Top 20 Marillion songs

1)   A man of a thousand faces

infocat wrote: Why would you edit out the ending of "The Space..."?  I love the ending!  (Well, I love the entire song.)

The thing about Marillion - in my opinion, anyway - is that they could write great half-songs. Lurking within "Interior Lulu" is about 2 minutes or so of brilliant music. Ditto "This Strange Engine." Or "Man with a Thousand Faces." Or "Estonia." (The chorus just ruins it for me.) Or, to get to "The Rake's Progress" and "100 Nights," one must first suffer through "This Town." Or, "When I Meet God" was on the verge of being a masterpiece, if only the first section was thrown out and that brilliant last section was developed. (With my trusty Acoustica MP3 editor, I've combined "Quartz" with that second section of "When I Meet God" and made one brilliant prog track.) I always felt that "The Space," with a little more work, could have been one of the truly great prog songs by anyone anywhere ever. There's that great beginning, then that soaring, majestic instrumental section, and then... when H re-enters, it just becomes, well... pardon me for saying, but... a Michael Bolton tune. How I would have loved a return to the chorus, with a real chorus (like a choir or something) and then another brilliant instrumental section. It's so clear in my head, how this song should have gone, if only someone - the producer, or whoever - had some kind of vision. Anyway, I know others feel this way, - and I know others don't, LOL :-) Sometimes, a swerve away from what works isn't "progressive" more than laziness to develop a theme rather than abandoning it. In my opinion (the stress is on IMO), Marillion were often guilty of this, and it's why many of us find them so frustrating. Yet we love them so.

Edited by jude111 - April 30 2012 at 21:24

Script For A Jester's Tear
Chelsea Monday
Forgotten Sons
Assassing
Jigsaw
Incubus
Fugazi
Cinderella Search (full version)
Bittersuite
Heart Of Lothian
Blind Curve
Childhood's End?
Warm Wet Circles
That Time Of The Night
Just For The Record
Incommunicado
Slàinte Mhath
The King of Sunset Town
Easter
The Space

Hi Guys I'm from Venice Italy!!!

this is hard as they are one of my favorite bands
so today i can think of:

Script for Jester's Tear
Jigsaw
Blind Curve
Warm Wet Circles/That Time of the Night
Sugar Mice
Seasons End
The Space
Waiting to Happen
Goodbye to All that
Afraid of Sunlight
This Strange Engine
Cathedral Wall
Quartz
Ocean Cloud
the Only Unforgivable Thing
Neverland
Happiness is the Road
Man from the planet Marzipan
Throw Me Out
Gaza