f#*ck.
deja vu.
this is the common room all over again ..
― mark e, Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/this-is-what-radiohead-looked-like-in-the-80s
lol beautiful
― shillelagh law (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
Tales from the Lush Attic - that's the one I've heard. The recent remaster is incredible. It's definitely very close to classic Genesis, but maybe it rocks a little harder? I'd be curious to hear what their later records sounded like.
I've heard a lot of good things about Big Big Train and do want to hear the English Electric albums. That said, I have heard their early material (up to Bard) and it's profoundly boring and personality-free.
The one I've gotten big into the last year or so is Echolyn, which is more of a Gentle Giant knockoff, though they have a more distinct sound.
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
NV, that pic is priceless. Iron Maiden and Marillion the two pillars of every teenagers music obsessions round our way
― MaresNest, Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
Cardiacs are said to have got booed mercillessly supporting Blur. Can you imagine a Blur audience? Going to see any truly massive band always brings out the misanthrope in me, because so much of the audience just seems hostile to the idea of a support band who isnt famous.
Some of IQ's 00s albums are really good.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 13 December 2013 00:35 (ten years ago) link
Peter Hammill was booed off when he played with them too, or so I heard.
he played with them on the "script for a jester's tear" tour. i seem to recall fish introduced him and made a little speech about how important his music was and at least at the gig i saw he was treated with great reverence. it was just hammill with john ellis (from the vibrators) on stage and was one of the starkest and most unusual live things i'd heard up to that point (aged 14). i guess i have to thank marillion for that too as i still love and listen to peter hammill records. fish also used to rhapsodise about random hold who i checked out and liked as a result but i haven't revisited their records in eons.
good story too mark e. a vibrant music press back then definitely led to lots of great discoveries that remained life long favourites.
― stirmonster, Friday, 13 December 2013 01:05 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I saw that, I think the booing was a couple of years later, maybe only at one gig. Beltane Fire went down well as support on the Misplaced Childhood tour though!
― bleak strategies (Matt #2), Friday, 13 December 2013 01:14 (ten years ago) link
XXP - I think Cardiacs only ever supported Blur at one day long gig in Mile End Stadium in the mid nineties.
― MaresNest, Friday, 13 December 2013 08:06 (ten years ago) link
xp
I was gonna say Beltane Fire got heckled unmercifully at the Birmingham Odeon gig on that tour, I still remember a flexidisc from the programme sailing in a gorgeous arc from the balcony to stott the singer square in the forehead
― shillelagh law (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 December 2013 09:01 (ten years ago) link
didn't they have like swords and stuff though? should have waded into the crowd and butchered their assailants
― grumbling führer (NickB), Friday, 13 December 2013 09:21 (ten years ago) link
like all Scot Nats their bluster crumbled before determined resistance
― wee knights of the round table (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 December 2013 09:22 (ten years ago) link
never been all that into marillion but the latest fish album, a feast of unintended consequences, is pretty decent. not that it'll ever get any attention. segregation in all its forms is bad imho
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 13 December 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
to be fair marillion are absolutely nothing like those early albums now
― akm, Friday, 13 December 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
Okay so I checked out the Marillion discogs page for the hell of it
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Marillion
And Jesus H. how many albums have they released? I count something like six Christmas albums alone (though sadly almost none of them are proper Christmas albums).
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 December 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
Well they are a cottage industry, like Steven Wilson whose every fart and utterance has to be released as a live Blu-Ray.
― MaresNest, Friday, 13 December 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
Thread making me not so much want to hear Marillion as douse their fans in bovine effluent
― veneer timber (imago), Friday, 13 December 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
Well that would be me age 16! Sounds painful.
Marillion fans vs Cardiacs fans, maybe needs a poll.
― bleak strategies (Matt #2), Friday, 13 December 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
no ones as bad as cardiacs fans
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 13 December 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
PENIS
― veneer timber (imago), Friday, 13 December 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
IS IT TOO LATE TO SAY I'M SORRY?
― grumbling führer (NickB), Friday, 13 December 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
Jon Poole (ex-Cardiacs) used to refer to Grendel as Apocalypse In 4/4
― MaresNest, Friday, 13 December 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
lol quality zing
― wee knights of the round table (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 December 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
yeah the vast majority of those on discogs are fan club only releases. I think they have about 15 proper albums.
― akm, Friday, 13 December 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
i wonder how many total votes a poll between marillion's two lead singers would get
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 13 December 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
More than a poll between their two drummers I'd wager
― bleak strategies (Matt #2), Friday, 13 December 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
I always thought Fish from Fishbone would be an awesome prog drummer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeK3sziX9rI
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 December 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
They've got a new album coming out next week, and the title of it - F*** Everyone And Run (F E A R) - is probably the worst album title of the year...
https://www.marillion.com/shop/images/Faceheader1.jpg
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Sunday, 18 September 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
feat Eazy E
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 18 September 2016 14:04 (seven years ago) link
ayiyi
https://youtu.be/DnoqP4B8J6U
― Οὖτις, Friday, 26 May 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
You did not have to link that, and yet.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 May 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link
Eh, not remarkably good or bad. Whatever, I kinda like the new Isuldur's Bane with Hogarth.
― doug watson, Friday, 26 May 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
DG such a sweetheart, enjoyed seeing him bopping about there, I hope he makes enough money out of music, must be difficult for a life long sidemouse.
― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), Saturday, 27 May 2017 12:16 (seven years ago) link
That was a great cover, Gregory has such a great guitar tone
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 27 May 2017 12:27 (seven years ago) link
Who's the singer for Marillion now? He seems like he's having a good time
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 27 May 2017 12:39 (seven years ago) link
Haha, Steve Hogarth, took over in '89 iirc
― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), Saturday, 27 May 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link
5 disc reissue of Script for a Jester's Tear, I refuse to believe anyone actually needs this
http://marillion.com/shop/albums/remast49.htm
http://marillion.com/shop/images/packshots/2227PS.jpg
― threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
Ooh tempted
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
i heard the remix is poor but I'll probably give a listen to a streaming version.
― akm, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link