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Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Mossy - the thing about Fish is that he writes such powerful lyrics...and in a way he is just as f'd up as we are. Clutching and Misplaced are great examples of his description of human traits. That whole Hotel Hobbies/Warm Wet Circles/That Time of The Night set is just unparalleled.
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If by powerful you mean his apparent allegory cluttered with colorful thesaurus milking, I agree with you. There are passages where it works and it's beautiful but there are a great many where there is just TOO much of it. I think he finally started to achieve a better balance toward the end of his Marillion career but by then he was too far down the neck of the bottle.
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For an example of his edgier side, the title cut of Fugazi is perfect.
This whole passage is brilliant and so chilling:
"Son watches father scan obituary columns in search of absent school friends. While his generation digests high fibre ignorance
Cowering behind curtains and the taped up painted windows
Decriminalised genocide, provided door to door Belsens -
Pandora's box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens - Waiting, the season of the button, the penultimate migration - Radioactive perfumes, for the fashionably, for the terminally insane, insane."
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A perfect example of what I said above coupled with a more than healthy dose of youthful Fish angst.
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I like songs that make you think. "Dear God" by XTC is jarring. "Did you make mankind after we made you". That whole tune just gives me a knot in my stomach. "Song For America" or "Cheyenne Anthem" by Kansas are two others.
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And not an original thought either:
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." --Voltaire
"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Does earth plug a hole in heaven, Or heaven plug a hole in the earth?" -- Peter Gabriel
(from:
Anyway on the album:
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway)