Marillion - Happiness is the road

stranger0 · #1 10-20-2008, 06:54 PM

Any other fans on here and anyone else get the new album?

Humblerumble · #2 10-21-2008, 10:45 AM

I haven't heard that album but I like some of their old stuff!

Krügmeister · #3 10-21-2008, 02:22 PM

Is it live? I love all thier stuff BIG fan here...

stranger0 · #4 10-21-2008, 09:40 PM

alot of it was recorded live or at least in the studio that is. Fantastic album, Trewavas has some really nice stuff on here, need to give it more time to sink in, 2 discs is a lot of music to sift through.

The closest comparison some of this stuff makes is to Brave.

Would have thought there were more fans especially considering how great of a musician, Pete is.

origami · #5 10-21-2008, 09:46 PM

I am definately into the fish era marillion. 'misplaced childhood' and 'clutching at straws' mostly.

bongomania · #6 10-21-2008, 09:49 PM

What's the "best" introduction (album or tracks) to Marillion? I remember "Assassing" when they had their moment on MTV back in the Stone Age, and for some reason the rest of that album didn't do anything for me, so I forgot about them. I've seen they have some devoted fans though. So what's their strongest work?

Side anecdote: one time I was in a used-CD shop and somebody had just sold their collection of like 12 or 13 "Accept" CD's. I had only ever heard their one MTV hit "Balls to the Wall" (around the same time as "Assassing") and thought they had dried up after that, but apparently they kept touring and recording for many years! "Who knew?"

Mr. Pickles · #7 10-21-2008, 09:55 PM

Okay, I'm out of the closet now...I've always been a huge Marillion fan. I've seen them a bunch in NY and CT.

I'd say a good place to start is Misplaced Childhood for the Fish era stuff and Season's End for the Hogarth era.

I saw Pete screw up so bad that the rest of the band looked like they wanted to fist fight him. He couldn't hit anything right that night.

GreggBummer · #8 10-21-2008, 10:17 PM

Script For a Jester's Tear (Fish era)
Holidays In Eden (Hogarth era)

I am shocked that there are other Marillion fans out there. I saw Fish a few years back... wow! Like 10 years ago. Anytime they come to America I try to catch them.

Does anyone here, in a current set list, cover a Marrillion song?

stranger0 · #9 10-21-2008, 11:23 PM

I think a fairer question is what style do you want to check out? it's 2 different bands now, style wise that is. Holidays in Eden was about as close to H singing Fish as you're going to get to the older stuff but the more 'etheral' dare I say poppy and modern material is what's been put out the last 5 albums or so (Brave and onwards).

If I had to point you in a direction, I'd say ".com" or "Marbles" or Anoraknaphobia.

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Originally Posted by GreggBummer

Does anyone here, in a current set list, cover a Marrillion song?

Maybe one day soon, just gotta get the rest of the guys to pay attention a bit more.

Mr. Pickles · #10 10-22-2008, 06:41 AM

I think Marillion were the progenitors of EMO

GreggBummer · #11 10-22-2008, 08:34 AM

EMO? Oh please... every teenager has a right to break up with their girlfriend and listen to Marillions Fugazi over and over again.

Didn't you?

Mr. Pickles · #12 10-22-2008, 08:55 AM

+1 ^

Oh, I've shed many a tear and listened to Marillion's Fugazi.

Krügmeister · #13 10-22-2008, 11:16 AM

I seem to like Marillion in both of thier stages pre and post fish.. I also have Fish's solo stuff.
To be quite honest out of ALL thier songs I prefer "The Great Escape" what a colossally cool and epic song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb9_Zzi7su4

origami · #14 10-28-2008, 07:26 PM

marillion is definately my go to band after a breakup with a girl. i thought i was the only one...

just never really got into the post fish stage. i like basically all of 'misplaced childhood' and 'clutching at straws' on 'fugazi' all i really liked was 'jigsaw' and 'punch and judy' and maybe 'script for a jester's tear' 'he knows you know' 'chelsea' from the first record. sometimes the music is a little too gabriel/genesis, but the band is great.

my band used to cover parts of the 'blind curve' song from 'misplaced childhood' album. mostly the guitar solo into 'mylo' and the guitar outro after it. we even had a song called heart that was inspired by 'bitter suite' lyric j'entend ton coeur (french: i can hear your heart)

i even named a pet mylo because it is my fav marillion song.

Humblerumble · #15 10-29-2008, 08:22 AM

Misplaced Childhood was my fave. Pseudo Silk Kimono followed by Kayleigh then followed by Lavender takes me right back to the 80's. Ha just the other day my wife was putting on some Lavender something or other perfume stuff and I started singing Lavender and she just raised an eyebrow and shook her head

LCMBassist · #16 10-29-2008, 09:07 AM

I like Marillion too!

Cochise · #17 10-29-2008, 07:29 PM

'Script' is one of the albums I always revisit every so often. I've got the remastered CD edition with the 2nd disc with demos and alternative versions of some other songs too. 'Real to Reel' was good too but I haven't heard that for ages. Pete Trewavas was one of the players that inspired me when I was starting out and I still love his bass lines. He just goes to show that you don't need expensive basses to be melodic and busy yet tasteful. (I think I saw him playing a cheapish Aria of some type and a Squire Jazz many moons ago)

Just got 'Happiness Is The Road' delivered the other day but haven't listened to it as yet due to the pressure of looming exams and assessments for my job, but plan to pop it on my iPod and settle down with it tomorrow evening.

capnsandwich · #18 10-29-2008, 07:43 PM

I haven't heard anything from their new album but one of my favorite albums of all time by any band is Brave. My band plays a cover of the song Made Again, where I play the 12 string acoustic on that. I actually play the exact acoustic that they recorded that album with, well the same kind, a Takamine EG535C, if I remember correctly.

Is the new one out yet in stores?