Artist: MARILLION
Album: SCRIPT FOR A JESTER’S TEARS DELUXE REMASTERED EDIT. (2CD)

Year: 1983/ 1997
EAN/UPS: 724385786525
Media type: CD

Re-issue contains a bonus disc featuring album tracks, B sides, studio takes & demos.Marillion: Fish (vocals); Steve Rothery (guitar); Mark Kelly (keyboards); Pete Trewavas (bass); Mick Pointer (drums).Recorded at The Marquee Studios & EMI House, London, England between December 1982 & February 1983. Includes liner notes by Mark Wilkinson.Digitally remastered by Peter Mew & Mark Kelly (1997, Abbey Road Studios, London, England).

The early 1980s was perhaps the worst time in musical history to be a prog-rock band, much less to start a new one, but that's just what the hardy souls in Marillion did. Little could anyone have imagined that they'd set off a whole wave of "neo-prog" in the UK. At a time when synth-pop was all the rage, and unassuming ditties ruled the charts, Marillion's debut album, SCRIPT FOR A JESTER'S TEAR nodded proudly to such ambitious forebears as Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel-era Genesis. Lead vocalist Fish, in fact, bore an uncanny sonic similarity to Gabriel, a fact that his penchant for onstage theatrics did little to discourage. In turn, the rest of the band offered a '70s-flavored blend of Floyd/Camel-like melodic guitar lines, Rick Wakeman-with-an-attitude multi-keyboard cascades, and odd-metered rhythms.If that was the whole story, Marillion would have been written off as mere revivalists. The real spark of SCRIPT lies in the fact that it filtered these influenced through a sense of urgency and concision that could only have come from living through the post-punk era. In fact, many of Fish's lyrical themes were concerned with skewering the upper classes in a manner not dissimilar to the likes of Ian Dury or any Thatcher-hating New Waver of the era. Prog was born anew with SCRIPT, and it had a chip on its shoulder.

DISC 1:

1. Script For a Jester's Tear
2. He Knows You Know
3. The Web
4. Garden Party
5. Chelsea Monday
6. Forgotten Sons

DISC 2 - BONUS CD:

1. Market Square Heroes (Battle Priest Version) - (Battle Priest version)
2. Three Boats Down From the Candy
3. Grendel (Fair Deal Studios Version) - (Fair Deal Studios version)
4. Chelsea Monday (Manchester Square Demo) - (Manchester Square demo)
5. He Knows You Know (Manchester Square Demo) - (Manchester Square demo)
6. Charting the Single
7. alternate version) Market Square Heroes - (alternate take)