MARILLION "THE LAST STRAW" (reaction)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2022
- Check out Sight After Dark reacting to “The Last Straw” by Marillion!
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Whole album is good. They make magic together. This and Misplaced Childhood are my two fav albums from the Fish era. If you ever do Misplaced Childhood, you need to do it as a whole or at least Side 1 and Side 2. Thanks for doing this.
Agree with you David. Actually they did my request "Blind curve" from misplaced childhood about 6 months ago if you want to check it out.
Glad you enjoyed David, thanks for watching!
My favorite Marillion album. Fish's vocals throughout the album are so good!
This was Marillion at the absolute pinnacle of their powers. Lyrically, a compelling combination of world weariness and bitter vitriol. It's humanity clutching at straws in our collective failure to address the many problems afflicting our world. We're caught between rage and resignation, knowing our faults but failing at fix them, so we just look at each other and shrug, and get on with some futile distraction.
Thanks for sharing!
This is the last song of the last album that singer/songwriter Fish did with the band. It's a concept album about a man, 29, who's life is a mess, fighting alcoholism, a failed marriage and being a shit father. playing in a failing band. There is a Genesis influence but feel they take it much further. This is what Genesis would have sounded like had they had a few more brain cells.
You mentioned the cover. It shows some of Fish's influences and heroes. Robert Burns, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote, Lenny Bruce, John Lennon, James Dean and Jack Kerouac.
The female singer is Tessa Niles. She has mainly been a session singer but has sung with dozens and dozens of top artists. Clapton, Bowie, Tina Turner, the Stones, Bruford wakeman and Howe to name but a few.
Nice reaction, thanks.
Wow, thanks for the details Paul!
Dylan Thomas was brilliant but a notorious drunk. I was in Tenby, Wales a little while back and there is a pub there (I think it's called The Coach and Horses) where Dylan Thomas apparently got drunk one night and left his script for Under Milk Wood on a barstool.
@@richey4287 cheers for that. As you probably know, Fish battled alcoholism and think this album is part biographical about himself.
I also like that the jester's cap is peaking out of his satchel as if representing the end of an era (which ended up being foreshadowing of course). I don't know if you have the re-issue of this album, but the 2nd disc has a collection of "unreleased" demos. What's interesting is that the music from those demo became tracks for "Season's End" while the lyrics became tracks for Fish's debut solo album "Vigil in the Wilderness of Mirrors."
Yes this was the end of the brilliant Fish era, but they reinvented with H and continued to produce excellent prog with my fav Marbles album, then FEAR and An Hour Before it's Dark. Best thing is you can see them live with their new stuff and I shall see them Sept. They are the best live 21st c prog band out there
Hope you have a great time!
I was fortunate to see Marillion tour this album at Wembley Arena on Thursday 5th November 1987 & they were ridiculously good. It is one of my top 3 gigs.
I saw Marillion live at the old Ritz in NYC when they toured for this album. The last album with Fish as vocalist and arguably their best during his tenure if not from their whole catalogue.
Was there also!!!!!
One of my all-time favorite Marillion songs. They have an extensive catalogue going back decades, all well worth a listen.
In the Clutching at Straws album, there’s a fictional character his name is Torch and he’s the one with silvery hair standing at the right of the picture
Tessa Niles in backing vocals, amazing voice!
Real good song that has an edge yet also a complex rock and bluesy sound!
I enjoyed the song quite a bit. I too heard the similarity with Peter Gabriel. The mix really made my speakers sing. Very clean and clear.
This is the remix on the Deluxe Edition of Clutching At Straws.
Sounds amazing!!!!!
Personally this is my favorite album of the 80s. And top 3 of all time.
I like Marillion alot. Both the Fish era and H era. Wish they'd had been more popular here in the US but for some reason they were never really marketed including the two early hits Kayleigh and Lavender. All of them are really superior musicians and pull off some wonderful stuff in both eras.
Is the "superior" a dig at the flack I got when giving my reaction to Ms Pinky?, lol. Saw Marillion many times with Fish and saw Fish as a solo Artist about half a dozen times. Also seen guitarist Steve Rothery a few times. He always does a Fish era Marillion full album. Don't think H Marillion "allow" hardly any Fish. Musically, they are as good as ever but have never liked H voice or lyrics. They're like a castrated Marillion with him, IMO. I wouldn't go see them if you paid me. That's just me and I know there are fans who prefer the H version.
@@paulfenwick8767 No man. Not a dig. I was just trying to illustrate how much I like their chops. I'm not much for fucking with people. Marillion is two separate eras. Kinda like ACDC, when you switch singers it's alot more noticeable than switching an instrumentalist especially here. I too favor the Fish era but I do also like H and the fact that he's a capable instrumentalist besides just being a front man.
@@paulfenwick8767 I've seen serval later Marillion concerts on on TH-cam and they play plenty of Fish era songs. I prefer the dynamism of Fish, but I don't think anyone can argue that H isn't a better singer. It took a while for me to get used to him, but right away I had to acknowledge he has an amazing voice.
@@daneng3641 If you like it, ok. I think he has a voice for his spineless lyrics. No bollocks, no edge, IMO
@@paulfenwick8767 It seems we essentially agree. I prefer Fish's edge and lyrical skills more. I just don't mind H so much.
The female backing vocalist was Tessa Niles. She's brilliant and worked with a who's who of artists, Clapton, Bowie, The Stones...
IMO this was Marillion's most complete album of the Fish era. Musically and lyrically sophisticated, with real joined up feel from the first to last song.
One worth reacting to from this album is 'White Russian'.
Immensely powerful, yet just as fresh today.
Thanks for the info Garry!
Its a shame you did this song in isolation, the first three songs on the album go along with this for a 4-song concept piece. If you get a chance, check out Hotel Hobbies/Warm Wet Circles/That Time of the Night.
Thanks for sharing Richard and thanks for the tip!
Paul Fenwick - wherever you are.... thank you, thank you, thank you for this recommendation !!! As an old Marillion fan from the beginning I really appreciate it. Was lucky enough to see them live a couple of times. You picked an epic one from an epic album from one of the most underrated bands in the world IMO. Wish more people would dive into this - so thanks again and best wishes from a fan to a fan obviously ❤
Thanks very much, not often someone agrees with me, lol. Dan and Sifa reacted to my request "Blind Curve" about 6 months ago if you want to check it out. I'm more a Fish fan as "H"'s voice makes my skin crawl. When Fish went solo, touring "vigil", I saw him playing at a pub in Carlisle. After the show he was at the bar and I was with about 6 others, just chatting to him. Got his autograph. Was there about 20 minutes and in that time he had about half a dozen Murphy's/Jack Daniels chasers, and it didn't touch him, lol.
@@paulfenwick8767 Hi Paul, thanks for your reply. I am a Fish fan too, he´s just a poet and his song texts were amazing. Saw him solo live for 3 times but those events were bigger ones so I couldn´t get in touch with him - I guess you were the lucky one at that pub :-) They had some quite good albums after the split but imo it never was the same again - Fish was simply an outstanding artist and storyteller. I have some of the later albums but I have the same problem with Steve´s voice - I can´t hear more than 3 or 4 songs after that it´s getting creepy for me- lol. Will check the blind curve reaction and still hoping to find more from that era here on youtube. Thank you for this nice little smalltalk on one of our fav bands and have a good time 🙂
Big Marillion fan here too! The whole album is fantastic………
Fabulous album and the most mature one from the Fish era. Marillion carried this music through an unfashionable era for prog if you want to call it prog. It was sad to see Fish go his separate way but having listened to the first Fish solo album in 89, it was going nowhere and by contrast the first album from the H era, released same week was stunning and the first time we all listened to King of Sunset Town, we all know the future was secure. Some bumps along the way but here we are, 24 years on and we should all be very grateful for the magic they have produced, absolutely remarkable. I'm staggered at the energy of the performances every time and the musical quality of these guys. Put into context of the progression of what is good in rock, we really owe these guys, still described at times as the best kept secret in music.
amazing song from the best prog rock album ever
More Marillion, please!
Marillion,of course,nuffin to say apart from 👍🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶❤️
This album is a masterpiece musicians all of them are fantastic and the drummer he’s playing is phenomenal back up singer Great💪
Probably been told or know it's prog...so taking them one by one is hard to get it all but glad to see someone checking them out. Great group. Saw them live 3 times in Germany. Really good live as well. They have some nice live vids if you get curious on them.
A Dr. Brown’s diet cream soda for me!🤪👍🏻🎤🎸🥁
One of my favourite albums of all time. The drowning reference is not physical, but about social issues around, unemployment, poverty, drug and alcohol dependency and their consequences. "Daddy took a rain check" what a lyric, you need to hear the whole album to fully appreciate the depth and quality
Thanks for the info!
No no - it’s genesis mixed with pink floyd - serious great gig in the sky vibes with the female singer at the end. Fish vocals has very slight resemblance to sting in terms of deep resonance, but primarily by this stage of marillion he was sounding very similar to Phil Collins in that parallel era of genesis.
For me, the best Marillion album. Not a bad song on this one.
Fish sings on this. He's done some other stuff under his name. I do remember reading an article where Fish the singer lol told them early on...this is Genesis lol....it's very cool stuff...best if you hear it all front to end. Fugazi has some cool early stuff. Clutching at Straws is as close as they got to their Dark Side of the Moon, but yeah prog tells a long story.
Thanks for the info!
Try "Happiness is the road"....Please! (Live of course, Port Zelande)
Anything Marillion I'm for!
Noticing the Metallica shirt. Lars loves this album.
my favorite group for prog...
Clutching At Straws has multiple meanings, one of which is more literal and has to do with Cocaine, not soda! Lol...
Lol. Thanks Eric!
with their first album they are waking up us all from forgetting the art of genesis or gentle giant, king crimson, vdgg etc in the early eighties, with their second album they move it all more to the limits, with their third album they move themselves more to the charts and with this fourth album they say by to their most giftet singer. After this, they have some nice records and some poorer, they never reached the standards again like they do with fish. Fish had done some good music too solo, but not so much. He was best when he do his personal Hammill. But I will never forget Marillions first four albums together with fish!
Thanks for sharing Michaosanna!
two nodding dogs listening to something . Take a tip from Daily Dawg for reaction vids but you'd have to know music to do that.
Really like this band I’ve only known them since 2016 they’re awesome! This songs a bit too old for me don’t really like this singer he doesn’t sound like the Marillion I know? It sounds a bit like Phil Collins on grand theft auto vice city love the guitar solo I liked the song from then on though I’d like to hear the other singer do this song that lady singer sounded awesome
3:20 - 3:58 cóż to za gówniany mix z tym echem. Pierwszy raz słyszę tak zepsutą wersję tego tak dobrego utworu.
I może w końcu przestańcie już porównywać Marillion do innych zespołów, ponieważ od płyty Fugazi stali się po prostu sobą.
A tekstów Fish'a raczej nie da się porównać do kogokolwiek innego. Jak również śpiewu gitary Steve'ana.
Żaden do Genesi, Police czy Sting!
Thanks for watching!