Marillion.com

marillion.com
Studio album by Marillion
Released	18 October 1999
Recorded	December 1998 — August 1999
Studio	The Racket Club (Buckinghamshire, England)
Genre	Neo-progressive rock
Length	62:28[nb 1]
Label	Intact
Producer	Marillion Steven Wilson
Marillion chronology
Radiation (1998) marillion.com (1999) Anoraknophobia (2001)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

marillion.com is the eleventh studio album by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion, released on 18 October 1999 by their own label, Intact Records, and distributed by Castle Communications.^[2] It was the last of the three recordings the band made on a contract with the latter between being dropped by EMI Records in 1995 and eventually becoming independent in the 2000s. Continuing Marillion's decline in mainstream success, it became the first album to fail to reach UK Top 40, peaking at number 53 and staying in the charts for just one week.^[3] It was also the first album from which no singles were released officially. However, "Deserve" was used as a promo single, and "Rich" served as a radio single in Brazil.

Recorded at The Racket Club between December 1998 and August 1999, marillion.com was self-produced with additional production from Steven Wilson on five out of nine tracks. The tracks "Tumble Down the Years" and "Interior Lulu" were recorded and mixed during the recording sessions for Radiation (1998), but it was decided not to include them on that album as the band thought the songs were incomplete.^[4] The track "House" features a dance (trip hop) influence and had the working title "The Massive Attack Song".^[5]

The title of the album is a reference to Marillion's then-new approach in using the Internet to communicate with their fans and in particular to ensure the financing of projects that would later become known as "crowdfunding". In 1997, fans had funded a North American tour, which the Red Ant label had been unable to support, by means of an Internet campaign,^[6] and the next album, Anoraknophobia, would be completely financed by pre-orders, making the band independent from record company support, except for distribution.^[7] The line "thank God for the Internet" from the track "Interior Lulu" (although used ironically in the original context) can also be read as an allusion to Marillion's internet activities, and was in fact used as a slogan later. While preparing the album, the band's management invited fans to send them passport photographs and 732 of these were then used to make up the artwork for the slipcase. As the eleventh studio album, the number 11 can be seen in the "LL" of the name "marillion" on the cover.

In 2012, the independent label Madfish, a division of Snapper Music, re-released marillion.com as a deluxe edition^{[nb 2]} packaged in a 36-page digibook format with an additional artwork designed by Carl Glover,^[8] and as a limited double 180gm heavyweight vinyl edition^{[nb 3]} featuring a slightly modified track listing.^[9]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Steve Hogarth, except where noted; all music composed by Marillion.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Length
1.	"A Legacy"	John Helmer	6:16
2.	"Deserve"		4:23
3.	"Go!"		6:11
4.	"Rich"		5:43
5.	"Enlightened"		4:59
6.	"Built-in Bastard Radar"	Helmer	4:52
7.	"Tumble Down the Years"	Helmer	4:33
8.	"Interior Lulu"	Hogarth, Helmer	15:14
9.	"House"		10:15
Total length:			62:28

2012 Madfish 2xLP edition

Side one

1. "A Legacy"
2. "Deserve"
3. "Go!"

Side two

1. "Rich"
2. "Enlightened"
3. "Built-in Bastard Radar"

Side three

1. "Tumble Down the Years"
2. "House"

Side four

1. "Interior Lulu"

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's 1999 liner notes^{[nb 1]}.

Marillion Steve Hogarth – vocals, additional piano and percussion Steve Rothery – guitars Mark Kelly – keyboards Pete Trewavas – bass, additional guitar (on "Tumble Down the Years"), and backing vocals Ian Mosley – drums and percussion Additional musicians Ben Castle – saxophone (on "Deserve") Neil Yates – trumpet (on "Deserve" and "House") Andy Rotherham – additional hand-clapping (on "Rich")

Technical personnel Steven Wilson – additional production, and mixing (at No-Man's Land, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England) (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6 and 8) Stewart Every – recording Nick Davis – mixing (at The Forge, Oswestry, Shropshire, England) (tracks 2, 4 and 7) Trevor Vallis – mixing (at The Racket Club, Buckinghamshire, England) (track 9) Bill Smith Studio – sleeve design Carl Glover – photography Niels van Iperen – group photography

Charts

Chart (1999)	Peak position
French Albums (SNEP)[10]	66
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[11]	40
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[12]	55
UK Albums (OCC)[3]	53

References

Notes

1. Intact RAWCD 144
2. Madfish: SMACD976
3. Madfish: SMALP976

Citations

1. Hill, Gary. Marillion: "marillion.com" > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
2. "Album: marillion.com". Bert ter Steege. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
3. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
4. Hogarth, Steve (September 1999). "A diary of events recalled from the famously unreliable memory of Mr. H ..." (Interview). marillion.com. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
5. Pelletant, Olivier; Leroy, Aymeric (October 1999). "Marillion: "Marillion.com"". Big Bang. Vol. 32. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
6. Golemis, Dean (23 September 1997). "British Band's U.S. Tour Is Computer-Generated". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
7. Masters, Tim (11 May 2001). "Marillion Fans to the Rescue". London: BBC. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
8. "Marillion – Marillion.com (CD)". Madfish Store. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
9. "Marillion – Marillion.com (double vinyl)". Madfish Store. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
10. "Lescharts.com – Marillion – marillion.com". Hung Medien. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
11. "Dutchcharts.nl – Marillion – marillion.com" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
12. "Offiziellecharts.de – Marillion – marillion.com" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 5 October 2016.

External links

• The Official Marillion Website