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Album Tracks:
 

1. A Legacy
2. Deserve
3. Go!
4. Rich
5. Enlightened
6. Built-In Bastard Radar
7. Tumble Down The Years
8. Interior Lulu
9. House

Marillion.Com

Introduction: Marillion.Com is the seventh Marillion album with Steve Hogarth, and their eleventh over all. If there is a theme, it is one of liberation through the rejection of what society deems as desirable. Unlike former singer Fish's first solo offering, this is not an album born out of frustration and bitterness, but one born of a joy discovered in the rejection of conventional values and embracing love and beauty wherever one finds it. As such, it could be that the album is a continuation from the themes developed in the previous album's A Few Words For The Dead and These Chains. Musically, the album veers from Who-like rock, to ambient dance and a full-on Prog extravaganza. It should be noted that Interior Lulu and Tumble Down The Years were originally for the Radiation album but were held over as the band felt they required more work. Tumble fits in to the themes of DotCom very well, whilst you can tell that House would have fitted in well with the feelings of despair that pervaded Radiation.

The name of the album, Marillion.com, was meant to show the feeling of community the band felt had developed around their Internet presence - about the time of DotCom and off their own backs, the fans clubbed together to finance an American tour for the band - and to further promote the site.

All the songs have explanations, but for most this is simply the fact that the band wrote a few short lines about each song on their website. I've lifted 'em and plonked 'em here.

Cover notes: Featuring a woman in a street holding an illuminated laptop, the cover juxtaposes the cold real world with the enticements of the Internet and computers - although Interior Lulu is not all positive about such things. Overlaid are smears of tail lights. The pose of the girl echoes that of the girl on the cover of Radiation. The rear cover shows a barcode down the right side, whilst the tracks and album information are listed in a mono-spaced font (such as Courier) over an aerial picture of skyscrapers. The interior sleeve features hundreds of passport photos of the fans. A guide to who's who is on the cover can be found on here.