Tool Vs. Porcupine Tree

"Porcupine Tree sound like they are trying to be prog"

Porcupine Tree by a mile. I'm surprised its so close.

PT is so overrated I actually lose interest in listening to them, despite enjoying them a lot, just due to how annoying their fans are. 

At first I thought I'd already posted here....damn similar avatars.....

Edited by Tarquin Underspoon - September 22 2009 at 21:58

PT are very good definitely, but Tool it is for me. One of the most unique bands today.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: PT is so overrated I actually lose interest in listening to them, despite enjoying them a lot, just due to how annoying their fans are.  Aside from that fact though, still Tool by a landslide.

This is true. Fanboys have pretty much ruined PT for me.

BLITZKRIEG wrote: PT easily. Cause Steve Wilson is the greatest music composer for the last 20 years. He does use the similar riffs but he  varies the timing. His vocal melodies are brilliant. Chords structures used are different and quite stunning.

Umm, because other artists don't "vary the timing"?
His vocal melodies suit the music, but they aren't "Brilliant" by any stretch of the imagination. It's nothing that hasn't been done before and probably even better by probably a whole bunch of pop artists. I'd say Prince had cooler vocal melodies.
There is nothing different about his chord structures, that's just ridiculous. Fair enough you think it's stunning that's quite subjective and I had no qualms with that, but he hasn't reinvented the wheel with chord voicings.
A lot of the stuff he is using chord use was used in the classical lexicon hundreds of years ago and even then he doesn't use as many chord voicings and doesn't vary it up as much as they did.
There really is just a lot of root 5 and 1 3 5 chord voicings in his music, nothing extraordinary.
Jeff Buckley, Joe Satriani and practically every jazz fusion guitarist that's worth his salt are a few examples that have regularly used much more complex chord voicings

Henry Plainview wrote: So while Tool fans are probably worse outside of this website, here PT is worse here since nobody will ever stop talking about them.

<3 you Henry


Edited by Petrovsk Mizinski - September 23 2009 at 04:07

progkidjoel wrote: Petrovsk Mizinski wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: PT is so overrated I actually lose interest in listening to them, despite enjoying them a lot, just due to how annoying their fans are.  Aside from that fact though, still Tool by a landslide. This is true. Fanboys have pretty much ruined PT for me. Wow - Thats pretty goddamn unimpressive. You care so much about other people liking an artist, you claim it makes you dislike the artist....

Yeah it would be "goddamn unimpressive" if it were purely stemming from the internet, but unfortunately I get PT shoved in my face in real life.
Seriously, every party I went to in recent times, there was always this one PT fanboy kid that had to put PT on " GUIZE PUT PUT ON PT" even when no one else is in the mood for it and I'm never in the mood for them at a party.
Eventually you'll just end up associating a band with negative things like (having it shoved in your face at a party), so it really does ruin bands for me.

Tool cause they make my "Y" chromosome more happy than PT.

Porcupine Tree by a country mile.

Not a very hard choice... Tool wins. Both bands are some of my favorite modern bands, but about both I can say some negative things. About PT, I think, I can say more negative things than Tool... I don't really like SW's vocals, PT hasn't made anything "outstanding" except for FOABP, and most albums fail to really reach me. Tool is a bit repetative sometimes I think, but apart from that they are fantastic, and not only musically, as their album artwork and video's are brilliant too! Both are very talented and innovative bands, but Tool easily wins.