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Lips of ashes
Synchronised
Blue vein crashes
Touching, touching you inside
Inside, inside, inside, inside, inside, inside
Idolised
Black eyes fading
You and I
Connection failing
I drill, I drill down inside
Inside, inside, inside, inside, inside, inside
I find with Porcupine Tree tracks I either love them or I love them so much I play them until I realise I've been playing Porcupine Tree tracks over and over for six hours.
Cool! ...whatever works for you!
Wow!
I thought this was some kind of David Crosby/family band!
Well that explains your user name.
I get your point, but this band (Steven Wilson) is, in part, reflecting the music of the era you refer to. Who knows what this band would have sounded like in the 1970s. "I was born in 67, the year of Sgt. Pepper" suggests that he absorbed and transmogrified the music and zeitgeist of that and other eras to produce the brilliant music we are privileged to experience. There is no such thing as ahead or behind the times. Others catch up to innovations. Then look backward and write or rewrite whatever history interests them.
Well put, the original comment and your response.
Uh, no. You are the ONLY one who imagines these guys masturbating. Weird comment man. Assuming you're a man. I guess my assumption could be wrong. either way...silly comment.
Hahaha!
Crossing my fingers.
Wilson is correct when he descries Barbieri as the best sound-scaper since Brian Eno.
Some bands are too early for their time. Some bands are too late... this is one of them. Porcupine Tree would have been heavily promoted by the labels and played on rock radio all the time in the late 1970s and 1980s, making them a part of our classic rock heritage. Today's music industry, unfortunately, is entirely focused on pushing artists like Adele and Drake out to the masses.
I get your point, but this band (Steven Wilson) is, in part, reflecting the music of the era you refer to. Who knows what this band would have sounded like in the 1970s. "I was born in 67, the year of Sgt. Pepper" suggests that he absorbed and transmogrified the music and zeitgeist of that and other eras to produce the brilliant music we are privileged to experience. There is no such thing as ahead or behind the times. Others catch up to innovations. Then look backward and write or rewrite whatever history interests them.
Maybe you're projecting.
Good lord, I hope it’s just you.
I thought this was some kind of David Crosby/family band!
Later Steven Wilson solo material has been taken out of circulation on RP.
Not a loss for me because I own all his solo albums and EPs and play them often.
New Steven Wilson album coming soon! I wonder if being married will affect the music. I think it lent a sometimes poppy happy tone to some of his songs on To the Bone.
For the nutritional value.
Uh, no. You are the ONLY one who imagines these guys masturbating. Weird comment man. Assuming you're a man. I guess my assumption could be wrong. either way...silly comment.
In Absentia is one of the very best progressive rock/art rock style albums ever put out. If it is not the best, it figures among the top 5.
I accept your proposition, sir!
Maybe you're projecting.
Yep, that'd be a safe bet
chinaski wrote:
In Absentia is one of the very best progressive rock/art rock style albums ever put out. If it is not the best, it figures among the top 5.
3:30 pm - Harry Manx - Death Have Mercy
3:34 pm - Elton John - Sixty Years On
3:38 pm - Porcupine Tree - Lips Of Ashes
I came in here to rate this ... and saw I already had it as a 9. Should I make it 10?
Yeah! Silly question.
Who is EKV?
Ekatarina Velika
Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Disbanded in 1994 upon the death of the lead man.
Who is EKV?
3:30 pm - Harry Manx - Death Have Mercy
3:34 pm - Elton John - Sixty Years On
3:38 pm - Porcupine Tree - Lips Of Ashes
I came in here to rate this ... and saw I already had it as a 9. Should I make it 10?
Wilson plays most of the guitar on his latest solo album To the Bone. Slovak David Kollar makes a couple of tasty lead guitar contributions too.
im just a music fan, love both of bands.westslope wrote:
That said, it's not often I get to hear two 10s back-to-back. Love being able to hear this 10 song immediately after Sixty Years On from Elton John, another 10.
9 -> 10
Not many tracks get a ten from me - wonderful stuff...
Reading about the unique way this band makes their music I keep wondering if that's why I don't like it. I dislike the way they fill up the musical spectrum. Some people love this layering while I hear dissonance.
I wonder if there are other decorrelated bands? For a maybe not very relevant, example, I'm a fan of Jack Johnson but dislike Dave Matthews. Maybe fans of PT are the reverse?
OK, I just did a spot check of jbuhl's ratings and s/he seems to dislike Dave Matthews too 😁. Weird. The vast majority of our ratings are compatible except for Patti Smith. Maybe she's the decorrelated artist?
Someday it would be cool to run data analytics on the user ratings at RP and use it to provide some additional suggestions and contraindications for music.
Funny, I was picking up YES harmonies. It's funny to read how different listeners take one style of vocals and attribute them to different artists. This is a good thing.
somebody wrote:
Yup. I hear both
When I first heard this I was thinking it might be an old King Crimson I had not heard.
Funny, I was picking up YES harmonies. It's funny to read how different listeners take one style of vocals and attribute them to different artists. This is a good thing.
Yup. I hear both
I agree with westslope - this one has always been my favourite album.
Could say that again and again any time I hear Porcupine Tree...
9 -> 10
Not many tracks get a ten from me - wonderful stuff...
Funny, I was picking up YES harmonies. It's funny to read how different listeners take one style of vocals and attribute them to different artists. This is a good thing.
also sounds like a Greg Lake composition with EL&P
My thoughts exactly!! :)
also sounds like a Greg Lake composition with EL&P
Стивен всегда на высоте!
I am going to have to say that Signify is there best
Well, Signify is a terrific CD but my impression is that Steven Wilson is proudest of In Absentia from the work he did in this period.
Agreed. Though in interviews, Steven Wilson talks about the Beach Boys harmonies as a big influence.
I agree with westslope - this one has always been my favourite album.
This was my "gateway" to PT - bought it totally and completely as a result of hearing them here. One of my all time favorite RP "finds."
I am going to have to say that Signify is there best
I agree with westslope - this one has always been my favourite album.
Doesn't get much better than this.
Clever indeed...it sounds a like like Porcupine Tree.
Pensive.
Still the best CD to date. I am at a loss to understand why this CD has not garnered more attention.
I am going to have to say that Signify is there best
Pensive.
Still the best CD to date. I am at a loss to understand why this CD has not garnered more attention.
If you like this one it seems like someone is in for a rather large porcupine flavoured treat - they keep getting better
Just played this touring through the Cariboo-Chilcotin region of central British Columbia. This area has some of the best high mountain lake and dry plateau views in the western cordillera.
Stunning.
...now that you mention it.
I DO play and I find Gavin's time displacement stuff to be AMAZING!
Harrison has posted a ton of videos on YouTube explaining some of his techniques and even giving demos. Truly a cool dude and an artist who wants to share his skills.
I DO play and I find Gavin's time displacement stuff to be AMAZING!
Wish they were out on tour.
Steven Wilson is touring this fall to support his new solo album out the end of September. Got tickets myself for Toronto....
Wish they were out on tour.
Well, this is what I appreciate about Steven Wilson and PT. They do experiment and break out of boxes musically, even though it usually retains the PT feel. Their different albums over the years show not just the ability to experiment and grow, but the persistent desire to do so. Steven Wilson and PT don't remain static, and that's a very good thing.
I enjoyed listening to some material from Wilson that I haven't heard before, posted here earlier by another listener, but I'll share the link here for your edification and listening pleasure.
I LOVE PT! If it wasn't for RP, I may have never discovered them. They deserve so much more widespread recognition than they're getting. I'm really hoping I can catch them live some day. (Missed them last year when they appeared here... dang it!)
I love this link!!! I listened to Disappear 1997 demo which surprisingly is on the European release of Lightbulb Sun. It is not on any other release that I know of and I got it from my years of gathering music from the now defunct alltunes/all of mp3 Russia Site. Yeah, talk to me later about stealing music, I got something light years before most Americans did. I even listed this song to the Radio Paradise Upload Song links, but it was shot down since Disappear is already on the RP list of songs via the Recordings CD. Steve Wilson is so dynamic and this song has so much angst, his story of him going nowhere and his lover going places too fast for him to keep up the pace.
Wonderful musicians and excellent writers, one of my favorite bands to date.
Steven Wilson's favorite song in the world is the Beach Boys "God Only Knows" true story
Steven is far from alone in that assesment.
Well, this is what I appreciate about Steven Wilson and PT. They do experiment and break out of boxes musically, even though it usually retains the PT feel. Their different albums over the years show not just the ability to experiment and grow, but the persistent desire to do so. Steven Wilson and PT don't remain static, and that's a very good thing.
I enjoyed listening to some material from Wilson that I haven't heard before, posted here earlier by another listener, but I'll share the link here for your edification and listening pleasure.
I LOVE PT! If it wasn't for RP, I may have never discovered them. They deserve so much more widespread recognition than they're getting. I'm really hoping I can catch them live some day. (Missed them last year when they appeared here... dang it!)
Agreed...it has grown on me as well, very nice.
(Oh, looks like I wasn't the first to pick up on this!)
That's funny I had the same reaction last week. Great album, though I found it to be pretty dark. I have to listen in small doses.
Decent, unoffensive.