This, like many of the other cuts on the album, is a densely layered song, revealing itself under repeated listens, especially through headphones. FEAR, marbles and brave should be higher…You appear to have missed out the Fish era live albums and B-sides themselves all of which I’d put above the Steve Hogarth outings“Montreal,” another focal point of the album at 14 minutes, is a sprawling epic that builds in intensity and layers. The album comes to close with the anthemic Neverland, which begins as plaintive piano ballad and ends in a glorious wall of sound, monstrous waves of molten guitar as Steve Rothery duels with Steve Hogarth using his voice as a lead instrument. Afraid Of Sunlight. 11: 11. The late 90s and early years of the new century saw a tension between the more contemporary side of their music and the classic Marillion sound centred on Steve Rothery’s distinctive, overdriven guitar. Incubus.
By this point in their career they’d been dropped by EMI, and though Man of a Thousand Faces was released as a single, it got no radio airplay and didn’t chart.Please choose your username under which you would like all your comments to show up. It still features regularly in Fish’s live sets as a solo artist.Marillion go trip-hop. Forgotten Sons. Marillion’s second album, Fugazi, saw them leaving behind the notion that they were merely a pastiche of... 3. I know treating these two as one song is cheating a bit, but they work as one continuous piece, with Steve Rothery’s sublime solo forming the bridge between. All rights reserved.“Power” features ringing guitars over a massive keyboard backdrop. When it came to the follow-up, Clutching at Straws, they took a sharp left turn. It is a stripped down song, which made me think of something a fishing community may have sung at a funeral or a wake. Or maybe that is my own memory of water streaming through. Abraham Martin And John. A Few Words For The Dead. A heavily layered track, it is one of the stronger songs on the album. There it is stripped of much of its production, featuring only guitar, vocals and piano, yet it works just as well in this format, proving that a good song is a good song.Sorry…began loving the band at the beginning but the best H stuff is superior to all Fish stuff..in particular Marbles, Fear, Happiness vol 1 and Sounds that can’t be made…Fugazi and Script sound very dated these days….What follows are various songs which although not grabbing the listener to the same extent, are of sufficient quality to make this album a “grower.” “One Fine Day” is just that and “Memory of Water” has something about it which is old-world folk.
The sprawling double album version of 2004’s Marbles kept a foot in both camps, balancing lighter reflective songs with the 18-minute epic Ocean Cloud. Like “Gaza,” the song takes many turns musically. TSE The song is in my top 5 songs list, just that song makes this album a Classic! When performed live, either by Fish or by the current incarnation of Marillion, they’re almost always played together.While latter-day Marillion are known for their atmospheric epics, sometimes they do write straightforward pop songs, and this one, from 1997’s This Strange Engine is one of their best, a semi-acoustic song with 12-string guitar and a delightful piano solo from Mark Kelly.
While the lyrics are perhaps a little overblown, Fish’s half-sung, half-ranted vocal gets disturbingly into the role of the jealous ex-lover of a celebrity. 80 Days. This is also one of the radio sessions featured on disc two.