I dont really get Misplaced Childhood

To horribly generalise about it, the first side (in old money) is more on the pop side before it's gets to the good stuff like the harrowing Blind Curve and the end of the album packs a real punch. Always rated it about 3 - 3.5 stars , personally I prefer the first couple they did a lot more.

SpaceJones! wrote: So, i'm an avid rymer who discovered this site recently and has been using it to dig through and get more into prog, and so far i've enjoyed almost everything i've heard except for misplaced childhood. I don't get it really, on the one hand i like the surreal melancholy of it and all but all the actual music is just bad aor and the singer delivers all of his lines in such a weird and random way like he's lost track of the song. I'm enjoying what i'm listening to of later marillion right now (I skimmed a bit of brave and it seemed great and I just started marbles and it seems great), but outside of the solos which are pretty good, I can't really get behind misplaced childhood even though i want to in concept. I mean, "Kayleigh" almost sounds like a bad joke/parody song to me.

Edited by Cristi - December 20 2023 at 11:02

I was not fond of MC at first.   Then,  I saw the Live in Loreley DVD. The live performances from Misplaced Childhood animated the studio album in my head. It was as if I was blind and then given sight. 

Edited by omphaloskepsis - December 21 2023 at 19:07

Other than much late 60s through 70s music that it seems like the majority enjoy, after that it becomes much more divisive generally.

Welcome to the forum, SpaceJones!, and I would enjoy hearing about your favourite albums be they Prog or not.

Catcher10 wrote: My fav Fish era Marillion albums.......I get it.

Fish's randomness in his vocal delivery is nothing compared to Cyrus (of Citizen Cain). xD That guy's way of articulating his lyrics while singing "in character" is so frantic, it has to be heard to be believed. IMO both are awesome.

I remember seeing Marillion “perform” Kayleigh on Top Of The Pops on TV in the UK back in 1985, I was 14. I liked the song but didn’t think much of Fish. Rock was still just round the corner for me, ‘80s pop was still my thing then.

I got into Marillion when Seasons’ End came out, hooked (😀) by the singles and H’s voice. I followed them for a while but lost track somewhat, as I did generally with rock/prog when I went to uni and was influenced by Shoegaze and Britpop, and then grunge. I didn’t hear Misplaced Childhood until someone (Andrea, feisty technician) shoved it into a cassette player in a lab I was working in at Cardiff University in 2001 - and I suddenly realised what I’d been missing!! Magical, haunting, beautiful: and I still don’t fully understand it!!

MC, CAS and Brave are Marillion’s 3 masterpieces.

And I still absolutely love Kayleigh!

^ That seems to explode the myth that Fish invented the name Kayleigh (his ex girlfriend was Kay Lee) as a fake Scottish name that was later adopted by many for real.

That'd be disappointing if my ex was named Kaylee, Kay Lee, or some other variation thereof - it certainly is a lovely name as spelled by Fish, but it loses its Scots/Irishness and takes on a more Americaness if not.  C'mon, Kay Lee looks like the name of a hair product or frozen pie while Kayleigh dances among the primrose o'er a green, green meadow.  Either way, my Kay Lee will always be Kayleigh.