Steven Wilson v. To. The. Bone.

[devieira73]

https://store.thefuturebites.com/cart/product.php?id=61825
Well, as a “personal buyer” I woul like to pay a reasonable price for 3CD+BD version of it(around 20£?). The demos on cassete...
By the way, good song as always Steven does, but I like better his pop/prog side.

[emtee]

Yikes. This is what a newly married and happy SW creates.

Props for a new direction but thumbs down for me. No appeal whatsoever.

[Buddyhunter1]

Yikes. This is what a newly married and happy SW creates.

What? This isn't the new Chance The Rapper record. The song has nothing to do with marriage or his wife and it's not even all that happy.

[Samsara]

I'll be personally shopping elsewhere for new music based on that...

[Elite]

Looks like the website is down to pre-order the album.

[Buddyhunter1]

CD3 - The Future Bites bonus material (4 additional songs and 19 minute extended version of Personal Shopper)

Excuse me?
Guess he only listed out a quarter of the products in that middle section as he wanted to.

[cramx3]

It's alright.  Sounds like something I've heard before though....

Permanating II.

Ah yea. It's a bit too long for this type of song IMO.  I'm not a huge SW fan so my opinion probably doesn't mean much.  The chorus is definitely catchy. 

[goo-goo]

A bit disappointing since this single is very much alike the latest No-man offering (which was done way better than this song). Feels like the end of an era for me with Steven Wilson. Hopefully this song is not representative of the full album.

[utopiarun]

 listened to it 3x this morning. I like it. I don't love it and honestly if it wasn't SW I may not have gotten through the 9 1/2 minutes but it is SW so I give it a chance with open ears. It does harken back in some ways to early PT in groove. I didn't love the falsetto on the last album but with it double tracked (or whatever effect he has on it) it isn't so bad here. The harmonies of course are heavenly. I could just listen to an album of SW harmonies. I'll give it a shot and looking forward to the album.

[jammindude]

I only listened to it one time and so far I like it a lot better than anything from TTB.

I get that it is electronica and catchy, but I honestly hear absolutely no “happiness“ in it whatsoever as some people have said. I saw one person compare it to NIN and I think that’s fairly accurate.

I’m just thrilled that he’s trying something so completely different. Because I thought some of the darker material from TTB was starting to sound very “samey”....like he was starting to get in a rut and needed to do something different.  I mean, the poppy stuff from TTB was very different, but it was sprinkled in among a bunch of SW standard “by the numbers” pieces, and it made the album a bit uneven. Of course that also makes TTB a perfect transition album between HCE and this one.

[The Letter M]

I like it enough. I'd like to hear more, but I'd also like to afford the Deluxe Edition (the only Deluxe SW album I own is for HCE, which was TOTALLY worth it, especially for the album's conceptual nature).

I may have to settle for just the CD this time, given the $80 difference. But as I called it on the previous page, there are some bonus tracks exclusive to the Deluxe Edition.

Also - time for a thread title update?

-Marc.

[RoeDent]

A bit disappointing since this single is very much alike the latest No-man offering (which was done way better than this song). Feels like the end of an era for me with Steven Wilson. Hopefully this song is not representative of the full album.

It's certainly representative of a quarter of the album, given it's nearly 10 minutes out of nearly (but not quite) 40.

[Buddyhunter1]

Also - time for a thread title update?

The. Future. Bites.

[RoeDent]

Looks like the power is vested in Nick to do that.

[ReaperKK]

Meh, not a fan of the new single. It seems like every new Steven Wilson release is worse than the previous release. The song has a catchy chorus but the rest sounds like a sad Scissor Sisters song.

[NoFred]

First thought - I gotta get me some diamond cuff links

Dig the music but not too original wrt NIN. The lyrics though, oof I feel for the guy. It’s OK to be happy!!

[Zantera]

While the song itself didn't really blow me away or anything, I gotta give him props for trying new things. Progressive Rock has become somewhat of a dead swamp of bands rehashing the same ideas and many fans are almost fanatic about how prog 'should be', so even if SW puts out some misses, I think it's refreshing that he's trying to shake things up.

Kinda feel bad for his wife though because I would imagine she's gonna get a lot of hate messages from prog fans who will blame her for SW changing styles. 

[ErHaO]

While the song itself didn't really blow me away or anything, I gotta give him props for trying new things. Progressive Rock has become somewhat of a dead swamp of bands rehashing the same ideas and many fans are almost fanatic about how prog 'should be', so even if SW puts out some misses, I think it's refreshing that he's trying to shake things up.

Kinda feel bad for his wife though because I would imagine she's gonna get a lot of hate messages from prog fans who will blame her for SW changing styles. 

Compared to his body of work as a whole this song may seem different/original, but I'd argue there is little original sounding stuff amongst these 9 minutes.

[cramx3]

Yea, I'm not sure anything sounded new to me from the single including the lyrical content which seems to be what everyone likes to sing about these days.

[The Letter M]

Also - time for a thread title update?

The. Future. Bites.

You. Got. It.

-Marc.

[SoundscapeMN]

Personal Shopper 

the narrative made me laugh out loud half a dozen times, although I suppose its novelty may not hold up in the long run (although I might have felt the same way about The Great Debate back in 2002, and it has held up).

[nobloodyname]

the narrative made me laugh out loud half a dozen times

Yes!

[Zantera]

While the song itself didn't really blow me away or anything, I gotta give him props for trying new things. Progressive Rock has become somewhat of a dead swamp of bands rehashing the same ideas and many fans are almost fanatic about how prog 'should be', so even if SW puts out some misses, I think it's refreshing that he's trying to shake things up.

Kinda feel bad for his wife though because I would imagine she's gonna get a lot of hate messages from prog fans who will blame her for SW changing styles. 

Compared to his body of work as a whole this song may seem different/original, but I'd argue there is little original sounding stuff amongst these 9 minutes.

Oh you're definitely not wrong, I guess I mean new for him. I think SW could have quite easily played it safe with his career and put out 70s prog album after 70s prog album but the fact he's trying different things is something that makes me appreciate him more, even if I haven't loved an album of his in some time now.

[NunoTenniscourt]

While the song itself didn't really blow me away or anything, I gotta give him props for trying new things. Progressive Rock has become somewhat of a dead swamp of bands rehashing the same ideas and many fans are almost fanatic about how prog 'should be', so even if SW puts out some misses, I think it's refreshing that he's trying to shake things up.

Kinda feel bad for his wife though because I would imagine she's gonna get a lot of hate messages from prog fans who will blame her for SW changing styles. 

He needs to put her in the band and have her do growling vocals. I mean, nobody else is doing that these days, right?

[Sacul]

I like this new single and style quite a bit. I wouldn't say it's better than the whole of To The Bone like I've read in some places, but it's a great track. I'm definitely looking forward to this album

[Adami]

Song isn't bad. The lyrics are a bit off putting but the music is nice.

I did skip over the shopping list part. Was just really boring and I couldn't connect to whatever he was going for there.

[Zantera]

Song isn't bad. The lyrics are a bit off putting but the music is nice.

I did skip over the shopping list part. Was just really boring and I couldn't connect to whatever he was going for there.

You skipped over sir Elton John?!

[The Letter M]

Song isn't bad. The lyrics are a bit off putting but the music is nice.

I did skip over the shopping list part. Was just really boring and I couldn't connect to whatever he was going for there.

You skipped over sir Elton John?!

Yeah, seriously, that was probably one of the best parts of the whole song!

-Marc.

[Setlist Scotty]

https://store.thefuturebites.com/cart/product.php?id=61825
Well, as a “personal buyer” I woul like to pay a reasonable price for 3CD+BD version of it(around 20£?). The demos on cassete...
By the way, good song as always Steven does, but I like better his pop/prog side.

Anybody else see the irony (or perhaps the hypocrisy) of the lyrics being a sarcastic commentary on the buying culture of today, with him selling a limited edition box set for £75? Nevermind all the vinyl reissues he's put out of older releases.

Buy the box set and the kind of stuff
You've bought before a million times
Buy in green, buy in blue
Buy in patterns cos I tell you to
Sell it on then buy it back
Buy the shit you never knew you lacked

Indeed.

[Dave_Manchester]

There are very few artists today who have the variety that Steven Wilson has in his music, so I give him huge respect for that. To have everything from Raider II to Permanating in his solo catalogue is really impressive. He always seems to do exactly what he wants to do at that time in his life and I love that kind of artistic integrity.

With that said, this new track isn't really the side of his music that I respond to. My top 5 Wilson songs are Raven, Drive Home, Song of Unborn, Happy Returns and Refuge, and I guess the pattern is clear enough about the things I love in his music. Don't get me wrong, this is still a very fine piece of music. It's just not really my kind of thing. Wonderful vocal harmonies though, as always with him. He really has an amazing talent for that.

Lyrically...meh. While I've enjoyed enormously his releasing a tune about crass commercialism on the day the arse falls out of the global economy, I can't say it's something I have much interest in hearing about. A 2-disc concept album about a bear taking a shit in the woods would be more eye-opening to me at this point. I am keen though to hear the rest of it all and I'll be buying it on the day of release, something I only do these days with a small handful of artists.

[Anguyen92]

Is this really the album cover?



Would you guys prefer this, or shirtless Steven in the To the Bone cover?

[Adami]

Song isn't bad. The lyrics are a bit off putting but the music is nice.

I did skip over the shopping list part. Was just really boring and I couldn't connect to whatever he was going for there.

You skipped over sir Elton John?!

Apparently.

[Nel]

That is by far his worst album cover. Right down there with Cover Version.

[Ben_Jamin]

I didn't hear anything that would make that song Happy sounding. It's dark. Don't get the purpose of having Elton John read a shopping list either.

Don't think I'll be buying this.

[Adami]

I don't think "happy" was being used to describe the music. They're saying that SW is a happy person now and stuff and this is the result of him being happy.

People had similar complaints when James Hetfield or others got sober.