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Poll Question: What is the best Marillion song during the Fish era?
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warm wet circles!

i hesitate between warm wet circles and incubus.

warm wet circles is simple, efficient and unforgettable, like the mother's kiss on your first broken heart!

 



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Originally posted by gdub411 gdub411 wrote:

I will not argue this. I just don't care for the song. I think much of what Fish and company did was great....this was their proverbial stinker to me.

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly,

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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2004 at 19:44
I will not argue this. I just don't care for the song. I think much of what Fish and company did was great....this was their proverbial stinker to me.
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Points: 5187 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2004 at 19:40

Your daddy took a rain check.

nothing "sappy" about that!

Did you mean soppy?

you soppy tart!LOL



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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2004 at 19:31
I don't mean to create waves, but Sugar Mice was the one Fish era Marillion tune that rubbed me wrong. Too sappy.
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Points: 5187 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2004 at 18:55
Originally posted by tuxon tuxon wrote:

Sugar mice is actualy my least favourite Marillion song. Fish himself rates it as one of his/their better songs. but it doesn't has the same appeal to me as for instance That time of the night and the last straw.

It is still better than a kick in the face though.

Wonderful guitar solo.

I have close mate who works in Child Protection and the song never fails to choke him up.

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Sugar mice is actualy my least favourite Marillion song. Fish himself rates it as one of his/their better songs. but it doesn't has the same appeal to me as for instance That time of the night and the last straw.

It is still better than a kick in the face though.
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My personal favorite is "Sugar Mice".  The guitar solo in that song sings with the emotion that Fish is feeling - the plaintiff bends to begin, the angry chords at the end.

Almost every Fish era song is among my faavorites, whoever. 

Favorite Fish lyric comes from "Warm Wet Circles": She faithfully traces his name/ With quick bitten fingernails/ Through the tears of condensation/ That'll cry through the night/ As the glancing headlights of the last bus/ kiss adolescence goodbye
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Fugazi...Fugazi ..Fugazi!!! it rocks.....
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2004 at 15:29

Bitter Suite for me, although I would insist on hearing it as part of the album, it sound so much better that way.

Great post RL by the way. Clap
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2004 at 16:15

Nah - you like it too much

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Points: 5187 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2004 at 16:11
Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Hey - not bad, Reed!

If only I could stop p***ing everybody off I might contribute something vaguely useful around here.Confused

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Hey - not bad, Reed!
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Points: 5187 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2004 at 09:18
Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Does anyone "get" the cross-story in that same verse and its relevance?

"Caress Ophelia's hand with breathstroke ambition
An albatross in the marrytime tradition

She turned the harpoon and it pierced my heart
She hung herself around my neck"

What I'm getting at is; How does it begin to relate to;

"Drowning in the liquid seize on the Piccadilly line, rat race
Scuttling through the damp electric labyrinth

Sheathed within the walkman wear the halo of distortion
Aural contraceptive aborting pregnant conversation"

The only thing that occurs to me is that the protaganist is sitting on a tube in rush hour with his headphones on and reading "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" at the same time. Maybe the lines in the poem are making him think of his disastrous love-life (ever a common theme in the lyrics on the first 4 Marillion albums).

However, there are many sea-going references in the next verse, so I assume there is something about the poem that relates to this song - but I haven't spotted it yet! - Any literary experts have any theories?

Anyone even care?

Isnt the Ophelia reference citing "Hamlet", she committed suicide by drowning herself. She wrongly believed that Hamlet didnt love her (he pretended to hate her) so was "unlucky in love" which obviously ties in with the misfortune associated with the albatross in "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner". The Mariner wears the albatross around his neck as an act of contrition, an overt symbol of his guilt.I dont know if the wearing of the Walkman (around your neck?) alludes to this.Maybe it would be bad luck to interupt Mr Dick on the tube whilst he is listening to music?LOL



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Three Boats Down From The Candy. Great lyrics, good song.

Expresso Bongo comes a close second but I couldn't for the life of me tell you why. Maybe because it's nice and short.

 



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For songs that are not listed there, one of my favorites would have to be "Lords of the Backstage", it's so cool.

Simple, short, but so sweet.
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Does anyone "get" the cross-story in that same verse and its relevance?

"Caress Ophelia's hand with breathstroke ambition
An albatross in the marrytime tradition

She turned the harpoon and it pierced my heart
She hung herself around my neck"

What I'm getting at is; How does it begin to relate to;

"Drowning in the liquid seize on the Piccadilly line, rat race
Scuttling through the damp electric labyrinth

Sheathed within the walkman wear the halo of distortion
Aural contraceptive aborting pregnant conversation"

The only thing that occurs to me is that the protaganist is sitting on a tube in rush hour with his headphones on and reading "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" at the same time. Maybe the lines in the poem are making him think of his disastrous love-life (ever a common theme in the lyrics on the first 4 Marillion albums).

However, there are many sea-going references in the next verse, so I assume there is something about the poem that relates to this song - but I haven't spotted it yet! - Any literary experts have any theories?

Anyone even care?
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Points: 5502 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2004 at 13:15

Sheathed within the walkman wear the halo of distortion
Aural contraceptive aborting pregnant conversation.

I love this line, it's so true.
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FUGAZI!!!

Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a blackheath cell
Extinguishing the fires in a private hell
Provoking the heartache to renew the licence
Of a bleeding heart poet in a fragile capsule
Propping up the crust of the glitter conscience
Wrapped in the christening shawl of a hangover
Baptised in the tears from the real
Tears from the real

Drowning in the liquid seize on the piccadilly line, rat race
Scuttling through the damp electric labyrinth
Caress ophelias hand with breathstroke ambition
An albatross in the marrytime tradition
Sheathed within the walkman wear the halo of distortion
Aural contraceptive aborting pregnant conversation
She turned the harpoon and it pierced my heart
She hung herself around my neck

From the time-life-guardians in their conscience bubbles
Safe and dry in my sea of troubles
Nine to five with suitable ties
Cast adrift as their sideshow, peepshow, stereo hero
Becalm bestill, bewitch
Drowning in the real

The thief of baghdad hides in islingtown now
Praying deportation for his sacred cow
A legacy of romance from a twilight world
The dowry of a relative mystery girl
A vietnamese flower, a dockland union
A mistress of release from a magazine’s thighs
Magdalenes contracts more than favours
The feeding hands of western promise hold her by the throat

A son of a swastika of ’45 parading a peroxide standard
Graffiti disciples conjure testaments of hatred
Aerosol wands whisper where the searchlights trim the barbed wire hedges
This is brixton chess
A knight for embankment folds his newspaper castle
A creature of habit, begs the boatman’s coin
He’ll fade with old soldiers in the grease stained roll call
And linger with the heartburn of good friday’s last supper

Son watches father scan obituary columns in search of absent school friends
While his generation digests high fibre ignorance
Cowering behind curtains and the taped up painted windows
Decriminalised genocide, provided door to door belsens
Pandora’s box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens
Waiting, wai-wai-waiting, the season of the button
The penultimate migration
Radioactive perfumes
For the fashionably
For the terminally insane, insane
D-d-do you realise?
D-d-do you realise?
D-d-do you realise, this world is totally fugazi

Where are the prophets
Where are the visionaries
Where are the poets
To breach the dawn of the sentimental mercenary

(I also love Kayleigh ..and Grendel)
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