The album might not have a single standalone mas TheNotrap October 10th Comments. The whole thing explodes into the theme song, "Raingods Dancing", a magnificent melodic piece with a floydian ring and prominant acoustic guitar. The following "Mission statement" could easily be a Deep Purple song, the Jon Lord like organ playing driving this toe-tapping song forward. Frank Usher is no longer here with this album. Tarja Turunen In The Raw. This is a almost perfect FISH album with just one or two weak tracks.
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Fish undertakes a vocal duet, with acoustic backing, and very satisfying it is too. Well, that's my personal interpretation of course. I like the howling guitar solo that starts at approx 3: When you do, All About Jazz will receive a sales commission. zippos
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With the lights down and volume up, maybe a candle lit, this is a wonderful trip. Things take a darker turn lyrically with a very brooding ballad, Incomplete. Search Albums by title. View as a separate page. Rites Of Passage commences in quite the most beautiful manner, with Fish delivering a thoughtful and delicate ballad against some underplayed keyboards and bass. I would love to rate this album with seven out of ten but three stars is my rate.
It's really great nuance. It has very strong pop pieces, but the epic is where the album gets really cooking. The lyrics are not very optimistic either: There are so many mood changes here, it is difficult to keep up sometimes.
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With "Raingods with zippos" though, Fish seems to be prepared to make much more of a band album, and the result was probably his most progressive album yet. The accessibility and memorable melodies are there, but there is so much more too. Raingod's With Zippos is a tremendous album which restored Fish's artistic and commercial credentials. Mission Statement is one of the weaker songs on the album, it has this very swingy feel and it doesn't really go anywhere. In the former category, Fish takes us on the first side through a diverse set of art rock songs which include a brilliant cover of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band's track Faith Healer, in a version which I'm inclined to say is better than the original.
This is a good, old fashioned, rocker delivering five minutes of toe tapping enjoyment.
Rosalie Cunningham Rosalie Cunningham. Fish uses his usual words like "self-penned" he ever used with Marillion. This track I usually selected for a program in local FM radio.
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In all, a highly accomplished album from Fish which has been crafted with great care and precision. Many of these compositions are strong contenders for radio airplay.
It's a very pretty song about how no one wiyh ever complete and how we always want more, but the depressing and very sad feel of the song will captivate you more than the lyrics itself. Fish seemed to be back on his prog roots, nearly a decade after Vigel h It should be believed that 'Plague of Ghosts' is absolutely outstanding, and could even be the soundtrack to a wonderful dream.
Fish: Raingods With Zippos
Compared to previous "Sunsets on Raibgods this album fails "a bit" in some dimensions. The third ballad available is "Rites of Passage" which is relatively sad and melancholic.
Other than that, it's probably the weakest song on the album. Steve Wilson plays all the guitars here, the suite having a bit of a Porcupine Tree feel anyway, witth "Digging deep". Waving at Stars continues this atmospheric feel with some very electronic sounding drums and some hammered out acoustic guitar chords.
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