Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
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Artist: MarillionEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
Published: 1996-02-17
CD Release Date: 2007-12-21
Music Label: EMI Europe Generic
Product features:
- MARILLION MISPLACED CHILDHOOD
- Pseudo Silk Kimono
- Kayleigh
- Lavender
- Bitter Suite: I. Brief Encounter, II. Lost Weekend, III. Blue Angel
- Heart Of Lothian: I. Wide Boy, II. Curtain Call
- Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)
- Lords Of The Backstage
- Blind Curve: I. Vocal Under A Bloodlight, II. Passing Strangers, III. Mylo, IV. Perimeter Walk, V. Threshold
- Childhoods End?
- White Feather
Free Music Notes for Misplaced Childhood
Free Music Review: I'm hooked !
Hit: 5 Stars
My first experience of Marillion was at the Reading rock festival in 1983. Being a young and brash new-waver, I immediately decided to have a snooze while these mullet headed bores droned on. "Have they not finished yet?" I enquired, when I arose from exquisite slumber, a quarter of an hour or so later. "No" I was informed curtly, "they're still playing the same song!!"
Despite liking 'Kayleigh', I studiously decided to give these embarrassing prog-rockers a double-wide berth. Waking up to 'Grendel' in a baking hot field with a half-eaten corn-cob on your head; I didn't think condusive to a lasting and rewarding relationship with even the liveliest combo. I switched on The Pastels, Blue Orchids and the Nightingales and deliciously forgot that Marillion ever existed.
The eighties passed, and despite them winning all sorts of Band of the Year polls in the British music press, I remained unmoved. Stoic in my un-yielding belief that 'Fish' (splutter!) and co held no interest for me whatsoever (just like this review hasn't for most of you!), and I'd rather be doused in petrol and set alight than have to listen to one excruciating note. Marillion(snigger!), were the uncoolest group in the entire world.
I don't know what happened next, but somehow, somewhere, in a friends lounge (outside time?), I found myself listening, grudgingly, to 'Misplaced Childhood'. And liking it a lot.
I couldn't believe it. A Concept album by Marillion, ye gods, what next? 'The Wall'?(vapid trash). 'Ziggy Stardust'?(ugly trash), 'Tommy'?(well, maybe.. actually) I was sat baffled, as this superb, dark, joyous, FULL-BLOODED music washed over me.
Do they sound like Genesis I wondered, desperately trying to become an immediate expert and this accusation was one of very few things I did know about them. Don't know. Never listened to Genesis, but there is a little bit of the Who hidden in there somewhere, among the surging synths and adroit guitar.(In fact Fish gives a telling little nod to the Who on the fade-out of track four)
There's supposed to be 10 songs here, but it's nearer 20, with the old prog trick of squeezing 4 or 5 into 'suites' (chortle!) well to the fore. I love this idea. It's a throwback to the early 70's, and part of Fish/Marillion's 'classic rock' ancestry, a VITAL and celebratory ingredient in 'Misplaced Childhood'.
And what of mountainous, mammoth-man Fish I hear you ask? Well, on this particular outing, he's a revelation. You can imagine him in the studio, clumsily crashing into drum kits, knocking the tea over and banging his head on the booms as he lurches round like some behemoth Catweazle, unable to resist the sweeping, cathartic, ANGULAR music. Mad as a squirrel, mullet spinning like dreadlocks as he powerfully delivers his proud and significant words.
Fine words they are too. Moving, poignant and defiant in equal measures. And beside him, in an organic sense as well as a locational one, guitarist Steve Rotherhay (from RotherHAM I hope!) is well up to the difficult task of coddling Fish's battered (sorry) words and ideas, and firing them out into the world in dynamic, controlled bursts. It's a fabulous mixture, much more so because it's completely unexpected, takes you completely by surprise, runs you like sparks through the stubble.
As a fiery long-maccer, I would NEVER have given Marillion house room, but slightly older, one begins to perversely appreciate the uncool. The Geek (titter!). There's a certain dignity when you're championing the unchampionable, and great delight to be had grinning inanely when someone inevitably and incredulously exclaims "You-can't-possibly-like-them!"
Oh but I do. When things get good as this, indeed I do.
Apologies all round for years of neglect and worse, but like a sinner of his own redeeming, I now claim sanctuary in the fold.
Lost and now found, (Oh Amazon, please employ a reviews editor, now!) I make the statement bold and true: 'Misplaced Childhood' by Marillion is excellent. No ifs or buts. Excellent.
(There is a 'but' actually. There's nothing on M C as good as the fab 'Charting the Single', but I wont ruin everything by sycophantically revealing that!)
"Wide boys, wide boys born with Hearts of Lothian.." Born with hearts of lions on this showing.
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Misplaced Childhood is seen by many as the definitive Marillion album, and it is hard to argue. The music is stylistically typical of their first three albums and has far fewer flat spots than Fugazi. It also contains that most unproglike of beasts, a hit single. The infectious "Kayleigh" reached number 2 on the British charts. EMI. 2005.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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