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SUNDAY

Sunday

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3.43 | 23 ratings | 3 reviews | 26% 5 stars

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Studio Album, released in 1972

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Love Is Life (6:10)
2. I Couldn't Face You (8:03)
3. Blues Song (4:17)
4. Man in a Boat (4:52)
5. Ain't It a Pity (3:52)
6. Tree of Life (3:55)
7. Sad Man Reaching Utopia (10:50)
8. Fussin and Fighting (6:51)

Total time 48:50

Line-up / Musicians

- John Barclay / guitars, vocals
- Jimmy Forest / keyboards, vocals
- Davy Patterson / vocals, bass
With:
- Pete Gavin / percussion

Releases information

Bellaphon Records

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SUNDAY Sunday ratings distribution


3.43
(23 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(26%)
26%
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(26%)
26%
Good, but non-essential (43%)
43%
Collectors/fans only (4%)
4%
Poor. Only for completionists (0%)
0%

SUNDAY Sunday reviews


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Review by GruvanDahlman
PROG REVIEWER
3 stars Obscurity. That word... Obscure albums, lingering in dusty archives or hidden away in boxes in the attic. when found re-released with superlative words and original artwork. I am not trying to be funny. Honestly, I love obscure prog, in particular british bands. That is not the point. The point being that all things obscure aren't brilliant. Sometimes genius can be found but often enough there's nothing behind "the original artwork", just fun and games.

Obscure... Yes. Sunday is an obscure band and I treasure this album, I do. I bought it several moons ago and have not regretted it once. The amount of hammond organ is immense and that can be quite enough for me. But how about them songs? What do they amount to? "Love is life" and "I couldn't face you" is two pieces of great, organ driven slabs of progressive rock, the latter more of a ballad but still... "Love is life" has some wonderful drumming aswell. The main opus of the album is the great and varied "Sad man reaching Utopia". It is an epic of rough qualities going through several moods and changes. A great track, really worth exploring for those who've missed it.

All in all I'd say the album is a good one but not essential in any way. It is a pleasant album with one foot in prog, one in blues, an arm in funky Santana style, the other in hard rock and the heart in the right place. Gritty, sincere and (proto)proggish in a nice way I come back every now and then. The issue with this album being, besides the tracks mentioned, that the bulk of the album is alright but never truly engaging. Still, with three great tracks and wonderful musicianship (not to mention the vocals, which is very nice indeed) the album is an endearing piece of early 70's prog rock caught somewhere between Rare Bird and Santana. Not bad, just not brilliant.

Latest members reviews

4 stars Sometimes we discover accidentally an old disk that we never had heard before and we mean : but that's quite good ! And we wonder why we ignored even the existence of the musicians who recorded it a long time ago. So we remember that the 1970's were extremely prolific. There was a lot of fine gro ... (read more)

Report this review (#1379725) | Posted by Kjarks | Sunday, March 8, 2015 | Review Permanlink

3 stars This Scottish band is so obscure that even my contacts here in Scotland does not know them. I only know that they were the house-band in one of the hotels in my town and that they were quite popular in Germany. This album was also released on a German record label. But if any of the band membe ... (read more)

Report this review (#308399) | Posted by toroddfuglesteg | Friday, November 5, 2010 | Review Permanlink

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