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    Posted: November 02 2017 at 16:15
Here is the clash of two albums from 1985.
What's your pick?

I have to pick Childhood easily and I like Power Windows.
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Classic Marillion album, gotta be them I think.

Now if it was against Moving Pictures or something then forget it lol.


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Power Windows. "Big Money," "Middletown Dreams," "Marathon," "Grand Designs"...those songs thrash Misplaced, which I find to be less consistent than either Fugazi or Clutching at Straws. 
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Originally posted by TexasKing TexasKing wrote:

Here is the clash of two albums from 1985.
What's your pick?

I have to pick Childhood easily and I like Power Windows.

same with me---although modern day Marillion is more to my taste.
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Rush, easily. I can't listen to Marillion anymore.

I wasn't keen on PW when it came out but grew to love it. I was obssessed with MP when it came out, and grew to dislike it quite intensely.

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I've tried Misplaced and there are some songs I like but Power Windows is my favorite post-Moving Pictures album so that wins easily
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Misplaced Childhood. I may have become less fond of it while age proceeeded, but I still like it. Power Windows is decent.
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Rush, easily. I can't listen to Marillion anymore.

I wasn't keen on PW when it came out but grew to love it. I was obssessed with MP when it came out, and grew to dislike it quite intensely.
Me too, except for the fact that I don't dislike MP intensely; it just doesn't appeal to me that much anymore. 
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I like both albums

but Rush gets my vote here fairly easily
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Misplaced Childhood is the album where Dick starts singing over everything. So, even though I don't particularly like Power Windows, I find it less annoying than vocalists singing over everything. Hey! Don't listen to Mark Kelly or Steve Rothery! Listen to Me!! "Yeah....yeah..ha...my childhood....oooooo....childhood...." 
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Always liked PW but MC of course.
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Tough one but I will go for Missplaced Childhood. Power Windows is great as well.
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Easily Marillion 
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Both have their merits.  MC is the most mature of all the Fish-era Marillion albums.  It is also the most coherent in terms of its sequencing and has some great songs.  PW also has some great songs but also a highly energized quality, as if the band is revitalized and refreshed, and entering a new exciting stage - that is why it garnered my vote.
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Power windows is actually one of my favorite Rush albums even thought it's fairly poppy.
Still thought it had some great tunes on it. 
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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

Both have their merits.  MC is the most mature of all the Fish-era Marillion albums.  It is also the most coherent in terms of its sequencing and has some great songs.  PW also has some great songs but also a highly energized quality, as if the band is revitalized and refreshed, and entering a new exciting stage - that is why it garnered my vote.

I think Clutching is better with both its material and its sequencing. It cooks from start to finish. 
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Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

I've tried Misplaced and there are some songs I like but Power Windows is my favorite post-Moving Pictures album so that wins easily
 
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When I was a teen, there was a day when I listened Misplaced Childhood 10 times in a row.

I told myself not to do that again. In fact, I did not touch that album for at least a decade.

Yesterday, I listened to it again. 3 times in a row.

So yeah.
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Originally posted by peregrino peregrino wrote:

When I was a teen, there was a day when I listened Misplaced Childhood 10 times in a row.

I told myself not to do that again. In fact, I did not touch that album for at least a decade.

Yesterday, I listened to it again. 3 times in a row.

So yeah.


Uh oh, you might have to lock that album up in a safe or something and give someone else the combo.. Then tell them not to give it to you no matter what lol. Welcome
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Thanks for the welcome!

And yeah... Misplaced Childhood has a place in my heart alright, its lyrics really speak to me, and I've even credit it to shape me as the person I am now. I am that kind of geek I guess. But you can't fight Onkel Fish's poetry.... To this day, I've found at least one Misplaced Childhood quote to use in almost every situation in my life.
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