Brave

Artist: Marillion
Label: Sbme Castle Us
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 060768453524
EAN: 0060768453524
ASIN: B00005Y1MT

Release Date: 2002-02-05

Brave

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Tracks:

BRIDGE
LIVING WITH THE BIG LIE
RUNAWAY
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
HARD AS LOVE
THE HOLLOW MAN
THE LAP OF LUXURY
PAPER LIES
BRAVE
THE GREAT ESCAPE
MADE AGAIN

Tracks:

THE GREAT ESCAPE
MARQUATTE JAM
THE HOLLOW MAN
WINTER TREES
ALONE AGAIN IN THE LAP OF LUXURY
RUNAWAY
HARD AS LOVE
LIVING WITH THE BIG LIE
ALONE AGAIN IN THE LAP OF LUXURY
DREAM SEQUENCE
THE GREAT ESCAPE

Customer Reviews:

Marillion's best.......2005-12-21

I've been a longtime Marillion fan, since the days of Fugazi, my first Marillion album (on vynil). I even bought Anoraknophobia before it existed...

Marillion has made, in my humble opinion, FOUR masterpieces: the very well-known Misplaced Childhood (their most successful release yet), immediately following: Clutching at Straws, an insightful view at the addiction world (too Fish-y probably: excellent!), then some albums followed and then came Brave... The fourth being Marbles.

But above all those magnificent works, Brave stands on its own: a very cohesive album both lyrically and musically. This is not an easy album to listen to. It's nothing to do with either Lavender, Cover my eyes or Incommunicado. It is just better.

It's been 11 years since its inicial release (12 since recording), but it hasn't aged a single note. It's pure prog rock with lots of different musical textures: from the electronic and melancolic Bridge, the rocker Hard as love, the precious piano in The Hollow man, to the celtic-like and very sorrowful Brave, and the beautiful acoustic guitar in Made again. Nonetheless, despite it's own diversity, it's built in such a fluid mode, that the main structure of the album remains perfectly tight.

I just can tell you: get it now, you don't know what you've been missing. If you're a fan of epic proportions music, this one won't let you down: it'll thrill you as it does with me.

PS: Get this remasters edition with the second CD. It is comprised of left-outs, rehearsals, rare versions, etc. A must-have for true Marillion fans.

Actually - 11 stars - since doubling the 5 isn't enough.......2004-08-15

If you want to get full enjoyment out of this CD, then do what the band suggests in the liner notes, "Play it loud with the lights off", however, I suggest that you also wear headphones, as there are many very quiet moments that might escape your ears if you don't. Like the opening line, "A Bridge is not a high place..." uttered by the girl before the fog horns start blowing. This whole CD is an entire experience, and you have to listen to it that way. There's no skipping songs or just listening to the first couple of songs and then shutting it off. It is the rarest of concept albums, the one that follows its concept from beginning to end. A lot of people felt it was too emotional, too dark and creepy, to listen to someone's life play out from one bad moment to the next, right from birth to the moment she jumps off the bridge and beyond. Well, Marillion shed their pop sound of Holidays In Eden sure enough on this outing. Not to say that Holidays In Eden is a bad CD, on the contrary, but the tone is completely different on this album. It's able to hold my interest from moment to moment, as the music is so dynamic, soft and slow one moment and loud as hell and frantic the next. H's lyrics and singing are fantastic here. He certainly came of age on this album, leaving Holidays and Season's End in the dust. I don't think I can say enough nice things about this CD. One thing you'll want to do if you aren't sure what to expect upon first listening, is to listen all the way through without anything going on in the background, at a time when it's just you and the music, and use those headphones, as, like I said, there are many little bits you'll miss otherwise, and make sure you have a hanky or a box of tissues, 'cause if you don't cry at the end, you're either a Vulcan or an android. The emotion of these songs is intense, to say the least. Another item you might like to check out is the DVD of their performance of Brave in its entirety at a band convention a few years back. H's stage presence and performance is inspired. It can be found online at Marillion dot com or on ebay. You can also find the album done live on their Made Again CD. I hope it does for you what it has for me. Marillion is that band that most everyone either gets or doesn't, and if you get this CD, you'll more than likely get Marillion. What other band can actually ask their fans to buy their next CD before it's been recorded?! This band's done it twice now, and the two releases have been great, so if you know of another band that has a fan base that rabid for the next CD to buy it before it's recorded, then I'd like to know about them. If you're a music lover, do yourself a favor and at least listen to anything recorded by anyone associated with this band. You'll enjoy yourself very much.

Simply Amazing Album.......2004-06-30

Too many people who are fans of later Hogarth-era Marillion work put this album down. In fact, alot of people have put this album down for being too depressing. Well, what people must realize is that music isn't going to be happy or bright sounding all the time. People have become too obsessed with happy-go-lucky music that it's warped their appreciation for the darker side of music. First of all, if you play an instrument you can appreciate this album and second of all, if you just simply love music that has beauty and has emotional depth than you can appreciate this album. Yeah, sure this album isn't doesn't exactly conjure up images of sunny Sunday afternoons in the park, but that's not what music should be about.

The fact of the matter is that Marillion have recorded something that has feeling and that is artistic. I'm the kind of person were music doesn't make me depressed. In fact, when I hear something like this I get very excited and I feel inspired.

The bottomline is if you can't appreciate this album, then you are either a. someone who only listens to music in the background, because it helps you get work done or b. someone who expects everything to be happy sounding, so it'll better suit your mood, because you're just so musically inadequate.

So to end this review I would like to sum this album up by two words: SIMPLY STUNNING!

Depressing.......2004-06-10

I don't know what people see in this release.Believe me, I have tried to like this probably too hard. It is, as Hogarth is, somberly depressing. This is the beginning of the end. Marrilion has never regained their classic sound and probably never want to. This is great suicide music,perhaps that's what they wanted to create but it is not inspiring for me. Get rid of Hogarth guys, he's bad and you are too.

Beyond descriptives.......2004-02-27

There are so many words that could effectively describe the musical poetry of Marillion's Brave. It's rather unfortunate that Marillion has been lumped into the prog-rock genre simply because their music consistently stumps classification (such as in the early 90's when various forms of modern music were lumped together and labled "alternative").

Marillion may have had obvious influences that have been recognizable in their early recordings, but with Brave, they have transcended the label and "jumped ship" so to speak with a daring foray into something completely unique, yet strangely familiar. This is definitely one of the most darkest compositions Marillion has ever recorded (although they've hinted that Marbles will take that darkness even further), yet the bittersweet melancholy of a "little girl lost", both in body and spirit seemingly elicits hope in a world that consistently acts out of desperation.

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