Misplaced Childhood by Marillion

Misplaced Childhood, Marillion's third album, released in 1985 when I was 16, is 40 years ago a key album for neo-progressive rock and music in general. An album that definitely needs no introduction, an undisputed (and undisputed) masterpiece, an album I often listen to alongside the band's other masterpieces from 1983 to 1987.

This album still gives me chills today, the first in the opening sequence between "Pseudo Silk Kimono" and "Kayleigh," and then nonstop all the way to "White Feather."

The sequence of the four songs on side A, "Pseudo Silk Kimono," "Kayleigh," "Lavender," and "Bitter Suite," is still one of the most beautiful ever written, in my opinion. I could listen to it on repeat and never tire of it.

Okay, you've guessed it, I really like this album, so this isn't an impartial judgment. In fact, it reaches my personal peak with "Foxtrot" by Genesis.

Partly from the heart, because remembering 16 years ago, when I'm 56, can only bring wonderful emotions, and partly from my humble knowledge of prog music, because this album is, in my opinion, a work of art.

Beautiful. If you don't know it, you're missing a piece of music history, pick it up immediately.

LineUp

- Fish - vocals
- Steve Rothery - guitar
- Mark Kelly - keyboards
- Pete Trewavas - bass
- Ian Mosley - drums, percussion

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