomely described by Matthew's organ) in a place where confusion reigns supreme. His eunuch friend tells him that he must simply "soldier on." His tongue and words fail him. All Truth is right before him and yet nothing is before him but darkness. And his befuddled brain, quite insane, Shines On Brightly.
The moral? Create the best art you can and soldier on.
I'll see you at Home.

One of my favorite groups of the 60s...........2003-12-07

Procol Harum was (were?) nicknamed "The Madmen of Rock", and they lived up to the name completely! They were like the Honoré De Balzacs of the genre, (the lead singer, Gary Brooker, even LOOKED like Balzac!) putting out an odd mixture of bluesy, organ and piano-driven, classically informed rock with lyrics and wizard guitar licks that had few, if any, equals. Since Procol's inception, Genesis is about the only group that even came close to sounding like them. NOBODY threw off the same rich aesthetic vibe they did.

This album, "Shine on Brightly", is probably where the group established their "madmen" reputation, putting you in mind of William Blake and Hieronymus Bosch as if these painters were musicians, with songs like "Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)" and the title song. The masterpiece on this album, (VERY William Blake-ish!) is the nearly 18 minute long "In Held Twas In I", an epic composition with passages like: "In The Autumn of My Madness" and "Twas Teatime At The Circus", capturing the full-on "Ship Of Fools" feel that they'll probably take with them into rock & roll heaven! (Or hell, where they belong!) The piece ends with "Look To Your Soul", a passage that snatches hope from self-induced despair.

Other tunes include "Wish Me Well", a precursor to their "Juicy John Pink" on "Salty Dog" with its ultra-bluesy guitar riff and Screamin' Jay Hawkins singing style; "Magdalene, My Regal Zononphone", a typical Procol number with gentle, classically influenced music framing very introspective lyrics; "Ramblin' On", a song that sounds like it should have been on their first album along with "Christmas Camel" and "She Wandered Through The Garden Fence".

For some odd reason, I've always liked Procol Harum. They didn't sound like anyone else, (until their pale imitations, Genesis, came along,) and nobody had the intelligent lyrical mode they had, with its study of faux madness and voluptuary indulgence. It was if Orson Welles had decided to become a rock auteur!

For all intents and purposes, this album, indeed, was the true bridge between their first album and "Salty Dog", with elements of both being quite obvious in it. One could do a LOT worse than discovering this group of non-conformist individuals who laid a lot of groundwork for the branch of music known as "art rock".

A strong successor to Sgt. Pepper, though not so humorous.......2003-05-07

The early Association ("Along Comes Mary" and "Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies") and the Left Banke ("Walk Away Renee", "Pretty Ballerina) started the baroque-rock ball rolling. Procol Harum picked it up and ran hard with it for their first two albums. This, their second, followed close on the heels of the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper' and was both influenced by it, and carried parts of its ideation to greater heights/depths.

The first song, the up-tempo "Quite Rightly So" combines baroque compositional rigor with stellar organ solos to rival even "A Whiter Shade of Pale". Its lyrics eschewed the earlier song's surrealism in favor of a more soul-searching text, on a smaller, less mystical scale than George Harrison's "Within You Without You" from 'Pepper'.

The title cut, "Shine On Brightly", follows with a serious return to the surreal, the lyrics upping the intensity via meandering metaphors winding around the listener like the coils of a brazen serpent. There is pathetic humor and/or irony in the psychological allegory that unfolds here. Glorious organ solos continue, intensified by Robin Trower's searing guitar licks, which inject purgatorial eloquence and strident power.

With "Skip Softly My Moonbeams", music and lyrics become more hellish - carrying us over the brink into serious spiritual/psychological crisis. Sounds of a brutish and clownish nature enhance a sense of desperation not heard since "A Christmas Camel" on the first album. There only the lyrics told the complete story - the music was impassioned, but not so expressionistic like here - with 'percussively' sinister licks from Trower's guitar, Fisher's organ, and even the backup singer(s).

On "Wish Me Well", the bottom falls out - we enter the underworld. The music becomes a kind of psychedelicized blues-rock.

The mood lightens with "Rambling On", though its humor remains self-effacing. The singer ruminates on the state of being trapped between worlds - it's like being lost inside a bad tarot reading (or dreaming of it). The combination of a slow vaudevillian sound punctuated by the churchy organ solo is hardened by the rock underpinnings of drums and guitars. The clown's ready to be hung out to dry.

"Magdalene, My Regal Zonophone" - a glimmer of light, or hope, or warmth in the heart - which turns out to be calm before the storm. A gorgeously moving piano accompaniment [in waltz time with warm bass guitar tones and snare drum] plays underneath, recapitulating hopes expressed by the opening song; but added to this new openness is apprehension. As the song winds down and fades toward oblivion, in the distance someone comically/pathetically intones through a megaphone "Magdalene, my regal zonophone" a number of times, in rhythm with the band.

"In Held Twas I" Spoken soliloquy to ominous simulations of Tibetan chanting, rollicking circus music, huge choral textures, tender piano nocturnes, and powerfully endowed guitar solos all play their respective roles in this sublimely conceived conjuration. The whole builds its immense architecture in word and sound, mood and motive, sometimes in quiet serenity, other times as if thunderously through the eye of the hurricane - all these motifs work together to symbolize the possibility of spiritual rebirth and redemption obtained through eclectic rather than narrow, dogmatic means.

Tracks:

Quite Rightly So
Shine on Brightly
Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)
Wish Me Well
Rambling On
Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)
In Held 'Twas in I: Glimpses of Nirvana...
Seem to Have the Blues (Mostly All the...)
Monsieur Armand
Alpha
In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence
In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence
Quite Rightly So
Quite Rightly So
Il Tuo Diamante

Album Description

Digitally remastered reissue of their 1968 album with eight bonus tracks added: 'Alpha' (previously unissued), 'Seem To Have The Blues (Most All Of The Time)', 'Monsieur Armand', two versions of 'In The Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence' (B-side& Alternative Version), two of 'Quite Rightly So' (Take 4 Breakdown & Take 6) and 'Il Tuo Diamante' (a rare version of'Shine On Brightly' sung in Italian). A combined total of 15tracks, all in stereo. Also features the original cover art.1998 Westside release.

Customer Reviews:

A Classic Album? "Quite Rightly So" I Must Say ..........2006-08-04

... and "Quite Rightly So" indeed! That's exactly what I said to myself when I first put this classic CD into the "boombox" and heard Matthew Fisher's B-3 fade-in before realizing this song (and the rest of this album) was dedicated by one Mr. Gary Brooker to those "whose eyes were open wide" when listening! And I tell you what, at least that first track, "QRS", along with the rest of the album to boot, is guaranteed to be a absolutely, genuinely proven eye opener ...

Yes, every single member of the 1960s Procol Harum for the most part was anything but a slouch: In addition to the previously-mentioned Fisher and Brooker, there of course is the future Fender-Bender-Stratocaster-Master himself Robin Trower, who admittedly wasn't featured as prominently in the PH ranks as his ongoing power trio -(go see him if he comes to town; HE'S AN AWESOME AXEMAN!!!) but his early playing and early riffs show when he did solo he proved he could and did rock - HARD!!! His playing and singing on the bluesy "Wish Me Well" really supply the first half of the CD with considerable punch and bite! And lyricist Keith Reid is perhaps the most unique wordsmith on both sides of the Atlantic ... well, maybe he's tied for first with Mr. Bob Dylan on the West Side ...

But the drummer!!! From "QRS" on I could tell why the late, great B.J. Wilson was the first skin-slammer to be wooed by Jimmy Page to join the Mighty Led Zeppelin before he wisely passed on the offer and stayed with his Procol-mates. (Note to readers: This, of course, is definitely not a knock on the Zepsters or our beloved Bonzo himself, okay? Thanks.) Anyway, B.J.'s unique blend of percussive melodicism, rhythmic reversals, tempo and mood changes (i.e. dynamics), and his keen sense of whichever of the abovementioned elements were to be played when and where, and not to mention his gargantuan-sized 20" and 22" crash cymbals - NOW THAT'S BIG! - cemented himself as the irreplaceable backbone of a seminal, stellar and sophisticated group and a musician whose playing, timing, soloing and imagination can never and will never be duplicated or equalled to this very day. All of what was mentioned in this paragraph positively applies to this CD - and that's a promise ...

Tracks such as the self-titled one as well as some of the killer bonus tracks - especially "Seem To Have The Blues" and the original version of "Monsieur Armand", which feature bone-crunching (for the 1960s) blues axe solos by "Rockin' Robin" himself - and, of course, "The Grand Finale" - with Robin's guitar, B.J.'s drums and the choir all crying out as one - grant this wonderful 1968 document an easy five-star rating. It is further highly recommended that the consumer search out the Westside version of this excellent CD, for it includes another gem along the lines of "Blues" and "Armand" - namely "In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence."

Oh wait - did I forget to mention the entire "In Held T'Was In I" suite?"

Held close by that which some despise..........2006-03-17

I love it when people criticize music by calling it "pretentious".

This is a wonderful album, but the record company should have left off the "bonus tracks".

With few exceptions, I generally don't like having "bonus tracks" added to classic albums. They spoil the climactic ending as in this case.

And it's especially annoying when songs are repeated.

Save the bonus material for the box sets........2003-06-28

Is it just me or do you get annoyed at the "remastered" classics with all the extra [stuff] on them. I buy these disks to remember
being 14 and rocking out to the vinyl editions at my parents house. Most of the extra stuff on these disks is boilerplate - you don't need it. Keep them in their original glory I say.
It looks like all the PH newly remastered disks have this. It's too bad. I should dust off the vinyl and buy a new record player.

5 stars for the original recording - 3 stars for the "remastered". What a classic!

A strong successor to Sgt. Pepper, though not as humorous.......2003-05-15

The title cut, "Shine On Brightly", follows with a serious return to the surreal, the lyrics upping the intensity via meandering metaphors winding around the listener like the coils of a brazen serpent. There is [weak]humor and/or irony in the psychological allegory that unfolds here. Glorious organ solos continue, intensified by Robin Trower's searing guitar licks, which inject their purgatorial eloquence and strident power.

With "Skip Softly My Moonbeams", the music and lyrics become more hellish - carrying over the brink into serious spiritual/psychological crisis. Sounds of a brutish and clownish nature enhance a sense of desperation not heard since "A Christmas Camel" on the first album. There only the lyrics told the complete story - the music was impassioned, but not so expressionistic like here - with sinister, percussive licks from Trower's guitar, Fisher's organ glissandos, and even the backup singer(s).

On "Wish Me Well", the bottom falls out - we enter the underworld. The music becomes a kind of 'psychedelicized' blues-rock.

"Magdalene, My Regal Zonophone" - a glimmer of light, or hope, or warmth in the heart turns out to be a calm before the storm. Gorgeously moving piano accompaniment [in waltz time, with warm bass guitar tones and snare drum] plays underneath, recapitulating hopes expressed by "Quite Rightly So"; but added to this glimmering openness is apprehension. As the song winds down and fades toward oblivion, in the distance someone comically/pathetically intones through a megaphone "Magdalene, my regal zonophone" a number of times, in rhythm with the band. It's really the now-dissociated protagonist of our saga, farther and further beside/outside himself.

"In Held Twas I" Spoken soliloquy to ominous simulations of Tibetan chanting - rollicking circus music - huge choral textures - tender piano nocturnes - and powerfully endowed guitar solos - all play their respective roles in this sublimely conceived conjuration. The whole builds its immense architecture in word and sound, mood and motive, sometimes in quiet serenity, other times as if howling, thunderously through the eye of the hurricane. All these motifs work together to symbolize the possibility of spiritual rebirth and redemption obtained through eclectic rather than narrow, dogmatic means.

Don't miss this!

Dimmed with time.......2002-11-14

Procol Harum's second album doesn't have quite the power of their debut and is a tad less consistent. The album has a number of great tracks but the pretentious "suite" at the end of the CD consumes a full 14 plus minutes and goes nowhere.

Shine On Brightly isn't hideous; it's just a little worse for the wear given the band's debut (and contemporary releases by other bands). Still, Gary Brooker's soulful voice is a joy even on the weakest tracks. Robin Trower manages to cram in a number of tasteful guitar solos admit Brooker's growling vocal and Matthew Fisher's omnipresent organ.

Tracks:

Quite Rightly So
Shine on Brightly
Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)
Wish Me Well
Rambling On
Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)
In Held Twas in I: Glimpses of Nirvana/'Twas Teatime at the Circus
In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence [*]
Tuo Diamante [*]
Homburg [Stereo Version][*]

Customer Reviews:

Embedding the "Procol" Sound.......2005-07-27

Procol Harum brought a new and sophisticated sound that stunned the pop music world in the late 1960s with the issue of its eponymous debut album and the world-wide success of the single " A Whiter Shade of Pale". That song has been both the band's greatest fortune as well as its greatest misfortune since nothing that came after ever reached the dizzy pinnacle of that song's success. Mention Procol Harum to the average baby-boomer and invariably they will mention A Whiter Shade of Pale.
Their follow-up album, Shine on Brightly, didn't make nearly the same commercial impact stateside, but it served to embed what became famous as the "Procol Sound" in the minds of the hipper of the record-buying public. The sound axis of piano and churchy organ leavened by a uniquely subdued guitar, coupled with soulful vocals and inscrutable lyrics gave the band a sound and an aura of mystery unmatched by any other on the scene at that time.
I bought Shine on Brightly originally back when it was issued and nearly played it to death throughout my teen-age years. It had a huge impact that lasts to this day on how I listen to music and what type of music moves me the most. Recently, I picked up this reissue and when I put in in, all the old memories came flooding back.
My favorites here are Quite Rightly So, the organ powered title track, Rambling On, Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone), and parts of the epic In Held 'Twas In I. Some reviewers have complained about that last song, but I agree with the one who says its best enjoyed in segments. My favorite segments are the inward-looking and soul-searching In The Autumn of My Madness and Look to Your Soul. These feature the voice of organist Matthew Fisher which made a perfect fit for the lyrics expressed.
As for the eight bonus cuts, I'm happy to have them, though most don't fit the mood of the original portion of the CD. I like Seem to Have The Blues (Mostly All The Time), Monsieur Armand, the rare Alpha, and one take each of In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence and Quite Rightly So. The others are just overkill.
If you are a Procol Harum fan, then this CD should be in your collection, no excuses. If you are just now learning about Procol Harum, it is imperative as well that you own this because Shine On Brightly gives you a great taste of the classic Procol Sound in all of its uncommercial splendor.

Great Album, Why The Funky Cover?.......2004-03-30

Great Album, Why The Funky Cover?

"Shine on Brightly" Indeed!.......2002-07-25

What the Rolling Stones and Traffic did for "black" music, Procol Harum did for classical European music. They represent the very best of early progressive rock, and "Shine on Brightly" is one of their strongest recordings. The finale of the "In Held Twas I" suite, in particular, is especially moving. A gem!

It has its moments, but don't make this your first Procol CD.......2002-05-23

The early Procol Harum combined a bluesy approach, touches of what later developed into progressive rock (they had a big influence on Genesis), and Dylanesque semi-nonsensical lyrics. This album doesn't have the consistent songwriting of the previous "A Whiter Shade of Pale" or the crisp production of its follow-up "A Salty Dog". The two best songs (by FAR) come right at the start, with "Quite Rightly So" and "Shine On Brightly". These are followed by some so-so blues-rockers, and the 17-minute "In Held 'Twas In I". Of the dozens of prog-rock epics I've heard in my time, this is about the worst. Perhaps because this one came first, and there wasn't anyone else to show them how to do it right. Though it includes a couple of catchy short sections, "In the Autumn of My Madness" and "Look to Your Soul", nothing happens for the first five minutes (except some lousy Zen-lite poetry even the Moody Blues would have left on the cutting room floor) and there's not even a minimal attempt to connect the pieces together into any kind of coherent whole -- some segments are just linked by white noise. The liner notes say that Pete Townshend called "In Held 'Twas In I" one of the inspirations for "Tommy"; it's a scary thought.

The first stereo PH album, with some brilliant moments........1998-07-25

Only just slightly dated in some aspects, this fine follow-up to the groups first album (Whiter Shade of Pale) opens with Quite Rightly So, a solid Procol tune with sharp organ work by Fisher and fine vocals by Brooker. The title track follows, which has since become a favorite of Harum fans and appears on most anthologies. Skip Softly My Moonbeams follows, alternating between sprightly and distressingly dark, with the usual enigmatic Keith Reid lyrics. The remaining songs on side one are less remarkable. Side Two opens with the peculiarly haunting Magdeline (My Regal Xonophone), followed by the long and somewhat overblown epic "In Held Twas In I", the title of which was composed of the first words of the lyrics from the first five of its six sections (the sixth being an instruments-only finale). An ambitious musical and lyrical effort, IHTII is probably best appreciated not as a whole, but rather by considering its individual parts separately. Parts Three and! Four are particularly good, with Brooker singing on the former and Matt Fisher's voice being heard for the first time on a Procol Album in part 4 (interestingly mellow vocals that contrast nicely with Brooker's made-for-R&B style). The instrumental finale contains some of Robin Trower's best guitar work on any disk anywhere, showcasing the raw emotional punch that has always been his trademark. All in all a satisfying album, certainly one which clearly showed that Procol Harum was no "one-hit-wonder". It's best moments more than make up for some of its pretentiousness. As a side note, I recall in the late 60's a very hip record shop in the campus area in Columbus, Ohio which had on display the top ten "must have" albums of that time. Among these albums was Seargent Pepper's and the Big White Album (Beatles), His Satanic Majesty's Request (Stones) and Shine On Brightly; this album was ENORMOUSLY popular with the counter-culture of the time. Give a liste! n.

Average customer rating:

beware

Procol Harum / Shine on Brightly
Procol Harum
Manufacturer: Bgo - Beat Goes on
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music

General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Classic Rock | Imports | Stores | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

A Salty Dog/Home
Broken Barricades

ASIN: B000068OTC
Release Date: 2002-07-15

Tracks:

Conquistador
She Wandered Through The Garden Fence
Something Folowing Me
Mabel
Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of)
A Christmas Camel
Kaleidoscope
Salad Days (Are Here Again)
Good Captain Clack
Repent Walpurgis
Whiter Shade Of Pale (Bonus Track)
Lime Street Blues (Bonus Track)
Homburg (Bonus Track)
Quite Rightly So
Shine On Brightly
Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)
Wish Me Well
Rambling On
Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)
In Held Twas In I - A Glimpse Of Nirvana

Album Description

UK remastered two-fer includes, 'Procol Harum' (1967) & 'Shine On Brightly' (1968), both deleted domestically. Features the bonus tracks 'Whiter Shade Of Pale', 'Line Street Blues' & 'Homburg'. 2002.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered 2lps on a Single Disc of their First Two Albums, featuring the Hits 'whiter Shade of Pale' and 'conquistador' with the Bonus Tracks of an Alt Version of 'whiter Shade of Pale' and 'homburg'.

Customer Reviews:

beware.......2003-01-06

The first track from "Shine On Brightly" is in mono here, although it is in stereo on original LP, even sound quality of remaster isn't extra good, if you can better release (all "Shine On Brightly" in stereo, of course), buy "Repertoire" release.

Average customer rating:

Embedding the "Procol" Sound
Great Album, Why The Funky Cover?
"Shine on Brightly" Indeed!
It has its moments, but don't make this your first Procol CD
The first stereo PH album, with some brilliant moments.

Shine on Brightly
Procol Harum
Manufacturer: A&M
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music

General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000008JMC
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Quite Rightly So
Shine on Brightly
Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)
Wish Me Well
Rambling On
Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)
In Held Twas in I: Glimpses of Nirvana/'Twas Teatime at the Circus
In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence [*]
Tuo Diamante [*]
Homburg [Stereo Version][*]

Customer Reviews:

Embedding the "Procol" Sound.......2005-07-27

Great Album, Why The Funky Cover?.......2004-03-30

Great Album, Why The Funky Cover?

"Shine on Brightly" Indeed!.......2002-07-25

It has its moments, but don't make this your first Procol CD.......2002-05-23

The first stereo PH album, with some brilliant moments........1998-07-25

Average customer rating:

Shine on Brightly
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

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

A Salty Dog
A Whiter Shade of Pale
Procol Harum
This Was
Aqualung

ASIN: B000BX4CZK
Release Date: 2006-01-23

Tracks:

Quite Rightly So
Shine on Brightly
Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)
Wish Me Well
Rambling On
Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)
In Held Twas in I A) Glimpses of Nirvana B) Twas Tea Time at the Circus

Album Description

Limited Edition High Definition Japanese pressing in a miniature LP sleeve. Cube Records. 2005.

Album Details

Special 24bit K2 Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork. Tracks Include "in the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence" (B-side and Alternate Versions), "Quite Rightly So" (Take Four and Extended Mono Single Mix) and "il Tuo Diamante".

Average customer rating:

Shine on Brightly

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000A206CK
Release Date: 1999-06-01

Average customer rating:

Shine on Brightly
Procol Harum
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000254BDA
Release Date: 2004-01-06

Album Description

Reissue of 1968 album with three bonus tracks, 'In The WeeSmall Hours Of Sixpence', 'Il Tuo Diamante' and a stereoversion of 'Homburg'. 10 tracks total. 1997 reissue onRepertoire. Digipak.

Average customer rating:

Shine on Brightly
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

General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music

Classic Rock | Imports | Stores | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0001ZX33A
Release Date: 2004-05-31

Tracks:

Quite Rightly So
Shine on Brightly
Skip Softly
Wish Me Well
Rambling On
Magdalene
In Held Twas in I

Average customer rating:

Okay, but Procol has shined a lot more brightly than this
"Shine on Brightly" Indeed!
2nd album...but no Sophomore slump

Shine on Brightly
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

General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Classic Rock | Imports | Stores | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00005J8KO
Release Date: 2001-04-03

Tracks:

Quite Rightly So
Shine on Brightly
Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)
Wish Me Well
Rambling On
Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)
In Held 'Twas in I: Glimpses of Nirvana/'Twas Teatime at the Circus/In
In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence
In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence [Alternate Version]
Quite Rightly So [Take 4]
Quite Rightly So [Extended Mono Single Mix]
Tuo Diamante

Album Description

Japanese reissue of their sophomore album, originally released in 1968. Remastered using 20 bit K2 Mastering technology. Packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. 2001 release.

Album Details

Japanese version featuring a limited LP style slipcase cover. 20 bit digital K2 remastering.

Customer Reviews:

Okay, but Procol has shined a lot more brightly than this.......2002-09-20

The "Plus" version of the album includes catchy B-side "In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence", and a few outtakes and alternate versions (including the first Brooker-Reid song ever, "Alpha", about an unhappy cyclops). If you've been dying to hear an Italian version of "Shine On Brightly", you're in luck.

"Shine on Brightly" Indeed!.......2002-07-25

2nd album...but no Sophomore slump.......2001-08-21

Procol's second album was just as beguiling, alluring, and original as their first one. Seductively packaged in a weird green double fold sleeve featuring a female mannequin and an upright piano,it just jumped right out at you from the Woolworth's rack. To my fourteen year old ears the music within was just as pleasing as the record's graphics. Side one of the record has such timeless Harum classics as the wonderful piano/organ fest of "Quite Rightly So", Matthew Fisher's circus like Hammond B-3 pyrotechnics on "Skip Softly..." and Robin Trower layering his wailing, soulful, blues drenched guitar all over "Wish Me Well" and "Rambling On". Pianist Gary Brooker's amazing vocals made whatever mysterious lyrics Keith Reid provided sound heartfelt and signifigant. The second side of the original recording was, for the most part, taken up by the long suite "In Held T'was In I", which at the time , being an impressionable teenager, I thought was both lyrically deep and musically brilliant. Well, no and yes. I'm in my forties now and my mind and ears are much less cloudy, and you know what?, I still like this a whole lot. Either I hav'nt grown up or it was pretty dang good to begin with. I prefer to think it's the latter. All in all, a great record by a great band that got over any sophomore slump lying in wait, and by the way, had an even better record hidden up their sleeves. That would be "A Salty Dog" and I'll be getting to that one soon. In the meantime Procol fans and neophytes alike, by all means get this one.Their's was a sound like no other rock band, English or American, and they never shone as brightly as they did on their first three albums. This is a must have, but what's with the pastel album cover? Where's my green mannequin? Buy it anyway.

Music Review:

Music Review

Music Review

1. Conquistador
2. She Wandered Through the Garden Fence
3. Something Following Me
4. Mabel
5. Cerdes (Outside the Gates Of)
6. Christmas Camel
7. Kaleidoscope
8. Salad Days (Are Here Again)
9. Good Captain Clack
10. Repent Walpurgis

1. Quite Rightly So
2. Shine on Brightly
3. Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)
4. Wish Me Well
5. Rambling On
6. Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)
7. In Held Twas in I: Glimpses of Nirvana/'Twas Tea Time at the Circus/In