Favourite Marillion Bit

messages of love
they arrive everyday
people you touch
wasting away
people you don't know
give you no choice

and you're sick to your stomach
by the sound of your voice
and the shape of your face
and the sound of your name
they send you pictures of yourself
it's someone you don't know
and they call you a genius
because you're easier to sell
but the fire in your belly
that gave you the songs
is sudenly gone

and you feel like a fake
is that what you want?
i hope for your sake
you've got what it takes
to be spoilt
to death

i wonder why no-one has yet suggested the end
section of KING (from "afraid of sunlight")...

Blacksword wrote: 'Dont GIVE me your problems!'  I  may be wrong though...

You are correct!

My fave Hogarth era bits are Berlin, The Space, Splintering Heart, 100 Nights, The Great Escape & King.... all superb.

The guitar solo in Jigsaw sends shivers down my spine.

There are many, many others, but that's the very best. Everything from Script to Clutching at Straws is excellent and Grendel is a great long piece.

STAND STRAIGHT! LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND SAY GOODBYE!

..yep

^ Good one.

I would also submit:

"Receive your punishment, expose your throats to my righteous claws and let the blood flow"

"Romance lies in ruin, let debauchery reign"

The entire second half of the song Script.

"So was it just a f, was it just a f, just another f I said, loving just for laughs, carnal autograph, lying on a lizard's bed"

The middle section of That Time of the Night..."and if some kind soul could please pick up my tab, and while they're at it if they could pick up my broken heart"

And the lyrical finale of The Last Straw beginning with "So if you ever come across us..."

 

the guitar solos in jigsaw, grendel and kayleigh.

There's been some excellent Hogarth era moments.  These are my favourites :-

• The guitar solo in Easter - it's enough to bring tears to your eyes  (I know I'm a soppy git !!)
• When H screams "With a hole in our hearts" at the end of Berlin
• The build up of Hard as Love.  "It makes you hungry and it makes you high" through to "Baby nothin else has ever been as hard as love". Awesome !!
• The moving silence of "Out of this World" when the boat flips
• The sheer emotions of "One Fine Day"
• Pete's bass on "Quartz"
• The Rothers solo on "Fantastic Day"

Easter is one of the most emotional stirring songs I have ever heard.  There is no one better in the business as Rothers for putting in blinding solos just when you want to hear them (except for maybe Gilmour).  Like I mentioned on my list, Fantastic Place off Marbles contains another very emotional solo and also how stirring is Sugar Mice ?

If you look over Marillion's 20+ years as a band you'll find so much diversity - they have really experimented with a number of different sounds.  I find it incredible that the music press still SLATE them for being old dinasours who should pack it all in because they are simply known as Marillion.  I vividly remember Q magazine's summing up of Afraid of Sunlight (and this was 10 years ago !) - "if this was by any other band than one called Marillion then this would be a huge album".  What kind of reporting is that ?  To say the album is excellent but it's let down because it's by Marillion.

Anyhow, it's really great to see so many Marillion fans on here !!

Lately for me it's Don't Hurt Yourself from Marbles...