Thank you to Todd Evans and Uncle Meat for a full two hour extravaganza of Marillion love! Despite some connection issues, the Meat Man persevered and brought with him an interesting and sometimes surprising list for his Top 11 Marillion albums of all time.
Only three albums did not get listed by anyone. Others appeared on all three lists. In fact, all of us picked the exact same #11.
One thing is clear: Each of us has an emotional connection to these records that we picked. The music is personal. It’s important to our personal history. There was a lot of love for all eras of Marillion on this night. Highlights:
- Discussions on the making of certain records, such as Holidays in Eden and Seasons End.
- Marillion’s knack for epic closers.
- Concept albums, double albums, and live albums.
- One album that made a list that isn’t technically a studio album.
- Moments that make your skin vibrate.
- Love for later albums including a lot of praise for An Hour Before It’s Dark and Marbles.
- The mid-show break was a music video by Jacob Moon: his cover of “Kayleigh”.
- Sounds that can’t be made, and songs that should have been on the albums.
- Remix albums and EPs.
- Bonus tracks, B-sides and box sets.
- and one vintage 2004 Front Row Club t-shirt!
Please enjoy this excellent love letter to Marillion, with lots of physical product on three formats (cassettes, CD and vinyl). Thank you for watching!
Next week: We are back at the cottage with another list show: Top 5 Childhood Music Videos with Jex and Dr. K!
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Enjoyed the first half live, Mike. Will catch the second half this weekend. Henry.
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This is in the ‘Watch Later’ playlist Mike! The Marillos are one of my fav bands so looking forward to agreeing/disagreeing/getting slightly outraged/nodding ruefully at the choices made ;)
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Thank you Jay! Todd and I both went “Contrarian” in some ways. Meat was more straight along the lines. At least in my opinion. The nice thing is, it was all about the love of this band.
In some cases, the music was just too dark to rate higher.
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Ahhhh “dark”. I know exactly which album you are referring to! :D
Fun side note, the inspiration for that album was a girl on a bridge, that bridge was 15mins from my house, in Wales. I used to drive over it every day when I worked in England. In fact, when I go back to visits family, the two things I think as I cross it is “I’m coming home” and “Like the whole world has been made again”.
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Yep there is definitely one album that is darker than the others…especially if you own it on vinyl. Double groove on side “D” gives you the “happy” or “tragic” endings.
I’m curious what the actual bridge looks like. I am sure listeners paint pictures in their heads. Mine is a tall, dark, stone bridge.
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Unfortunately, it’s a bit more modern than that (https://images.ctfassets.net/pjshm78m9jt4/289596_header/b6aa56a0f4ffacd6df50bf99096697dc/importedImage289596_header).
There’s quite a good video of the walk across here: https://youtu.be/oUnFe0wFIR8?si=Xxlm-4IteE4ZuUh6&t=374
A bit more ‘dark’ facts: the bridge is also where Manic Street Preachers’ guitarist Richey Edwards is alleged to have jumped from in 1994 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Street_Preachers#The_disappearance_of_Richey_Edwards)
Funny how something that (for me) fills my heart with love can also be the source of such darkness…..
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It’s so wide and open, it looks nothing like what I expected! And that’s wild that Richey Edwards probably took his life from the same bridge, the same year this album came out. Just crazy.
I have always loved bridges, ever since I was a kid. I made my dad drive slow over them so I could see the water below.
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