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Ground and Sky review - Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
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The Fish-era Marillion never put out a finer album than Misplaced Childhood and few (if any) neo-prog bands have been able to match it.
The key to the success of Marillion's third studio album, it seems to me, is the perfect integration of the instrumentalists' work with what the lyricist was trying to accomplish.
Fish's wholly personal tale of separation, depression and searching is completed perfectly by the four other members of the band.
I took to Marillion very quickly when I first discovered progressive rock for myself, and it's amazing how quickly I've abandoned them since.
The specific images are metaphors that tie in with Fish's lyrics, and his 'lost innocence' theme.
It's all pieced together to underscore the drama that Fish's ambitious lyrics require.
Misplaced Childhood is seen by many as the definitive Marillion album, and it is hard to argue.
It doesn't sound too promising, but by this time Fish was becoming a master of his lyrical craft and the musical backing helps to emphasise the mood.
This is a fine example of what Fish-era Marillion could do.


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Ground and Sky review - Marillion - Clutching at Straws
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After Misplaced Childhood , Marillion were riding on the crest of a wave.
In order to capitalise on their success, Marillion needed to follow up with a strong album, which this is; and preferably with another hit single, which was provided by 'Incommunicado.' They also needed to keep their personnel together, but unfortunately Fish was to depart shortly after work started on a fifth studio album.
On Clutching at Straws , Marillion have a harder, more guitar dominated sound than on Misplaced Childhood .
Steve Rothery's guitar work is excellent, even if he borrows heavily from U2 's 'Gloria' riff in 'Just for the Record.' The songs are more compact, which suits Marillion's writing style.
The star of the show for me is Fish, and this is probably his finest effort lyrically, either with Marillion or solo.
This is a pretty rich vein to explore for a lyric writer with Fish's drinking habits, but what really makes the lyrics something special is the use of recurring imagery.
While Fish has his faults as a lyricist, they are rarely exposed on this, his magnum opus.
As Fish left the band before the songs had been developed very far they were more or less thrown out, although Fish reused some of the lyrics on Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors .

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Fish - Sunsets on Empire MP3 (Marillion/Steven Wilson) : Music > Rock - Mininova
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On the previous studio album Fish tried to spread his musical wings but failed.
A lot of his following got disappointed and fans of progressive rock lost interest in the former Marillion front man.
Although his voice is in rather good shape when compared to the live performances, it is clear his voice lost some of its power since his Marillion days.
There's some excellent songwriting on this album( “Goldfish& clowns”, “what colour is god”, “brother 52”).
Overall excellent album with pretty strong lyrics as well but Marillion seems long gone and forgotten.

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The History of Rock Music. Marillion: biography, discography, reviews, links
By recycling the stereotypes of King Crimson's progressive-rock and of Yes' art-rock and updating them to the 1980s, Marillion created a new style of AOR that relied on majestic, romantic melodies, the epitome of 'pomp-rock'.
Guitarist Steve Rothery, keyboardist Mark Kelly and decadent vocalist Derek 'Fish' Dick, a clone of Peter Gabriel, were the least original of latter-day progressive musicians, but their compositions retained the elements that were easier to sell to the masses.
Then Fish dropped the antics and the band focused on the music.
Then Fish left the group and launched his solo career with Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors (EMI, 1990), while the group, fronted by new singer Steve Hogarth, continued by releasing Season's End (Capitol, 1989) and Holidays In Eden (1991), two albums that, at least, do not sound like Genesis anymore.
Fish returned to Marillion's classical style with Internal Exile (1991), whose highlights are Shadowplay , Credo and Internal exile , but Songs From the Mirror (Polydor, 1993), a collection of covers, and Suits (Polydor, 1994) marked the nadir of Fish's inspiration.
Surprisingly, it was Marillion that staged a coup on the progressive-rock scene with Brave (IRS, 1994), their best album ever, which, unfortunately, was followed by the mediocre Afraid of Sunlight (1995) and This Strange Engine (1997).

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