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jackhammer · 06-29-2011, 06:12 PM

Loved your Marillion write up although I think fugazi is the least commercial album of the Fish era personally and the artwork represents the already fractious relationship of the band even this early on in their career.

The art represents a sort of Faustian payback for the success of the band which the band were not always comfortable (especially Fish). The state of emotional turmoil is still there but the financial trappings of success are transient; hence the wine glass instead of beer, the technological acroutements: the video player and T.V. The view from the window whilst seemingly full of monetary gains already sets in motion a picture of decay and the toy train meaning that there is a hopeless desire to hang onto innocence.

The notion of album art though is a lost art these days I think and album art was an integral part of the overall medium which seems to have been lost these days.

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Loved your Marillion write up although I think fugazi is the least commercial album of the Fish era personally and the artwork represents the already fractious relationship of the band even this early on in their career. The art represents a sort of Faustian payback for the success of the band which the band were not always comfortable (especially Fish). The state of emotional turmoil is still there but the financial trappings of success are transient; hence the wine glass instead of beer, the technological acroutements: the video player and T.V. The view from the window whilst seemingly full of monetary gains already sets in motion a picture of decay and the toy train meaning that there is a hopeless desire to hang onto innocence. The notion of album art though is a lost art these days I think and album art was an integral part of the overall medium which seems to have been lost these days. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”