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Poll Question: Fish’s Or Hogarth’s Third For Marillion
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    Posted: December 19 2005 at 10:46

Hard choice for me this one.

I would probably rate MC as the weakest Fish-era album, not that I'm saying it's bad it just doesn't have the same drive as Script, Fugazi and CAS.  It's still progressive but Script & Fugazi set the benchmark and I found Misplaced to be more of a sell out to the masses (I can hear you all now shouting "what's he on about!!!!!")

After the commercial flop of Holidays in Eden, I was delighted to find Marillion had returned to their  prog roots with the conceptual Brave.  This album has some stunning musical moments. 

SO........Brave for me !

 
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Misplaced Childhood gets my vote.

Although Lavender does make me cringe. I took some flak at school for liking Marillion when they released that single...



I really like the song, particularly the secong half. The lyrics are a bit but the vocal and guitar melodies are sopt on. It's Waterhole (Expresso Bongo), Lords of the Backstage and to a lesser extent White Feather that let me down from that album.
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Originally posted by Mlaen Mlaen wrote:

Brave is a good album but Misplaced Childhood is unbeatable. 

I reckon it was kicked into touch by both 'Script..' and 'Fugazi'

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Brave is a good album but Misplaced Childhood is unbeatable. 
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Misplaced Childhood gets my vote.

Although Lavender does make me cringe. I took some flak at school for liking Marillion when they released that single...

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Brave is a great album but Misplaced Childhood is slightly better imo.


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If Brave were a bit shorter the choice would be a lot closer. As it stands Brave just drags on too much to rival Misplaced Childhood in any way.
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Brave is great, 4 stars.... haven't heard MC yet
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Misplaced Childhood are excellent but Script for a jester tears is the better personnaly
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I think "Brave" is an overrated album, I think Seasons and Afraid are better in every way.

Taking the poll, Misplaced is an incredible album by any point of view (music, lyric and the amazing art-work of Wilkinson)
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I'd go for 'Misplaced Childhood' also- when Fish left, the character of the band went with him for me. I've heard several of their albums, including 'Brave', with Hogarth, and I must say I didn't enjoy them anywhere near as much as the few with Fish.
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Misplaced childhood. And in contrast to (apparently) the majority here, I looooooooooove Kayleigh.
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Well, Lavender is the one track I care absolutely nothing for. But the rest of the album more than makes up for it, in my opinion. And the climax of Blind Curve is the high-point of the album, for me. The emotion contained in that passage gets me every time.
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^^^ yep, quite right...
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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

9-1 to MC....!

Have you lot lost the plot????

Brave turns it upside down and spanks its little botty!!!

Lavender, my arse...

I agree..dilly dilly? And Kayleigh can get lost too!
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9-1 to MC....!

Have you lot lost the plot????

Brave turns it upside down and spanks its little botty!!!

Lavender, my arse...
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Points: 3083 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2005 at 14:53
I'm going to have to go against the gran here. Brave is probably my favorite Marillion album.
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