Thank you. Clutching at straws was my introduction to Marillion. I listening mostly to garbage radio tunes in '88. The guy running our church youth group, (after hearing me and another guy talk about Guns and Roses' new "Appetite for Destruction" album for a whole trip) said, "Stop listening to that, try this" and handed me a Cassette of CAS. I unfolded the lyrics and listened to that over and over. Likely missing many of the deeper meanings that became more obvious with age and experience. The poetry of the lyrics, the emotion of the words and guitar amplifying each other... I was... home. I spent months running to little record shops around town and getting lucky enough to collect their previous albums and blessed enough to get my hands on a couple 12' singles on vinyl. Then I read Fish was leaving and was near broken. Well luckily Hogarth came along and Fish going solo just doubled the music worth listening to for me. Thanks for sharing your story and giving me an excuse to revisit an album that saved me and changed my life. Cheers, sir.
What a fantastic story, and what a great jump - GnR to Los Marillos, I approve! I can't say I really got along with Fish's stuff after Vigil (which i like very much) but it was Season's end that turned me from fan to... fanatic. That said, as I said, this remains one of my favourite albums, amazing lyrics, soaring music, what is not to love? Thank you, as always, for listening. Keep the faith dC
Backing vocals on this track are from 'Tessa Niles ' en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Niles This was my first Marillion album (I was 13 years old at the time) listened for almost 15 years tot this music. Now I start listenjng to these albums again. I still believe Marillion, as a band, but Steve Rothery and the lyrics from Fish are under restamated. Thanks for your wordt and thoughts on this track.
And what vocals they are. That still drowning, STUNNING! I agree, Rothery in particular is a massively under celebrated genius of restrained playing. Very glad to here you are circling back, this is one of my all time favs, but I also listened to FEAR this week and these fellas are still vital and making compelling music. Thanks for watching dC
Not, perhaps my absolute favourite... But very much up there. And certainly one of the most affecting songs on that amazing album of stories and confessions and indulgences. Hope you liked it Thanks for watching... Still drowning... dC
@@dodgycamreacts-lyricsinabo5170 I did like it! Still drowning... (Tessa Niles, fantastic. And Cori Josias as well, even though she gets lots of shit from the fans. Never got it.)
@@philouze1815 Happily, and I mean VERY happily... I was not aware of this. I mean, people suck don't they? Those are simply amazing vocals and if you are gonna sit in mom's basement and pronounce about them then you are no friend of mine! I love this song and those words and all the people who sang them. Thanks again for watching. dC
He has such a distinctive voice doesnt he! I like your marillian ones, and i love how you look further and deeper behind the actual lyrics...Many people dont, and just sing along to lyrics without actually knowing what the story is about or realising the actual debth of the words. Love this upload...i really loved the other video you did with H singing collection...when your daughter was sat with you...I think i will go and give it another watc actually...i just adore his voice and the whole feel to that track...its a musical masterpeice in my eyes, best wishes! Sonique
Yeah, a voice filled with character and a writing style that is quite distinct. Rush & Marillion have been my go to bands since i was a teen, so these are always going to be 'easy' (for a given value). I'm actually setting up to do some 'alternative content' so, watch this space! :) dC
Clutching at Straws is one of my most beloved albums. I wore out 2 cassettes of this album over the course of 4 years because I listened to it nonstop. Mr. Dick is an amazing lyricist that has had a huge impact on my life. He is the most prolific word painter, telling stories of the mundane masses in a painfully poignant way. I named my daughter Kayleigh after the song from Misplaced Childhood. Clutching resonates with me on another level. Thank you for your video, and I hope that you get to make your film.
I think you are far from alone in naming your daughter that way! The world over, Kayleighs... Lovely Kayleighs. It's a great album, and yes, Fish is a wordsmith with a very distinct style and tone. As for my film, we are trying, we really are... Watch this space. Thanks for watching dC
Thank you so much. This song is very special, it gets emotional ... Thank you for opening up sentimentally. By the way, thanks for your clear pronunciation. For non-English speakers, it makes it much easier for us ...
After a long text chat with my daughter last night I have concluded that I just talk slow so i can attempt to create cohesive sentences. But i am very glad the side effect is that it helps people follow my self-indulgent ramblings. Thank you for wacthing - especially in a second language, that always impresses the heck out of me. keep the faith dC
I love the fly on the wall feeling of Torch Song but yes the whole album is great from beginning to end. I am toying around with an animated concept of the album of my visual interpretation
I will keep slugging away at that film, the initial idea was from a producer who CAN actually get films made, but films remain a near impossible ask. That said, I based another part on a Steven Wilson song, so i almost have to get it made, right? Thanks for watching dC
What a fantastic album from start to finish, they left out some great tracks too that were written for this album. Have you heard exile on princes street?
I heard it a few times. It's a pretty good song. I will admit, I think my favourite ever bonus track is Mirages off of Afraid of Sunlight. (or Bell in the sea, if that counts) "Please send Polaroids Or an ear in the post A map to the treasure A key to the closed" Fun story, back in 1999, we were filming a sound check at the Zodiac and I said something about 'write yourself a swimming pool' (the Lennon McCarthy quote) h started singing and they legit jammed a half song off that line. It was inches away from being a bonus track, but the recording on our small cams just didn't quite crack it. I would have died HAPPY! :) dC
I've been missing in action for a bit (too busy) but had to look in for this. Best wishes for the film. It sounds very depressing, but a great concept - almost a 'La Ronde' of interaction between layers economic hardship maybe? I entirely agree on this being Fish's best album with the band, and probably the closest to the direction the lyrics took with Hogarth. But god is it bleak. Despite the content perhaps being a little toned down compared to the dramatics of the earlier albums, Fish really had it bad. OK, I've certainly been lucky in my life. Born in a still reasonably rich country with many of the favoured genetic characteristics. So I can't judge if existence in South Africa, and for many people, is a permanent fight for life. But I'd like to believe that at least some people (and not just those that happen to be rich) are enjoying their time on earth. When I think of bad periods of my life, I have to say I'd identify more with the Pink Floyd lyric of "clinging on in quiet desperation" rather than "clutching at straws". Similar concepts, but Pink Floyd are less melodramatic. Well, on that album at least.
So, here is my observation... In SA, the poorest people often live in the most tight knit communities. As a comic recently said on an American show, when you have nothing else to offer, the gift of food and laughter is ALL you have to share. So, these communities are full of laughter and life, full of JOY. But that is almost a by product of the short brutish nature of existence. I lost / deleted a friend a while back after his take out on a heartbreakingly sweet story about a janitor's whole community helping him put his daughter through university was that if you can't afford kids don't have them. The truth is, people living literally ON rubbish dumps in Indian meet, fall in love, have families and find hope and life. Often, the more you have the more you have to lose and the less you live free for fear others might somehow take what it yours. And this is NOT a happy little Afri-cuns argument, it's not patronising argument for the nobility of poverty, just an observation that we are humans and humans LAUGH and LOVE and LIVE. It's no coincidence that the people MOST regarded as funny here in the UK are from Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham and the East End. As for my film, it will be a long shot, but I am gonna try get it made. It's the most non-redemptive thing I ever wrote, and i live for redemption. BUT, it feels true, and it has truth to speak. So we will try. Oh and yes, Fish wrote his pain and his pain was magnificent. Like happy songs, it was loved because it lets us all know how we are joined with him in pain and fear and despare, just as much as we are in hope and light and laughter. Thanks for watching keep the faith dC
Thank you.
Clutching at straws was my introduction to Marillion. I listening mostly to garbage radio tunes in '88. The guy running our church youth group, (after hearing me and another guy talk about Guns and Roses' new "Appetite for Destruction" album for a whole trip) said, "Stop listening to that, try this" and handed me a Cassette of CAS. I unfolded the lyrics and listened to that over and over. Likely missing many of the deeper meanings that became more obvious with age and experience. The poetry of the lyrics, the emotion of the words and guitar amplifying each other... I was... home.
I spent months running to little record shops around town and getting lucky enough to collect their previous albums and blessed enough to get my hands on a couple 12' singles on vinyl. Then I read Fish was leaving and was near broken. Well luckily Hogarth came along and Fish going solo just doubled the music worth listening to for me.
Thanks for sharing your story and giving me an excuse to revisit an album that saved me and changed my life. Cheers, sir.
What a fantastic story, and what a great jump - GnR to Los Marillos, I approve!
I can't say I really got along with Fish's stuff after Vigil (which i like very much) but it was Season's end that turned me from fan to... fanatic.
That said, as I said, this remains one of my favourite albums, amazing lyrics, soaring music, what is not to love?
Thank you, as always, for listening.
Keep the faith
dC
Backing vocals on this track are from 'Tessa Niles ' en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Niles This was my first Marillion album (I was 13 years old at the time) listened for almost 15 years tot this music. Now I start listenjng to these albums again. I still believe Marillion, as a band, but Steve Rothery and the lyrics from Fish are under restamated. Thanks for your wordt and thoughts on this track.
And what vocals they are. That still drowning, STUNNING!
I agree, Rothery in particular is a massively under celebrated genius of restrained playing.
Very glad to here you are circling back, this is one of my all time favs, but I also listened to FEAR this week and these fellas are still vital and making compelling music.
Thanks for watching
dC
My favourite Marillion album and my favourite Marillion song.
What more can I ask for?
Cheers from France!
Not, perhaps my absolute favourite... But very much up there.
And certainly one of the most affecting songs on that amazing album of stories and confessions and indulgences.
Hope you liked it
Thanks for watching...
Still drowning...
dC
@@dodgycamreacts-lyricsinabo5170 I did like it! Still drowning... (Tessa Niles, fantastic. And Cori Josias as well, even though she gets lots of shit from the fans. Never got it.)
@@philouze1815 Happily, and I mean VERY happily... I was not aware of this. I mean, people suck don't they? Those are simply amazing vocals and if you are gonna sit in mom's basement and pronounce about them then you are no friend of mine! I love this song and those words and all the people who sang them. Thanks again for watching.
dC
He has such a distinctive voice doesnt he! I like your marillian ones, and i love how you look further and deeper behind the actual lyrics...Many people dont, and just sing along to lyrics without actually knowing what the story is about or realising the actual debth of the words. Love this upload...i really loved the other video you did with H singing collection...when your daughter was sat with you...I think i will go and give it another watc actually...i just adore his voice and the whole feel to that track...its a musical masterpeice in my eyes, best wishes! Sonique
Yeah, a voice filled with character and a writing style that is quite distinct. Rush & Marillion have been my go to bands since i was a teen, so these are always going to be 'easy' (for a given value). I'm actually setting up to do some 'alternative content' so, watch this space! :)
dC
@@dodgycamreacts-lyricsinabo5170 Brilliant, if it was the video I have just watched , it was excellent !
Clutching at Straws is one of my most beloved albums. I wore out 2 cassettes of this album over the course of 4 years because I listened to it nonstop. Mr. Dick is an amazing lyricist that has had a huge impact on my life. He is the most prolific word painter, telling stories of the mundane masses in a painfully poignant way. I named my daughter Kayleigh after the song from Misplaced Childhood. Clutching resonates with me on another level. Thank you for your video, and I hope that you get to make your film.
I think you are far from alone in naming your daughter that way! The world over, Kayleighs... Lovely Kayleighs.
It's a great album, and yes, Fish is a wordsmith with a very distinct style and tone.
As for my film, we are trying, we really are...
Watch this space.
Thanks for watching
dC
Thank you so much. This song is very special, it gets emotional ... Thank you for opening up sentimentally. By the way, thanks for your clear pronunciation. For non-English speakers, it makes it much easier for us ...
After a long text chat with my daughter last night I have concluded that I just talk slow so i can attempt to create cohesive sentences. But i am very glad the side effect is that it helps people follow my self-indulgent ramblings.
Thank you for wacthing - especially in a second language, that always impresses the heck out of me.
keep the faith
dC
I love the fly on the wall feeling of Torch Song but yes the whole album is great from beginning to end. I am toying around with an animated concept of the album of my visual interpretation
Thank you, one of my favourite “Fish era” tracks :)
I hope that you get the backing need to realise the film you’re working on :)
I will keep slugging away at that film, the initial idea was from a producer who CAN actually get films made, but films remain a near impossible ask. That said, I based another part on a Steven Wilson song, so i almost have to get it made, right?
Thanks for watching
dC
What a fantastic album from start to finish, they left out some great tracks too that were written for this album. Have you heard exile on princes street?
I heard it a few times. It's a pretty good song. I will admit, I think my favourite ever bonus track is Mirages off of Afraid of Sunlight. (or Bell in the sea, if that counts)
"Please send Polaroids
Or an ear in the post
A map to the treasure
A key to the closed"
Fun story, back in 1999, we were filming a sound check at the Zodiac and I said something about 'write yourself a swimming pool' (the Lennon McCarthy quote) h started singing and they legit jammed a half song off that line. It was inches away from being a bonus track, but the recording on our small cams just didn't quite crack it.
I would have died HAPPY!
:)
dC
I've been missing in action for a bit (too busy) but had to look in for this. Best wishes for the film. It sounds very depressing, but a great concept - almost a 'La Ronde' of interaction between layers economic hardship maybe?
I entirely agree on this being Fish's best album with the band, and probably the closest to the direction the lyrics took with Hogarth. But god is it bleak. Despite the content perhaps being a little toned down compared to the dramatics of the earlier albums, Fish really had it bad. OK, I've certainly been lucky in my life. Born in a still reasonably rich country with many of the favoured genetic characteristics. So I can't judge if existence in South Africa, and for many people, is a permanent fight for life. But I'd like to believe that at least some people (and not just those that happen to be rich) are enjoying their time on earth. When I think of bad periods of my life, I have to say I'd identify more with the Pink Floyd lyric of "clinging on in quiet desperation" rather than "clutching at straws". Similar concepts, but Pink Floyd are less melodramatic. Well, on that album at least.
So, here is my observation... In SA, the poorest people often live in the most tight knit communities. As a comic recently said on an American show, when you have nothing else to offer, the gift of food and laughter is ALL you have to share. So, these communities are full of laughter and life, full of JOY. But that is almost a by product of the short brutish nature of existence. I lost / deleted a friend a while back after his take out on a heartbreakingly sweet story about a janitor's whole community helping him put his daughter through university was that if you can't afford kids don't have them. The truth is, people living literally ON rubbish dumps in Indian meet, fall in love, have families and find hope and life. Often, the more you have the more you have to lose and the less you live free for fear others might somehow take what it yours. And this is NOT a happy little Afri-cuns argument, it's not patronising argument for the nobility of poverty, just an observation that we are humans and humans LAUGH and LOVE and LIVE. It's no coincidence that the people MOST regarded as funny here in the UK are from Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham and the East End. As for my film, it will be a long shot, but I am gonna try get it made. It's the most non-redemptive thing I ever wrote, and i live for redemption. BUT, it feels true, and it has truth to speak. So we will try. Oh and yes, Fish wrote his pain and his pain was magnificent. Like happy songs, it was loved because it lets us all know how we are joined with him in pain and fear and despare, just as much as we are in hope and light and laughter.
Thanks for watching
keep the faith
dC
Top 5 album of all time, IMO.
Certainly in my top 5 Marillion albums, and highly placed on the lifetime list.
I do love it very much.
1987
Yup. The best of the Fish years IM (NOT) HO!