Okey, so now we're entering top10.
The description of the songs will most likely be a bit longer, and i decided to add a little picture to each song, album-cover or similar. An idea i got from a similar thread on another forum.
10. Always Never -
(Up The Downstair)In 1994 it became clear that SW
didn't feel any pain, because he was an island.
This psychedelic/progressive 7-minute song is one of the absolute highlights from the early PT-catalog, and it offers great music and some interesting lyrics.
"
I love you sometimes,
Always Never"
Song starts off with only acoustic-guitar and keyboards, but soon electric guitars and drums kicks in, and this song becomes something completely else.
I remember in the beginning when discovering PT, at that time i had pretty much only heard
In Absentia and
Deadwing, reading up on them on wikipedia was fascinating, this album especially.
The whole word-puzzles with the song-titles, referring to "
Up the
Downstair" and this song.
Another pretty awesome thing about this song is the guitar-solo, which is a top5 PT-guitar solo for me, and adds a little bit of magic to a song that already has it.
This song is also featured on the
Coma Divine-live album, and that version is pretty sweet as well.
9. The Sky Moves Sideways -
(The Sky Moves Sideways)This epic title-track is one of the bands most famous early works.
It's divided into 2-parts, total length is around 35-minutes.
Even though being as epic as it is, it's very often overlooked by fans, since the arrival of
Anesthetize and
Arriving Somewhere, But Not Here.
The intro is very interesting, it's 3-4 minutes of some great keyboard-work, some parts that makes you go "hmm, what was that?".
The lyrics in the song is a bit weird on some points, but they work very well with the music.
Still, they've grown with me, and now i love them.
"
We lost the skyline
We stepped right off the map
Drifted in to blank space
And let the clocks relapse"
Around 9-10 minutes in there's a really groovy bass-line, one of my favorites.
This song has been featured both on
Coma Divine and on
We Lost the Skyline, 2 completely different versions.
Both are superb, but i do want to praise the
Coma Divine-version a bit more.
Go listen to the ending, the climax-part.
Start's at roughly 11.05, the ending of the
Coma Divine-version is one of the best and most epic ways to close a song ever, and one of my favorite live-performances by them.
Still got more to come
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