Clutching At Straws Best Song
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Topic: Clutching At Straws Best Song
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Subject: Clutching At Straws Best Song
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 22:38
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Which song off the superb Marillion album is best? Edit: I forgot to say my vote goes to White Russian. ------------- 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 22:46
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Toss up between Warm Wet Circles and Incommunicado,Cyggie.I picked Incommunicado. -------------  |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 22:51
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wow I like so many off this album. I choose Torch Song, but I really like Incommunicado, Warm Wet Circles, Slainte Mhath, Sugar Mice, and That Time of the Night ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 23:02
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I love Incommunicado ... one of the outstanding singles of the 80s ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 23:17
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Going under has my vote, though that time of the night and the last straw are equally good, not to mention the rest.
great album ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: An old fart
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 23:40
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So many of them worth voting for, but The Last Straw is a bit overlooked, a great song absent from the set lists on tours after Clutching. So for "sympathetic" reasons, I vote for it. However, Warm Wet Circles is a nice Misplaced Childhood-ish song, in fact all the first 3 songs form a marvellous trilogy and Slainte Mhath still remains captivatingly powerful. What the hell, the truth is, the whole album is an 80's prog rock classic! ------------- "Make tea, not love" |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 06:07
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The songs are all so close but I have to go for The Last Straw, just ahead of White Russian ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Syndromet
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 06:14
Uzis on the street corner.....  One of my alltime favourite songs. -------------  It is said to be the first Test-pressing of the corean release??
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Posted By: Pylo
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 06:55
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------------- Pylo |
Posted By: Garbs
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 07:19
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Agree with Pylo that Hobbies/Circles/Night is a long concept within itself but my favourite part of the trilogy is the "climatic" That Time Of The Night. This is a major album in my life, listened to it all the time in the late 80s and still makes it's way into my CD player on regular occasions. Not a bad track on it and tells a strange tale as Fish metamorphosises into his alter-ego Torch and embarks on a journey via various drinking dens. Excellent concept & enabled Fish to end his Marillion days on a high note. I would recommend to try & get hold of the bonus disc edition of this album if you can. It contains the last demos Marillion ever recorded with Fish (post Clutching at Straws) - if you own Fish's Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors and Marillion's Seasons End you will be in for a very weird experience. You get Fish singing Vigil lyrics to Seasons End music - it is very spooky !!
------------- So here I am once more |
Posted By: SolariS
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 11:49
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Where do we go from here? w00t
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 12:29
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Wow, that's difficult! Hotel Hobbies, Warm Wet Circles, Going Under and Incommunicado are my favourites because of the music. Going Under and Sugar Mice gives some of Fish' most heartbreaking lyrics. So that's tough. Well, I choose Incommunicado. |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 12:33
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great poll cygnus! i take warm wet circles, and the 3 adjacent tracks mentioned above are a great moment in the prog history! "like the mother's kiss on your first broken heart - a warm wet circle!" notice the balanced votes in the poll, which tends to show CAS is a great album from A to Z! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: magog
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 12:41
| Clutching at straws has its strenght in the global harmony of its structure, so it's difficult to choose one...I say Incommunicado (even if it's the less prog) |
Posted By: bctruce
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 12:42
| My head hurts! Too many incredible moments. Great poll. I would have to say That Time or Torch. |
Posted By: mr.burns
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 16:26
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What an incredible album ,this stands head to heels with misplaced.Not much to do them part ------------- Father Ted: Sheep like all wool-bearing animals, instinctively travel north. Where it's colder, and they won't be so stuffy. |
Posted By: Rockin' Chair
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 16:28
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White Russian It is one of my favourite Marillion songs |