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Poll Question: Who was (is) The best voice for Marillion ... Fish or Steve Hogarth ?
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I prefer the Fish
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Fish is or was more important for Marillion, specially because of his charisma, even though Steve Hogarth is an excellent singer. In "Brave" he grows over himself.
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As a band member Fish made the chemistry really work within Marillion.

Judging only his quality of vocals perhaps Hogarth is the better singer, but he does not have made a better band. Too bad, but I very mich like his voice.

 
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Fish hands down.
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Fish-era Marillion is one of the few instances in prog, where I feel the singer is the real star of the show ... his lyrics, emotion and presence ... made the band ...
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i like them both, but marillion was probably more interesting musically with fish, so my vote goes to him.
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Fish!

A hard decision though...

Hogarth is technicaly better singer but Fish had such charisma in his voice and stage presence!



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No question...Fish.


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DONE!erased my cache and voted for both...
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Fish !

Agree that Hogarth is technically a better musician but Marillion made it because of the charisma of Fish - similar to what Gabriel did to Genesis.

 
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Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Hoggy

My man Wolf Spider knows what the fcuk is up
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Fish for me
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Originally posted by muffley_mirkin muffley_mirkin wrote:

Fish without a doubt.
Hogarth sometimes comes across as if the other
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are his backing band and that we should feel
privilaged to be in his
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you have got to be bloody joking!!!! or you are plain
simply mixing the two up...
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Hard to say. By me it's 50:50. I like Fish and that era was for Marillion (probably) more important (the question could be, if it's only in vocalist change, usually bands are more progressive and productive in theirs first few records), but I always felt Fish try to copy in some way Peter Gabriel. And I haven't any problem with Hogarth too, he's good singer, but sometimes his voice is rather 'weepy' (if his is the right word for what I mean). So I don't give my voice to any of them.
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Technically, Hogarth has the best voice, and he uses it very well within Marillion's music. He did some great things for Marillion.

Still, I prefer Fish because he's a much more colourful person, singer and lyricist. My 3 favourite Marillion albums are all from the Fish era, and that's no coincidence. It's the Fish-factor  !
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Not to degrade Fish in any way, but is it true that he's never actually written a song (and can't write music at all) and is only respeonsible for the lyrics? 
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^ Cannot be. Judge the difference between Old Marillion and New Marillion. Even if he did not actively contribute to writing he surely contributed to the songs just by being in the same room.

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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 15 2005 at 07:48

I get the impression that there was at least some musical collaboration between Fish and Steve Rothery, but that Fish' main contribution was in the lyrics and in the theatrical stuff. When you listen to his solo albums, I think musically they are quite less than the Marillion albums.

My guess that he did contribute something to the music, but not a lot.

But that's only guesswork  .
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