Seasons End: Marillion

Mr. H's first studio album with the band after Fish swam away, and is favorite of mine. What's your opinion of Seasons End

Edited by SteveG - December 03 2014 at 16:55

I was only a casual Marillion fan in the Fish period, but liked them enough to go see a concert. I had no idea they had just changed singers. It was pretty good but seemed like a huge change at the time. I didn't really keep up with them after that, but my girlfriend at college somehow got this album so I heard it a few times in her dorm room. It's not bad, it's got some heavy emotional moments. But I don't own it and haven't heard it since then.

Catcher10 wrote: I spin it quite often. H's vocals are fantastic IMO on this one. The songs and musicianship is very good, Easter is dark, moody and I like that. The fantastic title track.....Hooks, Berlin, Space.....yea I like it a lot.

Dark and moody? Two words I'd never use to describe Easter.

An excellent album, one of their strongest in fact, with some amazing songs on it. Berlin in particular gets me every time.

Tried Season's End because COLLAGE's classic "Moonshine" had been compared to it.  It was my firt Marillion album.  I found it flat and rarely return to it.  "Easter" is great but there is not much else for me.  I haven't been drawn by Marillion in general, although MIsplaced Childhood is definitely better.  I've listened here or there to later albums but they don't seem to have it for me

I like it a lot although I haven't spun it for a while. The textures and atmosphere is very sombre but that suits me and I've always been a fan of Hogarth's voice. Neo started to shift direction at this point and you could argue this was the first Marillion album that had no resemblance to Genesis on any track. Obviously the change of vocalist was a big reason for that but I also suspect that Mark Kelly was developing his playing and keyboard rig away from the overt seventies prog revival thing. They were growing up.

Edited by richardh - December 04 2014 at 01:51

I like a lot from this one, Easter my absolute favorite. Steve Rothery always woos me with that guitar...

Edited by fudgenuts64 - December 04 2014 at 06:39

Easter......what a song....

Hard to top Fugazi......sorry h, Fish takes the trophy in these parts.....

Fugazi is what we come to expect from a Prog band at the time. Childhood and Straws were a frad more ambitious, conceptually speaking, and are successful either way. h successfully infused what Paul Menel couldn't do in IQ. I do worship Season's End, and Brave. As much as anything with Derek Dick. But recently, This Strange Engine is the album that I'm returning to most often. The 15 minute title-track encompasses all that I admire in the band, even if its just a 'medley' of sorts, of all the fine elements which make up this spectacular band.