Script For A Jester's Tear OR Misplaced Childhood?
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Topic: Script For A Jester's Tear OR Misplaced Childhood?
Posted By: Xonty
Subject: Script For A Jester's Tear OR Misplaced Childhood?
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 10:30
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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!    |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 10:37
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Script did never grab me as much as Misplaced Childhood did. ------------- 
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Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 10:41
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Misplaced Childhood There is only one sheer masterpiece song on the debut LP and it's the title track. ------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 10:45
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Script.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 10:46
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Clutching At Straws. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: ScorchedFirth
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 10:50
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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... 
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Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 11:21
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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 |
Posted By: Argor
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 11:31
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Script is very good, while Misplaced Childhood is much too pop-oriented for me. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 11:43
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Script with the added Market Boat Grendel tracks especially
------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 11:53
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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! ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 13:18
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Very difficult. Okay, Misplaced Childhood it is.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 13:23
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I'm going for the Script. I lost touch with Marillion after that.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 13:25
| I must admit that Missplaced is a prog masterpiece for its time (middle 80s) but Script is the best Marillion album. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 14:08
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Script is the album which made Marillion a "Genesis clone". Misplaced Childhood is a concept album full of good songs and is when the band became mature and started walking on its own legs, even if on a pop side. Personally I've never liked Script too much. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 15:02
| Script.... |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 15:11
| From what I know from them, this are the two albums that make them the giants of prog they are, as good as anything from the 70's, in a decade when you would think you would not find prog again. I got them in a single package, and what a great way to get to know this band I had only read about before. However, I like better Script, it's just a wonderful album as a whole (even is Misplaced Childhood is a more cohesive album). For me, the two most magical moments I've heard from them are the beginning of this two albums, the title track of their debut, and the pair of songs "Pseudo Silk Kimono / Kayleigh" (even though Kayleigh is suposed to be the "hit" on the album - for good or bad - for me that song is nothing without Pseudo Silk Kimono at the beginning). |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 18:20
This---
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someone_else wrote:Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 18:52
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Script, easily.
MC is by far my least favorite Fish Marillion. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 23:34
Take out Warm Wet Circles from Clutching At Straws and what remains is just an ordinary album. Take out any one song from either Script or Misplaced Childhood and both albums hold up extraordinarily well.
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Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: March 24 2014 at 00:20
Agree Script > Childhood > Clutching, but At that time of the night and Slaintemath are stunning tracks too IMO. And this Kelly's solo on Just for the record...
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 24 2014 at 01:30
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Script. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 02:14
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I like both, but I'll vote for Misplaced Childhood because it has less votes.
------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 03:37
`Script' for me, I like that it has longer pieces and more aggression (although could have done with a little less falsetto!  ).
`Misplaced' has a wonderful first side, and although I KNOW there's good stuff near the later part of the second half, I rarely seem to keep the disc on that long and get a little sick of it. Both fine albums though.
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 03:42
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I like the darkness of Script. I loved Misplaced Childhood at the time, but now it all sounds a bit overblown and over produced. There are moments of brilliance and moments that really rub me up the wrong way; Lavender being one of them. It makes my ears cringe. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 03:56
my thoughts exactly; sometimes I just listen to side A + "Blind Curve", just perfect to me. But "...Childhood" made them big and influenced/shined a light on a bunch of other guys from the genre. "Script" is my all-time favourite album, even though it has its flaws...I won't POINT at them  But I simply can't listen to it too often, it's too personal for me. So it's tough, yeah, but I'd go with "Script" anyway
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 10:06
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Misplaced ------------- |
Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 10:42
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I think script is alright... and I just can't take MC seriously.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 17:31
| Not a massive fan of either but Misplaced Childhood has Blind Curve which is probably the most exceptional neo prog track of the eighties for me (although IQ's Widows Peak runs it close) so that gets my vote. |
Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 18:53
Blind curve is a stunning track |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: March 26 2014 at 17:15
| Script |