porcupine tree
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Topic: porcupine tree
Posted By: laztraz
Subject: porcupine tree
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 12:22
| I just recently checked out this group. I think In Abstentia is suberb but was not as impressed with Deadwing. Can you guys recommend other CD's of theirs. |
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 12:24
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Try Up The Downstair, it was re-released recently. Or Lightbulb Sun, but that's a little more difficult to find. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: DarHobo
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 15:02
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[QUOTE=laztraz] I just recently checked out this group. I think
In Abstentia is suberb but was not as impressed with Deadwing. Can you guys recommend other CD's of theirs.[/ QUOTE] Coma Divine, lightbulb sun, stupid dream, well, all of their stuff is great. Their earlier stuff is more psychedelic while the later material is pretty much more direct songwriting. If you like Porcupine Tree you should also check out some of the members side projects such as Steven Wilson with Blackfield. |
Posted By: barbs
Date Posted: June 27 2005 at 03:13
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As above. Steve Wilsons collaboration album with a guy call Aviv Geffen (or Aviz?) called Blackfield is very good. The Sky Moves Sideways has some interesting stuff on it as well. ------------- Eternity |
Posted By: lynton samuel
Date Posted: June 27 2005 at 05:31
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I highly recommend Stupid Dream, great album! ------------- [IMG]http://www.denness.net/rpi/u/arners/bc/FFFFFF/bg/FFFFFF/bg1/FFFFFF/bg2/FFFFFF/ac/CC00CC/tc/ff9933/dc/CC00CC/nc/CC00CC/tic/CC00CC/rpi.png"> |
Posted By: mayod1
Date Posted: June 27 2005 at 05:34
| The early studio albums are indeed very psychedelic and are very good. I recently purchased Voyage 34 and like the ambient sound which is heavily influenced by Pink Floyd and Eno. Basing an album on an intimate LSD trip is a novel idea. The voice over adds a lot to the trip. I would also recommend their live recordings: their is one from Rome and another taken from a Polish radio show. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: June 27 2005 at 05:44
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The only thing that annoys be with Voyage 34 is the synthetic drums, and the very obvious Pink Floyd / The Wall rip off at the beginning of phase 1 ... ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to:
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mayod1 wrote:Posted By: fractal
Date Posted: June 29 2005 at 03:15
Recently listened to The Sky Moves Sideways. Loved it. Get Warzsawa if you like live shows. It is great stuff.  ------------- Klaatu Barada Nikto! |
Posted By: Nipsey88
Date Posted: June 29 2005 at 21:55
 Warzsawa is one of the best live albums I've ever heard, but then I'm biased (check out the avatar) Good records to start: Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun - The 2 studio records right before In Absentia, a bit poppier, but still great songs. Signify - The transition album from PT the psychedelic band to PT the Prog band. Stars Die - A great 2 CD set of their earlier stuff, unlike many retrospectives, this has great track selection. Coma Divine - Great live set from the Signify era. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Nipsey88/?chartstyle=myspace02" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Teaflax
Date Posted: June 30 2005 at 00:15
My experience with PT has been less than stellar. I've found them really intensely boring and flavorless until In Absentia, which I think is a very good album.
I decided to go back and check if I'd missed something in that earlier material - especially since Richard Barbieri has done nothing else that I don't find at the very least passable, but no luck.
There's just something lacking there to me. And the drumming on that live album Coma Divine is the most inappropriate for the material that I think I've ever heard. Hard chop-filled Drum Academy Metal fills over Floydian Pop Rock - annoying and wrong.
Anyways, if you're anything at all like me, In Absentia may be as good as it gets.
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Posted By: Handbag
Date Posted: July 08 2005 at 15:53
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Hello all, My first post and maybe my last depending on the answer to my query :-) I really like Porcupine Tree (Deadwing included, although I just can't get into "On the Sunday Of Life"). I've been a life long Pink Floyd fan and also grew up listening to Dire Straits. I was wondering if there's anything else out there that's of this genre. I know it's not particularly prog. I also really like Leaves who I saw just a few nights ago, but they won't fall into the realms of this forum. I'd appreciate a point in the right direction, either to similar bands or a different forum if I'm in the wrong one  Cheers. |
Posted By: FishyMonkey
Date Posted: July 08 2005 at 17:08
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^Try Pineapple Thief. Not very talented musicians or anything, but
their labum Vairations on a Dream is definitely pretty good. Very PTree
sound.
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Posted By: Handbag
Date Posted: July 08 2005 at 17:29
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Thanks I'll give them a listen. Great forum by the way! |
Posted By: Heimdall
Date Posted: July 10 2005 at 19:07
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You can try Signify, it's really great, one of my favourites. Dark Matter is the best track of this album, listen to it to feel just a little of the supremacy of this album ------------- Valhalla Waits With Hidromel And Battle Tales! By The Psychedelic Winds Of Might... |
Posted By: Pablo_P
Date Posted: July 13 2005 at 04:44
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I have 3 albums: Stupid Dream, In Absentia and Lightbulb Sun. Very good band My favourite album is Stupid Deam (especially the opening track Even Less) I have recently bought Deadwing t-shirt although I don't have this album yet. BTW, this front cover is beautiful ------------- Pablo P. |
Posted By: progmaniaczka
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 17:00
I am addicted to listening to Porcupine Tree from the time I saw(in fact-heard) them playing 'live'. 
Steve is convincing enough to get you into his music, even though at first glance most of melodies have nothing in common with catchy ones. 
Alike most of you I wasn't mesmerized by Deadwing- it compares really unfavourably with 1)'The Sky Moves Sideways' 2)'Lightbulb Sun' 3)'In Absentia' and 4)'Warszawa' (seemingly Steven likes Poles much) ------------- |
Posted By: Angeldust
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 17:44
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I recently heard in absentia and i was stunned.I also purchased their last album deadwing but didn't have the time to listen to it... To be honest stupid dream was the only album i had from them and i didn't like it at all.... |
.But now all my doubts are gone.They seem to be a great band...Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 08:23
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you really need to work your way backwards....Lightbulb Sun, Stupid Dream (diff to get hold of, so try the live set Warsawa instead) and Signify... ...you'll find anything from Signify and earlier, quite different; it's more floydesque, with a spacey ambient/ trance quality to it.... ...enjoy. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: hotbelly
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 05:24
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For those who found Deadwing underwhelming, I personally found it to be the paradigm "grower" album. Listen to it on headphones a few times and you will soon appreciate it! |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 05:29
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Posted By: Prodigal
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 14:12
| I'd say go for either "Stupid Dream" of "Signify". |
Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 19:31
------------- I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: hotbelly
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 03:04
Well, once I finally have the cash to begin upgrading my system and get a DVD-A player, I will! |