Artist: MARILLION
Album: HOLIDAYS IN EDEN DELUXE REMASTERED EDIT. (2CD)

Year: 1992/ 1998
Media type: CD

HOLIDAYS IN EDEN, Marillion's sixth album and second featuring vocalist Steve Hogarth, finds the prog-rock legends veering in a new direction, keeping much of the bombast but opting for a more pop-oriented sound. While opening track "Splintering Heart" contains the cascading keyboards and flamboyant tones most associated with the well-traveled British outfit, "Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven)" with its elements of U2 and Springsteen, would not seem out of place on top 40 radio of 1991. The hooks are fast and furious on the title track and throughout, but for the progressive fan concerned about the change, a second disc is available with re-recordings in a more familiar vein.

Another one with Steve Hogarth on vocals. This one is also quite a good one, since one of the best Marillion songs ever is on it. I'm talking about "Dry Land", which from the beginning is a song from the by Hogarth and Colin Woore. A song from Steves' earlier days. There are other great ones, trust me. "Cover My Eyes", "No One Can" and "Waiting To Happen" are some of them. Marillion does really the kind of music, that almost never is bad. It's always well arranged and performed, with a lot of emotion and beautiful soundings.

Producers: Christopher Neil, Marillion, Rob Eaton, Christopher Hedge, Chris Kimsey.

Includes liner notes by Peter Mew, Pete Treways, Steve Hogarth, and Mark Kelly.
Digitally remastered by Peter Mew (November 1997, Abbey Road Studios, London, England).

TRACKLIST CD 1:

1. Splintering Heart
2. Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven)
3. Party, The
4. No One Can
5. Holidays in Eden
6. Dry Land
7. Waiting to Happen
8. This Town
9. Rakes Progress, The
10. 100 Nights

TRACKLIST CD 2:

1. Sympathy
2. How Can It Hurt
3. Collection, A
4. Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) (Acoustic Version)
5. Sympathy (Acoustic Version)
6. I Will Walk on Water (Alternative Mix)
7. Splintering Heart (Live at the Moles Club) - (live)
8. You Don't Need Anyone (Moles Club Demo)
9. No One Can (Moles Club Demo)
10. Party, The (Moles Club Demo)
11. This Town (Moles Club Demo)
12. Waiting to Happen (Moles Club Demo)
13. Eric
14. Epic, The (Fairground) (Mushroom Farm Demo)


LINE-UP:

Steve Hogarth (vocals)
Steve Rothery (guitar)
Mark Kelly (keyboards)
Pete Trewavas (bass)
Ian Mosley (drums, percussion)