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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
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Marillion- You've often spoken about this album on several occasions before, so I know just how important it is to you. For my own perspective, it was basically Peter Gabriel era Genesis being transplanted lock, stock and barrel to the 1980s. It was like punk and new-wave never happened, but I do remember that they were a big band in the UK at that time.
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Marillion just opened up the whole world of prog to me. As I said in the review, up to then I had considered prog "yesterday's genre", and didn't think anyone was doing it today --- I only got into Pendragon a few years ago --- so at the time it was super-exciting to me. Yes, they do sound like Genesis, and that comparison dogged them their first few years, especially with the "Grendel/Supper's ready" thing, but I think in albums like "Fugazi" and "Misplaced childhood" they stepped out of the shadow of Genesis. Of course, much of that image was down to Fish, and once he left the band kind of reimagined itself under Hogarth, to the point where they slowly moved away from pretty much anything resembling recognisable prog. I still love them though, and "Script" remains one of my all-time favourite albums.
Marillion also made prog, as such, acceptable to the masses with singles like "Assassing", "Market square heroes", "Punch and Judy" and of course later had big hits with "Kayleigh" and "Lavender", not to mention "Sugar mice".
I could talk Marillion all day, but we must move on...
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Supertramp- I think you're spot on with the Famous Last Words cover, for years the Hodgson and Davies partnership had been on the brink and the album cover says it all. I always thought that Davies needed Hodgson more than Hodgson needed Davies.
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Yeah, whether intentional or not, I always feel this is the case. All of the major hits for Supertramp were written by, and sung by Roger. If you look at the reverse of his debut solo (also reviewed) you'll see him standing in the middle of a storm naked, with a huge look of relief and freedom about him. Even the opening track, "Had a dream", features a big, deep, throaty shout of release. I don't think that was coincidental, although he says there was no friction with the other guys...
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Daryl Hall- I've not heard that Daryll Hall album but what I do know they (Hall and Oates) were one of the biggest acts on the planet in the early to mid 1980s, always on the radio, tv and people always talking about them. Then they just seemed to disappear, it was like they went out of fashion and everybody forgot who they were.
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H&O another band I "couldn't afford to like" when I was younger, as they seemed wimpish and disco-y, but now I know better I must track down some of their material. Was surprised and impressed by the solo effort from Daryl though, really quite good.
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I've just seen that you've done a Dio tribute on 125, really looking forward to reading this, will comment on my next post.
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Look forward to it!
