So keeping with my recent theme of date/holiday related songs, I present "Easter" by Marillion. My friend Steve introduced me to this band's music in college, during many late night drinking and smoking sessions at our friends' apartment. I preferred the earlier prog rock Genesis-influenced stuff (when songwriter Fish was with the group) much more than their later years, when Steve Hogarth joined the band and turned their sound more in the direction of Radiohead. They are still making albums and touring, thirty years after they formed.
"Easter" is, in my opinion, one of the best from Marillion's "transitional" years, at the intersection of Hogarth's influence and the band's Fish-era sound.
*Edited for a confession - I had a local folk musician make fun of me a few years back for liking Marillion. Not a lot of us prog rock geeks still around I guess...
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I find I know next to nothing about prog rock--I associate prog rock with Rush, who I only really know about because they used to have a Rush laser light show at the observatory in Houston (I never went though; I was always hanging out in the Depeche Mode laser light show instead).
Hey, wanna make me another mix and educate me?
Would be glad to!
Hurrah! I love getting mixes! And I'll make you another one in return if you'd like--how about a mix of weird foreign bands, since we both love languages so much?
Weird foreign bands sounds great! I know you're the Swedish music expert around here. Thanks!
You know, I'm betting Nathan is actually more of a Swedish band expert than I am, but I will definitely hook you up with some sweet Swedish tunes (and German, and Italian, and French, and Spanish, and Japanese...)!
And thank YOU! I am very much looking forward to some proggy goodness! :)
Nathan has some decent Swedish band knowledge if he can be arsed to share it and/or pulled out of his depsondency long enough to comment.
Regardless, I appreciate that you guys continue to post on here.
Hey, I took a three month leave of absence myself, simply because I am, at times, entirely consumed by sloth.
Post if you feel like it again at some point (we DO miss you, kid!), but if you don't, no pressure at all (after all, that was kind of the point of this blog in the first place)! Just so you know, I totally wasn't attempting to shame you into regaling us with your Swedish band expertise, merely bowing to your superior knowledge. :)
To use a trite expression, "the more the merrier"! It was getting quiet around here for a while...
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