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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3010 on: September 06, 2017, 10:36:51 AM »
Grace
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3011 on: September 06, 2017, 10:48:06 AM »
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3012 on: September 06, 2017, 10:49:24 AM »
Raven
HCE
Grace
Insurgentes

I'm slow and I haven't heard To the Bone yet.
This first band is Soen very cool swingy jazz fusion kinda stuff.

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3013 on: September 06, 2017, 10:51:38 AM »
To The Bone
Hand. Cannot. Erase.
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3014 on: September 06, 2017, 02:33:23 PM »
Insurgentes
Grace for Drowning
Hand. Cannot. Erase.
To The Bone
The Raven That Refused to Sing


Apparently the only one so far that thinks the first is his best. That kind of surprises me.

TRTRTS gets saved mainly by The Watchmaker and the Drive Home solo for me. I listened to it last week and found some of the changes in the longer songs (Luminol and Holy Drinker) to be quite forced. HCE suffers from this occasionally too, though I think Ancestral is pretty damn great, despite forced changes. Raven's title track is okay-ish, but never did as much to me as it does to others. To the Bone is doing a good job in running up to HCE, which I really loved initially, but haven't come back to in quite a while. It might overtake it, but definitely won't outdo his first two for me.
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3015 on: September 06, 2017, 09:55:46 PM »
1. Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2. The Raven That Refused to Sing
3. To the Bone
4. Grace For Drowning
5. Insurgentes

Probably.

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3016 on: September 06, 2017, 10:00:17 PM »
1. Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2. The Raven That Refused to Sing
3. To the Bone
4. Grace For Drowning
5. Insurgentes

Probably.


Flip 1 and 2 and that's me.

BTW,  all are great albums.
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3017 on: September 06, 2017, 11:54:31 PM »
BTW,  all are great albums.

Oh, I don't think anyone doubts that :)
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3018 on: September 07, 2017, 03:19:38 AM »
Thank you all for the rankings. Looks like HCE and The Raven are among the most popular ones.
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3019 on: September 07, 2017, 04:41:49 AM »
1. Insurgentes
2. The Raven
3. To The Bone
4. Hand Cannot Erase
5. Grace For Drowning

Could change every day, they're all great.
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3020 on: September 07, 2017, 05:46:30 AM »
1. Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2. The Raven That Refused To Sing
3. To The Bone
4. Grace For Drowning
5. Insurgentes

Dont know Insurgentes so well yet.
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3021 on: September 07, 2017, 11:03:14 AM »
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3022 on: September 07, 2017, 11:23:17 AM »
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I could listen to Veneno Para Las Hadas on repeat, so relaxing. And especially when it came out, I appreciated it a lot for how different it was to Porcupine Tree.
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3023 on: September 07, 2017, 11:26:22 AM »
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I could listen to Veneno Para Las Hadas on repeat, so relaxing. And especially when it came out, I appreciated it a lot for how different it was to Porcupine Tree.

I find this funny considering I always (even since the first listen) heard The Sky Moves Sideways in it.  :lol I love Insurgentes too though, probably a tie between that and Grace for my favorite SW album. I just feel like SW doing his take on drone/noise/shoegaze/post-punk was much more refreshing and interesting than what he's done on the last few albums.

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3024 on: September 07, 2017, 11:58:58 AM »
Raven
Hand.Cannot.Erase
To The Bone
Grace
Insurgentes

HCE and To the Bone are just behind Raven for me.  All of them are good though.
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3025 on: September 07, 2017, 04:01:39 PM »
1. Insurgentes, it's probably my favorite PT-SW album
2. HCE, it drags a bit in some instrumental sections but I love most of it
3. Probably TTB, though I haven't listened to it that much so far.
4. GfD, it has some incredible highs but a double is too much for me
5. Raven, just too proggy for my current taste

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3026 on: September 07, 2017, 04:18:52 PM »
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I could listen to Veneno Para Las Hadas on repeat, so relaxing. And especially when it came out, I appreciated it a lot for how different it was to Porcupine Tree.

I find this funny considering I always (even since the first listen) heard The Sky Moves Sideways in it.  :lol I love Insurgentes too though, probably a tie between that and Grace for my favorite SW album. I just feel like SW doing his take on drone/noise/shoegaze/post-punk was much more refreshing and interesting than what he's done on the last few albums.

Yes, it's pretty much identical to TSMS, he literally quotes himself basically.

Agreed on what you said. I really like the virtuoso guitar solos on Raven and HCE and all that proggy stuff, but that dark, soundscapist approach is something else SW totally nails. If there's any cheese in SW's prog tracks, there's absolutely none of that in his post-punk/drone stuff. I hope to hear something of a spiritual follow-up to that record from him in the future. He succesfully kinda ditched 'prog' on his latest, but I don't see him going any more Scissor Sisters either.

On a side note, I can't get into Nowhere Now at all. The 'speed of sound' feels like a not-so-subtle Coldplay reference, especially when the music already feels like Coldplay.
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3027 on: September 07, 2017, 06:45:59 PM »
HCE
To The Bone
GFD

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TRTRTS
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3028 on: September 07, 2017, 06:59:31 PM »
Right now?

1. HCE
2. Raven
3. Bone (ing)
4. Insurgents
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3029 on: September 08, 2017, 12:55:28 AM »
As someone who never really got into Wilson's solo albums, i really like To The Bone!

One of the highlights of the year so far, along with the new The Night Flight Orchestra album!

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3030 on: September 08, 2017, 04:49:58 AM »
I'm the same with SW solo stuff, nothing has ever clicked until TTB.
I was a massive PT fan, but the solo stuff never did anything for me until this album.
Now that I am fully engrossed, I have ordered the first 3 albums, I hope they are as good as the Bone!

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3031 on: September 08, 2017, 05:13:01 AM »
I just feel like SW doing his take on drone/noise/shoegaze/post-punk was much more refreshing and interesting than what he's done on the last few albums.

Yeah, that's pretty much why I rate his first two solo albums as his best. Insurgentes seriously contains some of his best songs ever, most notably Get All You Deserve, which I absolutely adore.
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3032 on: September 08, 2017, 05:45:46 AM »
I just feel like SW doing his take on drone/noise/shoegaze/post-punk was much more refreshing and interesting than what he's done on the last few albums.

Yeah, that's pretty much why I rate his first two solo albums as his best. Insurgentes seriously contains some of his best songs ever, most notably Get All You Deserve, which I absolutely adore.

Yeah agreed. The first two solo albums definitely has his best solo songs on them. There are some gems on the last 3 (like title track of Raven) but for me it's all about those earlier songs. Like you said, Get All You Deserve is massively underrated and as far as I'm concerned a top3 solo track probably.

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3033 on: September 08, 2017, 12:34:11 PM »
H.C.E
To The Bone
Raven
Insurgentes
Grace
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3034 on: September 08, 2017, 12:39:34 PM »
Raven

H.C.E
Grace
Bone

Insurgentes

Mainly because I never really listen it Insurgentes. It's not bad.. I just prefer the others more
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3035 on: September 08, 2017, 04:49:03 PM »
1.  The Raven That Refused to Sing
2.  Hand. Cannot. Erase.
3.  Grace For Drowning
4.  To The Bone
5.  Insurgentes

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3036 on: September 08, 2017, 06:40:32 PM »
Thank you all for the rankings. Looks like HCE and The Raven are among the most popular ones.

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3037 on: September 08, 2017, 06:58:52 PM »
Drive home has to be one of my favorite solos of all time. I sorely miss Guthrie because I think when SW contained Guthrie some real magic happened.

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3038 on: September 08, 2017, 07:43:02 PM »
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TtB
GfD
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3039 on: September 09, 2017, 06:59:06 AM »
HCE
GfD
TRTRtS
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3040 on: September 12, 2017, 09:55:56 PM »
I'm not good at putting albums in order, but considering TRTRTS is the album that introduced me to SW, and totally hooked me from the first listen, it kind of surprises me that it's the one I go back to the least these days. I still love the album though.

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3041 on: September 13, 2017, 03:35:13 AM »
My order is this, with certainty:

1.  Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2.  The Raven That Refused to Sing

3.  To The Bone
4.  Grace For Drowning

5.  Insurgentes

I like Insurgentes, but rarely listen to it. I absolute love Hand. Cannot. Erase. and The Raven That Refused to Sing and listen to them often. To The Bone and Grace For Drowning are two high quality records I'll frequently visit as well.

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3042 on: September 13, 2017, 06:14:36 AM »
1. Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2. The Raven That Refused To Sing
3. To The Bone
4. Grace For Drowning
5. Insurgentes


About the same for me. I still need to listen to To The Bone a little more but so far I find it to be a very fun and enjoyable album
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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3043 on: September 13, 2017, 06:45:59 AM »
Has there been any information about a potential North American tour? When the announcement came out for the European one, it said that détails for NA/SA would be released "soon"...  :| It seems kind of weird for me to start his tour so long after the album's release.

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Re: Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.
« Reply #3044 on: September 13, 2017, 07:29:18 AM »
Maybe Steven has the same team booking the gigs as Dream Theater.  :lol