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Title: The Hogart Era Marillion Is Way Better Than This
Review: While this record is not totally horrible and is certainly of interest to Marilion fans, I tend to favor the current Marillion over the solo Fish stuff since the late 80's split. I think Marillion has finer musicianship than the players that Fish works with. This release has a few good songs, especially "Goldfish And Clowns" and "Jungle Ride" but is not really that essential. His songs have become overly wordy(not unlike solo Roger Waters), with a politically correct preachiness that I find urksome, especially the long (just plain long 8:37 ) and musically uninteresting "The Perception Of Johnny Punter",yuck; at least it's the first song and you can just start your CD player on track two easily enough. To me his best solo work was "Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors". Now on the other hand there's this fellow named Steve Hogarth who's done some fine work with Marillion.
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