Sentimental mercenaries: the Marillion Story

Trollheart · 08-31-2013, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

F***ing love Marillion. Even though Metal was a defining factor for me growing up in the 80's I loved them from day one and I will delve into your posts a lot more when I am at full mental capacity and give you my thoughts.

Even if it is me and you listening eh?

You're always welcome in my threads, Lee. I know you're a big Marillion fan too, so great to have you along!

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Of the early stuff Fugazi was always my personal favourite and I never quite understood why it was always seen as a far lesser album than those either side of it. Disjointed but with great moments is how most reviews tend to see the album.

Btw this review would flow a lot better in my opinion if you were to give each album a rating out of 5 or 10. Then at quick glance anybody can see how you've rated the albums.

TBH I don't rate Marillion albums as I think I would find it hard just to give them a simple X out of 10: they're more complex than that, and I would prefer just to drone on and on about them. Also, if someone were to see I'd given, say, "Radiation" a five, they might decide the album was not worth reading about/listening to, which would certainly be wrong. I think to get the best appreciation of these albums you need to dig deep, which is what I'm trying to do here.

But if you want a simple "best of" thing, well, if you twisted my arm I'd say

Ouch!

and then tell you that this would be my order:

1. Script for a jester's tear
2. Brave
3. Misplaced childhood
4. Fugazi
5. Clutching at straws
6. Marbles
7. Happiness is the road
8. Season's end
9. Afraid of sunlight
10. This strange engine

But that's just thrown together on the spur. Certainly the top 3 would never change but the rest could be quite fluid. There's only one Marillion album I don't like, and that's "Somewhere else"; the rest are all favourites of mine and it's really hard to rate them.

Also, what makes you think anyone else is reading this?