INTERNAL EXILE

I can't say I ever appreciated Fish's work. Marillion, while he was a member always sounded like a second rate Genesis. Fish's voice even sounds somewhere between Gabriel's and Phil Collins'. Then there was the act of leaving the band he helped make popular (so to speak) at the height of their success (so to speak).

So here is Fish's second solo album. Mine has a different cover than the one posted here, but at least he's not posing in a wet car, or displaying finger trails. You get a couple of passable prog songs, like Marillion, that sound like Genesis knockoffs, a few songs that sound like they were "inspired" by some of Gabriel's solo work (one brings to mind Humdrum, and another, Solsbury Hill, complete with Gabriel-like shouts). There are also some very forgettable arena rock type songs.

But I really must mention the cover of Thunderclap Newman's Something In The Air. Either Fish is being extremely ironic (but I doubt it), or he misses the point. Here we have a song about coming revolution, and he arranges it in a bland corporate pop style.

Instead of Peter Gabriel, he has become Phil Collins.

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