A band that lived several phases but that, overall, proved to be among the best heirs of the great progressive season of the 70s. These are the British Marillion, to which the online magazine Louder dedicates an in -depth analysis, selecting their essential records in a special “guide for purchases”, in which for each there are comments and analysis of the main songs.
“Since they collected the witness of the progressive rock left by the Genesis in the 80s – underlines the magazine in the introduction – the Marillion have recorded one of the most impressive catalogs of the prog. The Marillion may have been inspired by the music of the Genesis and the Yes, but they were capable of making a barderia such as the Guns n 'Roses …. formed in Aylesbury, in the Buckinghamshire, in 1979, the band was initially called Silmarillion, in homage to a laid published posthumously by Jrr Tolkien. United – Before Fish left the band for a solo career in 1988. His substitute, Steve Hogarth, ex -Mambro of the Europeans, is now the frontman of the Marillion for over three decades …. in the Fish era – continues Louder – the Marillion were the progressive rock bans, but with Hogarth the band became progressive in the wider sense. Their music has evolved well beyond those primary influences and, after being abandoned by EMI in 1996, the Marillion created a new internet -based business model, which allowed them to thrive as an independent industry. Eight years before the Radioheads sold 'in Rainbows' exclusively online, the Marillion financed their album Marillion.com by inviting 30,000 fans enrolled in their mailing list to pre -purchase the album even before it was registered “.
Here below the best Marillion records according to Louder, which suggests instead of “avoiding” “escape” of 1984 (here the complete service).
- Misplaced Childhood (Emi, 1985)
- Clutching at straws (Emi, 1987)
- Script for a Jester's Tear (Emi, 1983)
- Fear (Fuck Everyone and Run) (Earmusic, 2016)
- Season's End (Emi, 1989)
- Sounds that can't be made (Earmusic, 2012)
- Brave (Emi, 1994)
- Marbles (Intact, 2004)
- B'sides Themselves (Emi, 1988)
- Holdays in Eden (Emi, 1991)
- Somewhere Else (Intact, 2007)
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