Holidays in Eden [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Marillion | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 7, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1991
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Never
• ASIN: B00004NRUK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #806,869 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Splintering Heart

2. Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven)

3. The Party

4. No One Can

5. Holidays in Eden

6. Dry Land

7. Waiting to Happen

8. This Town

9. The Rakes Progress

10. 100 Nights

Disc: 2

1. Sympathy [*]

2. How Can It Hurt [*]

3. A Collection [*]

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][*]

8. You Don't Need Anyone [Moles Club Demo][#][*]

9. No One Can [Moles Club Demo][#][*]

10. The Party [Moles Club Demo][#][*]

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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. EMI. 2004. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Marillion does pop, and does it well., March 25, 2001

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Lord Chimp (Monkey World) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Holidays in Eden (Audio CD)

Call me crazy, but I sincerely enjoy Holidays In Eden. I won't deny that it's commercially directed, a bit streamlined, but when the quality of the music is this good, who cares? This may be one of the only five-star reviews it has been given, but it deserves it. It is still characterized by good old Marillion attributes (awesome guitar solos, ambient arrangements, and lots of emotion), but it's diluted a bit by the pop endeavor.

Highlights include "Cover My Eyes," with Hogarth showing off his deft vocal acrobatics, "Splintering Heart," which is classic Hogarth-Marillion (it's even a bit "Fishy"), the peppy title cut, and the radio friendly triad "No One Can," "Dry Land," and "Waiting To Happen." My favorite song would be "The Party," the moving story of a young girl who attends her first party (of the drugs, drinking, and promiscuous variety), and loses an element of her innocence as a result. A generic little idea that's made markedly compelling thanks to interesting lyrics and sad, atmospheric music. The final song, "100 Nights," also proves absorbing when given the attention ('cause it doesn't grab you right away). Under-appreciated, but many great things are.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as bad as everyone wnats you to believe., July 31, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Holidays in Eden (Audio CD)

Marillion's second Hogarth-era album has probably taken more flak than any of their other releases to date. I, for one, can't understand why. Maybe its simply the mentality with which I listen to Holiday's in Eden, but I can't anything offensively wrong with this thoughtfull collection of good pop tunes. Granted, it lacks the resonance of some their other work (Misplaced Childhood, and Brave, for instance), but it in turn sheds much of psuedo-progressive pretense of many of the same albums, making for a lighter, frothier, yet no less enjoyable Marillion experience.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The pains of replacing Fish with Steve Hogarth, June 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Holidays in Eden (Audio CD)

Marillion albums are fun to listen to. They're alternately moving and rocking. That said, Holidays is probably the least consistantly satisfying of their records. A bit poppy for Marillion, my guess is that the group and Steve Hogarth were feeling each other out. Thankfully, the process went extremely well and we ended up with several stellar albums since Holidays.