#Neo-Prog

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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

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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.

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Marillion - Cover My Eyes

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Marillion - Kayleigh

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... Fish ...

" So here I am once more in the playground of the broken hearts ..."

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Marillion: Assassing EP (1984)

"My friend, your friend, the assassin ..."

As I mark the fourth decade of this 1984 12-inch, I am reminded of a friend I've known for 40 years with whom I've been exchanging random bits of Marillion lyrics for almost as long -- "Assassing" being a perennial favorite.

"I am the assassin ... With tongue forged from eloquence; I am the assassin ... Providing your nemesis."

For those unfamiliar, Marillion's original vocalist, Fish (I could tell you his real name, but it undermines the puzzling simplicity of his nickname), was a furiously florid wordsmith of the highest order, and I'll do my best to illustrate that throughout this blog.

"A friend in need is a friend that bleeds; Let bitter silence infect the wound."

This was the first track on, and second single plucked from, Marillion's sophomore album, Fugazi, and I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the song owed its odd spelling to "assassing" being the Turkish word for "friend."

"On the sacrificial altar to success (my friend); Unleash a stranger from a kiss (my friend); No incantations of remorse (my friend); Unsheathe the blade within the voice ... my friend."

But this was apparently pure nonsense, as Fish later admitted "the 'g' was put on the end just to make it a little bit different," and explained that the lyrics referred to the firing of original Marillion bassist Dizz Minitt.

"Listen as the syllables of slaughter cut with calm precision; Patterned frosty phrases rape your ears and sow the ice incision; Apocalyptic alphabet casting spell the creed of tempered diction; Adjectives of annihilation bury the point beyond redemption; Venomous verbs of ruthless candor plagiarize assassins fervor."

In other words, it dealt neither in murder, nor even character assassination at the hands of the tabloid press (a very British tradition), as I once assumed, but rather Fish's guilt about his then-roommate's imminent but thankfully not literal demise.

"So you resigned yourself to failure (my friend); And I emerged the chilling stranger (my friend); To eradicate the problem (my friend)."

Regardless, this Marillion classic sees its musicians expertly framing Fish's words with group guitarist Mark Rothery's foreboding arpeggios and bombastic power chords, and alternately suspenseful and swirling, head-spinning synthesizers from Mark Kelly.

But enough about the A-side; this release arguably boasts Marillion's finest non-album B-side in "Cinderella Search," which states its case with unusually direct (by Fish standards) impressions of his drunken dating exploits, which I'll cherry pick here:

"On the rebound, fumbling all the lines; The light at the end of the bottle -- alcoholic alphabet; Through the looking glass the proof in my own reflection; Five senses down and reeling on the Cinderella search.

The footman memorized the number; But the prince still holds both the slippers; And would you leave a palace for a bed sit; And Canterbury Tales ...

Swam through the nicotine seas; And we exchanged the kiss of life; Resurrection in a trance.

The model, the grail, in a marquee of promises; I touched the dream, I hold the dream, I have the dream ... To end the Cinderella search ... Cinderella search; Oh, no more, no more!"

Incidentally, besides the regular, seven-minute album version of "Assassing," there was also a three-and-a-half minute single edit, but I still love the live recording found on 1985's Real to Reel best of all, because Marillion always rocked harder in concert than on record.

Finally, the dark, sinister artwork devised by the dependable Mark Wilkinson is also a personal favorite, as our friend Jester barters an Ace of Spades for the Joker seen in the headband of a war-ravaged, but still far more fit and handsome Fish facsimile.

"And what do you call assassins who accuse assassins anyway ... My friend?"

More Marillion: Market Square Heroes EP, He Knows You Know EP, Script for a Jester’s Tear, Garden Party EP, Fugazi, Real to Reel, Kayleigh EP, Misplaced Childhood, Lavender EP, Brief Encounter, Clutching at Straws, The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra), B’Sides Themselves.

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<1985.06.17> Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

CD, EMI - CDP 7 46160-2

Illustration & sleeve design by Mark Wilkinson

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Gazpacho - Novgorod

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complete 11x11 topster as of now

(also they didn't have king crimson for some reason, so the two blank spaces are red and itcotck)

reblog if you fw it

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Tracklist:

MR 1470 • Lady Let It Lie • Emperor's Song • Fortunes Of War • Somebody Special • No Dummy • Pipeline • Jumpsuit City • Bandwagon • Raw Meat

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