Marillion - Vol. 2-Happiness Is the Road: the Hard Shoulder
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Artist: MarillionEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-10-28
Music Label: Racket
Soundtracks:
- Thunder Fly
- The Man from the Planet Marzipan
- Asylum Satellite #1
- Older Than Me
- Throw Me Out
- Half the World
- Whatever Is Wrong with You
- Especially True
- Real Tears for Sale
Free Music Notes for Vol. 2-Happiness Is the Road: the Hard Shoulder
Free Music Review: Happiness Is the Road: Vol 2 - The Hard Shoulder
Hit: 5 Stars
This second volume of Marillion's most recent release is (unlike Vol 1: Essence), a collection of discrete songs without a major concept tying them all together. And a fantastic collection it is, too. I have a hard time separating the two albums despite their differences, as I was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy pre-release and have mostly experienced both volumes as one major piece of work.
But the Hard Shoulder may appeal to the hardcore progressive rock fans out there more than Essence, as there are a few real corkers on here. A huge fan of the opening track Thunderfly, this is a bouncing, summery and quirky ode that is really infectious! Try listening to it twice and not get the chorus stuck in your head! The Man from Planet Marzipan is like the slightly eccentric sister to the popular opening track The Invisible Man from Marbles. Asylum Satellite #1 features Rothery's amazing guitar skills wrapped in some new sounds - and by the way - a fantastic lyric from Mr. Hogarth on this! A variety of rhythms, sounds and approaches really stretches Marillion's love of diversity on this album - to its benefit. From the stripped down love song Older Than Me, the beautiful arrangement on Threw Me Out, to the driving pop of Half the World (that should absolutely be all over the radio!), to the rockier Whatever is Wrong With You (around which the band ran a brilliant YouTube contest -- do the search for some amazing entries) -- The Hard Shoulder really does showcase what a comfort the band has experimenting with a broad variety of influences. Personally, it's the closer Real Tears for Sale that is the obvious masterpiece. Classic Marillion. A brilliant lyric, and just a fantastic showing from every member of the band. I expect Real Tears to be a new Live favourite and after 20+years going strong, Happiness is the Road is another Marillion revelation!
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