- neo-progressive rock, rock, progressive rock
- 109 min
- 23 tracks
- Parlophone
Clutching at Straws is the fourth studio album by the British neo-prog band Marillion, released on 22 June 1987. It was the last album with lead singer Fish, who left the band in 1988, and is a concept album.
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Grave, spare, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Tracks
- 1Hotel Hobbies (1999 remaster)3:35
- 2Warm Wet Circles (1999 remaster)4:26
- 3That Time of the Night (The Short Straw) (1999 remaster)6:01
- 4Going Under (1999 remaster)2:48
- 5Just for the Record (1999 remaster)3:09
- 6White Russian (1999 remaster)6:28
- 7Incommunicado (1999 remaster)5:17
- 8Torch Song (1999 remaster)4:05
- 9Slàinte Mhath (1999 remaster)4:45
- 10Sugar Mice (1999 remaster)5:47
- 11The Last Straw / Happy Ending (1999 remaster)5:59
- 1Incommunicado (alternate version) (1999 remaster)5:58
- 2Tux On (1999 remaster)5:14
- 3Going Under (extended version) (1999 remaster)2:48
- 4Beaujolais Day4:51
- 5Story From a Thin Wall6:48
- 6Shadows on the Barley2:07
- 7Sunset Hill4:22
- 8Tic‐Tac‐Toe2:59
- 9Voice in the Crowd3:30
- 10Exile on Princes Street5:30
- 11White Russians (demo)6:16
- 12Sugar Mice5:56
23 tracks, 109 minutes.
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- Marillion
- Label
- Parlophone
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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