What does it sound like?:
Can it really be 16 years since this album was first released. Well, it’s back now with a vengeance, in full 3 cd expanded form.
As well as the original album remastered in 2015, there is a cd’s worth of ‘variations’ (two lengthy demos and a live version) of the album’s centrepiece ‘A Plague of Ghosts’, plus a live cd containing demos, bonus tracks and live material, concluding with an epic 34 minute rendering of the aforementioned ‘Plague’, recorded live in 2000. Among the bonus tracks are the rarely heard ‘Mr Buttons’ and ‘Chasing Miss Pretty’, which originally appeared as the two new songs on the ‘Kettle of Fish’ best of album some years back.
The original album, although dominated by ’Plague of Ghosts’, also contains some other worthy originals such as ‘Tumbledown’ and ‘Rites of Passage’, plus a cracking cover of Alex Harvey’s ‘Faith Healer’, which wouldn’t have been out of place on the ‘Songs From The Mirror’ album from much earlier in the Fish solo career.
As with the ‘Sunsets on Empire’ release, the whole thing is very well packaged and accompanied by a super book of sleevenotes, lyrics, photos etc.
What does it all *mean*?
This is a great appraisal of where Fish was at musically around the turn of the century, beautifully packaged and in great sound quality.
Goes well with…
The rest of the Fish solo repetoire, and of course the Marillion albums covering his days in that band.
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Might suit people who like…
Good rock music with a proggish feel at times, well performed and with lyrics that give the listener pause for thought.
retropath2 says
Can it really be 5 minutes since Bargepole regaled us with multi disc minutiae and remixes/bolloxy compilation bobbins (delete as applicable)?
Go out for the night, man, fer chrissakes……………
Bargepole says
Don’t like ’em, don’t read ’em !
BaldySlaphead says
Ace trivia: Rick Astley gets a writing credit on Mission Statement!
Skirky says
Ah – it’s one of the ones with my friend TT on it. That Plague of Ghosts thing? That was one of his.
Bargepole says
A lengthy instrumental demo by TT titled All These Christs, that was incorporated into Plague of Ghosts, appears on the second disc.