POLL: Pick the next Extended Play Lounge album
Added 2025-01-05 04:05:23 +0000 UTCHey y'all!
Happy new year! To start off 2025, I'm really in the mood to hear a Marillion album. I have just been gifted the new Deluxe Edition of This Strange Engine. And, we already have Marbles, Brave, and With Friends from the Orchestra on the master list. So, this time, help me select from one of these four albums from this deserving band.
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It's already on YouTube, episode 727
Fort-Man
2025-01-08 03:28:07 +0000 UTCI am more familiar with Marbles. Not much on Brave. Voted for Marbles but if Brave wins (looks like it will) it'll give me a chance to listen. At some point you need to cover the majestic Ocean Cloud at least.
Andrew Marsh
2025-01-07 21:20:05 +0000 UTC...and now I'm rethinking it...stay tuned...
R. Douglas Helvering
2025-01-07 19:02:42 +0000 UTCI love prog, although I can't stand Marillion. Tried to get into the band a few times, unsuccessfully.
Claudio Fernandes
2025-01-06 23:22:11 +0000 UTCI'm thinking the original mix for a first listen.
R. Douglas Helvering
2025-01-06 14:57:20 +0000 UTCVery glad this is being done. However, I am completely unfamiliar with all these albums, and knowing the fans of Marilion to be the best collection of fans there are, I'm happy to let the cognoscenti decide. 🙂
Adie
2025-01-05 22:11:49 +0000 UTCHi, Ralph. A Happy New Year to you too. Thanks for the temptations . I will have a meander through the band’s music as you paint them in such positive colours. (Although I have to confess to a general antipathy towards bands joining forces with an orchestra, even amongst my own favourites; it too often seems an inharmonious marriage. If I had to name a successful meeting it might be The Five Bridges album by The Nice.)
George Davis-Stewart
2025-01-05 18:09:27 +0000 UTCHappy New Year! My money is on Marbles. A fantastic album by Marillion 😎
Karl Stubsjoen
2025-01-05 17:45:32 +0000 UTCSince we're not doing the Fish era this time, I'm not gonna say what I was gonna say. But I do still think that there's one album that jumped at me by its absence: Afraid of Sunlight.
ben-one-eye
2025-01-05 15:37:33 +0000 UTCBrave shocked a lot of us when it came out. A complete 180 from anything else. A dark masterpiece.
Digibirder
2025-01-05 15:25:15 +0000 UTCMuch love for This Strange Engine - but Brave is this band's EPIC. While I find all of the band's output to be upper echelon, the string of Brave | Afraid of Sunlight | This Strange Engine ranks among the great three album runs of all time. With Brave, Marillion firmly establishes themselves as seeking something bigger, artistically speaking. Eschewing any commercial-by-design formats and some would say, condemning themselves to the cult following sidelines. What would spell doom for most acts propelled Marillion to creative masterpieces both recorded, and business-wise to survive. They became pioneers of crowd funding; They created legendary Marillion Weekends - leveraging the power of the fanbase with a sort of micro-marketing - and they survived and thrived. FWIW - IMHO Marillion's strongest album, track for track, may well be Afraid Of Sunlight.
Christopher Arters (relative timeworx - Mr.A)
2025-01-05 15:09:21 +0000 UTCMuch as I would love to see your reaction to the epic title track of 'This Strange Engine' there can only really be one winner here - 'Brave', one of the greatest, most underrated Prog albums of all time, by anyone.
Philip Briddon
2025-01-05 13:36:42 +0000 UTCStrange to me that Marbles isn't ahead - I've always regarded it as their masterpiece. If Brave wins, there's a decision for Doug to make: original mix or Steven Wilson remix?
Nick
2025-01-05 13:29:47 +0000 UTCHi George, Happy New Year. There's a whole bunch of different "styles" within Marillion's music...there might be something that does take your fancy? Especially the live album with orchestra.
Ralph Darvill
2025-01-05 10:55:28 +0000 UTCAs I have managed to familiarise myself well with the Hogarth-era albums over the past few years I'm keen to fill one major hole from it by hearing "Marbles".
Ralph Darvill
2025-01-05 09:07:26 +0000 UTCFinally a Hogarth era EPL, I can't wait 😁
PETER SALTER
2025-01-05 08:06:16 +0000 UTCHappy New Year to you all. I fear this band is not my vintage or style, so I will leave you to it.
George Davis-Stewart
2025-01-05 07:55:41 +0000 UTCYes, especially live 🙂
Mark Aldridge
2025-01-05 05:48:17 +0000 UTCSoooo looking forward to this. The best band on the planet.
Helen Thompson
2025-01-05 04:07:18 +0000 UTC
