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Poll Question: Which album from Marillion is your favourite?
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    Posted: March 16 2017 at 06:08
Two Marillion albums from the eighties.
Which is your favourite?
Originally when both records had been released,Misplaced was definitely my favourite,but in recent years CAS has grown into a fine last hurrah for Fish.White Russian,Sugar Mice,Going Under(my personal favourite!)etc.CAS gets my vote.
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Misplaced Childhood, rather easily.
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Easily Clutching at Straws

Misplaced Childhood is my least favorite Marillion fro the Fish era.
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Clutching at Straws. (still can't vote)
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Misplaced Childhood, rather easily.

this --I'm not the biggest fan of the band but they are ok---this seems like their most cohesive album with no weak spots
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Going with both for this one.
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Clutching but very closed
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Not a big fan of the band, Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws are the only two discs from Marillion that I listen to with any regularity. This being said, Clutching at Straws is easily my favorite...
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Clutching, easily. I also prefer Fugazi  to Misplaced.
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These days I'm probably equally indifferent to them.
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Clutching at Straws.
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Originally posted by Modrigue Modrigue wrote:

Easily Clutching at Straws

Misplaced Childhood is my least favorite Marillion fro the Fish era.

Wholeheartedly agree with Nico here.
My enjoyment of MC has increased over the years, but I never hear the masterpiece that so many others seem to do. Hell I even prefer the debut over it. Fugazi though remains my fave.
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Misplaced Childhood. CAS has got some brilliant songs on it, but there's a few in the middle that haven't clicked with me as much as MC. 
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

These days I'm probably equally indifferent to them.

That's about how I feel......I've tried to 'get into' Marillion  for several years now and they just don't get my juices flowing...

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I think MC is more immediately enjoyable but CaS has more lasting power. I voted for CaS.
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Misplaced Childhood.  The band sounded great on CAS but the pacing of it is all twisted to my ears.  Emphasis is placed in the wrong places and it sounds like it is concluding when it has only barely begun.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

These days I'm probably equally indifferent to them.


That's about how I feel......I've tried to 'get into' Marillion  for several years now and they just don't get my juices flowing...

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I loved them in the 80's, while I was still discovering prog rock. They are a good band,and their debut is excellent, it's just that in the overall context of progressive rock, I would say they are nothing special or remarkable.

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I prefer Straws to Childhood. It strikes me as a darker idea, which I like a lot, but the music itself is on-par.
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They are equally excellent.
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