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  • Audio CD (20 Sep 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Snapper Classics
  • ASIN: B0002N4ZEM
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Track Listings

1. Music For The Head
2. Jupiter Island
3. Third Eye Surfer
4. On The Sunday Of Life
5. Nostalgia Factory
6. Space Transmission
7. Message From A Self Destructing Turnip
8. Radioactive Toy
9. Nine Cats
10. Hymn
11. Footprints
12. Linton Samuel Dawson
13. And The Swallows Dance Above The Sun
14. Queen Quotes Crowley
15. No Luck With Rabbits
16. Begonia Seduction Scene
17. This Long Silence

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4.0 out of 5 stars Lots to enjoy in this debut from Steven Wilson's band, 11 Oct 2004
By Dr. D. B. Sillars - See all my reviews
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The latest in the series of remastering Porcupine Trees early Delerium back catalogue sees Steven Wilson back to the roots of the band. Well, it wasn't really a band at this stage, more of a recording project with Wilson playing everything apart from a few instruments and lyrics supplied by friend Alan Duffy.

This album is not really a debut as such as it was compiled from the best tracks of the original cassette only releases, "Tarquin's Seaweed Farm" and "The Nostalgia Factory". The material here is very different to the core albums which Porcupine Tree are best known for. There is plenty of psychedelic and spacey experimentation going on here. Some of it sounds a bit, how should I say, naive now, but the seeds of where Wilson would take Porcupine Tree are very much in evidence.

The highlight of the album is of course the excellent "Radioactive Toy", which has been a live staple of the bands for years. This features Wilson's trademark guitar sound to the full and sounds better here than ever before. But in truth there is quite a bit on this album to enjoy. "Jupiter Island" is fun, with it's Hawkwind type intro. "Nine Cats" is wonderful, with glorious nonsensical Edward Lear type lyrics which adds to it's overall charm. All very trippy and very English. Although the original CD version quoted a dedication to the spirit of Miles Davis, I think that of Syd Barrett is more in evidence. Other highlights which do stand the test of time are "The Nostalgia Factory", "And the Swallows Dance Above the Sun" and the closing "It Will Rain for a Million Years".

This album is not just for completists, as the ideas, songs and execution clearly display the burgeoning of a singularly gifted talent. The version here is part of Snappers re-issue of Porcupine Trees back catalogue in digipack format and looks good. And at this price you cannot go wrong really.

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3.0 out of 5 stars For completists only, 18 Feb 2008
By alextorres "musiclover" (Near Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
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I only picked up on Porcupine Tree two years ago or so, starting with "In Absentia" and "Up the Downstair". I was so impressed that in the intervening period I have subsequently bought all of the remaining studio albums. This is the most disappointing offering from the band, in my opinion, perhaps understandably so as it is the first album and is really a spruced-up collection of Steve Wilson's home recordings.

As such, it is an interesting album to have from the point of view of charting Steve Wilson's and the band's development but, from the absolute standpoint of a stand-alone album, it doesn't compare in terms of quality to subsequent offerings. It's not that it's bad, but it does lack the pace, energy and innovation of subsequent recordings, measured against which it feels insipid.

For completes fans only.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best if youre patient!, 9 Jul 2009
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I first discovered Porcupine Tree when I heard Coma Divine and The Sky Moves Sideways, both of which are mindblowing albums all round. Every one of their early albums is very different to the previous they have so many different sounds and this one is ceratinly in the field of different.I found nothing to like except radioactive toy on the first few listenings but I gave it some time and its grown on me hugely, its so rich and clever musically and Steven dives so far into pshchadelia,experimentation and progressive sounds here its unbelievable.Now every time I hear a Porcupine Tree album especially this one I go to the craziest of worlds and Steven Wilson's the genius of all genius' to be able to do that with a compact disc.Do yourself a massive favour and and listen to this alone with headphones and let it take you. There is a slight Pink Floyd influence here mainly from Ummagumma but I hear more early Gong and King Crimson influences on this album. If you like this album then you'll like Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape and I.E.M's Arcadia Son.
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