Just listening to Marillion's Misplaced Childhood for the first time in ages. As mentioned upthread, concept albums like this tend to hold together as a whole anyway. I liked it all 20 years ago, I still do.
Despite being a major prog-head back then, I never really 'got' Marillion - indeed, I almost remember getting into a fight with a mate at uni after describing them as a poor man's Rush. For me, they're a bit like Genesis - occasional moments of brilliance but a lot of stuff that I either can't get into or just plain don't like. Music's funny like that, innit?
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Now, in keeping with the spirit of this thread, I'm going to nominate the original version of "Tubular Bells" - granted, it's only two tracks and yer average punter will only know of it from "The Omen"(?) but considering it was a genuinely solo effort, it's an amazing album.
Oh, and pretty much anything by Ozric Tentacles
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