ON THE SUNDAY OF LIFE...

The first official release by PT, the double album (that's two chunks of vinyl for you youngsters out there) was released by Delerium Records as a pschedelic album, collecting together the most appropriate material from the initial cassette only releases.

As a double, the album consisted of four coherent sides that each flow together quite well... Side 1 - 'First Love' (Tracks 1 to 5). Lots of delicate instumental noodling actings as links between the two main tracks. 'Jupiter Island' is a wonderfully upbeat stormer, whilst 'The Nostalgia Factory' is a blistering sound collage, and one of their best early tracks. Side 2 - 'Second Sight' (Tracks 6 to 9). Again two short fun filler tracks, followed by Radioactive Toy, a PT standard and classic. THis is it's first appearance, and asa studio version is again more delicate than the better known live renditions on Coma Divine and elsewhere. Finally is the surreality of 'Nine Cats'. Most of the lyrics on this album were credited to Mark Duffy - a name that has dissapointingly sunk without a trace. Side 3 - 'Third Eye' (tracks 10 to 14). In my opinion the weakest set, with only the wonderfully joyfull and frenetic 'Linton Samuel Dawson' standing out. Side 4 - 'Forth Bridge' (! I think you need to be British to get the joke at this point) again starts with a couple of fillers, but these lead into 'This Long Silence' - my favourite. The final wind down is provided by 'It will rain for a million years', which does nicely finish off the album. It's not the best PT album, but if you like the group, or early 70's psychedelic type prog then you certainally owe it to yourself to listen to it sometime. Me, I've got it on vinyl, and bought it twice on CD (to get the remastered upgrade). Not typical of the groups later work, but you can tell that it is the origin.