Roy Harper - Another Day

[63kevinoneill]

As most people who appreciate great music agree, Roy is a genius. Loved his music for 35 years or more. Stormcock is one of THE great albums.

[5timesfranky]

Amazing song, have heard a few versions, none come close to this. As good as it gets. Articulate, yet achingly tender.

[megalithix]

This has to be the finest love song ever divined. Shakespeare would have echoed these words through his breath...

[MsLouis3]

beautiful tender song..one of my favouritesxxxthankyouxxx

[samsaricillusions]

Another Day

Probably the greatest song in the world

[Jupitersgoose]

The Cocteau Twins do a great version of this and so do Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel, but I still love Roy's version the best.

[stoopiddub333]

@Jupitersgoose i believe the version you are referring to is by the band "the mortal coil" with guest singer Elizabeth Fraser, not the cocteau twins :)

[desperatehell]

@stoopiddub333 the name of the collective is This Mortal Coil. ''Another Day'' is on This Mortal Coil's 1984 album ''It'll End In Tears'' and it's singed by Elizabeth Fraser. She is Cocteau Twins singer. I advice to everyone to try This Mortal Coil music.It's something special and moving and amazing. I adore This Mortal Coil

[qween7096]

I only channelled this magnificent artist because of "Hat's Off " and "Have a Cigar"

from two of the biggest bands in history little knowing the genius was to be discovered. 

[JackSkylightFLASH]

It hurts in a perfect way.

[dirkart]

Brilliant song. My all time favourite.

[Ninaandthepericles]

Hasta que le presto real atención a esta canción... ¡y me inunda con su belleza!

Thank u for share it!

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[Luisabarros7]

Absolutely amazing...there´s something of another world about it, of heaven...the refrain especially. Thanks a miilion times for posting it!!! ;-))

[MsLouis3]

@Luisabarros7 top comment friend!

[TheKenfig]

Roy's best LP, for me

[imreallyrotten]

One of the things I love so much about This Mortal Coil project is it allows you to discover so many great story tellers that sadly are falling one by one by the wayside.Great lyrics.Great song...

[purplevolcano]

This is the first time I have ever heard of Roy Harper! I haven't even got the excuse of being a teenager.

[COLLSWORK]

Roy Harper is a Genius a true unsung hero

[marrakeshmama]

Saw Roy last year at the Jazz Cafe,Camden,still completely different,long may he go on.

[10000diamondeyes]

1:59 my favorite part

[TheSagemeister]

I went to see hm about 15 years ago in Belfast - he told me and my mate to shut up because we were talking too much. But we were talking about how good he was - fabulous singer/songwriter must be good if Zep pay homage to him! Love this song.

[sharon2556]

I love this song. My first boyfriend took me to see him at the hammersmith pallais when we were both 17 in post punk bands in 1979 and I wanted to hate him but I just melted. I never forgot this song. Chris White. Do you remember?

[DilettanteProduction]

@sharon2556

I am not your old boyfriend, but I saw him in the summer of '79. Roy, that is. And I was still in a punk band, shamed to admit ;)

[TimJakeGl]

In response to Neohip (4 days ag), Roy's music still sends a shiver... About him making more of his own music, he was the most combative folk singer of the late 1960 /. 1970s in the Liedermacher (song-maker) school, . My sense is that Roy was all about people living in lives in which they were exploited; to exploit oneself is just part of that process. hence his contradictory gestures e.g. burning money in public.BTW I am sure Roy doesn't read these comments

[fishrmanjohn]

At 50, I recently "discovered" this man......how amazing, after all of these years, I've found a major influence to so many of the bands that I've loved throughout the years .....and I thought that there was no more worthwhile music to find....he is amaziing..HATS OFF TO ROY HARPER

[washy21]

@fishrmanjohn That's pretty much me as well. I discovered him at 47 and luckily saw him at Darwen in Lancashire. I came away from that concert shaking my head in disbelief at why I hadn't ever heard his music. Anyone that has seen him live will testify that it is a life changing experience.

[MOOCHSNOOP]

@fishrmanjohn A Zep fan I see?!

[neohip]

Roy "retired" a few years ago.

I imagine it was a happy one full of love and mirth,and he was entiltled to I!!., What the poor bugger never saw coming was the 2010 wave of artists who idolised him and named him as an influence.

To be honest,I have long thought he should have made more of his own music,but to hear so many artists today talk about him is a very neat Coda.

The only way he will be" retired" now is when they put him in a box.

[northerncluster]

yeah, hat's off to him, like led zep said, but I'm afraid This mortal coil's version is much better

[wildherne]

if artists had such passion today, Simon x factor "the man" would be out of a job.

long live the passion.

[teesdaleavenue]

oh really my dear, i can't see what we fear

sat here with ourselves in between us

and at the door we can't say more than just another day

and without a sound i turn around and i walk away...

absolutely, unbearably beautiful song

[TRANSAM19777]

I only ever heard of Roy Harper through Led Zep's Hat's Off, but to hear this man, my god the passion and soul that he convey's blows my mind have never heard such a beautiful yet tragic song like this, Hats off to you Roy

[LoveDemocracy]

@TRANSAM19777 Oh man. To see him in concert in the 70's and 80' - talk about passion and soul!!! Those days have more or less gone, but at least we still have the songs and some video clips. I saw Roy many times, but one time stands in my mind - three hours of straight-from-the-heart Roy at The Crucible in Sheffield on my 20th Birthday. He went on so long I missed my train back to Nottingham and spent a freezing night in the train station - complaining? I don't think so.

[CBcinema1]

This is beautiful...

[ManeOfMorinia]

ah... wonderful.

[8BlueSkies]

The night is young, why are we so hung up in each other's chains...

[llangol]

@8BlueSkies I remember seeing him sing live at University.

[finkployd4658]

Hats off to roy harper

[1will2this3work]

love this. saw your son yesterday roy, you taught him so well.

[carlosmssantos]

Beautiful song :)

Amazing!

[oonamoonlaluna]

Poignant, moving, he sings like he is writing about all our own personal moments; first heard this by Mortal Coil, and that is amazing, the strings are similar, and Liz Frazer's vocal's ike splinterring glass inside ice, but Roy makes it so real, I had no idea at the time, in the '80's, that this was his, is superb, makes me cry, past loves, regrets, but hope**********

[oonamoonlaluna]

Poignant, moving, sensitive but raw; I first heard the Mortal Coil cover in the '80's, had no idea until a few years ago that this was by Roy Harper; this is really superb, although Liz Frazer/Cocteaus/Mortal Coil version was beautiful, like splintering glass in a dream; Roy's poetry is sublime, he writes like he is writing about all of our own personal moments************

[beowulven]

@oonamoonlaluna

Not Cocteaus, just Liz with Ivo and John Fryer.

[ween6600]

just another one of those days in England

[TheXpressurself]

I love this song. Originally heard the This Mortal Coil version and the got exposed to this when the TMC box set came out. This one is so much more real. It really hits me on an emotional level like very few accoustic songs ever do.

[Fruscianteistheman]

Oh my god this guy is amazing why doesn't he have 100000000 views.

[WhatFuckingUsernameI]

Is anyone going to give Donovan any credit here?

[passer59]

@SharkSport

No, he didn't. I suspect that WhatFuckingUsername was in his/her cups when commenting. :-)

[gileskitt]

@WhatFuckingUsernameI Please! lets never credit Donovan with anything

[Derekarthur1951]

Brilliant.

Saw Roy a few times in the late 60's at Mothers in Birmingham or at The Lanchester Poly in Coventry. Has anyone got his song Nobody's Got Any Money In The Summer that is on the Rock Machine Turns You On album? Not quite in the same class as this song but I can't find it anywhere.

[sheffi992004]

@Derekarthur1951 It's on his second album, Come out fighting, Genghis Smith.

[brillo421]

Can't help but love him. He touches the English man and romantic in me for so many fucking years xx

[levydogs]

Great song! Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush do a great version of this tune. Worth a watch!

[sidensvans67]

Perfection..

[tinmccool]

snifffle

[coastwalker]

poetry melody and social commentary. One of England's unsung hero's. When the wind on forget-me-nots blows, as the winds of eternity rise, and i walk away. Its seriously about time that we included more noble poets like this in education.

[bobthejobber]

Beautiful beyond belief long live roy harper

[Bats667]

this mortal coil introduced me to this song...

but the original is great...

[lovemusic847]

As beautiful as ever my dear Roy...as much as your son's music, ytunes!

[fufufoofoo]

This beautiful and sad is a root for marvelous versins later.

I first heard the song in Liz's version (This Mortal coil), Loved it very much.

I heard another version by Roy, this is his best

I liked Peter (Gabriel) Dramatic expression.

[allnightpancakes]

Wow!! Never heard of this man (I'm from Houston, TX), but I learned by reading the biography Pink Floyd: A Saucerful of Secrets that he is the vocals on Have A Cigar. Happy Discovery!

[scouserfourteen]

You're in for a treat my friend! You have 40 years of Roy Harper to catch up on :) Genius!

[deafflylii1]

I really love introducing people to what is really poetic verse, far more tangable that Floyd or any of the others, this is the real music

[ToolandMAIDEN14]

@deafflylii1 if you think that roy harper is anything near pink floyd

smack yourself in the face

[lasagnemama]

Have re-discovered the totally awesomeness of this mans music. So sensual and meaningful! Love to Mr D - remember this?

[anothertreehugger]

have had the privilege of seeing roy perform many times..rock on roy you are a legend!!!

[thepaganwain]

a truly beautiful song.

[tinmccool]

Flat baroque and berserk, a must have record for all the people of the world unite, after the pub shuts

[kenfig]

Flat Baroque is a masterpiece and one of my favourite albums ; got a mint condition 1970 vinyl copy without an EMI box logo on the Harvest label and another original copy i first had in 1971 AND a c.d. of it !! Lol

[thiaanthony]

Thanks Mattie. Love Mumxx

[AuthenticCelestial]

wow. I love making discoveries through other music. I was expecting a situation similar to 'Song to the Siren', where the original is so different, it's difficult to love after the TMC version.

this is stunning, all on its own. and this guy is obviously something very special.

[deafflylii1]

I have seen Roy over the years many times. His oneness with fans is so special. If you haven't got Stormcock just buy it, utterly beautiful and a vast talent.

[deafflylii1]

Roy is a true poet, our greatest folk rock singer, the influence for Led Zep and fLOYD

[jambokam]

Beautiful song, one of my very favourites.

[maldoror73]

wonderful song and more beatiful if possible in This Mortal Coil cover

[tinmccool]

never say you know it all about any human heart, apologies Jenny from  ecclles, or some where up north

[LedSlash71]

hatts of to Roy harper !!!!

[MrFrogmorton]

My favourite song ever.

[broadpath]

June 2, 1973, Kezar Stadium San Francisco. The Tubes opened, then Lee Michaels. Then, as Led Zeppelin set up Robert Plant introduced "England's Bob Dylan" and it was Roy Harper and he sang a song about how flying to America at a certain time you follow the sunrise.

[deafflylii1]

12hours of sunset

[norepalien]

I had the pleasure of meeting Roy about 20 years ago in Toronto at Larry's Hide-Away where he was performing. What a joy that was.

[tazio2]

The pure genius of Harper takes your breath away , this is such a profound song . As well as being stunningly good music its poetry of the highest order .The man is/was/and always will be without equal

[deafflylii1]

Roy is a flash of red against the grey. All those boring mega bands plodding on, while the poet called the tune. He is Summer, Autumn, Spring and winter in one expansive song like Same old rock.

[SUNSHINESBETER]

worldly wild n wonderful .... ta lad ;-)

[snakeawake]

I used to play this on my guitar when I WAS 17, 39 years ago!! And until now I had completely forgotten it.... it just takes me back to who I was then and how I got to be who I am now...... he is beautiful

[alarabi7]

yes he and your 17 year old self is beautiful

[snakeawake]

so right

[maryjellybeans]

@snakeawake Used to listen to this when I was fifteen. Learned to play guitar over the years and play it now. Exactly the opposite to you but one thing remains.......Brilliant song!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even now.

[Tedwardow]

Love Roy for being Roy.

Love anyone else for being themselves.

Poets are magical, emotional beings who touch the places that you can't describe.

The North West of England, Lancashire if you like, has been blessed with some of the most creative and sensitive poets, musicians and wordsmiths. Roy is one of many.

Love, enjoy and cherish him.

I do.

[deafflylii]

Time and place is important. Engrained in the work is the region, but somehow it is universal. The man is apoet first, but just the most unique singer live. No one comes close, not even the famous friends.

[poada2008]

My sentiments entirely, a true true Legend. Unrivalled.

[utopiah7]

borrowed a vid fro friends log past....funny how time repeats when in love and then not....hopefully not...

[jenneccles]

Children please! there's ageing (ungracefully) ladies present, trying to listen to some music here ;)

[tinmccool]

this is called music mate, if you think its gay I wonder who fucked you more, the priest or yer uncle?

[marcandgod]

dude its gay bitch

[sidensvans54]

Listen to Stormcock..

[FeralChildBuff]

Such a beautiful song.

[plasmacarwash]

this man stayed alive. this is a legend.

[dylanrules123]

Ok i you think so, but its wierd that Led Zep and many other bands are such big fans of him i he sucks bad!

[tinmccool]

man made and unmanned by beauty, should start a mans group for hard lads and play this non stop.

[garethg1964]

Couldnt think of a more beautiful song to sing at a wedding. I think it is possibly his most heart felt love song.

[tinmccool]

well done that man who sang it a his wedding for it is one of the most beautiful love songs, personally I'm going to sing 'O mia bambino caro'. in the unlikely event that anyone is daft enough to marry me. Considering I have a soprano...

[WillShakespeare2007]

You know all men feel their soul take hold from time to time.

[sidensvans54]

Marvellous,, all our yesterdays

[dekz1000]

oh roy, saw you in 1970, it was never better.

[crgn]

This was always my favourite from This Mortal Coil's album, but I didn't realise it was a cover. So sad. I'm not sure I'll be able to listen to it the same way again no I know the lyrics.

[musicismypassion23]

Beautiful. Just Beautiful

[harperspace]

A superb song.

[sidensvans54]

Perfection...

Just right..

[listservice]

best song ever

[woodysambusa]

sends me back to halcyon days !

[Victorialand100]

This is achingly beautiful.. love lost.. listening to this can make me cry.. stunning

[Lapsanglover]

Classic inspirational. Pure.

[jjmccann]

this song blows my mind,

[Idig4ad]

perfect song!

[groovywile]

she dearly needs to say.....

[illustratorhalt]

So very beautiful...thankee Roy....

[boo66]

Beautiful!

[raycimino]

That is what I call a "complete song", not that many of them around these days!

[Koshka42]

Wow. Beautiful.

First version I ever heard was This Mortal Coil, then the Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush version.

[00SoldierofFortune00]

There is another version of this song too by Roy Harper. He has the David Bedford Orchestra backing him in this one and it is even more powerful than this version. Check my videos for it.

[radioroidar]

where, indeed, did all those years go. i was 17 when i heard this song in 1970 and it makes me weep still...

[abbottdream]

Same here! Saw him live recently and he's actually better!

[fettlefeign]

This song and indeed this album helped me through the worst break up in my life. You have saved my soul with your music so many times roy i cannot begin to say thank you.

[Xanderpaulfrederik]

Hi fettlefeign,

That's a very good one! I agree with you totally. Bye,

Xander

[I3artholomew]

briliant song!

[jugula64]

Beautiful track! from one of his finest albums -

[LordInksworth]

I'm feeling so sad that I never had one of your children.

I loved you a long time ago.

Roy, you're a loony and so are we.

[rustynod]

i think roy is brill.was with him at stonehenge 1980s great times ..

[Jabberwockistan]

I love this song, now I need to learn to play it on ukulele and post it on YouTube. I had this downloaded on my iPod when I was deployed to Iraq in '03, and listened to it hundreds of times.

[tinmccool]

Hope you are still in one peace bro, better than the yanks listening to metallica, says a lot no?

[analogpro7]

hmmm... well, i'm a 'yank' and don't listen to metallica =]

i got into this song when i saw peter gabriel and lovely kate bush do this song a long time ago. beautiful lyrics. great mood in music. one of my favorites. its no wonder led zepp and others loved ray's music.

[HarryGDMF]

that would be Roy.......not Ray, you doofus

[analogpro7]

ha! =] oops!

[bobgreen623]

No no, I kinda like the idea that a parallel universe contains Ray Horper and his beautiful song Onather Doy

[thepaganwain]

i cauldnt ogree mare.

[deafflylii]

I dont think even Led Zep have the emotional intensity of Roy. Try looking for John Martyn or Nick Drake for fellow travellers with Roy. John has just died but he has a fanatical following.

[tinmccool]

that'll be me making assumptions, No right to do so. Yankville is a big place but us insular Europeans who manage to fight wars over a hundred yards forget that its one country bigger than Europe but we expect it to be homogenous (that right?`). LIke expecting a greek Islander to have the same taste in music and politics as an Shetland farmer.. I lworked the CArnivals in yer manor so fuck knows what they think o me and my type. No offence bro

[philxbx]

Thank so much for posting this!!

[tomtiddler]

One of the best "love" songs ever written! By one of the best songwriter/poets of our generation!!

[RoxyMuzik]

This songs shakes me right down to my being.

[TheBlackFingernail]

Roy.....top man.

[n0isebL0ke]

thanks

[harrycarterjonas]

sat here with our selves in between us ............. solid roy

[Rocketfrogs]

This is great. I grew up listening to the version sung by Elisabeth Fraser on This Mortal Coil. Mr Harper..oh yes...

[zimmy81]

my sentiments exactly pygmygonks,the years went whoosh and here we are, great great song

[chilledoutmatt]

So far ahead of his time..... A musical genius!

[PygmyGonks]

A totally classic song which has the memories flooding back. Where did all those years go?

[aquilavic]

Takes me back

[Lemonbees]

A Wonder...