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
  1. "Man of a Thousand Faces"
    Released: May 1997
  2. "Eighty Days"
    Released: 29 September 1997
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
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

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)

  1. "Beautiful" (Acoustic)
  2. "Made Again" (Acoustic)

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

  1. "Estonia" (Positive Light Remix)
  2. "80 Days" (Acoustic)

Personnel

Additional personnel

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

  1. ^ Franck, John (2011 [last update]). "This Strange Engine - Marillion | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r308189. Retrieved 4 July 2011. 
  2. ^ Sollow, Stephanie (2011 [last update]). "PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: REVIEWS BY STEPHANIE SOLLOW". web.archive.org. http://web.archive.org/web/20090604232257/http://www.progressiveworld.net/maril.html. Retrieved 4 July 2011. 
  3. ^ "Chart Stats - Marillion - This strange engine". www.chartstats.com. http://www.chartstats.com/albuminfo.php?id=11330. Retrieved 2010-01-05. 

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