Drummer reacts to "Chelsea Monday" by Marillion

[@dannymcgovern40]

I love Marillion. Their first 4 albums are pure class man

[@Kavala76]

My favourite Marillion song and hardly ever reacted to.
A huge THANK YOU from me!
If you liked this you should try "The Web" from the same album.

[@MattLathrum]

More Marillion is always welcome 😁

[@The_Enzo]

Warm Wet Circles lyrics are a masterpiece too...

[@brucehenninger2662]

My recommendation would be to stick with this album, since it's their first. Next track? "Garden Party," maybe? "Or Forgotten Sons." Both dramatically different from this one, yet still possessing that classic early Marillion sound.

[@sbsummit]

Awesome reaction! Marillion's first 4 albums (the Fish era) are absolute classics, and you should listen to all of them in order. Fish does write most of the lyrics AFAIK, and you're right, it is poetry - more than just about any other band I can think of. Enjoy the journey!

[@ianvincent69]

"Some obscure Scottish poet" perhaps!

[@CharlyDS]

From the Hogarth (H) era I recommend The Invisible Man. Such an amazing multipart piece.

[@mattrink2112]

Forgot how great this song was. Thanks for the reaction.

[@marcosantomero4650]

Please do also newer Material from Marillion. The Steve Hogarth era.
You won't regret.
Neverland, this Strange engine, the crow and the Nightingale, the great escape, Gaza, the space, Out of this World.
They have tons of encredible songs especially the live Versions.
You won't regret.

[@Jesusistheway5724]

Nice reaction 👍🏻👍🏻
Marillion is an awesome band.
Loads of gems they made.
Ocean Cloud is a great song (18 min.!!)
It's about Don Allum an ocean rower. He rowed across the Atlantic Ocean there and back all by himself. On the third sea voyage things went wrong, he lost all his supplies and had to live on seawater and fish blood for 2 weeks.
A must listen!!

[@leeannies-tears369]

Wow I've never even heard of them. This is sooooo beautiful ❣️ instrumentals are gorgeous.

[@iantrott9152]

A superb band with over 41 years of amazing music, they are still producing amazing music to this day… check out their lasted album “An Hour Before It’s Dark” :)

[@Buddha-of8fk]

MARILLION!!!! WOOHOO!!!!

[@matthewlewis9424]

It’s always fun to go back to their early days and hear their beginnings of their style. This first album is the only one with Mick Pointer on the drums. Ever since it has been Ian Mosley on the kit. I’ll always respect Mick for being there at the beginning, but Ian took the band to a different level.

[@paulehney4581]

This was very good, I never heard this.

[@andersondavies3589]

This (Script) and their second album (Fugazi) contain so much of what you love of this song here. Do them all. I know you will love them
Enjoy :)

[@finbarrsaunders]

Probably my favourite Rothery guitar solo. Which is saying something.

[@PJprog]

Classic Fish -era Marillion... This track , the emotive Forgotten Sons and the opening title track make this one hell of a debut. With this release and indeed the non-album epic Grendel , these were the reasons as a teenager I got hooked on this band...and over the 40 years became a progressive rock obsessive. Without Marillion...well who knows where my music devotions and directions would have taken me. Great reaction Lee. 😍

[@stephanealbertini4226]

Blind curve ❤

[@RonnieMcNairney]

Hey Lee,
I won Your Song competition with Easter, by Marillion.
Think l also suggested this Track.
Ronnie SCOTLAND 😊

[@johnhitchens2265]

I have seeing Marillion on their Misplaced Childhood tour as my 3rd-greatest concert of all time. The first album is charming, the second is diamond hard, and the third is desert island material. Yes, Fish is the lyricist - he is brilliant at word play

[@johnhitchens2265]

@bestcritic7541 Thanks, will have to check out Arena

[@denniszimmerman1279]

Title track and Garden Party also stand out tunes on this album. Clutching at Straws also an outstanding album.

[@CharlyDS]

I both love the Fish and a lot of the H era of Marillion, but those Fish albums are absolutely classic for me.

[@davidthompson797]

Fish is the greatest lyricist in rock bar none. THe 4 albums he did with the band are all great but the last two are out of this world.

[@coffeemanandy1966]

If you want some classic Marillion prog you should check out This Strange Engine, Ocean Cloud and The Invisible Man - live if possible - stunning pieces of music.

[@helgemoller5158]

I knew them since i got 16, now 56.
Got all Albums, some on Vinyl.
Try "Grendel"

[@adammckee3496]

Tuesday Afternoon, by The Moody Blues for tomorrow.

[@chuckbrown4132]

Maybe the most underrated 80s group of all. Huge in UK but USA not so much. Tight band live. Pink Floyd and early Genesis had a baby and named it Marillion.

[@andylea2794]

Why not check out what happened to the drummer on this album Mick Pointer his next band Arena are so overlooked and shouldn't be recommended albums The Visitor, Immortal, and contagion you WON'T be disappointed

[@lilybee2955]

Arena has some very powerful stuff indeed. Who knows, maybe L33 will stumble upon them one day. 🙂 Those 3 albums you mentioned are dynamite: "The Visitor", "Immortal" and "Contagion". Good call!

[@seanbush5056]

I love love LOVE Ian Mosley as the drummer for Marillion, but Mick Pointer was PERFECT for this record. He doesn't get the credit I think he deserves, the chops may be simplistic but it all fits so well with the dreamlike quality of this record. I like that you reference the "Canterbury scene," this is definitely their most "Canterbury" record.

[@delorangeade]

Out of this World would be another good Marillion song to do if you like the emotional content of the music. This is still the sound of a band under the shadow of their influences and a quick jump to album 4, Clutching at Straws would indicate how their song writing developed.

[@leeshort1258]

Lee, nice reaction to a solid song. I'm tempted to say you should react to something off of Misplaced Childhood, but it would be wrong to react to any one song in isolation, it should be done as a whole.

[@davemiller7972]

Steve Hackett's influence is all over this song & Gabriel for the vocals

[@lw1zfog]

do the title track next dude.
the first two albums set the scene.

[@davidgordon796]

Hopefully you will give fugazi a listen

[@333wheeler]

It was rumoured Fish auditioned for the Genesis lead singer job after PG left. Not sure how much truth is in that. But he did a Single release with Tony Banks for sure.

[@grahamkey8496]

I've never heard that one and I've been following Marillion since before their album deal lol!

[@lilybee2955]

@@grahamkey8496 I've never heard of that rumour either (Fish auditioning for Genesis) but he did release a single with Tony Banks called "Shortcut to Somewhere". There's a video of it here on TH-cam. The track appears on Banks' solo album "Soundtracks" (1986).

[@antoniocastro6345]

Marillion today is better!

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[@angelomoshopoulos6276]

My claim to faim was in 1985 at the Montreal Forum. Marillion was backing up Rush. Marillion played all of Misplaced Childhood. When they finished Fish wiped his face with a white towel made in Cuba then threw it in the crowd and I caught it.
Please react to every dong on this album especially "Forgotten Sons".

[@paulcarfantan6688]

Wow, I was at that concert too, along with my brother. I was aware of the band, but "Misplaced Childhood" was all new that night for me when they played it. Man, I still remember how amazing Rothery`s guitar sounded , wailing away. The next day, I went and bought the album, pronto. Great memories.

[@paulcarfantan6688]

Oh I forgot to ask...what did you do with the towel, lol ?

[@angelomoshopoulos6276]

@paulcarfantan6688 Unfortunately after various moves from one house to another, Fish's towel got lost. It bugs me to this day.

[@paulcarfantan6688]

@@angelomoshopoulos6276 I hear you, that sucks. I`ve also lost a few items from house moves and sometimes you just can`t remember where you put something. But at least we got to see two amazing bands that night. I still remember Neil Peart throwing his drumstick up in the air from time to time, he caught it most of the time but dropped one or two. I remember thinking to myself: "Is this guy for real ?" And he was. RIP Neil Peart and nice talking to you.

[@manuelcarpio12]

Marillion Sugar Mice

[@larrycable1827]

Time to do Grendal. You may notice something familiar about th last act. Just saying you'll enjoy it.

[@grahamkey8496]

Pete Trewavas from Marillion was the bass player with Transatlantic, featuring Neal Morse and Mike Portnoy - the Lennon and McCartney of prog! Those two have made more than 20 albums together since the early 2000s - a rabbit-hole that's deep and wide. If you fancy a 30 minute prog epic that doesn't feel like 30 minutes, try All Of The Above by Transatlantic, with some absolutely jaw-dropping bubbling bass lines from Trewavas.Or for a shorter song by the same band, how about the Beatles-esque Mystery Train?

[@jaymurray6051]

What was the other Marillion song you covered? Hope it wasn’t the really bad 80’s version of Marillion. I’ll keep my eyes out I. Case you do their greater albums and music with their better singer

[@ronn.6876]

For Tuesday you can do "Tuesday Afternoon" by The Moody Blues.

[@L33Reacts]

Great idea. But I did that one a while back I think. Great stuff. 👍

[@bigjapi1]

Great pick! hey Lee, what happened with Genesis ? You haven't reacted to anything from them in a century, are you angry with Peter, Tony and company? 😂

[@L33Reacts]

I did something from Duke in the past couple weeks. I just don't get requests for them anymore and It's mostly requests now. Channel blew up lol

[@ChrisEchoes]

OK, this is going to draw out the Fish vs. Steve Hogarth discussion (am totally impartial as I like both of them) .... so my suggestion would be to now move on to a Marillion track with Steve Hogarth .... from a lyrical point of view I would suggest The Party (from Holidays In Eden) or Runaway (from Brave) also both tracks about young girls lost in the city. And musically it is clearl you are dealing with the same band albeit now much more experienced.

[@kaizerball]

Hi....will you be the first on the internet to react to the German Prog band "Ramses"..??

[@davidgordon796]

Fish was fantastic and was the original singer and the best the new marrillon just don't cut it it's like runrig without Donny monroe

[@carstenhorn5075]

I love Marillion with Fish and h since 1985. I also love Runrig. RIP Bruce Guthro, one of the best male singers I know