Singer: Marillion
Title: Clutching At Straws
Label: EMI ‎– 7243 4 98611 2 1, EMI ‎– 4986112
Type: 2 x CD, Album, Enhanced, Reissue, Remastered
Country: UK & Europe
Date of released:
Category: Rock
Style: Prog Rock
Size MP3 zip: 1246 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1519 mb
Rating: 4.3✭
Format: MP3 AU AC3 WMA RA MP2 AA ASF FLAC

Tracklist Hide Credits

1-1	Hotel Hobbies	3:35
1-2	Warm Wet Circles Backing Vocals – Tessa Niles	4:25
1-3	That Time Of The Night (The Short Straw)	6:00
1-4	Going Under	2:47
1-5	Just For The Record	3:09
1-6	White Russian	6:27
1-7	Incommunicado Backing Vocals – Christopher "Robbin" Kimsey*	5:16
1-8	Torch Song Voice [Dr. Finlay] – John Cavanagh	4:05
1-9	Slainte Mhath	4:44
1-10	Sugar Mice	5:46
1-11	The Last Straw : Happy Ending Backing Vocals – Tessa Niles	5:58
2-1	Incommunicado (Alternative Version)	5:57
2-2	Tux On	5:13
2-3	Going Under (Extended Version)	2:48
2-4	Beaujolais Day (Previously Unreleased)	4:51
2-5	Story From A Thin Wall (Previously Unreleased)	6:47
2-6	Shadows On The Barley (Previously Unreleased)	2:07
2-7	Sunset Hill (Previously Unreleased)	4:21
2-8	Tic-Tac-Toe (Previously Unreleased)	2:59
2-9	Voice In The Crowd (Previously Unreleased)	3:29
2-10	Exile On Princes Street (Previoulsy Unreleased)	5:29
2-11	White Russians (Demo-Previously Unreleased)	6:15
2-12	Sugar Mice In The Rain (Previously Unreleased)	5:54

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – EMI Records Ltd.
• Copyright (c) – EMI Records Ltd.
• Published By – Charisma Music Publishing Co. Ltd.
• Published By – Fishy Music Ltd.
• Recorded At – Westside Studios
• Mixed At – Advision Studios
• Remastered At – Abbey Road Studios
• Marketed By – EMI
• Distributed By – EMI
• Manufactured By – Optimal Media GmbH – AB55483

Credits

• Artwork [Reissue Artwork Design] – Bill Smith Studio
• Composed By, Arranged By – Ian Mosley (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Mark Kelly (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Pete Trewavas (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Steve Rothery (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Coordinator [Project Co-ordinated By] – Lucy Jordache, Nigel Reeve
• Illustration, Design – Mark Wilkinson
• Liner Notes – Avril Mackintosh, Fish, Ian Mosley, Mark Kelly , Mark Wilkinson
• Lyrics By – Derek William Dick (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Mixed By – David Jacob (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Mixed By [Assistant] – Avril Mackintosh (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Producer – Chris Kimsey (tracks: 1-1 to 2-3)
• Recorded By – Nick Davis (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Recorded By [Assistant] – Richard Sullivan (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Remastered By, Edited By – Peter Mew
• Sleeve [Original Consept] – Fish
• Written-By – Marillion (tracks: 2-1 to 2-12)

Notes

24 bit digital remaster plus bonus disc.
Disc 1: Clutching At Straws album originally released in 1987.
Disc 2: Alternate versions and previously unreleased tracks.

Original analogue masters have been digitally transferred at 24 bits resolution, processed using Sonic Solutions NoNoise technology and mastered to 16 bit for CD, using Prism Noise Shaping.
Digital editing & remastering at Abbey Road Studios, London, January 1999.

Enhanced CD including Quicktime.

Track 1-1 to 1-11 ℗ 1987 EMI Records Ltd. Digital remasters ℗ 1999 EMI Records Ltd.
Track 2-1 to 2-3 originally ℗ 1987 EMI Records Ltd. Digital remasters ℗ 1999 EMI Records Ltd.
Track 2-4 to 2-12 ℗ 1999 EMI Records Ltd. Digital remasters ℗ 1999 EMI Records Ltd.
All published by The Charisma Music Publishing Co. Ltd. Except tracks 2-4 to 2-10 published by The Charisma Music Publishing Co. Ltd. and Fishy Music Ltd.

℗ 1999 The copyright in this compilation is owned by EMI Records Ltd.
© 1999 EMI Records Ltd.

Printed in EU.
Made in EU.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Text): 7 24349 86112 1
• Barcode (String): 724349861121
• Matrix / Runout (CD1): 4986122 AB55483-01 manufactured by optimal media GMBH
• Mastering SID Code (CD1): IFPI L574
• Matrix / Runout (CD2): 4986130 AB55483-02 manufactured by optimal media GMBH
• Mastering SID Code (CD2): IFPI L574
• Rights Society: bel BIEM
• Label Code: LC 0542
• Other (Distribution Code France): F: PM 520

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
1C 064 2407851, 1C 064-24 0785 1, 24 0785 1	Marillion	Clutching At Straws ‎(LP, Album)	EMI, EMI, EMI	1C 064 2407851, 1C 064-24 0785 1, 24 0785 1	Europe	1987
EMS-91230	Marillion	Clutching At Straws ‎(LP, Album + 7", Maxi)	EMI	EMS-91230	Japan	1987
31C 068 240785	Marillion	Clutching At Straws ‎(LP, Album)	EMI	31C 068 240785	Brazil	1987
35430 8	Marillion	Clutching At Straws ‎(CD, Album, Club)	EMI	35430 8	Germany	1987
64 2407851	Marillion	Clutching At Straws ‎(LP, Album)	EMI	64 2407851	Italy	1987

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