Fish era Marillion Best Album

angelmk wrote: Script For A Jester's Tear is my first choice, and i love to death Fugazi. in fact all the Fish era albums are superb.

 

As I said in my Misplaced Childhood review, it's the only Marillion album I would consider on equal caliber with Pink Floyd's ''The Wall'', which for me is saying quite a lot. 

These albums have some noticeable similarities in pairs - Script... and Fugazi sound slightly different than ...Childhood and ...Straws, though all were made during relatively short time period. Anyway - all of them are great and none is my favourite.

In this order:

1 Script
2 Fugazi
3 Misplaced
4 Clutching

O666 wrote: 100% Script. Befor script released i think Progressive reach to end of the line. Genesis enter to pop zone slowly and it happened to many of Prog bands or bands had no new ideas. When "Scripts......" released i shocked and wondered. This album have special mean for me and i love all songs in it. I think Script is important and show start point of Neo-Prog. Fish born in this album. His voice is very close to "Phil Colins"  and he mix that with Hard rock and Heavy Metal  influences. Keyboard and guitar one-two ( like football) is amazing and instrumental part of songs is very powerful and magnificent. I love all of Fish era albums of marillion but Script is my choice.

That's an interesting statement Omid, because most people at the time, certainly music journalists, dismissed him as a Gabriel clone.

Having said that, there are still a great many people who don't realise that Phil sang vocals on For Absent Friends - his voice was quite remarkably like Gabriel's.

100% Script. Befor script released i think Progressive reach to end of the line. Genesis enter to pop zone slowly and it happened to many of Prog bands or bands had no new ideas. When "Scripts......" released i shocked and wondered. This album have special mean for me and i love all songs in it. I think Script is important and show start point of Neo-Prog. Fish born in this album. His voice is very close to "Phil Colins"  and he mix that with Hard rock and Heavy Metal  influences. Keyboard and guitar one-two ( like football) is amazing and instrumental part of songs is very powerful and magnificent.

Fugazi

Fugazi for me.

Clutching at Straws, hands down. It's in my top ten of any artist.

If I were being purely nostalgic, I would plump for Script, but I do genuinely think that Misplaced is a modern classic, and an album which brought prog to a great many people in the UK especially, simply because of Kayleigh & Lavender - proof again that commercial does not equate to bad.

Script was a stunning debut from a band who had actually being playing live very well for quite some time prior to its release - I first saw them in London when Market Square Heroes was released, but I do think that the narrative, playing, production, and general mass appeal of Misplaced sets it apart from many other 1980's albums.