What Porcupine Tree song...
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Topic: What Porcupine Tree song...
Posted By: condor
Subject: What Porcupine Tree song...
Date Posted: August 10 2017 at 13:48
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...do you find most uplifting? And the Swallows Dance Above the Sun
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 10 2017 at 13:50
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Stop Swimming ------------- |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 10 2017 at 13:56
| Piano Lessons |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 10 2017 at 20:43
| Porcupine Tree and uplifting... isn't that kind of contradictory? Both concepts kind of repel each other... |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 10 2017 at 21:57
I was thinking that too. My favorite period by the band(the late 90's into the early 2000's)was particularly melancholy. With some songs it almost sounds like the world is going to end.
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Dellinger wrote:Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 10 2017 at 21:58
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more seriously, 'Shemovedon' never fails to bring a huge smile to my face. ------------- |
Posted By: Rauterberg
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 02:19
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Jupiter Island |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 02:35
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I'm going to be boring and say 'Trains' It's a beautifully written song with a strong emotional impact. Honourable mentions to 'My ashes' and 'Arriving somewhere bu not here' too. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: aliano
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 02:56
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Voyage 34 - Phase I |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 09:11
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Stars Die...the "Nixon-moon-phone-call" section always makes me smile...Jupiter Island in a close 2nd... ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 15:57
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Uplifting...? Can't think of any right now ...but I do like Lazarus. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: noni
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 15:59
| My favourite and uplifting is Lazarus |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 16:50
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There's so many but I'm going with Even Less just cause it hasn't been mentioned yet I don't think. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 17:22
 exactly how I feel! |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: August 12 2017 at 22:08
The ending is a bit of a downer. ------------- 
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Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: August 13 2017 at 07:59
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Strange As It Seems... Buying New Soul and Arriving Somewhere But Not Here. And any long version of Radioactive Toy. Of course it's uplifting. We human are more complex than someone saying "be happy" and then we are. Unless we're simpletons who like (are taken in by) fake smiles. (Thinking of sales people here). |
Posted By: Biff Tannen
Date Posted: August 23 2017 at 20:43
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Piano Lessons. ------------- "What are you looking at, butthead?" |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: August 23 2017 at 22:08
| Piano Lessons |
Posted By: Herrick
Date Posted: August 26 2017 at 12:03
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Arriving Somewhere But Not Here. ------------- DISPLAY thy Breasts, my Julia! |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: August 26 2017 at 12:20
------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: progrockrob
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 19:01
Trains gets my instant vote, especially when i'm on a journey and arriving somewhere but not here 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 21:39
f**king A. It depresses the sh*t out of me ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 03:24
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 02:37
Uplifting? Interesting idea! If you stick with that criteria then really only Lazarus raises my spirits in that way. If I stretch it to songs that make me feel good because they are so damn good to listen to, then Arriving Somewhere.... and Trains do it every time - even though the core of them is rather depressing! ("...the last thing you hear......" etc. )  ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 03:17
| The Sky Moves Sideways |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 10:05
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Lazarus from Deadwing ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 14:26
| Nothing SW has done is particularly uplifting. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 26 2017 at 06:17
good choice so I think I will go with that as well
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Posted By: cybersymes
Date Posted: November 15 2017 at 14:14
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arriving somewhere ... sooooo much melancholy ... soooo much hope ... the tree are superb at uplifting ... you just have to be really down first
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Posted By: lou_vegas
Date Posted: November 21 2017 at 18:07
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Stars Die |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: November 23 2017 at 07:34
It is a good song. Simple, well written, nice words and really quite accessable and not very prog. It could have been a big big hit IMO.. I guess Porcupine Tree were bigger than I thought. I was surprised to see SW on BBC Breakfast in the summer, talking about his new single and being ask to define 'prog rock' at 8am on a school day!  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: TheNonArtist
Date Posted: December 06 2017 at 18:50
| Pure Narcotic. No contest. |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: December 07 2017 at 08:09
| The Cross |
Posted By: Batphink
Date Posted: December 08 2017 at 05:03
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I love the into to "Cheating The Polygraph' is amazing,in fact love the entire song and most of what they do incredible songwriting and fluidity as well as playing. Trains comes close second pretty cheerful for PT :P |
Posted By: Daggor
Date Posted: December 08 2017 at 22:24
| No question at all in my mind: Linton Samuel Dawson |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: December 11 2017 at 05:12
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I keep trying to come up with a song but every time I pick one it's a SW solo song. D'oh! ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 12 2017 at 05:59
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Lazarus (lovely song) and Lightbulb Sun. Some of the latter's lyrics are positive and about recovery from illness, and I love the uptempo sections with the excellent lead guitar. A great track from a really solid album. As for P-Tree as a whole, I find much of it overly meandering and melancholy, so I much prefer Wilson solo and Blackfield; the melancholy is still there, but there's more concise song structure and plenty of memorable melody.  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: December 12 2017 at 08:08
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Time Flies ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Rivertree" rel="nofollow">  |