This Strange Engine

Infobox Album |
Name = This Strange Engine
Type = Album
Artist = Marillion


Released = July 22, 1997
Recorded = The Racket Club, Aylesbury, August 1996–November 1996
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 57:01
Label = Castle Communications
Producer = Marillion
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ntkmu3qjan4k link]
* Progressiveworld.net Rating|5|5 [http://www.progressiveworld.net/maril.html link]
Last album = "Afraid of Sunlight"
(1995)
This album = "This Strange Engine"
(1997)
Next album = "Radiation"
(1998)
Misc = Singles
Name = This Strange Engine
Type = studio
single 1 = Man of a Thousand Faces
single 1 date = May 1997
single 2 = Eighty Days
single 2 date = 29 September 1997

"This Strange Engine" is an 1997 album by British progressive rock band Marillion. It is the first out of three discs the band released on Castle Records, having been dismissed by EMI after Afraid of Sunlight (1995).

The first single released from this record was "Man Of A Thousand Faces", the opener on the album. A music video was also released of this track. The second single from the album was "80 Days".The song "Estonia" was written after singer Steve Hogarth met Paul Barney, the only British survivor from the accident where the passenger ferry Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea in September 1994, killing 852 people.

Track listing

# "Man Of A Thousand Faces" – 7:33
# "One Fine Day" – 5:31
# "80 Days" – 5:00
# "Estonia" – 7:56
# "Memory Of Water" – 3:01
# "An Accidental Man" – 6:12
# "Hope For The Future" – 5:10
# "This Strange Engine" – 15:36
# "Beautiful [Acoustic] " - 11:49
# "80 Days [Acoustic] " - 5:39

External links

* [http://www.marillion.com/music/albums/tse.htm Album Information]