Sunsets on Empire: Fish: Amazon.co.uk: Music

This album rocks from the very first track! it has a funky groove which sets the mood for the whole album. I applaud Snapper music for taking on the task of re-issuing Fish's back catalogue.
I hope many more will discover what a great talent he is and help bring him back to prominence. Fish is a great lyricist and a charismatic showman with a great rock voice. Being tagged as ex-Marillion may have done him no favours in the UK recently and he has had a few hard knocks both in his career and private live. Surely, things can only get better. However, he has a loyal fan base, visit his website and see for yourself!
Anyway, I urge you if you are into creative rock and I defy you just to put this album on as 'background' music as Fish's lyrics have a way of making you stop what your doing and listen. Long Live Fish!

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4.0 out of 5 stars The high point of the solo career, 8 April 2007

By	VanDusen (London) - See all my reviews

Against all the odds it was the reconstituted Marillion who by this point had gone on to greater heights after the acrimonious split in 1988, but this album provides a tantalising glimpse of what Fish might have achieved had alcohol and arrogance not shipwrecked his career.

The vicious and shocking opening of The Perception Of Johnny Punter illustrates immediately that the man still has the bite he'd been lacking since Fugazi. This is evidenced further in the throbbing single Brother 52 and the burning What Colour Is God? But it's actually the ballads that really make this album - the light and thoughtful Change of Heart, the sad dignity of Say It With Flowers, and the personal note to daughter Tara, all add the necessary warmth to the texture without sounding trite or insincere as those on prior albums. The standout, though really comes in the title track, a behemoth of a song which builds to a Pink Floyd-esque climax - involving and full of artistic release.

Sunsets on Empire was released in 1997 within a month of Marillion's worst post-Fish album to date (This Strange Engine) suggesting a sea-change in the fortunes of the two parties. It wasn't to be though - Fish went on to create the pompous and ill-conceived Raingods With Zippos and if any of the world was still interested after that it stopped being with the almost unlistenable Fellini Days. However, Sunsets on Empire deserves a listen if only to appreciate that it wasn't entirely downhill after Marillion.

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2.0 out of 5 stars The sun is indeed setting, 8 Jan 2008

By	Books these days are mostly rubbish (UK) - See all my reviews

The law of diminishing returns from Fish, from the brilliance of 'Vigil', his music by this stage is lacklustre and unremarkable. No one minds bitter, chip on their shoulder lyrics if they're accompanied by great riffs and melodies- but here all we get is the sour attitude and boring nationalism.
Fish was so wonderful in the past with his powerful, strident voice and potent lyrical poetry when backed by the brilliant, creative genius of the Marillion boys. Now, using session musicians who may be technically brilliant but can't write music, Fish has lost the plot.

Another thing- why is it necessary to remaster such a recent release?? Remastering this is tinkering with something that should have produced properly in the first place. Or is it just a commercial ploy cos I cant tell the difference between this and the original one jot.

Its a long sunset Fish, but we still have great memories- thanks.

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