Most "ewwwww" thing remembered in "Kayleigh" by Marillion

I think this band is #1 on my list of bands whose album covers I can remember most vividly without ever having heard a note of their music

like that one band with the cloud on one cover and the tree on the other one

God knows how many fucking videos on Youtube, and yet nobody's uploaded "Can an old lady ascend the stairs and drink some sherry before Fish from Marillion starts singing" from Banzai.

At what temperature does chalk melt?

Belsize park has flooring?

Chekhov melting on a playground wall

So, at what temperature does Chekhov melt?

Remember everyone - this is loving on the floor and dancing in stilettoes with FISH!

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I was wondering whether it should be "choc" but "chalk" seems to fit in better with the equally unlikely scenarios recalled elsewhere in this top eighties prog tune.

Well t'internet agrees with you even though it makes even less sense than college halls being moonwashed at dawn.

I always preferred Lavender anyway.

"Dawn escapes from moonwashed college halls " - maybe it was a girl called Dawn....

It's got to be "chalk marks", they're "melting" in the rain, I assume.

The guy wanted to be Hammill so bad, but he never could hack it.

He wasn't even Hackett, come to think of it.

watch the video ... and be transported back to 1985...Do you remember when you read Sounds magazine every week and listened to Tommy Vance on a Thursday evening

Marillion - Kayleigh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwNVfNc1IQM

image wise in 1985 marillion were just so unfashionable.

No, I was two years old.

Well, that answers that then - video starts with a kid drawing a heart on a wall with chalk.

Nice array of synths too.

(turns off 80s synth geek mode)

That's not chalk, that's a milky bar.

Cue Late Lamented Tommy Vance Impression:

"MMMMMM-uh! MARILLION-uh! Played a blinder this year at Donington-uhh! The man who is-uh FISH-uhh. Real name - Derek Dick-uh."

Yes I know it reads more like Mark E Smith.

Where did Fish get his beige trench coat from? C&A?

Scotmid in Dalkeith, I think.

He was never a patch on Geoff Mann or Pete Nicholls, feh.

They were better than Pendragon, I'll give them that.

The confetti thing obv.

A pity how Marillion is best known for a completely unrepresentative ballad and not for masterpieces such as "Grendel".

Anyway, I didn't vote coz all the lyrics listed are pretty bad, I can't pick a "worst" out of that lot.

(x-post Geir you got to be fucking kidding me, man. IQ's "Last Human Gateway" steamrollers "Grendel" into the ground!)

consultation with Mrs Vicar suggests that dancing in stilettos in the snow will walk this.

My dad had this album, always thought it was: "Chocolates melting on a playground wall."

I was suprised to learn that they didn't put out their first album 'til '83. Always assumed they were 70s progsters who came back in the 80s as soft rock like Yes or Genesis, but they just started like that.

No, the first two albums are total progster, so is this one the pop songs aside. I bought these albums under the influence of The War Against Silence. I can imagine parts of Clutching At Straws holding up, but can't even imagine listening to "Kayleigh" now.

The three things I remember about Marillion:

1 A classmate at school was a fan. He turned up to school in a waistcoat, and wrote the out the complete lyrics to "Incommunicado" on his desk - "I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling incommunicado".
I found his blog a few years ago and he was still going on about how good Misplaced Childhood was.

2 Steven Wells' interview with Fish where he referred to him as Fish Dick throughout.

3. Adrian Juste cutting off Keyleigh with the sound of an explosion and then, in a Dalek voice, saying "that record has been blown into a MARILLION pieces!"

I think the lyrics to "Warm Wet Circles" possibly constitute Fish's most grandiose moment:

On promenades where drunks propose to lonely arcade mannequins
Where ceremonies pause at the jewelers shop display
Feigning casual silence in strained romantic interludes
Till they commit themselves to the muted journey home
And the pool player rests on another cue
Last nights hero picking up his dues
A honeymoon gambled on a ricochet
She's staring at the brochures at the holidays
Chalking up a name in your hometown
Standing all your mates to another round
Laughing at the world till the barman wipes away the warm wet circles
The warm wet circles

I saw teenage girls like gaudy moths
A classroom's shabby butterflies
Flirt in the glow of stranded telephone boxes;
Planning white lace weddings from smeared hearts and token proclamations,
Rolled from stolen lipsticks across the razored webs of glass
Sharing cigarettes with experience
With her giggling jealous confidantes,
She faithfully traces his name
With quick bitten fingernails
Through the tears of condensation
That'll cry through the night
As the glancing headlights of the last bus
Kiss adolescence goodbye

In a warm wet circle
Like a mother's kiss on your first broken heart,
A warm wet circle
Like a bullet hole in central park,
A warm wet circle
And I'll always surrender to the warm wet circles

She nervously undressed in the dancing beams of the fidra lighthouse
Giving it all away before its too late
She'll let a lovers tongue move in a warm wet circle
Giving it all away and showing no shame
She'll take a mother's kiss on her first broken heart
A warm wet circle,
She'll realise that she played her part in a warm wet circle

Teenage war brides

It was a wedding ring,
Destined to be found in a cheap hotel
Lost in a kitchen sink or thrown in a wishing well

haha, i unrepentantly love all this shit

The warm wet circles on the bar are like a mother's kiss are like a bullet hole are like a lover's tongue DO YOU SEE??!?

I joke but I love it too.

No, the first two albums are total progster, so is this one the pop songs aside. I bought these albums under the influence of The War Against Silence. I can imagine parts of Clutching At Straws holding up, but can't even imagine listening to "Kayleigh" now.

-- Tim F, Saturday, 29 March 2008 17:51

Well, there you go. Only heard a few of thier singles, and that was the impression I got. Can't imagine a prog band writing a straight power ballad like "Kayleigh" ten years earlier. Sounds like the sort of thing Yes came back with, like "Owner of a Lonely Heart".

(x-post Geir you got to be fucking kidding me, man. IQ's "Last Human Gateway" steamrollers "Grendel" into the ground!)

Maybe. And The Flower Kings have made lots and lots of great epics that steamroll any of the 80s generation of neo prog to the ground anyway.

can we get another one of these polls for "garden party"?

"edgy eggs and queueing cumbers, rrrudely wakened from their slumbers"

How about if we go to the original musical source* and poll "Close To The Edge" instead?

Well, almost, considering Marillion were always more Genesis than Yes.

'I thought it was confetti in our hair' sounds like the beginning of a Head & Shoulders commercial.

I don't believe Fish Dick gets nearly enough respect for introducing a new verb to the English language, viz. "Assassing."

talking of... Assassing

See Marillion in their OTT prog era, rolling synth solos, green face paint - peter gabriel meets the hulk, dramatic acting...just remember this is 1984 not 1974

Marillion - Chippenham 1984 - Assassing
youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XADsKS8eLqk

If Dingbod was in the rock society in 1984 at Oxford Uni, there could have been opportunities to travel down to Chippenham Golddiggers to see this concert?

proof, if proof be need be, that acid house had to happen.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

There would have been, DJM, but unsurprisingly I wasn't in the Rock Society and didn't take those "opportunites."

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I've never heard a note of these dudes either.

I wonder if Dawn was ever caught.

i'm old enough to remember stephen "tin tin" duffy reviewing this in the smash hit singles page. something along the lines of "any song that mentions belsize park can't be all bad but this one tries bloody hard to be".

in the words of smash hits - 'nuff said.

Shock "moonwashed college halls" victory. Bloody students.