Marillion
Clutching At Straws Deluxe 5LP
Boxset $148.00
Release Date: Sep 20, 2024
Discs: 5
Following the multi-platinum success of Marillion’s concept album Misplaced Childhood, the British quintet returned in 1987 with their fourth studio album, Clutching at Straws. The album peaked at #2 on the U.K. charts, where it scored Top 40 hits with “Incommunicado,” “Sugar Mice,” and “Warm Wet Circles.” Considered by many to be one of the neo-prog rocker’s finest, Clutching At Straws would also turn out to be Marillion’s final studio release with original singer Fish.
This collection opens with the 2018 version of Clutching At Straws that was remixed by Andy Bradfield and Avril Mackintosh. The set also includes a concert recording of Marillon performing in Scotland at the Edinburgh Playhouse in December 1987 during the group’s final tour of Fish-era. It was mixed by Michael Hunter.
Some of the performances first appeared in 1988 on the live album, The Thieving Magpie. In concert, the band plays songs that span its entire career up to that point with “Garden Party” from its 1983 debut Script for a Jester’s Tear; “Punch and Judy” from Fugazi (1984); “Kayleigh” from Misplaced Childhood (1985); and “Warm Wet Circles” from Clutching at Straws.
Clutching At Straws (2018 Andy Bradfield & Avril Mackintosh Re-Mix)
Side One
Hotel Hobbies
Warm Wet Circles
That Time of the Night (The Short Straw)
Side Two
Going Under (track only included on original CD version)
Just for the Record
White Russian
Side Three
Incommunicado
Torch Song
Slàinte Mhath
Side Four
Sugar Mice
The Last Straw
Happy Ending
Live at the Edinburgh Playhouse (19/12/1987) (2018 Michael Hunter Remix)
Side Five
La Gazza Ladra
Slàinte Mhath
Assassing
White Russian (Previously released on Thieving Magpie)
Side Six
Incubus
Sugar Mice
Side Seven
Fugazi
Side Eight
Hotel Hobbies
Warm Wet Circles
That Time of the Night (The Short Straw)
Side Nine
Pseudo Silk Kimono (instrumental)
Kayleigh
Lavender
Bitter Suite
Heart of Lothian
Side Ten
The Last Straw
Incommunicado (Previously released on Thieving Magpie)
Garden Party
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