MISPLACED CHILDHOOD

Well,what the heck?!!!!!!!!!!If you are a progressive fan and are going to start listening to Marillion on the basis of their progressive rock label then don't start with this album. Now progressive rock is supposed to be complex,unpredictable ,right?Well then Misplaced Childhood is anything but progressive. Leaving Progressiveness and all that crap aside,if we see this album from the point of just music,this doesn't work.It's predictable,boring.If you like to listen to safe ,predictable music,Marillion's Misplaced Childhood is right up your street.WHere are the solos?Where are the riffs?This just keeps going,changing slightly but,really throughout the album it sounds just the same.When i listen to it if i am not noticing i can hardly notice the difference.Not like a Motorhead album(if you can listen to Motorhead without paying attention,well then you deserve an award.) where all the songs are played fast,this is all without any great distinctive melody or rhythm. The first 2 minutes of the album are good.Very good tune.The rest of the album,well it gets a little progressive in very small parts.But the whole thing is very 80ish pop type.Same beats,samey sounding everything.Slick sounding,well produced and all that crap too,if you want to know.Of course ,if you don't actually listen to the music it won't sound bad.But come closer and all the hooks will dissappear. However this is the only Marillion album to get to the top of the charts,so i might give the other albums a try.