YMMV / Marillion

• Anvilicious: Misplaced Childhood gets pretty preachy about the devastation caused by war towards the end of the album.
• Audience-Alienating Era: The 1997 - 1999 era is usually considered this. Whether 2001's Anoraknophobia ended or continued it is a point of debate.
• Awesome Music: Any Rothery solo spot.
  • "Grendel." I don't care what anyone says.
  • "This Strange Engine."
  • "Chelsea Monday" and "The Last Straw".
  • This list should be a lot longer. "Gaza", "Ocean Cloud", "Goodbye to All That", "The Invisible Man", "Neverland", pretty much all of Misplaced Childhood, list goes on and on.
    • With "The New Kings" soon to be added.
• Broken Base: Fish-era fans vs. Hogarth-era fans. Even though, as mentioned on the main page, both singers approve of each other's work with the band.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: They get little attention in the UK, but they are quite popular in Holland.
• Ho Yay: Between Steve Hogarth and Porcupine Tree's Richard Barbieri. Behold.
• Moment of Awesome: The first time they pulled off the pre-order gambit. Doubles as a Take That! to the music industry.
• Signature Song: Debatable, but either of the following: Script For A Jester's Tear, Kayleigh, Easter or Neverland.
• The Woobie: Steve Hogarth. Being "the new singer since 1989" is hard enough without all the misery that's happened to him, and it shows.
  • Fish falls more into Jerkass Woobie / Iron Woobie territory.
• Tear Jerker: "The Great Escape". Dear God, The Great Escape...
  • There is no song out there that hammers home the horror of The Troubles quite like "Forgotten Sons". Especially the last section, after the line "Approach... friend".
  • "Holloway Girl" becomes this if you know what it is about:
  Steve Hogarth: "Years ago when I was part of 'The Europeans' we sometimes rehearsed around the corner from Holloway Women's Prison. I think prisons are fascinating places, like all alternative societies, and I used to stare up at the walls and watch the gate police. Years later I saw a documentary on TV. A camera crew had been allowed to film inside. A lot of tough girls for sure, but among them, there were women who should have been in mental hospitals - not prison. Victims of an 'underfunded' society which would lock up the desperate rather than tend to their troubled minds."
  • "Estonia", named for the ferry that went down in the Baltic Sea in 1994, is both incredibly sad and uplifting.
  • All of "Blind Curve" qualifies for this, but the last two parts ("Perimeter Walk" and "Threshold") are definitely the darkest moments of "Misplaced Childhood".

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