- neo-progressive rock, rock, symphonic rock, neo prog
- 96 min
- 13 tracks
- Parlophone
Script for a Jester's Tear is the debut studio album by British neo-prog band Marillion, released in the United Kingdom on 14 March 1983 by EMI Records. The album reached number seven and spent 31 weeks in the UK Albums Chart, eventually achieving a platinum certificate, and produced the top 40 single "He Knows You Know" and the top 20 single "Garden Party". Prog Magazine ranked it at No. 40 in its list of the "100 Greatest Prog Albums of All Time."
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Grave, classical in form, spare and character-led.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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Tracks
- 1Script for a Jester’s Tear8:43
- 2He Knows You Know5:24
- 3The Web8:52
- 4Garden Party7:20
- 5Chelsea Monday8:17
- 6Forgotten Sons8:23
- 1Market Square Heroes (Battle Priest version)4:18
- 2Three Boats Down From the Candy4:31
- 3Grendel (Fair Deal Studios version)19:10
- 4Chelsea Monday (Manchester Square demo)6:55
- 5He Knows You Know (Manchester Square demo)4:29
- 6Charting the Single4:52
- 7Market Square Heroes (alternative version)4:48
13 tracks, 96 minutes.
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- Marillion
- Label
- Parlophone
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- GB
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