Marillionathon!
Sometimes, you just do need to spend the whole of Sunday afternoon listening to Marillion albums. I got through this lot over the course of six and a half hours.
- Marillion.com
- Somewhere Else
- Marbles
- Anoraknophobia
- Afraid of Sunlight
- Seasons End
Some of those I hadn’t listened to for ages, and I’d forgotton how great those albums are. I still love the much-maligned Anoraknophobia (nothing containing ‘Quartz’ or ‘The is the 21st Century’ can possibly be considered a bad album), and even dotcom, which I used to hate, has got better over time. And the oldies AoS and SE (the last of which is 19 years old!) haven’t dated at all.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Anoraknophobia is a great title.
February 7th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Good point about the ‘oldies’ not having dated - they sound as fresh now as when I first heard them.
That’s the h-era oldies, though. I do think the real oldies, from before 1988, are more of a problem, with very Eighties production standards and slightly (only slightly!) cringeworthy lyrics. They do strike me as strongly ‘of their time’.
Though how a session which omits ‘Brave’ could be termed a proper Marillionathon defeats me.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Brave really should have been added to the list, but it was getting late by then, and Brave is an album that need to be played loud.
As far as F-Marillion goes, I think “Clutching at Straws” stands the test of time better than the others, although those still hold a certain charm for me. It seems to have more in common musically with both H-Marillion and Fish’s solo career than it does with the three albums that preceded it.