| Marillion's 15th Album, Happiness is the Road, is a double album and is available in 4 separate formats: |
 The Deluxe campaign edition features both 'Essence' & 'The Hard Shoulder' in a luxury slip case.
The CDs are mounted in 2 deluxe 98 page hard back books, featuring all the album lyrics & a huge range of images & artwork by Antonio Seijas. |
| The Standard 1CD Edition of Happiness is the Road, Volume 1 will contain Disc 1, Essence, of the double album in a 'normal' jewel box |
| The Standard 1CD Edition of Happiness is the Road, Volume 2 will contain Disc 2, The Hard Shoulder, of the double album in a 'normal' jewel box |
| A special European Retail Release distributed by EMI records contains both CDs in 1 double jewel case with condensed artwork and lyrics |
| A limited edition Vinyl version of 'Essence' |
A limited edition Vinyl version of
'The Hard Shoulder' |
| IMPORTANT NOTE: TRACK 11 ON 'Essence' IS INTENTIONALLY BLANK! |
| You will notice the track list on the artwork of 'Essence' only goes up to number 10, with the occasional very-hard-to-read hints at the last track (12) called “Half Full Jam”. |
| The band intended this track to be a ‘hidden track’ on the album – but rather than leave 2 minutes of silence after “Happiness is the Road” and putting the music for “Hall Full Jam” on the same audio CD track, the band decided to re-create the same effect but with individual track markers. This method was specifically chosen to make the individual tracks easier to import into digital music libraries with programs such as iTunes or similar – allowing you to simply ‘skip’ or not import the silence that would have normally been part of the same audio track. |
| Again, this is not an error or a problem with the disc, just the band’s artistic choice to have a ‘hidden track’ and the particular way they decided to implement it. |
