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Happiness Is the Road, Volume 2: The Hard Shoulder

Marillion

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Happiness is Stunning

This is volume two of Marillion's brand new double album Happiness is the Road. Like all Marillion albums this gets better and better with each listen. It needs to be played loud for it's full potential and played all the through. If you listen to this album properly and like good rock music I have no doubt that you will thoroughly enjoy this album. Steve Hogarth's voice is again brilliant and emotional and Mark Kelly's keyboards are exceptional and he is all over this album. Highlights from volume two include The Man From the Planet Marzipan, Older Than Me, Threw Me Out, Whatever is Wrong With You and Real Tears For Sale. All in all this album is a must buy and possibly one of the best albums of 2008, it's quite simply stunning.

Simply wonderful...

Its simple....buy this. Forget genres, opinions, prejudice and that K word from the 80's. This is gorgeous, wonderful, beautiful, stunning music....

Improving with every (other) album

OK, I wasn't so much a fan of Somewhere Else. But as a longtime fan, I'll give every new album a fair shot. And this is well worth a long listen; the companion piece, Essence, is a concept album, whereas this installment is more straightforward. On the other hand this album has some of the band's favourite tracks from these sessions, including The Man from the Planet Marzipan, Real Tears For Sale - and I can't wait to hear that one live - and the almost-certain-to-be-the new single Whatever Is Wrong With You - check out YouTube for the fan videos to this song, one or possibly two of which will be chosen to be the video to the single. And that's one of the things Marillion do so well: being a fan is being part of a huge family, and whether it's having the fans pre-order the album so that the band don't have to go cap in hand to a record company and in return putting the names of all the fans who do so in special editions of the album that reward their trust and belief, offering fans (and the odd rock journo) the chance to play on the album, or the fans clubbing together to subsidise a tour to the US which would have been prohibitive otherwise, the tagline is true: Find a better way of life. OK, I'm a massive fan, but that doesn't mean uncritical. Well, not completely. So make up your own mind. But whatever you do, give them a fair hearing first.

Biography

Formed: 1979 in Aylesbury, England

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Marillion emerged from the short-lived progressive rock revival of the early '80s to become one of the most enduring cult acts of the era. The group formed in Aylesbury, England, in 1979, and adopted its original name, Silmarillion, from the title of a J.R.R. Tolkien novel. Initially, Marillion were comprised of guitarist Steve Rothery, bassist Doug Irvine, keyboardist Brian Jelliman, and drummer Mick Pointer, but after recording "The Web," an instrumental demo, they recruited vocalist Fish (born...
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