On the Sunday of Life

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On the Sunday of Life...
On the Sunday of Life... cover
Studio album by Porcupine Tree
Released July, 1991
Recorded 1988-1990
Genre Progressive rock
Length 75:47
Label Delerium
Professional reviews
Porcupine Tree chronology
On the Sunday of Life...
(1991)
Up the Downstair
(1993)


On The Sunday Of Life... is the debut album of British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in July, 1991. It basically compiles tracks that Steven Wilson produced and recorded for two cassette-only releases, Tarquin's Seaweed Farm (1989) and The Nostalgia Factory (1990).

This first real album contained a lot of weird material, but also some tracks that would grow to be among the group's classic songs. On the Sunday of Life... was to Porcupine Tree what The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was to Pink Floyd.

Some of the lyrics were written by one Alan Duffy, a friend with whom Steve shared an interest in Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett, something that was clearly noticeable in the strange lyrics.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Music for the Head" – 2:42
  2. "Jupiter Island" – 6:12
  3. "Third Eye Surfer" – 2:50
  4. "On the Sunday of Life..." – 2:07
  5. "The Nostalgia Factory" – 7:28
  6. "Space Transmission" – 2:59
  7. "Message from a Self-Destructing Turnip" – 0:27
  8. "Radioactive Toy" – 10:00
  9. "Nine Cats" – 3:53
  10. "Hymn" – 1:14
  11. "Footprints" – 5:56
  12. "Linton Samuel Dawson" – 3:04
  13. "And the Swallows Dance Above the Sun" – 4:05
  14. "Queen Quotes Crowley" – 3:48
  15. "No Luck With Rabbits" – 0:46
  16. "Begonia Seduction Scene" – 2:14
  17. "This Long Silence" – 5:05
  18. "It Will Rain for a Million Years" – 10:51


Porcupine Tree
Richard Barbieri | Colin Edwin | Gavin Harrison | Steven Wilson
Chris Maitland | John Wesley
Discography
Albums: On the Sunday of Life... | Up the Downstair | The Sky Moves Sideways | Signify | Stupid Dream | Lightbulb Sun | In Absentia | Deadwing
Live albums: Coma Divine - Recorded Live in Rome | Warszawa | Rockpalast
Compilations: Voyage 34: The Complete Trip | Recordings | Stars Die: The Delerium Years 1991-1997
DVDs: Arriving Somewhere
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