Marillion: Afraid of Sunlight: Anybody heard it?

So who says we don't have threads *designed* for Glenn MacDonald, then :) ?

Come on Glenn, you'd be the only one with a clue, I'm guessing ...

Marillion, god! The single worst band out there, possibly. What in the hell is that genre? It's like an middle aged man's jazzier, lamer version of Jethro Tull meets Queensryche? I grabbed a double disc from the cutout bin because I was curious... what a mistake!

Remember the incident I mentioned in the 'painters & decorators' thread? Well, that was in Belsize Park!

Heh, Marillion. I had a friend at school who dug 'em the most, he would scratch lyrics into the desks during afternoon lulls. He wore a waistcoat - IN SKOOL!!
I tracked down his website a few months ago - he listed 'Misplaced Childhood' as his No.1 album. The f'ker still likes them!

Err... haven't heard any of their later stuffe - thank sweet, merciful Zeus - but Fish is backbackback with a new album I hear. He was all over the meeja like white on rice t'other week.

We're waiting for you, Glenn ...

I knew a girl who used to live in moon-washed college halls, AND USE THAT TERM.

Well, actually, I didn't, but I wonder whether anyone apart from Fish actually has used that exact phrase?

A phrase's everyday usage seems a poor way of judging its pop fitness Robin.

Actually that's kind of what I meant, because I think the phrase is far better than "Kayleigh" itself is. I just find it hard to imagine anyone casually saying "Oh, moon-washed college halls!" apart from, perhaps, people into All About Eve.

To get away from Fish for a moment, I'd agree with the original poster that a sizable proportion of "Afraid Of Sunlight" is quite excellent, or seemed so to me a couple of years ago. I bought it on a whim based on what Glenn had said. I wonder if there is anyone anywhere who discovered Marillion in the nineties through a channel other than Glenn, though.

I should listen to that album again just to see if I still like it. I honestly don't know... maybe I'll post back later with the results.

Well, I almost discovered them through Rush somewhere about 1992, but I've still never heard any Marillion.

My mum likes Marilion. I don't. But I did like that internet thing they did where fans fund the album.

argghhhh! This is what I thought would happen. Nude Spock, your description of the CD you bought ("jazz" + "jethro tull meets queensryche") is actually a quite good description of 80's era Marillion, specifically their Fugazi album. An album which, by the way, the band detests and refuses to play any songs from live.

As I said I wasn't exactly looking for comments on their very 80's prog era, but Afraid of Sunlight in particular (as I said especially the last 4 tracks). Marillion have matured greatly over the last 15 or so years, as well as changed singers. Unfortunately they carry this huge burdensome prog rock stigma that haunts them everywhere, which everyone's posts above prove. But..if I played any one on here the Fugazi album back to back with AOS, and did not tell you they were by the same band, you would NEVER guess that they were. So my challenge again, for those who have heard AOS, or are willing to open themselves up to a work of beauty and genius like "Beyond You", let me know what you think.

Ahem...I used to like "Fugazi", way back in the 80s. Mind you this was a time when I thought Peter Gabriel was the shit, only played computergames and had no girlfriend (obviously).

What does Afraid of Sunlight sound like? I'm curious but afraid of getting burnt again.

Try the band's website at marillion.com, they might have sound samples.

AOS is difficult to classify..Radiohead meets Sarah McLachlin? I dunno. The sound clips on the bands website are somewhat ill selected. If you can find Beyond You on Morpheus or some such service, and spend a little time with it, you will know if the album is for you.

And Omar...Peter Gabriel's 3rd album was, is and will forever be the shit.

Most ov marillion's recent albums w/steve hogarth(?) on vox are really good. At their best they sound like a progged-up version of talk talk. Their recent album, which was financed by their fans, as reported 'ere & theeyer in thee pre$$ had quite an interesting response, didn't it? "sad proggers get their anoraky fans to pay for their worthless produkt" seemed to be the general tone. Ov course, replace "Marillion" w/some other band dropped by major $l$a$b$e$l$, and they'd have prob been creaming themselves over wot a groundbreaking exercise in giving thee ole 2-fingers to thee man. Whatever.

I keep seeing "Fugazi" (as in the marillion album, not iain mckaye's band - ha!) cheap in rekord shoppes, but somehow can't bring myself to buy it. Thiz despite owning such CD reissues as IQ, "The Wake", Solstice, Abel Ganz, 12th Night, and other such unmentionables. Yes, I know, I am a bastard person, and you all hate my ass face.

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Best band in the world ever.

Listen to brave and marbles or even tales from the engine room

Glenn MacDonald never came, then?

This is a good album! I got it because of some record exchange game where I got hooked up with a prog fan (I sent him Pogues, he liked 'em.) I remember it was purty, if occasionally cringeworthy in the lyrics department (no surprise there.)

Bring back the Fish and I'll stop yawning.

To all you people who love baggin marillion

Get back to your mass produced britney spears shit.
Marillion is a band who has been goin for more then 20 years.
A band with a very devoted fanbase.
A band very high regarded by a lot and i do mean a lot of professional musicians.
A band that manages to survive all this time because of there fans.
A band that now manages and produces themselves. (thankgod)
A band that will survive any kind of bullshit review by money hungry so called journalists who propably have a mass produced bullshit cd collection at home who wont know good music unless emi or some other moneyhungry music company is behind it.
These guys are brilliant.
Afraid of sunlight is brilliant, brave is even more brilliant,
And marbles is brilliant.
Take the time to listen to it (loud with all lights off)
take the time to really read the lyrics.
And be enlightened.
Do yourselves a favour.

I tried that once and ended up here.