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TexasKing
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Topic: Power Windows or Misplaced Childhood? 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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YESESIS
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Posted: November 02 2017 at 16:18 |
Classic Marillion album, gotta be them I think.
Now if it was against Moving Pictures or something then forget it lol.
Edited by YESESIS - November 02 2017 at 16:20
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verslibre
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Posted: November 02 2017 at 19:16 |
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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twosteves
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Posted: November 02 2017 at 19:27 |
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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Blacksword
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 02:42 |
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.
Edited by Blacksword - November 03 2017 at 02:47
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Jeffro
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 05:29 |
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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Posted: November 03 2017 at 05:37 |
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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Manuel
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 06:58 |
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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digdug
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 07:35 |
I like both albums
but Rush gets my vote here fairly easily
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axeman
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 08:46 |
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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Barbu
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 08:55 |
Always liked PW but MC of course.
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Wanorak
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 10:01 |
Tough one but I will go for Missplaced Childhood. Power Windows is great as well.
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Man With Hat
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 10:28 |
Easily Marillion
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Progosopher
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 11:16 |
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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Argo2112
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 14:17 |
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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verslibre
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 14:32 |
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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maryes
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 17:26 |
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 |
I agree
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peregrino
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 17:28 |
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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YESESIS
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 17:52 |
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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peregrino
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Posted: November 03 2017 at 17:57 |
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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