Porcupine Tree Virgin
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Topic: Porcupine Tree Virgin
Posted By: Phil
Subject: Porcupine Tree Virgin
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 10:28
| What would you recommend as first album for a Porcupine Tree "virgin"? I've tried the free MP3's from this site and I'd like to hear some more. |
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 10:36
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Lightbulb Sun. ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 10:46
Yeah, I'd second that. That's how I got into them.  ------------- Pure Brilliance: 
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 10:48
| OK thanks - Lightbulb Sun it is! |
Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 11:08
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I love Porcupine Tree and have for some time, but it just occurred to me
for the first time that it is one silly band name. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 13:53
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Well, if you like Progressive Metal, pick up In Abstenia. But, if you like lighter Progressive Music, try Lightbulb Sun. |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 14:36
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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? ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 15:00
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Poor mountain lion babies... ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Wolf Spider wrote:Posted By: Bryan
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 15:56
Haha, great episode. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 16:09
Agreed |
Posted By: sonic wizard
Date Posted: September 01 2005 at 01:55
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Well, Steven Wilson started it as a joke. Originally, it was a fictional band with its own made up history and everything. Who would have thought that it could have turned into something so great. ------------- Arguing on the internet is a lot like the special olympics - even if you win, you're still retarded. |
Posted By: stripthesoul
Date Posted: September 01 2005 at 10:24
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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.)
------------- "Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings." --Cheris Kramerae |
Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: September 04 2005 at 20:55
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pretty damn much ------------- 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: Sino
Date Posted: September 12 2005 at 18:27
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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. ------------- I've had a dream that within / A celebration of Sin / You do a dance with Denial. |
Posted By: BitchBrew
Date Posted: September 12 2005 at 20:23
| 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.. |
Posted By: progmaniaczka
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 10:22
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.. ------------- |
Posted By: Starette
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 18:52
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Blackest Eyes and the Scratching of the Mellotron are two VERY cool songs. If you havn't got them yet: DO! ------------- 50 tonne angel falls to the earth... |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 19:07
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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 ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: italprogfan
Date Posted: October 03 2005 at 00:02
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stupid dream. |
Posted By: cucacola54
Date Posted: October 03 2005 at 01:15
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hmm ill go in this order: The Sky Moves Sideways Lightbulb sun Signify In Absentia ------------- Most listened albums last week 
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 09:36
| Oakey-doke, thanks to all, at the end of the day I couldn't find Lightbulb Sun which seemed to have a lot of recommendations so I've gone for "The Sky Moves Sideways" as its the one in the shop!! I'll let you know what I think............. |
Posted By: fender101
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 23:03
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I was just about to say that one. I have the Sky Moves Sideways and In Absentia and the former it 10fold better. I will definatly be looking for up the downstair in the near future. ------------- Well McGarnical Billy is dead! They slit his throat from ear to ear! |