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Hrychu 
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 Posted: December 20 2023 at 11:57 |
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Fish's randomness in his vocal delivery is nothing compared to Cyrus (of Citizen Cain). xD That guy's way of articulating his lyrics while singing "in character" is so frantic, it has to be heard to be believed. IMO both are awesome.
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verslibre
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Posted: December 20 2023 at 11:54 |
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I'm not into MC, either. Fugazi and Clutching at Straws, however, are classics!!!
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Gentle and Giant
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Posted: December 20 2023 at 11:01 |
Mine too - then Fugazi.
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Posted: December 20 2023 at 10:16 |
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My fav Fish era Marillion albums.......I get it.
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Logan
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Posted: December 20 2023 at 07:33 |
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Other than much late 60s through 70s music that it seems like the majority enjoy, after that it becomes much more divisive generally.
Welcome to the forum, SpaceJones!, and I would enjoy hearing about your favourite albums be they Prog or not. |
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Manuel
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Posted: December 20 2023 at 05:49 |
This is exactly how I feel. If you don't like it, no matter how much you've tried, just don't bother anymore. Maybe in a few months, years, you might try it again, but if you don't get it, if the music doesn't please you, What's the big deal?
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: December 20 2023 at 05:17 |
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I was not fond of MC at first. Then, I saw the Live in Loreley DVD. The live performances from Misplaced Childhood animated the studio album in my head. It was as if I was blind and then given sight.
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Posted: December 20 2023 at 03:07 |
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I bought it the day it was released in my country. I actually loved Fugazi and Real To Reel, but Scripts was not yet available here. The same day I bought Soft Machine's Land Of Cockayne and I remember tripping at a friend's home with both the albums. You have to consider that in 1983 there was just MTV and few radios, the actial music was standardized on Yamaha and Korg keyboards, Fairlight for the rich, sequenced drums and a lot of gel in the hair. Misplaced Childhood brought a bit of good prog into our lives. It's true: Kayleigh is a commercial song, I think it's still their biggest commercial success, but it's part of a concept album. Listened together with Pseudo-silk Kimono and Lavender it has a different flavor. As Richardh says, the B side of the vinyl is better. It's probably me, but I think Marillion tried in the second part to follow the structure of The Dark Side of the Moon, with Expresso Bongo taking the role of Money and the title track with White Feather in the roles of Brain Damage and Eclipse. Back to Kayleigh: it's a real person. Fish has revealed the story in an interview. She was a nurse, passed away for a cancer years after the album release. P.S. - I can't get into Genesis and Selling England By The Pound. We all have "faults".
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Posted: December 20 2023 at 03:00 |
If you don't get it, then you don't get it. But don't expect it to click instantly, it's not an easy listening pop album. As for Fish's delivery being "weird and random", I think he's got his own style, a unique vocal delivery, nothing is random about it. You can complain his lyrics are too wordy, but he always pulled it through IMO. Side B is indeed more interesting than the first one, Blind Curve being one of the best songs they ever did.
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Posted: December 20 2023 at 02:49 |
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You shouldn't force yourself into liking it if you obviously don't like it. Some songs grow on you immediately, some after a while and some never really do, it's not a big deal. There's so many artists to explore, instead of forcing yourself to like that particular album.
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Posted: December 20 2023 at 02:21 |
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To horribly generalise about it, the first side (in old money) is more on the pop side before it's gets to the good stuff like the harrowing Blind Curve and the end of the album packs a real punch. Always rated it about 3 - 3.5 stars , personally I prefer the first couple they did a lot more.
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SpaceJones!
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Posted: December 20 2023 at 00:00 |
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So, i'm an avid rymer who discovered this site recently and has been using it to dig through and get more into prog, and so far i've enjoyed almost everything i've heard except for misplaced childhood. I don't get it really, on the one hand i like the surreal melancholy of it and all but all the actual music is just bad aor and the singer delivers all of his lines in such a weird and random way like he's lost track of the song. I'm enjoying what i'm listening to of later marillion right now (I skimmed a bit of brave and it seemed great and I just started marbles and it seems great), but outside of the solos which are pretty good, I can't really get behind misplaced childhood even though i want to in concept. I mean, "Kayleigh" almost sounds like a bad joke/parody song to me.
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