Marillion - Clutching At Straws
Tracklist
Disc I01. Hotel Hobbies
02. Warm Wet Circles
03. That Time Of The Night (The Short Straw)
04. Going Under
05. Just For The Record
06. White Russian
07. Incommunicado
08. Torch Song
09. Slainte Mhath
10. Sugar Mice
11. The Last Straw
Disc II [Remaster bonus]
01. Incommunicado [alternate version]
02. Tux On
03. Going Under [single version]
04. Beaujolais Day
05. Story From A Thin Wall
06. Shadows On The Barley
07. Sunset Hill
08. Tic-Tac-Toe
09. Voice In The Crowd
10. Exile On Princes Street
11. Sugar Mice In The Rain
Enhanced CD audio
12. Warm Wet Circles [Rock 'n' Roll Version]
Additional info
Remastered March 1999 Top lists
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Oh hell yeah, only eight more months before seeing Fish perform Clutching At Straws in its entirety. Can't wait for it. Giddy as a school girl for it.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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Posts: 11972 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 02.03.2018 at 21:56 Didn't know you liked Marillion that much 
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Posts: 40071 Written by BloodTears on 04.03.2018 at 12:24 Only the Fish era, btw, although I still find Season's End to be okay.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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Posts: 11972 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 04.03.2018 at 12:44 No love for Afraid Of Sunlight? That's one of my fav Marillion albums 
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I just love Clutching at Straws in its entirety. When making this album the band was already breaking apart, the record company wanted new stuff fast and the singer had his own share of personal problems. The cover perfectly captures the moment: an upset-looking young band in a bar with dead celebrities, wondering if the band would join them in the afterlife. The lyrical content is just as dark and personal, and the music even more refined and mature than on their previous records until then. For me, this is where the Fish-era Marillion peaked. It took me a while to get into it, but when I got, it, I really fell in love with this album. Clutching at Straws is simply one of the best rock records of the late 80's. The title of the album alone is so clever it's almost amusing.
---- You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like!
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This album was released 33 years ago today and it remains one of my favorite and most listened to albums to this day. Not a weak song on it, pure gold from start to finish. Best of the Fish era and best Marillion period.
---- My one-man project's Bandcamp with free downloads: https://dreadrealm.bandcamp.com/
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"Are we sitting on a barbed wire fence? Racing the clouds home! Racing the clouds home..." One of the greatest moments in recorded music.
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