BRAVE

Over 5 or 6 years, i have this album, and for some reasons i did not listen to it enough attentively or i was not really into a marillion type of mood when i bought it (i know i bought it with 6 or 7 other albums... you know when a music fan gets excited in a music store and feel guilty afterwards ;-) . For mehaving brave in my cd colections was a real mistake...The real mistake is shocking me now. As a matter of fact, some of the progarchives users, gave a 5 stars to this album and i asked myself, how could they say that, it is a poor album? I've read many reviews, exemple the one from Tristan in july 2004, which brought back my curiosity and i decided to listen brave ...it was full of dust,but i tried it.

Wow, What a shock to see that i had a very amazing album in my possession since many years and that i never paid the disserved attention. It is a powerful dark album, the concept is great, i had never paid any attention to the lyrics, it is dark but gee it is well made , i am feeling weird of having had a masterpiece in my collection and not knowing it. To me marilion was Marillion with Fish, and nothing else. Now i know there's Fish and There's Marillion, Mr. Hogarth you just won my greatest respect and admiration. Let me be sorry for putting Your band in the "eighties has been" bands, 1994 album Brave is almost perfect, from a great prog band.