Brave | 
| Artist: Marillion
Label: Caroline
Category: Music
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 145160
Format: Import, Original Recording Remastered, Special Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 97038
UPC: 724349703827
EAN: 0724349703827
ASIN: B00000GAMF
Release Date: September 22, 1998
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Bridge | | • | Living With the Big Lie | | • | Runaway | | • | Goodbye to All That/Wave/Mad/The Opium Den/The Slide/Standing in ... | | • | Hard as Love | | • | Hollow Man | | • | Lap of Luxury/Now Wash Your Hands | | • | Paper Lies | | • | Brave | | • | Great Escape | | • | Made Again |
Disc 2
| • | Great Escape [Orchestral Version] | | • | Marouatte Jam | | • | Hollow Man [Acoustic] | | • | Winter Trees | | • | Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury | | • | Runaway [Acoustic] | | • | Hard as Love [Instrumental] | | • | Living With the Big Lie [Previously Unlreleased Demo Recorded January] | | • | Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Previously Unreleased Demo] | | • | Dream Sequence [Previously Unreleased Demo Recorded May 18, 1993 @] | | • | Great Escape [Spiral Remake] |
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Album Description
2CD set. EMI.
Album Details
Digitally Remastered to 24 Bits, features a Bonus CD with Over 40 Min of Music and a 28 Page Booklet.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
Don't Buy This Album.... July 19, 2006
Jeffrey G. Stevenson (F.W.B.,FL)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
...Unless you are willing to give it time to sink in. This is one of those 'Concept' albums that few listeners will get instant gratification from. When I first recieved "Brave", I gave it the mandatory three spins before I even tried to come to any conclusions. Well, I decided that I did in fact like several songs/musical passages, but as a whole, it didn't quite strike me as much as more acsessible releases from the band such as "Afraid of Sunlight", "Seasons End" or "Holidays in Eden". So I ended up 'shelving' this release for several months----my mistake! After viewing the awesome "Marbles" DVD (deluxe edition), the material from "Brave" really captured my attention...enough so that I 'unshelved' the CD and gave it several more listens. Lucky Me...thats exactly what it took for me to see the light..."the bright lights and the noise". Now I can honestly say that I like everything about this album (with the possible exception of "Paper Lies"). Personal highlights are "Bridge", "Living With the Big Lie", "Goodbye to All That", "Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury", "The Great Escape" and "Made Again"....but again, I like the album as a 'Whole'. Now, as other reviewers have stated, this isn't a 'sunny', 'happy' listening experience---it is definitely a dark, somber story of a tortured (misplaced?) childhood. I would agree with another reviewer here...this album can instantly bring you 'down' and be somewhat depressing, so its not an album you will want to put on just anytime. But when your in that kind of mood, this will take you to a wonderful, Strange place that few albums can. 4.5 Stars...Strongly recommended if your willing!
Where have I been all these years??? February 15, 2004
Robert M Briggs III (Lake City, PA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
When I finally "broke down" and gave Marillion an open berth to my ears and lobes, I didn't know where to start. I let a friend who had been into them for years guide me, and I wound up buying "Brave", "Season's End", and "Clutching at Straws" all at once. On first listens, I would say that "Brave" was my favorite of the three.
Now it's over 3 years hence, and all 3 CD's have grown on me immensely. However, when all is said and done, "Brave" is still my favorite. I don't quite get the debate over Fish vs. Steve Hogarth as to who is the better singer. I think it's all in the material they worked with. Both are strong. Now wash your hands.
 It took me YEARS to appreciate this album April 12, 2007
Matthew Van Horn
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
So after CLUTCHING AT STRAWS, singer Fish left the band. In comes Steve Hogarth for 1989s SEASON'S END, a terrific balance of staying true to their art and moving forward. Next came HOLIDAYS IN EDEN, an obvious attempt by he band and the record company to go for popular appeal. HOLIDAYS has some terrific material, and I would that all pop had its level of musical integrity. So what did the band do next? A friggin concept album--and guess what? They scored a huge hit with the fans. BRAVE is what Marillion listeners were waiting for since MISPLACED CHILDHOOD. BRAVE is moody, depressing, tragic, touching and rocking. It may make you cry. It certainly will hold your attention if you let ot sink in and if you really listen. I bought the CD upon its release many years ago. I listened to it several times and some tracks caught my interest while others did not. That's fine. Many years later I began to give the album as a whole more attention. The full picture began to develop for me. Generally, BRAVE will show up as one of the top Marillion albums among fans, and it deserves to be.
The best from Marillion in Hoggart's era. April 9, 2007
Guy Campeau (Stoneham, Quebec Canada)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a conceptual album, I have to admit that when it came out, I was still stuck in Fish's era. My opinion at the moment was that Marillion could never create an album as strong as Misplaced Childhood. This was a mistake, Brave is a masterpiece and the ending track "The great escape" is one of the greatest from the band, after all these years, I can tell that this is one of my favorite Marillion's album, if not my favorite.
Highly recommanded for any progressive music fans !
Marillion - The Most Experimental Album Of The Hogarth Years September 18, 2007
Steven Sly (Kalamazoo, MI United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After Marillion moved in a generally more commercial direction for their previous album "Holidays In Eden" the band did an about face and put out "Brave" which is one of the most uncommercial albums of their career. "Brave" is a concept album that tells the story of a runaway girl who attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge. The album tells her life story. The album was augumemted by a film that also fleshed out the tale. The music on this disc is for the most part dark and brooding. It tends to be an album that Marillion fans tend to either rank as one of their best ever or as one of their most pretentious. It is another one of those discs that had to grow on me over time. When it first came out I thought the concept was solid, but the music was somewhat lacking. The beginning and the end of the album were great, but it bogged down a bit in the middle. Over the years I kept coming back to "Brave" from time to time and appreciate it more with each re-visit. This is not at album that you listen to while driving down the road in your car. "Brave" is an album that you listen to on a good stereo or with headphones while you can sit down and really concentrate on it. The individual tracks don't work that well by themselves (with a few exceptions), but taken as a whole this is a brilliant piece of work. As mentioned prior, the majority of the music on this disk moody and dark. There are a few heavier rock sections such as "Hard As Love", but you are not going to find a lot of the more high energy Marillion on this one. The final section of the album consisting of "Brave", "The Great Escape", "Last Of You", "Falling From The Moon", and "Made Again" is simply gorgeous contains everything that makes Marillion great. "Brave" is not an album for casual listening. It needs to be consumed as the whole that it is. The album may not grab you at first, but give it time and you may find it to be a very rewarding listen.
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