Working from home during quarantine gives me a great opportunity to finally try out some new music. First of all, I finally completed a basement renovation and refurbished an old pair of JBL speakers from the mid 70's, which sound great. Now I'm all set up to properly listen to music for the first time in a long while.
I've heard about Marillion since I was first on these forums (in one form or another) in 2006, but never really gave them a proper listen. The size of their catalog is enormous, but glossing over this thread gave me some starting points. I started shuffling through random songs of theirs on spotify, but soon went after whole albums. I've since listened to Misplaced Childhood, Marbles, and Bave. I've never been any good at relaying my thoughts on music, movies, etc, so I will say that I think their ambition and ability to put that ambition to a recording is truly impressive. I can tell it will require many repeat listens to really hear this band. Despite my awe, they haven't seized me the way I was by some other music when I was younger, but I attribute that more to age than anything else.
Regarding Misplaced Childhood and a song or 2 I've heard from Fugazi, I know their earlier work with Fish has been criticized as being derivative of Genesis. I certainly noticed that immediately, but I think it was more that Fish's voice so strongly resembles Peter Gabriel.
I'll be visiting this thread for more impressions.