FUGAZI

Some of the songs on this album were actually my first encounters with neo prog. And then I'm talking about Asassing, Jigsaw, Incubus and Fugazi. In those days I was blown away by them because even though I didn't fully realize back then that I was a progger I must have felt it intuitively and known it somehow. I was impressed by the live performance I witnessed on a video in those days, Fish with his painted face and his impressive performance on stage with his theatrical displays.

I still love it right now but it's a different prog era now and this is something of those days, and so a bit outdated right now. I try not to let it play too big a part in my rating because I feel I shouldn't give this a low rating just because of the outdated-aspect. But another slight disadvantage of this album is that this studio release is not by far as good as the live performances of Marillion in those days. And it's hard to put that out of the mind when hearing this. I will give some scores song by song to show what they mean to me:

1. Assassing: sheer sentiment and a good song by the way: 3,75*

2. Punch and Judy: no sentiments here and not as good as previous: 3*

3. Jigsaw: a bit better than P&J and there are some memories here as well: 3,5*

4. Emerald Lies: a song without the great substance as the others have: 2,75*

5. She Cameleon: more or less the same actually: 3*

6. Incubus: I really loved this one back then. Brilliant track: 4*

7. Fugazi: also a true ancient cracker but not the very best: 3,5 *

So the ultimate score reflects very well what I feel for this album. It's a good/very good album, scoring at least some 3,3 but no more than 3 stars in the end.