Script For A Jesters Tear
Teenage angst meets prog rock on Marillion's first and still finest album from 1983. Singer Fish plays the role of misunderstood poet to perfection, his bedsit anguish memorably realised by sleeve artist Mark Wilkinson. In the title track a convoluted web of lyrical imagery invests its prosaic lost-my-girlfriend theme with a tortured passion previously alien to prog rock. Elsewhere, loss of another kind is explored in "Chelsea Monday"; Fish commendably vents his spleen at the establishment in "Forgotten Sons"--a crowd-stopping finale to Marillion's live show in those days--and pokes wordy fun at the toffs in the band's first and most unlikely hit, "Garden Party". Musically it's earnestly sub-Genesis most of the time, as the inclusion of the almost 20-minute "Grendel" (a thinly veiled take on "Supper's Ready" from Foxtrot) on the second disc shows only too clearly, but the musician's sheer energy--galvanised by Fish's angry young man polemics--carries the day. It's an astonishingly confident debut destined never to be bettered, but thankfully now given a remastered new life, with extensive notes from all involved in the booklet plus earlier material and demos collected on disc two. --Mark Walker Brand: Marillion. Binding Audio CD. Artist(s): Marillion. Publisher(s): Caroline. Label: Caroline. Format: Original recording remastered.
| Fabricant: | Caroline Records |
| Numéro de la pièce: | EMI724385786525 |
| Prix le plus bas (CAD): | 21,39 $ |
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