MISPLACED CHILDHOOD

"Misplaced Childhood" has been my first contact with prog music, I was 14 years old. At that time, I was listening to Triumph and hard rock music like that. When I heard this album, it changes my conception of what good music is and I'd say that it changes my life too!! I remember hearing Fish calling back his childhood in "Blind Curve": "A chlidhood, my childhood, give it back, give it back to me" and Steve Rothery beginning one of his magical and so emotional guitar solos, it made me forget the virtuosity of Rik Emmett. I remember too the overture of the album, "Pseudo slik kimono", this short introspective song that put the mood of the album : a trip into the recovering of the past of Fish. Another magic moment of the album is the meeting of Fish with his lovely Magdelene in "Bitter Suite": "The sky was Bible black in Lyon, when I met the Magdelene, she was paralysed in the streetlights, she refuses to give her name, under a ring of violet bruises, they were pinned upon her arms, two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand to a room of dancing shadows where all the heartaches dissappear, and from the glowing tongues of candles I heard her wishpers in my ears: j'entends ton coeur, I can hear your heart, I hear your heart". This album is what a prog concept-album have to be: no discontinuity between the songs, a story that goes hand in hand with the music through beautiful, dramatic and intense developments that are culminating in an exploding end full of joy and serennity! This album still make me feel a lot of emotions, with the same intensity through the years. If I had to take only one album to pass the rest of my life on a lost island, that would be "Misplaced Childhood"!! I thanks God for the chance I had to see and hear Fish so close in front of me at "Le D'auteuil" in Quebec City (where I live and where Arena made their live album "Welcome to the Stage") in his "Sunset on Empire Tour". After I discovered "Misplaced", I continued my discovering of prog music with Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, etc. and today The Flower Kings, so I thanks Marillion for this beautiful gift that is "Misplaced Childhood"!!