My recommendation would be to stick with this album, since it's their first. Next track? "Garden Party," maybe? "Or Forgotten Sons." Both dramatically different from this one, yet still possessing that classic early Marillion sound.
Please do also newer Material from Marillion. The Steve Hogarth era. You won't regret. Neverland, this Strange engine, the crow and the Nightingale, the great escape, Gaza, the space, Out of this World. They have tons of encredible songs especially the live Versions. You won't regret.
Awesome reaction! Marillion's first 4 albums (the Fish era) are absolute classics, and you should listen to all of them in order. Fish does write most of the lyrics AFAIK, and you're right, it is poetry - more than just about any other band I can think of. Enjoy the journey!
Nice reaction 👍🏻👍🏻 Marillion is an awesome band. Loads of gems they made. Ocean Cloud is a great song (18 min.!!) It's about Don Allum an ocean rower. He rowed across the Atlantic Ocean there and back all by himself. On the third sea voyage things went wrong, he lost all his supplies and had to live on seawater and fish blood for 2 weeks. A must listen!!
A superb band with over 41 years of amazing music, they are still producing amazing music to this day… check out their lasted album “An Hour Before It’s Dark” :)
It’s always fun to go back to their early days and hear their beginnings of their style. This first album is the only one with Mick Pointer on the drums. Ever since it has been Ian Mosley on the kit. I’ll always respect Mick for being there at the beginning, but Ian took the band to a different level.
Classic Fish -era Marillion... This track , the emotive Forgotten Sons and the opening title track make this one hell of a debut. With this release and indeed the non-album epic Grendel , these were the reasons as a teenager I got hooked on this band...and over the 40 years became a progressive rock obsessive. Without Marillion...well who knows where my music devotions and directions would have taken me. Great reaction Lee. 😍
I have seeing Marillion on their Misplaced Childhood tour as my 3rd-greatest concert of all time. The first album is charming, the second is diamond hard, and the third is desert island material. Yes, Fish is the lyricist - he is brilliant at word play
If you want some classic Marillion prog you should check out This Strange Engine, Ocean Cloud and The Invisible Man - live if possible - stunning pieces of music.
Why not check out what happened to the drummer on this album Mick Pointer his next band Arena are so overlooked and shouldn't be recommended albums The Visitor, Immortal, and contagion you WON'T be disappointed
Arena has some very powerful stuff indeed. Who knows, maybe L33 will stumble upon them one day. 🙂 Those 3 albums you mentioned are dynamite: "The Visitor", "Immortal" and "Contagion". Good call!
Maybe the most underrated 80s group of all. Huge in UK but USA not so much. Tight band live. Pink Floyd and early Genesis had a baby and named it Marillion.
I love love LOVE Ian Mosley as the drummer for Marillion, but Mick Pointer was PERFECT for this record. He doesn't get the credit I think he deserves, the chops may be simplistic but it all fits so well with the dreamlike quality of this record. I like that you reference the "Canterbury scene," this is definitely their most "Canterbury" record.
Out of this World would be another good Marillion song to do if you like the emotional content of the music. This is still the sound of a band under the shadow of their influences and a quick jump to album 4, Clutching at Straws would indicate how their song writing developed.
Lee, nice reaction to a solid song. I'm tempted to say you should react to something off of Misplaced Childhood, but it would be wrong to react to any one song in isolation, it should be done as a whole.
It was rumoured Fish auditioned for the Genesis lead singer job after PG left. Not sure how much truth is in that. But he did a Single release with Tony Banks for sure.
@@grahamkey8496 I've never heard of that rumour either (Fish auditioning for Genesis) but he did release a single with Tony Banks called "Shortcut to Somewhere". There's a video of it here on RU-vid. The track appears on Banks' solo album "Soundtracks" (1986).
My claim to faim was in 1985 at the Montreal Forum. Marillion was backing up Rush. Marillion played all of Misplaced Childhood. When they finished Fish wiped his face with a white towel made in Cuba then threw it in the crowd and I caught it. Please react to every dong on this album especially "Forgotten Sons".
Wow, I was at that concert too, along with my brother. I was aware of the band, but "Misplaced Childhood" was all new that night for me when they played it. Man, I still remember how amazing Rothery`s guitar sounded , wailing away. The next day, I went and bought the album, pronto. Great memories.
@@angelomoshopoulos6276 I hear you, that sucks. I`ve also lost a few items from house moves and sometimes you just can`t remember where you put something. But at least we got to see two amazing bands that night. I still remember Neil Peart throwing his drumstick up in the air from time to time, he caught it most of the time but dropped one or two. I remember thinking to myself: "Is this guy for real ?" And he was. RIP Neil Peart and nice talking to you.
Pete Trewavas from Marillion was the bass player with Transatlantic, featuring Neal Morse and Mike Portnoy - the Lennon and McCartney of prog! Those two have made more than 20 albums together since the early 2000s - a rabbit-hole that's deep and wide. If you fancy a 30 minute prog epic that doesn't feel like 30 minutes, try All Of The Above by Transatlantic, with some absolutely jaw-dropping bubbling bass lines from Trewavas.Or for a shorter song by the same band, how about the Beatles-esque Mystery Train?
Robert Plant - Slow Dancer ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QibiJtk10s8.html Robert Plant - "Fat Lip ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0LRZj787dvc.html Robert Plant - Sixes and Sevens ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fVV2_HxWZ4w.html Robert Plant - Little by Little ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-brs_O9fXhBc.html
What was the other Marillion song you covered? Hope it wasn’t the really bad 80’s version of Marillion. I’ll keep my eyes out I. Case you do their greater albums and music with their better singer
Great pick! hey Lee, what happened with Genesis ? You haven't reacted to anything from them in a century, are you angry with Peter, Tony and company? 😂
OK, this is going to draw out the Fish vs. Steve Hogarth discussion (am totally impartial as I like both of them) .... so my suggestion would be to now move on to a Marillion track with Steve Hogarth .... from a lyrical point of view I would suggest The Party (from Holidays In Eden) or Runaway (from Brave) also both tracks about young girls lost in the city. And musically it is clearl you are dealing with the same band albeit now much more experienced.
