What are your top 20 Marillion songs?

Script for a Jester's Tear

Cristi wrote: Three Boats Down from the Candy Scriptfor a Jester's Tear Chelsea Monday Jigsaw She Chameleon Incubus Blind Curve Warn Wet Circle Suite Sugar Mice Seasons End Belin The Party Living With The Big Lie Goodbye to All That The Great escape This Strange Engine Cathedral Wall  Ocean Cloud Gaza This Is the 21st Century

 

iluvmarillion wrote: Warm Wet Circles is the best and you can argue about the rest. I don't think the band has any really poor songs. They all hit a high standard while none reach the highs of a Comfortably Numb or a Firth of Fifth.

Catcher10 wrote: GoliathTMV wrote: They aren't talked about around here too often so I was wondering what your top 20 songs were! You don't have to rank them in any order, just list 20 of your favorites! What's your list? Yea sadly there are only a few of us here that really like Marillion, which is weird because they are some of the most talented musicians of the past 25yrs. Part of it, and maybe most of it, is due to their label of neo-prog, people get stuck on that too much. They created and recorded some timeless albums like Script, Clutching, Misplaced Childhood, Seasons End, Marbles and Brave. Their catalog is huge (Discogs says I have 20 of their albums) and I know I have duplicates that I have not cataloged. Its tough for me to give 20 songs especially when I enjoy pretty much all of Marillion's albums, they are all well recorded and produced.

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Catcher10 wrote: geekfreak wrote: Catcher10 wrote: GoliathTMV wrote: They aren't talked about around here too often so I was wondering what your top 20 songs were! You don't have to rank them in any order, just list 20 of your favorites! What's your list? Yea sadly there are only a few of us here that really like Marillion, which is weird because they are some of the most talented musicians of the past 25yrs. Part of it, and maybe most of it, is due to their label of neo-prog, people get stuck on that too much. They created and recorded some timeless albums like Script, Clutching, Misplaced Childhood, Seasons End, Marbles and Brave. Their catalog is huge (Discogs says I have 20 of their albums) and I know I have duplicates that I have not cataloged. Its tough for me to give 20 songs especially when I enjoy pretty much all of Marillion's albums, they are all well recorded and produced. Ditto ...word...

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Dellinger wrote: It's sort of difficult to make a list of 20 songs that I find above the otheres, but there are 5 that I can definitley identify: Script for a Jester's Tear, Pseudo Silk Kimono / Kayleigh, White Russian, The Space, Neverland.

To me Marillion is two bands. When I first heard them they had just released their second album, Fugazi. I was mesmerized by the lyrics the boundless possibilities of the music, and the unique presence and vocals of Fish. I was not familiar with early Genesis at the time, but I get why some people wrote them off as being derivative, and Genesis light. Looking back now, I think Grendel was definitely influenced by Genesis, but the rest of their work, not as much. And vocally, it sounds to me that Fish was influenced more by Peter Hammill than Peter Gabriel.
As far as favorite songs from this era, there are five songs that still greatly move me: Chelsea Monday, Forgotten Sons, Incubus, Blind Curve and Warm Wet Circles. But there none that I don’t like.

Then Fish left the band and in came Hogarth. At first I was devastated. Such a unique lyricist, presence and voice...gone. Of course he did some great solo work. But the first album, Season’s End, broke my heart, like I had lost a friend. Now, as an adult I have a new appreciation for Hogarth era Marillion. Their music is still daring but not as expansive, the lyrics still great, but totally different in style. When I decided to give them a listen years later there were many albums recorded in the intervening years. So I went for the ones best reviewed on this site, basically Brave and Marbles. Then I bought a couple more. And I love it. It appeals to me more at this stage of my life than Fish era Marillion, though not nearly as much as their early music consumed me as a 20-year-old. Favorite Hogarth era songs: Easter, The Space, Season’s End, Berlin, Runaway, fantastic Place, Drilling Holes, Ocean Cloud, Neverland, Invisible Man, Man of a Thousand Faces, The Party......there is much more Hogarth material to choose from, and much I haven’t heard.