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Have you heard Marillion?
Yes
No but I've heard of them
Haven't even heard of them
Tracklist:
Cover My Eyes • No One Can Take You Away from Me • Splintering Heart • The Party • A Collection • Holidays in Eden • How Can It Hurt • Dry Land • Waiting to Happen • This Town • The Rake's Progress • 100 Nights
Have you listened to Holidays in Eden [U.S. Edition] by Marillion (1992)?
Yes, the entire album!
Partially, some but not all songs
No, but familiar with it
Haven't heard of it before
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Submitter's Note: "Cover My Eyes" is titled "Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven)" and "No One Can Take You Away from Me" is titled "No One Can" on the original 1991 release. "How Can It Hurt" and "A Collection" were also not included on the original 1991 release but were later added with the 1998 remastered edition's bonus disc, which features a song titled "Sympathy" that is missing from the 1992 U.S. edition.
Marillion - Kayleigh
<1985.06.17> Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
CD, EMI - CDP 7 46160-2
Illustration & sleeve design by Mark Wilkinson
Marillion: Market Square Heroes EP (1982)
I can think of precious few successful musical careers more incongruent with their times than Marillion’s, as the band originally named Silmarillion in reference to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien somehow managed to peddle ‘70s-steeped progressive rock to modernity-obsessed ‘80s music consumers.
And that incongruous career began, on record, anyway, with the release of the quintet’s first single, “Market Square Heroes,” some 40 years ago.
Seen here in its 12-inch configuration, this was the first of many extended plays (EPs, to you digital era kids) adorned with Mark Wilkinson’s tormented jesters, Jo Mirowski’s distinctive band logo, and boasting collectible non-album tracks that would make them coveted items for diehard Marillion fans like me.
Disguised by all this was the curious fact that, while Mark Kelly’s urgent, circular synthesizer part here would never be confused for punk rock (maybe if we were talking about The Stranglers), Fish’s lyrics for “Market Square Heroes” certainly suggest a state of in punk-like rebellion and unrest:
“I found smog at the end of my rainbow ... I left the ranks of shuffling graveyard people ... I give peace signs when I wage war in the disco ... I am your antichrist, show me allegiance!
I’m a market square hero gathering the storms to troop; Cause I'm a market square hero, speeding the beat of the street pulse; Are you following me? Are you following me? Well suffer my pretty warriors and follow me!”
Much more representative of Marillion’s intricately textured and lyrically obscure future works was second track “Three Boats Down from the Candy,” where Fish, as would become his trademark, contrasts fantastical and real-world imagery ... often to disguise one of his countless unrequited love affairs.
And, best of all, the EP housed Marillion’s biggest -- like, literally -- nod to the ‘70s prog bands that inspired them (Yes, Genesis, etc., most of whom were ironically playing pop music by ‘82) in the 18-minute “Grendel,” which was obviously and fittingly based on the Old English epic poem Beowulf.
As Fish rambles poetic about “Mother nature’s bastard child, shunned by leaf and stream,” the song duly unfurls into an instrumental showcase for all involved, simultaneously revealing Marillion’s ambitions AND limitations (for the moment) as they do their best “Supper’s Ready” imitation and Kelly, in particular, makes believe he’s Tony Banks.
Back to “Market Square Heroes,” it would interestingly be voted fourth best single of the year by the readers of Kerrang! magazine (a signal of the band’s immediate appeal with open-minded metal-heads), but it peaked at a modest No. 60 on the U.K. charts, before selling steadily for years as new fans backtracked after being exposed to Marillion’s subsequent releases.
Speaking of: the band soon set to work on their debut full-length, Script for a Jester’s Tear, which arrived in early ‘83 and continued proving that, against all odds and all common sense, where musical trends were concerned, ‘70s-style prog rock could still captivate an ‘80s audience.
More Marillion: He Knows You Know EP, Script for a Jester’s Tear, Garden Party EP, Fugazi, Assassing EP, Real to Reel, Kayleigh EP, Misplaced Childhood, Lavender EP, Brief Encounter, Clutching at Straws, The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra), B’Sides Themselves.
Gazpacho - Soyuz One