Porcupine TreeUp The Downstair

Label:

Headspin Records – LP-307

Format:

Vinyl , LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Vinyl , 12", EP, Reissue, Remastered
All Media , Compilation

Country:

Europe

Released:

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Space Rock

Tracklist

Up The Downstair (2004 Version)
A1 What You Are Listening To... 0:57
A2 Synesthesia 5:16
A3 Monuments Burn Into Moments 0:22
A4 Always Never
BassColin Edwin
7:00
A5 Up The Downstair
ElectronicsRichard Barbieri
VoiceSuzanne J Barbieri*
10:14
B1 Not Beautiful Anymore 3:25
B2 Siren 0:57
B3 Small Fish 2:42
B4 Burning Sky 11:36
B5 Fadeaway 6:19
Staircase Infinities
C1 Cloud Zero 4:40
C2 The Joke's On You 4:17
C3 Navigator 4:49
C4 Phantoms 3:15
D1 Rainy Taxi 6:50
D2 Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape 9:36

Companies, etc.

  • Produced AtNo Man's Land (3)
  • Designed AtAleph Studio (2)
  • Published ByHit & Run Music (Publishing) Ltd.
  • Copyright ©Delerium Music Ltd.
  • Copyright ©Steven Wilson
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗Delerium Music Ltd.
  • Licensed FromDelerium Music Ltd.
  • Licensed ToClear Spot
  • Manufactured ByClear Spot
  • Distributed ByClear Spot
  • Pressed ByGZ Digital Media – 63022E

Credits

  • DrumsGavin Harrison (tracks: A1 to B5)
  • Graphic DesignDave Larr
  • Lyrics ByWilson* (tracks: A1 to A3, A5 to B2, B4, C1 to C3, D1, D2)
  • Music ByWilson*
  • Performer, ProducerSteven Wilson
  • Photography By, PaintingWin Machielse

Notes

UP THE DOWNSTAIR

Originally released in 1993
Drum Recording and remix Nov-Dec 2004
Remastered Jan 2005

STAIRCASE INFINITIES

Originally released in 1994
The Joke's On You remixed Dec 2004
Remastered Jan 2005

Issued in a gatefold sleeve. Discs are in Japanese style clear plastic bags with cutout windows for the labels, housed in picture inner sleeves.
(p) 2005
(c) 2005

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Text): 2 090502 544124
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A): 63022E1/A www.gzvinyl.com
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B): 63022E2/A
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout Side C): 63022E3/A www.gzvinyl.com
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout Side D): 63022E4/A

Other Versions (5 of 37)

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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
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Up The Downstair (CD, Album) Delerium Records DELEC CD 020 UK 1993
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Up The Downstair (LP, Album) Delerium Records DELEC LP 020 UK 1993
Up The Downstair (LP, Album, Test Pressing) Delerium Records DELEC LP 020 UK 1993
New Submission
Up The Downstair (Cassette, Album, Promo) Delerium Records DELEC LP 020, DELEC CD 020 UK 1993
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Up The Downstair (Cassette, Album) Prog Rock Music PRM 016 Poland 1995

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Reviews

  • gatefold's avatar
    gatefold
    Edited 3 months ago
    The 2005 and 2008 pressings of this album are of interest for Porcupine Tree collector's, because they are the most affordable vinyl releases where you get the Staircase Infinities EP, plus the bonus track "Phantoms". The only other options are the standalone release of the EP itself from 1994 (without "Phantoms") and the expensive Delerium Years box set from 2017. I have copies of both 2005 and 2008 (red vinyl) pressings of Up the Downstars, so here's my comparison:

    Both have the same 2005 remaster and are pressed by GZ, but have different cuts. The sound quality is quite the same on both, nothing outstanding, but solid. Good low end, but lacking some mid range and clarity and the soundstage could be a bit more open. I didn't hear a later pressing from 2017 onwards yet, where the main album is spread across 4 sides instead of 2, maybe this improves the sound. Those pressings don't add the Staircase Infinities EP anymore of course.

    A pressing issue both copies share is a quite prominent inner groove distortion on the last track of each side, which is a pity especially for "Fadeaway", the best song here in my opinion. Apart from that the pressing quality isn't the same, this pressing is mostly clean and quiet, while my 2008 copy has quite a lot of ticks. I also prefer the more simple design of the inner sleeves here to the 2008 pressing.

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