Marillion (and maybe Fish) --- your thoughts?

Trollheart · 06-16-2012, 05:16 PM

Yeah, they started making more, as you say, catchy music when Fish left. I mean, I LOVE the Fish-era stuff to a track, but "Incommunicado" aside, I can't really say there's anything on those four albums that plays well on radio (before you say it, everyone's sick of "Kayleigh" and it was never that great a song anyway: this from a Marillion fanboy!). However when Hogarth joined, although they retained a mostly progressive style, they did branch out into "poppier", sometimes AOR style tunes, the likes of "No-one can", "Beautiful" and even "Three minute boy".

Other than my alltime favourite as already detailed though, I consider "Brave" to be the pinnacle of their post-fish creative output, and it still ranks as one of their darkest albums. Definitely my second favourite (nothing will ever dethrone "Script" I believe).

06-16-2012, 05:16 PM	#11 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Yeah, they started making more, as you say, catchy music when Fish left. I mean, I LOVE the Fish-era stuff to a track, but "Incommunicado" aside, I can't really say there's anything on those four albums that plays well on radio (before you say it, everyone's sick of "Kayleigh" and it was never that great a song anyway: this from a Marillion fanboy!). However when Hogarth joined, although they retained a mostly progressive style, they did branch out into "poppier", sometimes AOR style tunes, the likes of "No-one can", "Beautiful" and even "Three minute boy". Other than my alltime favourite as already detailed though, I consider "Brave" to be the pinnacle of their post-fish creative output, and it still ranks as one of their darkest albums. Definitely my second favourite (nothing will ever dethrone "Script" I believe). __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018