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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #105 on: March 13, 2012, 03:38:57 AM »
I really like OTSOL.

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #106 on: March 13, 2012, 05:05:34 AM »
I have always only been a very casual PT fan.  I have quite a few of their albums, but never really paid that much attention to them and really take the time to discover them, besides Lightbulb Sun, which is amazing.

After Nick's writeup on Deadwing, I decided to give it a good listening too.  Really cool stuff here.  I will still need some more listens but I really enjoy the sound of the album, and Arrviing Somewhere But Here has some of the best atmosphere's I have ever heard in a song, great mood.
Everyone else, except Wolfking is wrong.

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #107 on: March 13, 2012, 05:29:14 AM »
Arriving Somewhere but not here is a great song Wolf! :tup

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #108 on: March 13, 2012, 06:45:15 AM »
I think, next time I have album-spending money, and I can only get 1 PT album, I'd go for Signify. With Insignificance as well, you get a fair chunk of music there.

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #109 on: March 13, 2012, 09:41:22 AM »
I think Mellotron Scratch may be the greatest song ever.   :heart

Not the greatest but in my Top 10 PT songs, tied for Glass Arm as best off Deadwing

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #110 on: March 13, 2012, 03:55:51 PM »
Open Car is also pretty good.
I only listen to electro-post dubprog.  You've probably never heard of it.

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #111 on: March 13, 2012, 04:07:48 PM »
Mellotron is my least favorite from Deadwing. I feel like an asshole for having a least favorite song on that album..

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #112 on: March 13, 2012, 04:15:30 PM »
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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #116 on: March 13, 2012, 04:38:30 PM »
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OMG A SHINY!!!
Mellotron is indeed amazing. It is the shiniest of shinies...that I shall never attain... Listening from afar at another trainer's is all I can do.

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #117 on: March 13, 2012, 04:39:59 PM »
Not my favorite song off Deadwing...it's probably middle of the pack.

Oh what the heck.

The Start of Something Beautiful
Glass Arm Shattering
Open Car
Lazarus
Deadwing
Mellotron Scratch
Shallow
Halo
Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
"All great works are prepared in the desert, including the redemption of the world. The precursors, the followers, the Master Himself, all obeyed or have to obey one and the same law. Prophets, apostles, preachers, martyrs, pioneers of knowledge, inspired artists in every art, ordinary men and the Man-God, all pay tribute to loneliness, to the life of silence, to the night." - A. G. Sertillanges

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #118 on: March 13, 2012, 04:42:07 PM »
Lets try this...

The Start of Something Beautiful
Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Halo
Open Car
Glass Arm Shattering
Lazarus
Mellotron Scratch
Shallow
Deadwing

Damn, I love Halo, I actually thought about putting it above Arriving. Those two can switch, though.

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #119 on: March 13, 2012, 04:59:37 PM »
Deadwing is a very good album...I really underrated it before. I can enjoy every song, and it's only Halo and Arriving Somewhere that I don't really love. There are bits and sections that I don't totally dig, like the second half of Deadwing the song, but overall everything is very strong. It's got enough variety that each song stands out, and it's got enough consistency to make for a fluid album. The concept is also awesome.

If you were to rearrange the order of songs on the Deadwing album and have it include the B-sides, as well as Christenings, Collecting Space, and the Deadwing Theme, how would you do it?
"All great works are prepared in the desert, including the redemption of the world. The precursors, the followers, the Master Himself, all obeyed or have to obey one and the same law. Prophets, apostles, preachers, martyrs, pioneers of knowledge, inspired artists in every art, ordinary men and the Man-God, all pay tribute to loneliness, to the life of silence, to the night." - A. G. Sertillanges

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #120 on: March 13, 2012, 05:00:16 PM »
Can we rank rankings?

IA song ranking
Album ranking
LS song ranking
SD song ranking
Era ranking (ambient vs pop vs metal)
DW song ranking
All other rankings
Drummer ranking
This ranking (meta-ranking)

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #121 on: March 13, 2012, 05:04:02 PM »

Arriving
Deadwing
Mellotron Scratch
Open Car
Start of Something Beautiful
Lazarus
Halo
Shallow
Glass Arm Shattering
I only listen to electro-post dubprog.  You've probably never heard of it.

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #122 on: March 13, 2012, 05:20:24 PM »
Deadwing is a very good album...I really underrated it before. I can enjoy every song, and it's only Halo and Arriving Somewhere that I don't really love. There are bits and sections that I don't totally dig, like the second half of Deadwing the song, but overall everything is very strong. It's got enough variety that each song stands out, and it's got enough consistency to make for a fluid album. The concept is also awesome.

If you were to rearrange the order of songs on the Deadwing album and have it include the B-sides, as well as Christenings, Collecting Space, and the Deadwing Theme, how would you do it?
i like the way you think. while i appreciate the majority of DW, i'm really not sold on the sequencing at all (and neither is SW!).

i'd arrange it into two discs:
Disc 1
01. Deadwing Theme
02. Mother & Child Divided
03. Shallow
04. Halo
05. Lazarus
06. Collecting Space
07. Deadwing
08. Glass Arm Shattering

Disc 2
01. Revenant
02. Open Car
03. So Called Friend
04. Mellotron Scratch
05. Christenings
06. Half-Light
07. The Start of Something Beautiful
08. Arriving Somewhere, but Not Here

left out "Shesmovedon (2005)" because wtfSWthatdoesntfitorpromoteatall

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #123 on: March 13, 2012, 05:22:11 PM »
Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Deadwing
Lazarus
Start Of Something Beautiful
Glass Arm Shattering
Halo
Shallow
Open Car
Mellotron Scratch

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #124 on: March 13, 2012, 05:22:47 PM »
Nice list, but ASBNH would be a weird closer with that fade-out...maybe Half-Light would work better there?
"All great works are prepared in the desert, including the redemption of the world. The precursors, the followers, the Master Himself, all obeyed or have to obey one and the same law. Prophets, apostles, preachers, martyrs, pioneers of knowledge, inspired artists in every art, ordinary men and the Man-God, all pay tribute to loneliness, to the life of silence, to the night." - A. G. Sertillanges

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #125 on: March 13, 2012, 05:30:33 PM »
trading one fade-out for another, eh?  :lol

i dunno, i find "Arriving" infinitely more final and satisfying as an end than "Half-Light," even if SW says he'd rather it end the record instead of "Glass Arm."

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #126 on: March 13, 2012, 05:40:02 PM »
Rank the songs from the Incident! GO! (If anybody cares about this album  :sadpanda:)

Remember Me Lover
I Drive The Hearse
Flicker
Time Flies
The Incident
Black Dahlia
Drawing The Line
Octane Twisted
Bonnie The Cat
The Blind House
The Seance
Kneel And Disconnect
Your Unpleasant Family
Great Expectations
The Yellow Windows Of The Evening Train
Circle Of Manias
Occam's Razor
Degree Zero Of Liberty

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #127 on: March 13, 2012, 05:51:45 PM »
Great Expectations
The Incident
I Drive the Hearse
Drawing the Line
The Yellow Windows of the Evening Train
The Blind House
Bonnie the Cat
Kneel and Disconnect
Remember Me Lover
Your Unpleasant Family
Occam's Razor
Octane Twisted
Time Flies
The Seance
Degree Zero of Liberty
Black Dahlia
Flicker
Circle of Manias
"All great works are prepared in the desert, including the redemption of the world. The precursors, the followers, the Master Himself, all obeyed or have to obey one and the same law. Prophets, apostles, preachers, martyrs, pioneers of knowledge, inspired artists in every art, ordinary men and the Man-God, all pay tribute to loneliness, to the life of silence, to the night." - A. G. Sertillanges

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #128 on: March 13, 2012, 06:03:41 PM »
I Drive the Hearse
Time Files













everything else

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #129 on: March 13, 2012, 06:38:17 PM »
The Incident
Blind House
Time Flies
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Bleh, the rest of the album

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #130 on: March 13, 2012, 07:18:01 PM »
I Drive the Hearse
Time Files













everything else
This.
I imagined the story to go more like this.

I was sitting a traffic light blaring Space Dye Vest and next to me in another car was Kevin Moore. And I'll never be open again.

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #131 on: March 13, 2012, 08:21:49 PM »
Deadwing

The Start of Something Beautiful
Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Open Car
Deadwing
Glass Arm Shattering
Mellotron Scratch
Lazarus
Halo
Shallow
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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #132 on: March 14, 2012, 05:10:45 AM »
Rank the songs from the Incident! GO! (If anybody cares about this album  :sadpanda:)


I love The Incident, I don't get why it's not better liked around these parts!

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #133 on: March 14, 2012, 05:43:31 AM »
Rank the songs from the Incident! GO! (If anybody cares about this album  :sadpanda:)


Flicker
Remember Me Lover
The Seance
Kneel And Disconnect
The Blind House
The Incident

the rest










Drawing The Line

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #134 on: March 14, 2012, 05:45:38 AM »
I'MDRAWINGTHELINEI'MDRAWINGTHELINEI'MDRAWINGTHELINEIDRAWTHELIIIINE

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #135 on: March 14, 2012, 07:49:01 AM »
I love that chorus.  :metal

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #136 on: March 14, 2012, 07:58:45 AM »
I don't get the hate for Drawing the Line. It's one of the few songs I actually like on The Incident :lol

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #137 on: March 14, 2012, 07:59:52 AM »
Your unpleasant family smashed up my carrrrrr

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #138 on: March 14, 2012, 08:06:56 AM »


I love The Incident, I don't get why it's not better liked around these parts!

Because some people are goofy.  For me, it is still constantly in a fight with Signify for PTs's 4th best album (behind Lightbulb Sun, Stupid Dream and Deadwing).

Your unpleasant family smashed up my carrrrrr

What's funny about that line is that most people do not realize that it is a metaphor.

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Re: Porcupine Tree v. Glarung is a Lightbulb
« Reply #139 on: March 14, 2012, 08:29:27 AM »
Whenever I listen to The Incident I quite like it, but I never really have the urge to listen to it. Definitely a "the sum is better then the parts" kind of album for me. The songs are great, but I don't think any of them are among the best the band has made.