When it was time to regroup from the Seasons End Tour which had lasted almost a year, the band went into studio to record their next album. This album, Holidays In Eden, is widely regarded by the fans as a setback from all the previous albums due to its high "poppy" factor. This album is more of a pop album than any previous and most of the latter albums. It is considered the weakest album they've done in the latter years by the fans, and this also showed in the album charts as it wasn't a hit even though the album has a lot of shorter songs that could easily been number ones had the promotion from EMI not started to vane. This is quite a mystery because the band were still huge in the music world.

The most notable songs on this record includes Splintering Heart, Cover My Eyes (Pain And Heaven), Waiting To Happen and The Rakes Progress Trilogy (This Town, The Rakes Progress and 100 Nights).

Track List

1. Splintering Heart - (06:54)
2. Cover My Eyes (Pain And Heaven) - (03:54)
3. The Party - (05:36)
4. No One Can - (04:41)
5. Holidays In Eden - (05:38)
6. Dry Land - (04:43)
7. Waiting To Happen - (05:01)
8. This Town - (03:18)
9. The Rakes Progress - (01:54)
10. 100 Nights - (06:41)

The remaster, released 23 February 1998, has the following additional tracks on the second CD:

1. Sympathy - (03:30)
2. How Can It Hurt - (04:11)
3. A Collection - (03:00)
4. Cover My Eyes (Acoustic) - (02:34)
5. Sympathy (Acoustic) - (02:30)
6. I Will Walk On Water - (05:14)
7. Splintering Heart (Live) - (06:42)
8. You Don't Need Anyone (Demo) - (04:04)
9. No One Can (Demo) - (04:51)
10. The Party (Demo) - (05:45)
11. This Town (Demo) - (04:16)
12. Waiting To Happen (Demo) - (05:31)
13. Eric - (02:32)
14. The Epic (Fairground) (Demo) - (08:31)

External links

Liner notes for the remaster by some of the band members (on the marillion.com band page):

• Steve Hogarth
• Mark Kelly
• Pete Trewavas