This Strange Engine
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| Studio album by Marillion | ||
| Released | April 1997 | |
| Recorded | The Racket Club, Aylesbury, August 1996–November 1996 | |
| Genre | Progressive rock | |
| Length | 57:01 | |
| Label | Castle Communications | |
| Producer(s) | Marillion | |
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| Marillion chronology | ||
| Afraid Of Sunlight (1995) |
This Strange Engine (1997) |
Radiation (1998) |
This Strange Engine is the first disc released on Marillion's new label, Castle Records. This album received good critiques from several journalists and the fans were delighted to see that the band would continue to release studio albums even when they were short on funds.
The first single released from this record was "Man Of A Thousand Faces", the opener on the album. This song rocketed straight into first place in one of Germany's largest hitlists and stayed there for many weeks. A music video was also released of this track.
The second and third singles from this album were "Eighty Days" and "Memory of Water" respectively.
The song "Estonia" also deserves special mention, as it was written after singer Steve Hogarth met the only British survivor from the accident where the passenger ferry Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea in September 1994, killing 852 people.
[edit] Track listing
- "Man Of A Thousand Faces" – 7:33
- "One Fine Day" – 5:31
- "80 Days" – 5:00
- "Estonia" – 7:56
- "Memory Of Water" – 3:01
- "An Accidental Man" – 6:12
- "Hope For The Future" – 5:10
- "This Strange Engine" – 15:36
