I dont really get Misplaced Childhood

Cheers wrote: octopus-4 wrote: I bought it the day it was released in my country. I actually loved Fugazi and Real To Reel, but Scripts was not yet available here. The same day I bought Soft Machine's Land Of Cockayne and I remember tripping at a friend's home with both the albums.  You have to consider that in 1983 there was just MTV and few radios, the actial music was standardized on Yamaha and Korg keyboards, Fairlight for the rich, sequenced drums and a lot of gel in the hair. Misplaced Childhood brought a bit of good prog into our lives. It's true: Kayleigh is a commercial song, I think it's still their biggest commercial success, but it's part of a concept album. Listened together with Pseudo-silk Kimono and Lavender it has a different flavor. As Richardh says, the B side of the vinyl is better.  It's probably me, but I think Marillion tried in the second part to follow the structure of The Dark Side of the Moon, with Expresso Bongo taking the role of Money and the title track with White Feather in the roles of Brain Damage and Eclipse.  Back to Kayleigh: it's a real person. Fish has revealed the story in an interview. She was a nurse, passed away for a cancer years after the album release. P.S. - I can't get into Genesis and Selling England By The Pound. We all have "faults". You're a Brave, Brave man - to admit that re: SEBTP! - hat off for doing so, and while we're making 'confessions' while I think its great - it is my least fave of the Gabriel era, and I enjoy TOTT more... I like MC but love CAS - post Fish I'm a total cliche: Marbles and Afraid of Sunlight all the way... Anyway - as others have said - Prog is a big, big church - and you can't like it all, so don't sweat when it doesn't click for you....  - Rush have always left me cold, yet I consider Prog to be my favourite music genre... I know what I like!

richardh wrote: mathman0806 wrote: richardh wrote: ^ That seems to explode the myth that Fish invented the name Kayleigh (his ex girlfriend was Kay Lee) as a fake Scottish name that was later adopted by many for real. A friend of mine (and Marillion fan) named hos daughter Kayleigh but not because of the song. Mom is of Scottish descent and wanted a Scottish first name. But, from birth the daughter is called by her middle name. Trump's former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was born in 1988 and I had wondered if a parent knew the Marillion song but she is clearly of Scottish descent. I'm sure there are many 'Kayleigh's' that are nothing to do with the song but I had been (possibly) mislead into believing the name didn't exist before the song, so it's kind of an urban myth that Fish invented it (but a fun one nevertheless!)

Dellinger wrote: I do love it. I guess my second favourite Marillion album, just after Script. Who knows, with repeated listenings it may click... or not. If you have trouble with the vocals, perhaps getting used to them may help... I myself am not the biggest fan of Fish's vocals... but neither am I much of a fan of Gabriel's vocals, and still I love Genesis music.

I do love it. I guess my second favourite Marillion album, just after Script. Who knows, with repeated listenings it may click... or not. If you have trouble with the vocals, perhaps getting used to them may help... I myself am not the biggest fan of Fish's vocals... but neither am I much of a fan of Gabriel's vocals, and still I love Genesis music.

richardh wrote: ^ That seems to explode the myth that Fish invented the name Kayleigh (his ex girlfriend was Kay Lee) as a fake Scottish name that was later adopted by many for real.

A friend of mine (and Marillion fan) named hos daughter Kayleigh but not because of the song. Mom is of Scottish descent and wanted a Scottish first name. But, from birth the daughter is called by her middle name.

Trump's former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was born in 1988 and I had wondered if a parent knew the Marillion song but she is clearly of Scottish descent.

That'd be disappointing if my ex was named Kaylee, Kay Lee, or some other variation thereof - it certainly is a lovely name as spelled by Fish, but it loses its Scots/Irishness and takes on a more Americaness if not.  C'mon, Kay Lee looks like the name of a hair product or frozen pie while Kayleigh dances among the primrose o'er a green, green meadow.  Either way, my Kay Lee will always be Kayleigh.  

^ That seems to explode the myth that Fish invented the name Kayleigh (his ex girlfriend was Kay Lee) as a fake Scottish name that was later adopted by many for real.

I remember seeing Marillion “perform” Kayleigh on Top Of The Pops on TV in the UK back in 1985, I was 14. I liked the song but didn’t think much of Fish. Rock was still just round the corner for me, ‘80s pop was still my thing then.

I got into Marillion when Seasons’ End came out, hooked (😀) by the singles and H’s voice. I followed them for a while but lost track somewhat, as I did generally with rock/prog when I went to uni and was influenced by Shoegaze and Britpop, and then grunge. I didn’t hear Misplaced Childhood until someone (Andrea, feisty technician) shoved it into a cassette player in a lab I was working in at Cardiff University in 2001 - and I suddenly realised what I’d been missing!! Magical, haunting, beautiful: and I still don’t fully understand it!!

MC, CAS and Brave are Marillion’s 3 masterpieces.

And I still absolutely love Kayleigh!