Marillion - Less Is More

The Butterfly Man · Thu, 2009-09-17, 11:24:15

Marillion's new acoustic studio-album featuring reworked versions from the bands' back-catalog will be released early next month. What are everyone's thoughts on this? I for one love acoustic music, but I know a lot of people who don't.

Here's the tracklist:

1: Go
2: Interior Lulu
3: Out Of This World
4: Wrapped Up In Time
5: The Space
6: Hard As Love
7: Quartz
8: If My Heart Were A Ball
9: It's Not Your Fault
10: The Memory Of Water
11: This Is The 21st Century
(Plus hidden track)

I'm glad they didn't choose 'obvious' songs like After Me, Easter, Beautiful or Waiting For Happen but instead went for some challenging tracks. I'm very curious to find out how they made them work in an acoustic arrangement. There's also a track called 'It's Not Your Fault' that I don't recall being on a earlier album so maybe this will be a complete new song?

Anyway, you can listen to Hard As Love from the new album here: http://www.myspace.com/marillion. I think I like it more than the original Brave-version!

Tom

Steve Jones · Thu, 2009-09-17, 13:52:54

Well I'm gagging for it, but not as much as if it was an album of brand new material. I've got other acoustic things they've done and enjoy them immensely, in fact I think it could be argued that they're at their best when being more delicate.

Deenfan · Thu, 2009-09-17, 16:57:02

Lookin' good!!

maddox · Thu, 2009-09-17, 17:24:45

I heard Hard As Love last week and although i really like the original, i hate this version.
It misses the rough edges.

I understand that a lot of bands come to a point in their career, that they will try something like this but i was never a big fan of acoustic shows.
That goes for this one as well.

I won't be buying it.

Only if it's a real bargain.

JJ II · Thu, 2009-09-17, 17:36:40

I'm gonna see them on October 5th in my "own" theater in Leiden. What an experience!

Personally, I think they have a lot of new material on this album (I sort of lost track around .com album).
I wouldn't mind hearing something like "After Me" or "Dryland" at all...!

Would they dare to play Sugar Mice?

Deenfan · Tue, 2009-09-22, 01:14:53

"Less is always, and inevitably, less..."

- Neil Peart

maddox · Tue, 2009-09-22, 20:37:21

Nice quote.

The Butterfly Man · Wed, 2009-09-23, 09:34:31

Quote from: Deenfan on Tue, 2009-09-22, 01:14:53
"Less is always, and inevitably, less..."

- Neil Peart

Maybe Neil is wrong.

Tom

Manatee · Wed, 2009-09-23, 09:57:10

Quote from: The Butterfly Man on Wed, 2009-09-23, 09:34:31
Maybe Neil is wrong.

Tom

No, he's definitely right, less is less -- however that doesn't mean that less isn't good sometimes. Consider eating. If you eat more constantly, you'll be obese and get sick.

Steve Jones · Wed, 2009-09-23, 10:23:01

Quote from: Manatee on Wed, 2009-09-23, 09:57:10
Consider eating. If you eat more constantly, you'll be obese and get sick.

Hey! My ears are burning!

erik · Wed, 2009-09-23, 16:19:15

I really like the acoustic side of Marillion (Unplugged At The Walls, Piss Up In A Brewery etc.) and their sometimes quite drastic rearrangements of familiar songs, so I'm really looking forward to this one (album and gig). From the studio reports I gather they're using a lot of interesting intruments on the Less Is More album.

Maybe less isn't simply more or less, but just different

Manatee · Wed, 2009-09-23, 16:25:10

Quote from: Steve Jones on Wed, 2009-09-23, 10:23:01
Hey! My ears are burning!

They shouldn't be. You guys may have invented fat b*stards, but we have more than our share of them here too now. One of them is running to be governor of my state. We actually have a special term here for political fat b*stards. They're called lying sacks of sh*t.

Deenfan · Wed, 2009-09-23, 17:16:41

Quote from: The Butterfly Man on Wed, 2009-09-23, 09:34:31
Maybe Neil is wrong.

Tom

*shaking off the absurd notion*

Steve Jones · Wed, 2009-09-23, 19:35:57

Quote from: Manatee on Wed, 2009-09-23, 16:25:10
They shouldn't be. You guys may have invented fat b*stards, but we have more than our share of them here too now.

Whilst I wouldn't argue with that, it wouldn't have altered the fact that THIS LINK calculated i was 'obese'

Now I'm down to just being 'overweight' and at this rate I should die healthy

Manatee · Wed, 2009-09-23, 22:32:23

Quote from: Steve Jones on Wed, 2009-09-23, 19:35:57
Whilst I wouldn't argue with that, it wouldn't have altered the fact that THIS LINK calculated i was 'obese'

Now I'm down to just being 'overweight' and at this rate I should die healthy

It appears I am not obese, however, it is implied that there could still be a little bit less of Greenie to love, and it'd be for the better.

maddox · Wed, 2009-09-23, 23:22:51

Hehe, i'm just over 25.

Which means i'm still on the safe side.

Bupie · Thu, 2009-09-24, 10:45:56

Quote from: Steve Jones on Wed, 2009-09-23, 19:35:57
Whilst I wouldn't argue with that, it wouldn't have altered the fact that THIS LINK calculated i was 'obese'

Hey, thanks Steve, I still have an healthy weight

Well, on the very edge of overweight, though

and I also cheated a bit on my height

Manatee · Thu, 2009-09-24, 11:13:21

Perhaps we should rename the site, "The Shattered Room for Fat B*stards."

Steve Jones · Thu, 2009-09-24, 11:48:31

Quote from: Manatee on Thu, 2009-09-24, 11:13:21
Perhaps we should rename the site, "The Shattered Room for Fat B*stards."

Fat Bâtard Room has a certain ring to it. A ring donut, most likely

Iggy · Thu, 2009-09-24, 15:56:26

I live with the fact that I'm under tall rather than overwieght.

The BMI stuff is a load of rubbish apparently the figures they chose where fairly random as opposed to scientifically calculated.

I was allegedly overweight even when I was at my thinnest.

The higher the number the better I assume.

Apparently anyone of my height that weighs more than 12 st 2 lbs or 77kg (in new money)
is overweight.

By my calculations that means all proffessional Rugby players and most footballers are fat B*stards

Manatee · Thu, 2009-09-24, 18:19:22

Quote from: Iggy on Thu, 2009-09-24, 15:56:26
I live with the fact that I'm under tall rather than overwieght.

The BMI stuff is a load of rubbish apparently the figures they chose where fairly random as opposed to scientifically calculated.

I was allegedly overweight even when I was at my thinnest.

The higher the number the better I assume.

Apparently anyone of my height that weighs more than 12 st 2 lbs or 77kg (in new money)
is overweight.

By my calculations that means all proffessional Rugby players and most footballers are fat B*stards

I can relate to that. I'm rather of the broad-shouldered but short-legged variety myself. Most of those calculators will actually pay lip service to things depending on body type, but then they go ahead and act as if it were all carved in stone anyway. That notwithstanding, I can tell when I could stand to drop a few pound, and I could.

Deenfan · Sun, 2009-09-27, 00:42:16

Quote from: Manatee on Thu, 2009-09-24, 11:13:21
Perhaps we should rename the site, "The Shattered Room for Fat B*stards."

Well, I'm on my way out, then. I've lost 54 pounds over the last nine or ten months.

Manatee · Sun, 2009-09-27, 18:32:07

Quote from: Deenfan on Sun, 2009-09-27, 00:42:16
Well, I'm on my way out, then. I've lost 54 pounds over the last nine or ten months.

Good on ya. Maybe we can make it the "Shattered Room for Not Quite So Fat as They Used to Be B*stards." I've dropped some tonnage lately too by the simple expedient of forbidding myself to walk down the cookie (aka biscuit) aisle at the market. I seem to be better at abstaining from things outright than at moderation (no Nicky, I'm not talking about abstaining from *that* -- that burns calories anyway).

Deenfan · Tue, 2009-09-29, 17:40:57

What you don't buy won't be eaten either. Sound thinking.

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