Marillion Clutching at Straws Picture Disc LP 1987 EXCELLENT SHAPE fast ship

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Marillion

Clutching at Straws

picture disc

EMI Records EMDP1002 1987 12" 33rpm (UK)

Clutching at Straws is the fourth studio album by neo-progressive rock band Marillion.

Released in 1987, Clutching at Straws features linked songs and has been described as a concept album. It was the last album with original lead singer Fish, who left the band in 1988. Clutching at Straws did not replicate the commercial success of its predecessor, the number one album Misplaced Childhood, spending 15 weeks on the UK album chart (the shortest chart residency of any of Marillion's first four studio albums) but it still became the second highest charting Marillion album by reaching number two. The album has received critical acclaim, being listed in Q magazine's "50 Best Recordings of the Year" and Rolling Stone listing it at number 37 in its countdown of the "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time".

Track listing

All songs were written by Fish, Mark Kelly, Ian Mosley, Steve Rothery and Pete Trewavas.

Side one

    "Hotel Hobbies" – 3:35
    "Warm Wet Circles" – 4:25
    "That Time of the Night (The Short Straw)" – 6:00
    "Just for the Record" – 3:09
    "White Russian" – 6:27

Side two

    "Incommunicado" – 5:16
    "Torch Song" – 4:05
    "Slàinte Mhath" – 4:44
    "Sugar Mice" – 5:46
    "The Last Straw" – 5:58
    "Happy Ending" – 0:00 (this is listed as a track on the back of the album, but in a statement of irony, it is not an actual track – it merely consists of someone yelling "No!", then echoing muffled laughter from Fish, fading off into silence.)

Condition:  12" picture disc is NEAR MINT, in a plastic protective sleeve in a diecut picture sleeve in FAIR condition (tear in lower edge). 

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