This Strange Engine

This Strange Engine
Studio album by Marillion
Released	July 22, 1997
Recorded	The Racket Club, Aylesbury, August 1996–November 1996
Genre	Progressive rock Neo-progressive rock Pop rock Pop Soft rock
Length	57:01
Label	Castle Communications (UK) Velvel/Koch Records (US) EagleRock Entertainment PLC
Producer	Marillion
Marillion chronology
The Best of Both Worlds (1997) This Strange Engine (1997) Radiation (1998)
Singles from This Strange Engine
"Man of a Thousand Faces" Released: May 1997 "Eighty Days" Released: 29 September 1997

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Progressiveworld.net	[2]

This Strange Engine is an 1997 album by British progressive rock band Marillion. It is the first out of three discs the band released on Castle Records, having been dismissed by EMI after Afraid of Sunlight (1995).

The first single released from this record was "Man of a Thousand Faces", the opener on the album. A music video was also released of this track. The second single from the album was "80 Days".

The song "Estonia" was written after singer Steve Hogarth met Paul Barney, the only British survivor from the accident where the passenger ferry Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea in September 1994, killing 852 people.

The song "This Strange Engine" is an autobiographical account of Steve Hogarth's life.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Bonus tracks on the Japanese version (Pony Canyon label, March 1997) 1.2 Bonus tracks on the U.S. version (Velvel label, October 1997) 2 Personnel 3 Additional personnel 4 Recording information 5 Charts 6 References 7 External links

Track listing

Lyrics by Steve Hogarth & John Helmer; Music by Marillion

1. "Man of a Thousand Faces" – 7:33
2. "One Fine Day" – 5:31
3. "80 Days" – 5:00
4. "Estonia" – 7:56
5. "Memory of Water" – 3:01
6. "An Accidental Man" – 6:12
7. "Hope for the Future" – 5:10
8. "This Strange Engine" – 15:32

Bonus tracks on the Japanese version (Pony Canyon label, March 1997)

9. "Beautiful" (Acoustic)
10. "Made Again" (Acoustic)

Bonus tracks on the U.S. version (Velvel label, October 1997)

9. "Estonia" (Positive Light Remix)
10. "80 Days" (Acoustic)

Personnel

• Steve Hogarth – voice, additional keyboards & percussion, backing vocals
• Steve Rothery - guitar
• Mark Kelly - keyboards, backing vocals
• Pete Trewavas - bass, backing vocals
• Ian Mosley - drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Tim Perkins - balalaika on track 4
• Phil Todd - saxophone on track 8
• Paul Savage - trumpet on track 7
• Charlton & Newbottle School Choir - backing vocals on track 1
• Rey Lear - choir arrangement on track 1

Recording information

Written and recorded at The Racket Club, Buckinghamshire, between August and November 1996.
Mixed at Parr St., Liverpool

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1997	UK Album Chart	27[3]

References

External links

• Album Information

Marillion Steve Rothery Mark Kelly Pete Trewavas Ian Mosley Steve Hogarth Fish Mick Pointer Jonathan Mover Doug Irvine Brian Jelliman Diz Minnett Studio albums Script for a Jester's Tear Fugazi Misplaced Childhood Clutching at Straws Seasons End Holidays in Eden Brave Afraid of Sunlight This Strange Engine Radiation Marillion.com Anoraknophobia Marbles Somewhere Else Happiness Is the Road Less Is More Compilations Brief Encounter B'Sides Themselves A Singles Collection The Best of Both Worlds The Best of Marillion The Singles '82–88' Live albums Real to Reel The Thieving Magpie Made Again Anorak in the UK Early Stages Live from Loreley Recital of the Script Singles "Market Square Heroes" "He Knows You Know" "Garden Party" "Punch and Judy" "Assassing" "Kayleigh" "Lavender" "Heart Of Lothian" "Lady Nina" "Welcome to the Garden Party" "Incommunicado" "Sugar Mice" "Warm Wet Circles" "Freaks" (Live) "Hooks In You" "The Uninvited Guest" "Easter" "Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven)" "No One Can" "Dry Land" "Sympathy" "No One Can" (1992) "The Great Escape" "The Hollow Man" "Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury" "Beautiful" "Man of a Thousand Faces" "80 Days" "These Chains" "Deserve" "Between You and Me"/"Map of the World" "You're Gone" "Don't Hurt Yourself" "You're Gone" (Remix) "See It Like a Baby" "Thankyou Whoever You Are"/"Most Toys" "Whatever Is Wrong With You" Related articles Marillion discography

• Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae, a classical choral work inspired by the MS Estonia disaster.