Porcupine Tree Virgin

Lightbulb Sun.

OK thanks - Lightbulb Sun it is!

Well, if you like Progressive Metal, pick up In Abstenia.

But, if you like lighter Progressive Music, try Lightbulb Sun.

Wolf Spider wrote: If your`e more into metal try In Absentia Or Deadwing If your`e more into rock try Lightbulb Sun, Signify or Stupid Dream You know the topic "Porcupine Tree Virgin" reminded me of a christmas episode of South Park called "Woodland Critter Christmas", have you guys seen it?

Poor mountain lion babies...

Useful_Idiot wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: Wolf Spider wrote: If your`e more into metal try In Absentia Or Deadwing If your`e more into rock try Lightbulb Sun, Signify or Stupid Dream You know the topic "Porcupine Tree Virgin" reminded me of a christmas episode of South Park called "Woodland Critter Christmas", have you guys seen it? Poor mountain lion babies... Haha, great episode.

Agreed

It really depends what you're into.  If you want Floydian sounding stuff, pick up "Up the Downstair."  If you want 60's type psychedelia, pick up "On the Sunday of Life."  If you want acid-rock/club music, pick up "Voyage 34."  If you want 70's style symphonic prog, pick up "The Sky Moves Sideways."  If you want accessible rock music, pick up "Stupid Dream" or "Lightbulb Sun" (though these albums are going to be hard to find until they are rereleased sometime next year).  If you want prog-metal, pick up "In Absentia."  I actually might recommend the new one, "Deadwing," as a good starting place, because even though it's not their best in my opinion, it has a lot of different styles that they have done on it.  (The album has, over the course of its nine songs, a prog metal song, a Led Zep-influenced hard rock song, a piano ballad, a Nine Inch Nails-sounding song, a long proggy track, a mellower song, another hard rock song, one song that I find it hard to compare to anything else, and lastly, a mellow, languid Floydian song.)

Since it's a band conastantly evolving i'd say that you could pick any album to start with. What i find nice though, is -even in their latest two albums which are a lot more metal-ish- that you can still tell that what you're listening to is [apart from "psychedelic music, performed under the influence of a mind-altering chemical called..."] Porcupine Tree from the first turns of the record.

My favourite one would be Up The Downstair. For the simple reason that this album was my introduction to the band and i also have connected a lot of the music and lyrics with things that happened in my life back then.

On the other hand, i haven't heard anything "bad" out of them, so...

-Sino.

BitchBrew wrote: I only have the album "Deadwing", what do you people think about that album? I think it's sort of ok.... But not more then that..

Yeah, I'd also say that it's ok (not staggeringly good but not weak as well)- more commercial-minded and simpler than previous records. Take Poland- in contrast to PT's other CD-s, people buy it like proverbial 'hot rolls'. Some say that it's lacking in well-thought-out and reflective pieces. I's partially true..

Phil wrote: What would you recommend as first album for a Porcupine Tree "virgin"?

Don't ever have sex with a porcupine or a tree.  It could hurt.

Seriously though, I'm listening to Deadwing right now.  And I must say .  Great album.  I'm also really fond of Up the Downstairs and The Sky Moves Sideways (both of these are a bit more spacey and have more of a Floyd feel to them).  Deadwing keeps the spaceyness but adds a heftier punch to the music.  I'm slowly getting more into PT myself.  I'm thinking of picking up Signify next.

hmm ill go in this order:

The Sky Moves Sideways

Lightbulb sun

Signify

In Absentia