The official Prog Archives Porcupine Tree Thread!

I recieved my IEM boxset last night. Only listened to to opening 2 tracks on the first disc, but I'm impressed. Reminds me of Saucerful Of Secrets/More era Pink Floyd and Hawkwind. The package is wonderful, possibly even better than Anesthetize. The booklet is just wonderful.

^ Christenings (which I think was going to be a Deadwing track..?) is quite a beautiful song.  Very nice and entrancing lyrics and wonderful melodies. 

Been listening to a lot of Blackfield as of late.  Really good pair of albums.  I especially like the debut, melodic pop-rock at its very best, that's a fact!

You mean Britney Spears sells albums? 

Wow, that does look astoundingly good!  You just don't see packaging and detail like that in the majority of today's market. Everything is quickly thrown together and no time is spent on paying attention to detail.

Here's the cover:


And back cover:


CD's in the front cover:


DVD + Bluray in the back cover (Bluray is the yellow and black one):


And some random photos which I could get to show up properly (90% of them are too big or won't come out properly on my camera because of the lighting):




Really random note: I recommend keeping the bubble-wrap sleeve that comes inside the postage mailer as a dust/wear cover for the book.

I'll take some photos now, will upload them in ~5 minutes.

^I've been thinking about getting Bass Communion II/III (12GBP for both on Headphone Dust) lately, although I haven't got around to it yet.

Man, seriously, the packaging is amazing. Like Palliams said, you seriously feel like you've got more than you payed for as soon as you hold the book; the photos are all absolutely brilliant too, the paper and printing quality is all awesome... Just flawless.
It really is simply amazing. All the photos are amazing, too.
There's some other art in the book as well (like a few pages of the FOABP art) and the setlist and everything else is fantastic.
The 2CD's also sound absolutely fantastic, and they sit in the book perfectly.

Also, here's the page for the guitar SW uses during Half-Light: http://visionaryinstruments.com/VG2.html

Awesome stuff

Also, I really think John Wesley would make such a fantastic full time addition to PT; his vocals on My Ashes are absolutely stunning, and he's an absolutely brilliant guitarist in his own right.

Wow...

That was amazing. Seriously, absolutely fantastic!
Absolutely blew me away. Every thing was perfect!

Favourites so far are Half-Light, Anesthetize, Normal, Sentimental, Dark Matter and Drown With Me. Can't say I disliked any of the tracks though.