Suits [Original recording remastered, Import]

Fish | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Chocolate Frog UK
• ASIN: B00006J3WS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,186 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mr. 1470

2. Lady Let It Lie

3. Emperor's Song

4. Fortunes of War

5. Somebody Special

6. No Dummy

7. Pipeline

8. Jumpsuit City

9. Bandwagon

10. Raw Meat

11. Black Canal [*]

12. Out of My Life [*]

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

Fish has enjoyed over 20 years as a professional singer having joined Marillion in 1981. Marillion went on to become one of the bigger rock bands of the 1980's, with hit albums Fugazi and Misplaced Childhood and classic singles Kayleigh and Lavender.

They have a huge fanbase and are still releasing albums today. Fish left the band after seven years to develop a solo career, which has often been dogged by legal wrangles with record companies but nonetheless has seen some classic albums issued. These include Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors, Internal Exile, Suits and Raingods With Zippos.

Product Description

1994 album from the former Marillion frontman, reissued at midprice. Includes the single 'Lady let It Lie' & 2 bonus tracks 'Black Canal' & 'Out Of My Life'. Remastered. Chocolate Frog Records. 2002.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not The Best Fish Solo Efford, but still worth it, January 19, 2003

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Tarcísio Moura (Belo Horizonte - MG - Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suits (Audio CD)

It took me quite a long time to purchase this CD due to some bad reviews I saw posted in the Amazon.com site, but as a big Marillion fan (Fish era), I had to have it. I got it expecting the worst, but I was happily surprised with its many qualities rather than its faulty moments. The production is excellent, far superior than Fish's earlier releases. The four first songs are great, and they are worth the price of the CD alone (Lady Let It Lie being one of his great songs of all time, a must in any Best Of CD). The record does not quite maintain its great moments afeter that, but still the songs are good. The problem seems to be that Fish wanted to do something different thean the traditional 'progressive sound' one should expect from his work. If the next four songs were shorter, then it'd be another story, because they are quite good. Different from his previous work indeed, but still very good. They're only too long for their own good. In my humble opinion the only real weak tracks are Pipeline and Raw Meat, but only because this scotsmans whining against his former recording companies may be justified, but did not turned out good lyrics or melodies. Don't get me wrong, they are listenable and not really bad, but quite not in the same league as the rest of his output since he left Marillion (the same thing happend in "Internal Exile". Tongues is the weakest song in that algum and dwells about the same subject).

All in all this is not Fish's best album to date, but still is quite good when compared to all his solo works. I still think it is his most underrated CD and did not deserve the criticism it got. I listen to it very often and my opinion didn't change after many atempts to find something to justify those who did not like it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A musical triumph!!, December 7, 2005

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luco "luco" (Panama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suits (Audio CD)

I was under the wrong impression that this cd was one of Fish "not so good" works. Maybe because it was a "hard to find" cd badly promoted and also one mentioned in not so good terms by the artist himself. I got this cd just one week ago when i saw it alone at a cd store and decided to buy it. And what a surprise!! it is an excelent cd equal to all the other works an artist of this caliber can record. It is maybe his more personal work and simply is a marvelous colection of songs and very well produced.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fish's Best at the Time, June 8, 2001

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Christopher Dudley (Laurel, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Suits (Audio CD)

Though Fish has continued to release good new music after leaving Marillion, it's always felt to me like there has been something lacking. Whatever that quality was, I think he found it for this album. The production quality of "Suits" shows a vast improvement over Fish's previous efforts. The sound is so much fuller and richer throughout the whole album. The lyrics are some of the best he's written in a while, and the music has a more intricate quality.

The first song, "Mr. 1470" (not Mr. 147, as the track listing reads), sets the mood of the whole album. In the liner notes, Fish explains that as he was looking at an exhibit of 1470 Man in a museum, it occurred to him that he could be looking at a long-lost ancestor. He shares his musings on how humanity got to where it is today. "We learned to love, we learned to kill/ We taught ourselves to rule the world." In "Fortunes of War" he contrasts children playing at war with the brief sad image of a disabled vet still living with the reality. Probably the weakest song on the album is "Raw Meat," the requisite Fish ballad that closed the original album, before the bonus tracks were added. The bonus tracks are good, too. "Out of My Life" is a sort of short folksy jig about attempting to exorcise the lingering feelings after an ended relationship, and "Black Canal" is a spooky tale of an encounter with a stranger.

With this album, Fish seems to have arrived at a sound he'd been looking for in his two previous efforts. It remains a favorite in my collection.