You won't believe what happened at work tonight.

Man Overboard wrote: So I'm at work, and listening to Evergrey at a nice, respectable volume.  This woman comes up and she's like "I LOVE HEAVY METAL!  I LOVE KORN AND DISTURBED AND SEVENDUST AND LIMP BIZKIT!" I kind of shake my head a bit, but she won't go away, and she says (though not as eloquently as I'm typing it, her grammar made my head hurt), "Oh, and there's this new band I heard recently, they're as good as Korn!  They're a new band, so you probably haven't heard of them, but they're called Porcupine Tree.  I totally identify with their debut album, Fear Of A Blank Planet!  I hate how people try to understand me, but their lyrics are so cool and make me wanna fight the man!   I love getting stoned at the mall, and the video is sooooo awesome, it's just like my life!" Is this the audience Wilson is trying to reach?

*pukes into a bag*

I think someone should email this to Steven Wilson

If prog fans and a mainstream nu-metal fan enjoys it, surely this only makes it better?

If you don't like the album, don't listen to it. Or alternatively express your views in a concise intellectual manner, in a review or something.

Don't just come into a thread about Porcupine Tree or one of their albums and use it as an excuse to give it a lame bashing and get people annoyed.

Christ.


Edited by coleio - May 26 2007 at 14:32

Now children! can we all behave like Gentlemen please?

StyLaZyn wrote: Man Overboard wrote: Trademark wrote: A funny thing about it is that they are now on the Roadrunner label which was started (and is still owned, I believe) by Derek Schulman of Gentle Giant. He of all people should see the dangers of "commercialization" after what happened to GG at the end of the 70's, but he's had so much success with mainstream acts asa Record Exec. that he's lost his perspective to this little community. I hope Derek Shulman wasn't personally responsible for signing Nickleback, Slipknot, etc.    Oh! I know. God forbid the man use his abilities to make any money off successful bands that people obviously like.

Yes, we simply have to make clear our unanimous stand against popularity. Any act that sells more albums than there are people in the group should be shunned as a sell out. And while I really don't care to even hear Nickelback et al ( my wife & friends are going to see them Canada Day weekend, and I'm babysitting the kids), there are people, lots of people in fact, that do enjoy them. We all have freedom of opinion, and others having a different opinion in music, that most dangerous of arts, do not constitute grounds for getting all snotty & snobby. I saw a short interview with Derek Shulman, and the acts he's signed all had something that he thought were deserving of exposure to a wider public. So unless he's stated some high flown standards that he would be pushing , I don't see the rationale for dissing his current work.
Remember the punk critiques from the late 70s about progressive rock. Where they any more accurate or well founded then those we see herein about other genres ?