Misplaced Childhood (CD)
Marillion
Amoeba Review
Michael Keefe 06/15/2010
In the early 1980s, Marillion helped revitalized the dramatic tones and occasional odd time signatures of the 1970s progressive rock movement, while utilizing more accessible melodies and lyrics. Marillion were immediately embraced by their native England, and their first two LPs – Script for a Jester's Tear and Fugazi – met with success. However, it was their third album, Misplaced Childhood, that vaulted the quintet into the realms of British rock stardom and Platinum sales. A true concept album, Misplaced Childhood follows a man from the loss of love, through a drug-induced downfall, and to redemption and the reawakening of his true self, lost since childhood. Though recorded as two side-long suites, a pair of hit singles were excised from the LP. Both "Kayleigh" and "Lavender" (sweetly sentimental songs, each) went Top 10 in England, and the former was moderate hit on MTV in America. The rest of the album balances dark tumult, prog rock grooves, atmospheric passages, and exultant rock. Throughout, the band's playing is emotionally powerful and technically excellent, without being flashy or self-indulgent. Perhaps most important to the album's success are the lyrics of lead singer, Fish, whose confessional words are poetic, but not flowery or at all fantastical. Misplaced Childhood marked the band's creative and commercial high point and remains one of the very best progressive rock albums of the 1980s.
Track Listing
Disc 1 Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Pseudo Silk Kimono
|
Marillion | 02:14 |
2.
Kayleigh
|
Marillion | 04:03 |
3.
Lavender
|
Marillion | 02:25 |
4.
Bitter Suite: Brief Encounter/Lost Weekend/Blue Angel/Misplaced Rendezvous/Windswept Thumb
|
Marillion | 07:56 |
5.
Heart of Lothian: Wide Boy/Curtain Call
|
Marillion | 04:02 |
6.
Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)
|
Marillion | 02:13 |
7.
Lords of the Backstage
|
Marillion | 01:52 |
8.
Blind Curve: Vocal Under a Bloodlight/Passing Strangers/Mylo/Perimeter Walk/Threshold
|
Marillion | 09:29 |
9.
Childhood's End?
|
Marillion | 04:33 |
10.
White Feather
|
Marillion | 02:25 |
11.
Lady Nina [Extended 12" Version]
|
Marillion | 05:47 |
12.
Freaks [Single Version]
|
Marillion | 04:05 |
13.
Kayleigh [Alternative Mix]
|
Marillion | 03:59 |
14.
Lavender Blue
|
Marillion | 04:21 |
15.
Heart of Lothian [Extended Mix]
|
Marillion | 05:45 |
16.
Pseudo Silk Kimono [Demo]
|
Marillion | 02:11 |
17.
Kayleigh [Demo]
|
Marillion | 04:06 |
18.
Lavender [Demo]
|
Marillion | 02:37 |
19.
Bitter Suite [Demo]
|
Marillion | 02:54 |
20.
Lords of the Backstage [Demo]
|
Marillion | 01:46 |
21.
Blue Angel [Demo]
|
Marillion | 01:46 |
22.
Misplaced Rendezvous [Demo]
|
Marillion | 01:56 |
23.
Heart of Lothian [Demo]
|
Marillion | 03:49 |
24.
Waterhole (Expresso Bongo) [Demo]
|
Marillion | 02:00 |
25.
Passing Strangers [Demo]
|
Marillion | 09:16 |
26.
Childhood's End? [Demo]
|
Marillion | 02:23 |
27.
White Feather [Demo]
|
Marillion | 02:18 |