Script For A Jester's Tear OR Misplaced Childhood?

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   Script for me.  If the first side of Childhood was less poppy I'd pick it.  The second side of Childhood is sublime!

Poll Question: Which is better?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear (1983)	28	[52.83%]
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood (1985)	25	[47.17%]
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Wanorak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 09 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4574	Posted: March 23 2014 at 11:53
	Script for me. If the first side of Childhood was less poppy I'd pick it. The second side of Childhood is sublime!
	A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!

akamaisondufromage Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: May 16 2009 Location: Blighty Status: Offline Points: 6797	Posted: March 23 2014 at 11:43
	Script with the added Market Boat Grendel tracks especially
	Help me I'm falling!

Argor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 06 2013 Location: Poland Status: Offline Points: 174	Posted: March 23 2014 at 11:31
	Script is very good, while Misplaced Childhood is much too pop-oriented for me.

tamijo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 06 2009 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 4287	Posted: March 23 2014 at 11:21
	Script For A Jester's Tear
	Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours

ScorchedFirth Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 16 2012 Status: Offline Points: 257	Posted: March 23 2014 at 10:50
	My two all time favorite albums! I guess I would go for Misplaced Childhood by the narrowest of margins, but I love all of Fish-era Marillion significantly more than anything else.
	breathing, eating, defecating, screwing, drinking, spewing, sleeping...

Horizons Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 20 2011 Location: Somewhere Else Status: Offline Points: 16952	Posted: March 23 2014 at 10:46
	Clutching At Straws.
	Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.

sleeper Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449	Posted: March 23 2014 at 10:45
	Script.
	Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005

ole-the-first Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 03 2012 Location: Russia Status: Offline Points: 1534	Posted: March 23 2014 at 10:41
	Misplaced Childhood There is only one sheer masterpiece song on the debut LP and it's the title track.
	This night wounds time.

someone_else Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: May 02 2008 Location: Going Bananas Status: Offline Points: 24671	Posted: March 23 2014 at 10:37
	Script did never grab me as much as Misplaced Childhood did.


Xonty Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 23 2013 Location: Cornwall Status: Offline Points: 1759	Posted: March 23 2014 at 10:30
	2 very similarly rated albums (the first being 4.21, second being 4.23). Both were obviously released by neo-prog giants Marillion and essential to forming the sub-genre. Their debut "Script For A Jester's Tear" is perhaps truer to prog rock, whereas "Misplaced Childhood" is slightly more commercial/pop-influenced with songs such as "Kayleigh" and "Lavender". My question, simply which is better? For me, "Script For A Jester's Tear" is much more consistent on the whole, and feels more completed than "Misplaced Childhood", which feels a bit more patchy to me(although the first 3 songs are excellent). I've posted the covers of each album below too. As always, thanks for any feedback!