Author Topic: Porcupine Tree Survivor - And the winner is...... (Result/Discussion) (Read 2941 times)

RoeDent · « **on:** October 05, 2014, 01:02:01 PM »

OCTOBER 17, 2014-APRIL 1, 2015

From each album tournament, the Top 2 progressed to the Finals, and 3rd place went to Consolation. After the album tournaments were completed, the Top 3 from Consolation gave us a 30-song Finals tournament.

ON THE SUNDAY OF LIFE (Ran: 17-25 Oct)
1. Radioactive Toy
2. The Nostalgia Factory
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3. Nine Cats
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4. And the Swallows Dance Above the Sun
5. This Long Silence
6. Footprints
7. Jupiter Island
8. It Will Rain for a Million Years
9. On the Sunday of Life
10. Music for the Head
11= Third Eye Surfer
= Begonia Seduction Scene
13. Linton Samuel Dawson
14. Space Transmission
15= Message from a Self-Destructing Turnip
= Hymn
= Queen Quotes Crowley
= No Luck With Rabbits

UP THE DOWNSTAIR (Ran: 25 Oct-3 Nov)
1. Fadeaway
2. Burning Sky
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3. Always Never
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4. Synesthesia
5. Up the Downstair
6. Small Fish
7. Not Beautiful Anymore
8. Siren
9. Monuments Burn Into Moments
10. What You Are Listening To

THE SKY MOVES SIDEWAYS (Ran: 3-9 Nov)
1. The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1
2. Stars Die
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3. The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 2
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4. The Moon Touches Your Shoulder
5. Dislocated Day
6. Moonloop
7. Prepare Yourself

SIGNIFY (Ran: 9-20 Nov)
1. Dark Matter
2. Waiting Phase 1
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3. The Sleep of No Dreaming
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4. Signify
5. Every Home Is Wired
6. Waiting Phase 2
7. Sever
8. Idiot Prayer
9. Intermediate Jesus
10. Light Mass Prayers
11. Pagan
12. Bornlivedie

EXTRA SONGS (1992-96) (Ran: 20-26 Nov)
1. Voyage 34
2. The Joke's On You
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3. Rainy Taxi
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4. The Sound of No-One Listening
5. Smiling Not Smiling
6. Wake As Gun 1
7. Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape
8. Signify II
9. Colourflow in Mind
10= Cloud Zero
= Navigator
= Phantoms
= Wake As Gun 2
14. Men of Wood

STUPID DREAM (Ran: 27 Nov-8 Dec)
1. Don't Hate Me
2. A Smart Kid
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3. Even Less
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4. Pure Narcotic
5. Piano Lessons
6. Slave Called Shiver
7. Tinto Brass
8. Stop Swimming
9. Baby Dream in Cellophane
10. This Is No Rehearsal
11. Stranger by the Minute
12. Stupid Dream

LIGHTBULB SUN (Ran: 8-16 Dec)
1. Russia On Ice
2. Lightbulb Sun
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3. Hatesong
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4. Shesmovedon
5. Feel So Low
6. Where We Would Be
7= Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled
= The Rest Will Flow
9. How Is Your Life Today
10. Four Chords That Made A Million

RECORDINGS (Ran: 16-25 Dec)
1. Buying New Soul
2. Even Less (Full Version)
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3. Cure for Optimism
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4. In Formaldehyde
5. Disappear
6. Oceans Have No Memory
7. Untitled
8. Ambulance Chasing
9. Access Denied

IN ABSENTIA (Ran: 26 Dec-5 Jan)
1. Blackest Eyes
2. Trains
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3. Heartattack in a Layby
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4. Gravity Eyelids
5. Prodigal
6. Collapse the Light Into Earth
7. Lips of Ashes
8. The Sound of Muzak
9. Strip the Soul
10. .3
11= Wedding Nails
= The Creator Has a Mastertape

DEADWING (Ran: 5-12 Jan)
1. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
2. The Start of Something Beautiful
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3. Deadwing
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4. Mellotron Scratch
5. Open Car
6. Lazarus
7. Glass Arm Shattering
8= Shallow
= Halo

EXTRA SONGS (2002-05) (Ran: 12-18 Jan)
1. Drown With Me
2. Half-Light
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3. Futile
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4. Chloroform
5. Mother and Child Divided
6. So-Called Friend
7. Orchidia
8. Collapse
9. Revenant

FEAR OF A BLANK PLANET (Ran: 18-23 Jan)
1. Anesthetize
2. Way Out Of Here
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3. Sentimental
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4. Fear of a Blank Planet
5. My Ashes
6. Sleep Together

NIL RECURRING (Ran: 23-26 Jan)
1. Cheating the Polygraph
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2. Normal
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3. What Happens Now?
4. Nil Recurring

THE INCIDENT (Ran: 26 Jan-6 Feb)
1. I Drive the Hearse
2. The Incident
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3. Octane Twisted
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4. The Blind House
5. Drawing the Line
6. Bonnie the Cat
7. Circle of Manias
8. Time Flies
9. Remember Me Lover
10. The Seance
11. Black Dahlia
12. Flicker
13. Kneel and Disconnect
14. Great Expectations
15. Your Unpleasant Family
16. Degree Zero of Liberty
17. The Yellow Windows of the Evening Train
18. Occam's Razor

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CONSOLATION (Ran: 7-20 Feb)
1. Heartattack in a Layby
2. Hatesong
3. Deadwing
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4. Sentimental
5. Normal
6. The Sleep of No Dreaming
7. Even Less
8. The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 2
9. Futile
10. Cure for Optimism
11. Octane Twisted
12. Always Never
13. Nine Cats
14. Rainy Taxi

FINALS (Ran: 20 Feb-1 Apr)
1. ANESTHETIZE
2. DARK MATTER
3. ARRIVING SOMEWHERE BUT NOT HERE
4. The Start of Something Beautiful
5. Trains
6. Heartattack in a Layby
7. Way Out of Here
8. A Smart Kid
9. Don't Hate Me
10. Drown With Me
11. Hatesong
12. Deadwing
13. Blackest Eyes
14. Russia On Ice
15. Even Less (Full Version)
16. Lightbulb Sun
17. Waiting Phase 1
18. The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1
19. Stars Die
20. I Drive the Hearse
21. Half-Light
22. Buying New Soul
23. The Incident
24. Fadeaway
25. Cheating the Polygraph
26. Burning Sky
27. Radioactive Toy
28. The Joke's On You
29. The Nostalgia Factory
30. Voyage 34

Evermind · « **Reply #1 on:** October 05, 2014, 01:05:40 PM »

This one is a nice thing to make me listen to all the PT discography again. I'll participate surely.

RoeDent · « **Reply #2 on:** October 05, 2014, 11:37:31 PM »

Hmm...I've just worked out that this is bigger than I thought it would be. Under my usual 2-day rounds, we're talking about this running well into mid-August 2015, and that's not even counting any tiebreakers that may crop up. So I will most likely run 1-day rounds for the majority of the survivor.

? · « **Reply #3 on:** October 06, 2014, 07:12:16 AM »

I'll join in once I've picked up a copy of OTSOL.

Buddyhunter1 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 06, 2014, 08:45:40 AM »

If you're going to include all those extra songs from '92 - '96, why are you skipping out on the Futile EP and the Deadwing bonus tracks? Futile's got some amazing stuff, especially.

Also, I'd include Moonloop Coda as a separate track for TSMS.

RoeDent · « **Reply #5 on:** October 06, 2014, 11:02:49 AM »

Quote from: Buddyhunter1 on October 06, 2014, 08:45:40 AM

If you're going to include all those extra songs from '92 - '96, why are you skipping out on the Futile EP and the Deadwing bonus tracks? Futile's got some amazing stuff, especially.

Also, I'd include Moonloop Coda as a separate track for TSMS.

I wonder how many people would vote for those songs. When I got to the bonus songs on the SW solo survivor I did last year, the voting numbers dropped hugely, to the point where in one round, I had to cast the only vote. I really don't want to resort to that again; it was horrible.

I thought about Moonloop, and there are so many different edits of it available, I just thought I'd include it as a single piece, and people can vote on it (or let it progress) based on whatever version they've heard.

Buddyhunter1 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 06, 2014, 01:21:23 PM »

I think significantly more people have heard the Futile songs and the Deadwing bonus tracks than all the '92-'96 extras. I certainly haven't ever bothered to check those all out.

I'd at the very least include Futile, as it's a full EP with five songs not found anywhere else.

RoeDent · « **Reply #7 on:** October 06, 2014, 01:48:38 PM »

Quote from: Buddyhunter1 on October 06, 2014, 01:21:23 PM

I think significantly more people have heard the Futile songs and the Deadwing bonus tracks than all the '92-'96 extras. I certainly haven't ever bothered to check those all out.

I'd at the very least include Futile, as it's a full EP with five songs not found anywhere else.

I will include Futile (minus the live Hatesong), and the Deadwing bonus tracks in a new tournament. But is it worth including the 2004 version of Shesmovedon? Is it significantly different from the version on Lightbulb Sun?

PS. You've got a month or two to check out the 92-96 songs.

BRGM · « **Reply #8 on:** October 06, 2014, 03:48:56 PM »

This is gonna be great! like many have said, I'm alot more familiar with the Futile and Deadwing bonus songs than I am with the 92-96 bonus stuff and even OTSOL. I agree about Shesmovedon 04 though.

Buddyhunter1 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 06, 2014, 04:51:56 PM »

Quote from: RoeDent on October 06, 2014, 01:48:38 PM

Quote from: Buddyhunter1 on October 06, 2014, 01:21:23 PM
I think significantly more people have heard the Futile songs and the Deadwing bonus tracks than all the '92-'96 extras. I certainly haven't ever bothered to check those all out.

I'd at the very least include Futile, as it's a full EP with five songs not found anywhere else.

I will include Futile (minus the live Hatesong), and the Deadwing bonus tracks in a new tournament. But is it worth including the 2004 version of Shesmovedon? Is it significantly different from the version on Lightbulb Sun?

I like the 2004 version a lot better, but nah. It's pretty much the same song, it just sounds better.

RoeDent · « **Reply #10 on:** October 11, 2014, 12:10:44 AM »

I'll be away from today until the 17th (hence why I'm starting it when I am). Just an advance heads-up that for the first round of the OTSOL tournament, you'll be able to vote for FIVE songs, and we will eliminate at least that many.

Mladen · « **Reply #11 on:** October 12, 2014, 12:53:00 PM »

Hell yeah, bring it on! Finally something exciting on Polls/Survivors, that whole ''breathing life into the forum'' thing was a massive success.

The Letter M · « **Reply #12 on:** October 21, 2014, 09:42:04 AM »

This looks good so far, although I wish Nil Recurring was included with FOABP since that's how I listen to it anymore, using the official LP Vinyl track list that includes the NR tracks with FOABP.

Either way, I cannot wait to get to the later albums, those will be quite interesting to see how they pan out!

-Marc.

adamack · « **Reply #13 on:** December 13, 2014, 11:17:01 AM »

This is amazing. Thanks for putting in the hard work it takes to conduct such a large poll.

I am headed over to the poll posts now to vote.

I've been fiending to discuss PT, as they are my favorite band other than DT. PT does not have its own forum (at least not with a community anywhere near as big as DTF), so these polls are a great way to discuss this amazing band.

Thanks again!

RoeDent · « **Reply #14 on:** December 13, 2014, 02:36:47 PM »

Aww! You're welcome!

Still quite a way to go though, so plenty of time to join in.

RoeDent · « **Reply #15 on:** April 01, 2015, 07:32:37 AM »

Well, it's all over. YOUR CHAMPION, WITH 11 VOTES TO 17, IS...

ANESTHETIZE

Dark Matter finished in 2nd place, well ahead of all the other 90s songs, and Arriving Somewhere completes the podium places.

Once again, a big thank you to everyone who's taken part in the survivor during the last 5 months or so. The full results of the Finals, plus every other album tournament, are in the first post at the top of the page.

If there's enough interest, I wouldn't mind doing the next Steven Wilson Survivor, but not for a few months yet. Maybe starting in the summer, to give people more time to digest Hand Cannot Erase.

Until then, thank you and goodnight!

Crow · « **Reply #16 on:** April 01, 2015, 08:55:21 AM »

y'all are crazy

Elite · « **Reply #17 on:** April 01, 2015, 11:18:35 AM »

Yeah, Anesthetize is far from even being the best song on FOABP

Regardless, Dark Matter is my favourite PT song, so I'm glad that one came out high. As for the rest of the top 10, I don't think any of the tracks would be in my personal top 10, save for maybe Way Out of Here.

Thanks for running this RoeDent!

bout to crash · « **Reply #18 on:** April 01, 2015, 07:04:01 PM »

Though I'm not thrilled with the top 3, lots of my favorites ended up in the top 10. Man, that seemed to last forever

Sacul · « **Reply #19 on:** April 01, 2015, 08:36:16 PM »

Quote from: bout to crash on April 01, 2015, 07:04:01 PM

Though I'm not thrilled with the top 3, lots of my favorites ended up in the top 10. Man, that seemed to last forever

This. Thanks for running this, it was fun

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? · « **Reply #20 on:** April 02, 2015, 02:36:50 AM »

Thanks for running this, RoeDent!

Anesthetize is my favorite PT song, so I'm glad it won. Dark Matter is in my top 5 as well, and I rank Heartattack, WOOH, ASK and DHM pretty highly, but the rest of the results would be totally different if it was up to me, including TSMS, Stars Die, Lips of Ashes, Gravity Eyelids, etc.

Mladen · « **Reply #21 on:** April 02, 2015, 05:33:45 AM »

Quote from: ? on April 02, 2015, 02:36:50 AM

Thanks for running this, RoeDent!

Anesthetize is my favorite PT song, so I'm glad it won. Dark Matter is in my top 5 as well.

Ben_Jamin · « **Reply #22 on:** April 02, 2015, 10:16:57 AM »

Why is Deadwing in the consolation and final rounds?

RoeDent · « **Reply #23 on:** April 02, 2015, 12:15:03 PM »

Quote from: Ben_Jamin on April 02, 2015, 10:16:57 AM

Why is Deadwing in the consolation and final rounds?

What do you mean?

Deadwing finished 3rd in its album tournament, so it got into Consolation. I allowed the top 3 from Consolation to progress to the Finals, and DW finished 3rd in Consolation, so that's how it got in the Finals.

News: Track-by-track video for Untethered Angel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Co1_h0GtAw

Author Topic: Porcupine Tree Survivor - And the winner is...... (Result/Discussion) (Read 2941 times)