Listening to Marillion: Holidays In Eden, Part 2

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Part two of Holidays In Eden by Marillion
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[@markmorris4827]

I'm from Australia, just discovered Marillion. This stunning album, I can't believe it got no radio airplay. So much better than most music of its time!

[@alangraham10]

By the way - This Strange Engine. Yum yum.

[@1mbpdf33]

I think Talk Talk and Tears For Fears are spot on influences. I like this album too. It gets short shrift from most Marillion fans. If you haven't heard Afraid of Sunlight yet, I urge you to listen to that one. You will be in awe!! Promise!😉

[@JimNewstead]

Oh I’ll get to it, don’t you worry!

[@jswimeaden2365]

When I listen to the Marillion back catalogue, Eden was for me was always the throwaway album between the giants of Season's End and Brave, but watching this has made me find a new appreciation for the musicianship, melodies and production on these songs, especially Waiting To Happen and Splintering Heart. So, thanks Jim! 😊

[@clansome]

Have to agree there, certainly before I revisited with the remix it was ignored tbh.

[@jpelorat]

It's so funny to listen to this album after so long. I got my first copy on a 90 Min cassette tape, I don't remember who recorded it for me, the vinyl had some chips and I'm nostalgically expecting to listen to them while listening with you.... Thanks again Jim...

[@RobertJones-xq1si]

Highly underrated, oft overlooked, truly spectacular. Especially the title track. ❤️🙌👌

[@christinephilp6312]

I'm a newcomer to Marillion - kicking myself for missing so many great years - and have concentrated on DVD performances. I am enjoying working my way through their studio albums. This review has been very helpful. I adore "Waiting to Happen" with its soaring vocals a instrumental segues Thank you!

[@JimNewstead]

Welcome to the channel! Thanks for your support ☕️

[@eugeneshadwell6596]

Fun story - I attended a Marillion gig (my first!) in Manchester at the International 2 on December 21 1990. A very dodgy area with some very dodgy characters hanging about (can't imagine why Marillion played there when there were better venues available) but it was a great gig and they previewed Splintering Heart (opened up with that one!), The Party, No-one Can and Holidays In Eden, six months before the album was released. Couldn't wait for the album to be released and, even though it's far from being my favourite, it has a place in for my heart for that reason. Love your reactions, mate!

[@LGBTQ71]

I am glad you foud Marillion. h s voice is amazing as always. One of my favourites albums is Anaraknaphobia. It is so different when I meet God and seperated out the best 2 but Quartz is brilliant especially if someone pisses you off enough! For exampl my two best mates found out I was gay, and they buggered off (no pun intended, well perhaps a wee yin) but it' s thir song !!!

[@delorangeade]

The reason why Marillion didn't break through to the kind of wider commercial success of the other bands you mention is because they were called Marillion. Memories of the Fish era were like a millstone around the neck of the band when it came to being accepted by the "cooler" sections of the media and confined them to a niche they would never really escape from. It didn't harm the quality of the music though. I think Hogarth's voice was at its peak around this time.

[@kevingunning7569]

'Cover My Eyes' and 'Dry Land' were songs that had already been written by Hogarth's previous band How We Live. In Fact, 'Cover My Eyes' was originally called 'Simon's Car' (of all titles!). 'The Rakes Progress' is a song inspired by h's namesake Hogarth of course. Cheers Jim. All the best, Kevin

[@cybergoths]

Love ❤ “Waiting to Happen”. We had it as track during the register signing when my wife and I got married.

[@gabiesiren]

Good morning! Thank you for the fantastic music! You're the best!

[@JimNewstead]

And good morning to you!! This was a struggle today, my little boy is off school sick so trying to manage the edit and upload from yesterday wasn’t straight forward, especially as the video of the whole side was blocked! Thanks for the comment and watching Gabs 👍🏼

[@gabiesiren]

@@JimNewstead you need a clone or a housekeeper or a video editor! Anything we can do to help?!

[@noelmckie]

This is a very good Marillion album keep up the good work🔝

[@JimNewstead]

Thanks very much!

[@mauromontobbio8522]

Agree on the bands you mentioned Jim.....I would add The Police influence in the Title Track.

[@keithbond9423]

This album is missing 2 songs from the cd which I've had since it's release. So I googled this reissue and those 2 songs "A Collection" and "How Can It Hurt" are listed as B sides on one of the other albums in the box set. Interesting. I'm in the USA, so maybe the US release back in the day had them but the UK release didn't? Anyway, "A Collection" is one of my favorite songs from the album. A disturbing lyric (and backstory) juxtaposed with a sweet melody and music. Apparently a friend had photos of all of his girlfriends from the same exact location which inspired the lyric. Hope you get around to that song.

[@Gerardjhughes]

Great album jim

[@gavinferguson]

Got covid so gone back to this play. I’d still like you to listen to clutching at straws fishes last album a where I think his frustration and anger comes through

[@paulrobinson7140]

Was at the 91 Hammersmith gog, amazing. Nobody going to mention Hogarth on holidays in eden sounds dead spit of Sting in places? 🤔

[@JimNewstead]

Huh…. Never thought about that!

[@monkeymarc1]

Jim, another hugely enjoyable pair of videos! It's a joy to see you discovering Marillion. Again can I urge you to check out their contemporaries Twelfth Night I especially recommend listening to Live & Let Live, The Collector & Sequences 2018.

[@grantwallace1882]

My happy place.

[@arthurmol6875]

The singel factory from Marillion. But wait for the last three songs !

[@WooBino.]

Has a Toto, Asia vibe. ☕🎸🗽

[@JimNewstead]

Oh yes, good shout!

[@yes_head]

Better than both of those IMO.

[@laurentcorso4219]

Hello Jim, It’s the most commercial Marillion album. With this album EMI wanted to make Marillion a hit single band. It’s not a bad album, but it’s not totally representative of What This band is. It lacks character and identity. It miss the magic of the band. Even if there are very little similarities, Season’s end is a far better album, who encapsulate the essence of the band. Nevertheless, If a pop band had write this album, médias would discribed it as a musical masterpiece. Jim, it’s Time for brave, no ? 😊

[@enthilzha1]

Well Jim, this is your favourite Marillion so far? Can't wait for Brave to come and knock your socks off!

[@IllumeEltanin]

The bird song at the end of side 1 and beginning of side 2 leads me to wonder if the two songs segue directly one into the other on a CD version of this album.

[@davesomers7354]

Indeed they do, listened to the surround blu ray mix last night (at high volume) , amazed at how an album I’d ignored for years sounds better than ever 🎉

[@yes_head]

Side 2 is easily superior IMO. I would listen to this and think "Where's the "Marillion's gone pop""? Yeah, "Dry Land" has that sort of construction and approach, but those verses are so killer and the harmonic development is so good that any negative connotations with "pop" never rears its head. I even like the title track, which is a sibling to the rockers on Season's End like "Hooks in You" or "The Uninvited Guest." The comparisons to Tears for Fears and Talk Talk are right on. It's no surprise that a lot of prog bands were sort of riding the coattails of those kinds of bands during the late 80's/early 90's. They were seen as having artistic credibility while still making loads of cash!

[@didididi71]

Cool to see that you like what you hear …and you never had listen to Seasons End?😊

[@palantir135]

Hi Jim, Isn’t this a great album 😊? Steve’s voice sounds so emotional as does the guitar. Both together and I 😢. So this is becoming your favorite Marillion album…wait until you hear Afraid of sunlight; my favorite album. Holidays in Eden is on place three. An hour before it’s dark is second.

[@clansome]

As I said on Part 1, Dry Land was a cover from h's previous band. The video for this, well let's say the budget was all blown on flying h to Iceland for some helicopter flyby shots.

[@daneng3641]

Did that get any air play in the UK? It really sounds like it should have been a hit.

[@clansome]

@@daneng3641 Don't know if it got much airplay but it did chart at 34. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marillion_discography#Singles Dry Land is also the name of a Dutch Marillion Tribute Band.

[@cybergoths]

Just to say Simple Minds are still around; the last album came out a couple of months ago. Big Music, Walk between Worlds and Direction of the Heart are all worth a listen (as is Live in the City of Angels).

[@jeffschielka7845]

Hey Jim!😎

[@JimNewstead]

Hello there 👋. Morning to you Jeff, late afternoon here!

[@erichmenacher4571]

Dear Jim, first please excuse my English.... I followed some of your videos and comments about Marillion which have joined my life since the 90ties. I understand completely if you try to find words to describe their music... great channel! Eric

[@laurentmercier419]

Album exceptionnel et intemporel ! Bravo Jim, après "AHBID", tu viens de faire le grand saut dans l'aire "H" de Marillion. Je t'invite à profiter des deux albums suivants, "Brave" et "Afraid of Sunlight" pour parfaire ton instruction !...

[@67Ivar]

I agree with the bands you mentioned, but I will also add a band like Crowded House.

[@michaelcapewell4811]

Shades of John Wetton in the vocals to my knackered old ears 🤔

[@gavinferguson]

this is the side that h tookover as the bands singer for me almost as if they moved the range to suit him and he didnt have to try to reach fishes range, listened to clutching at strawsa couple of weeks back it would be good to here you react to that album so different

[@alangraham10]

Clearly just experimenting with the new lineup to decide on their musical direction.

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

First track - could have been Police with Sting singing