Why Did People Fall Inlove With Marillion?

Posted by: Gale 401 on 03 December 2011

Was it just another Chelsea Monday?

Or was it because this album was so like Genesis at there best.??

Posted on: 03 December 2011 by TomK

I never did. I found them pompous, pretentious and frankly laughable. Yes, very like Genesis.

 

Posted on: 03 December 2011 by EJS

When I was in school, I found them synonymous with long hair, denim jackets & jeans, and silly stickers. The music never stood a chance 

Posted on: 04 December 2011 by KRM
I was a massive fan of Gabriel-era Genesis fan, and so I dismissed Marilion at the time as blatant Genesis wannabes. I while back, one of the national newspapers gave away a series of '80s CDs which provided me with the opportunity to listen to Misplaced Childhood properly for the first time. I was pleasantly surprised to find that is quite good.

I think we're now in an era when (for adults, at least) we can listen to music from the past and judge it on its own merits, without the baggage of past preconceptions.

Keith
Posted on: 04 December 2011 by Guido Fawkes

Marillion? 

 

Who are they - as anonymous as Genesis without PG. 

I always thought they were trying to be Van Der Graaf - shows what I know? 

Posted on: 05 December 2011 by Paper Plane

Script is one of my all-time favourite albums. I've never been a Genesis fan, even with PG and certainly not with old baldy bonce on vocals. (One caveat, I do love Selling England...)

 

I saw Marillion loads of times up to Fish's departure and once with Hogarth and every concert was a delight. I've got all the vinyl up to and including Season's End and they all get played.

 

And, incidentally, I still have long hair and a collection of denim jackets.

 

steve

Posted on: 05 December 2011 by BigH47

I like Marillion and Genesis with or without.

Posted on: 05 December 2011 by Gale 401

You.

Who did that?

Stu.

Posted on: 05 December 2011 by Loki

Fish was the iconic frontsman: tall, flowing locks and when I saw him traversing the cobbles in St Andrews circa 1988 he cut an imposing figure in his long thick 80's flecked overcoat. There was a fusion of poetry and rock: the title says it all 'Script for a Jester's Tear'. They touched the zeitgeist for a while.