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SteveG 
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 Topic: Afraid of Sunlight: Marillion
Posted: November 08 2014 at 12:52 |
This follow up to the gigantic concept album Brave by Marillion always leaves me baffled. There seems to be a shortage of Steve Rothery lead guitar magic on this one and many of the songs don't really grab me. What's your opinion of AOS?
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lazland
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 13:18 |
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Q magazine put it well when they reviewed it. They said if any other band had released this album, aside from one called Marillion, it would be a worldwide smash hit.
It is an album which bleeds emotion, and has perhaps the finest conclusion in King ever made.
AoS is an album every single lover of great music should own.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 15:18 |
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Apart from Cannibal Surf Babe, this album is pretty good. The track Out Of This World is brilliant.
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 15:23 |
 Tom Ozric wrote:
Apart from Cannibal Surf Babe, this album is pretty good. The track Out Of This World is brilliant.
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What do you mean "pretty good"? And what do you mean "Apart from Cannibal Surf Babe"?  I like this album more than "Brave" but not as much as "Marbles" when it comes to the non-Fish era of this band. Great album in my opinion.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 15:33 |
^ Wow  .......I dunno what to say......butchered surfer girl, just can't get into this track, can see the band thinking it's a bit of fun....... ........I prefer This Strange Engine.......but AoS might squeeze in as a 4 star album......
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infocat
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 15:39 |
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Well, I do like the ending of "King"...
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 15:48 |
Tom Ozric wrote:
^ Wow .......I dunno what to say......butchered surfer girl, just can't get into this track, can see the band thinking it's a bit of fun.......
........I prefer This Strange Engine.......but AoS might squeeze in as a 4 star album...... |
I'm just having some fun with you Tom but I wasn't too impressed with This Strange Engine like a lot of people are, but i'd point out "Season's End" as one I rate fairly high when it comes to that period of Marillion.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
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dr wu23
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 15:51 |
It's one of the few post Fish Marillion things I own. I think the title track is one of the best things they have written and certainly my favorite track on the album.
Edited by dr wu23 - November 08 2014 at 15:52
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Barbu
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 16:06 |
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One of my most played Marillion, very strong songwriting and themes...Love it.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 16:08 |
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......day-glo Jesus on the dashboard........
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Barbu
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 16:19 |
Add it on my playlist for tonight. 
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 16:23 |
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This is my favorite Marillion album.
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 16:33 |
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At's an excellent album, one I regularly listen to and one of Marillions best.
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Man With Hat
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Posted: November 08 2014 at 17:04 |
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One of the few H-era Marillions I liked back in the day. It's been forever since I played it though...I should do so again and see if it kept it's magic for me.
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Posted: November 09 2014 at 04:00 |
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This album really cemented me in as a Marillion fan although their latter material leaves me mostly cold.
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dr wu23
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Posted: November 09 2014 at 11:30 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
This album really cemented me in as a Marillion fan although their latter material leaves me mostly cold.
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I have to agree ....the later material just doesn't move me.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Posted: February 03 2015 at 03:45 |
I got the 2CD remastered version and on the second cd there are some demos of songs that did not make it on the album (Icon -sounds like a work in progress demo, but Live Forever and Mirages are quite good), an acoustic demo of Afraid of Sunlight (Hogarth plays piano and sings) and studio out takes of Out of this World (which I've grown to like more than the album version ) and Cannibal Surf Babe. there's also a short demo called Bass frenzy where Pete and Ian jam a bit. I've also heard some demo versions of King and Beyond You, plus an early version of Accidental Man (didn't know it was made during the AOS sessions, but sounds different then the TSE version, but it's quite nice).
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Posted: November 06 2015 at 00:10 |
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This is my husband's favorite album and I would say one of my top 3 H-era Marillion albums.
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Posted: January 10 2016 at 10:05 |
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Easily in my Top-3 from h era, along with 1989 and 2007
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Posted: January 10 2016 at 10:32 |
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It's not my favorite Marillion CD, but Beautiful is one of my favorite Marillion songs.
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