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1990 - 1999: IQ, Marillion, Swans
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Poll Question: Vote for an album, mention it in a post, and mention a track from it
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    Posted: March 17 2022 at 21:15
Vote for an album, mention that album in a post, and mention a track from that album.

Three bands that released their first proper album in 1983 and are still going (Swans took a long break from releasing albums after Soundtracks for the Blind, but came back in 2010, the next albums is hoped to come out next year).

Much like the 2010 and up poll, I have used rateyourmusic to compile this list from their main albums category, and again with IQ I have a not that satisfactory inclusion with the 1998 album, but since I decided to include IQ I want it to be more than just two albums in the poll. I did choose to leave out a Marillion album listed in the RYM initial albums list (not lives, EPs, Singles etc.) which is a collaboration with Positive Light called Tales From the Engine Room [remixes].

IQ - Ever (1993)
IQ - Subterranea (1997)
IQ - Seven Stories Into 98 (1998)

Marillion - Holidays in Eden (1991)
Marillion - Brave (1994)
Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight (1995)
Marillion - This Strange Engine (1997)
Marillion - Radiation (1998)
Marillion - marillion.com (1999)

Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity (1991)
Swans - Body to Body Job to Job (1991)
Swans - Love of Life (1992)
Swans - The Great Annihilator (1995)
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind (1996)

Once again, please mention your favourite album in the list in a post, and a track from it that you really enjoy. I might make playlists out of these polls. Feel free to vote even if you only know one of these albums; it's not intended to be a contest.

The three albums on the list that I know and love best are all Swans: White Light From the Mouth of Infinity, The Great Annihilator and Soundtracks for the Blind. Each of those I love in its own way and each has been my favourite album at different times, and it's really hard to choose one (my fave Swans these days is the 1987 Children of God).

Today I vote for lengthy Soundtracks for the Blind, and for a track I will mention "The Sound" (due to Soundtracks length especially, it's going on two and a half hours, I am more likely to play White Light... and The Great Annihilator).
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Marillion—This Strange Engine.
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Subterranea
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Marillion - Holidays in Eden (1991) - Waiting to Happen
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IQ: Ever

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Soundtracks for the Blind
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IQ - Subterranea, the all album. Their best.
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Subterranea. IQ's masterpiece and an album which puts The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway into the also ran category.
Ever and Brave are also excellent.


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1- Subterranea - Title Track
2- Brave - The Great Escape
3- Ever - Leap of Faith
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Album: IQ, Ever
Track: IQ, Leap Of Faith

Surprised at how many votes Subterranea has. It has some great tracks on it, but i've always considered it a bit of a patchy album, not quite up there with their best.
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Ever
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


The three albums on the list that I know and love best are all Swans: White Light From the Mouth of Infinity, The Great Annihilator and Soundtracks for the Blind.
I'm no different from you here. Children of God was the first Swans I borrowed form a friend and the first I heard - while White Light From the Mouth of Infinity was the first I bought (soon after). I obsessed with them both for quite some time. It's one (or two) of those albums I know each and every second, sound, sentence, word... by heart. I have to go with the relatively straighforward folky tune that ends the latter album. It's just so beautiful... the whole atmosphere of it - like the whole album really. 

 
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If Brave doesn't win I'll eat my hat.
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In the minority of Marillion fans, I never really cared for Brave. I prefer the other albums by them from this decade. I think Holidays in Eden is underrated. But from this time period, I vote for marillion.com with favorite track "Interior Lulu". 
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^ I'm much on the same page regarding Brave and Marillion.com (see the 1999-2009 thread), less regarding Holidays in Eden, which I continue to find rather mediocre (to Marillion standards).

Here I also do like IQ's Ever and I consider Subterranea to be one of their best, but they also left me with the impression that something is missing or failing... (something undefinable, probably... is it spontaneity, is it over-production...?). Marillion was mostly just a notch better. Here I hesitate between Afraid of Sunlight and Marillion.com, but since I voted for the latter in the other thread, I go for AoS here - a great album on which they maintained some diversity (which, imo, is lacking on some of their other albums, including Brave), with some outstanding tracks like the title song and King.

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IQ - Ever (1993)
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

If Brave doesn't win I'll eat my hat.
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IQ - Ever

Track: Leap Of Faith
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argggggg!!

Can{t decide between Ever and Brave, two great and emotional albums
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IQ, Subterranea, Sleepless Incidental.

Oh man that was hard. Ever and Brave are both so close! The Great Escape is such an amazing song!

I also have to mention It All Stops Here from SSI98, love that song so much!!!
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