Official top 75 Porcupine Tree countdown thread! (CANCELLED!)

[KevShmev]

Similar to the DT, Rush, Van Halen and Iron Maiden threads, we will now do a top songs countdown for Porcupine Tree, and we will do a top 75.

I will count down the top 75 songs songs in order, and they will be taken from lists of anyone who wants to send me theirs via PM. Do not post them on the forum here. Send them to me via PM.  I will take all of the lists and come up with a top 75 based off all lists cumulatively and count the songs down from 75 to 1.

The rules:
-Songs must be listed from 75 to 1 in order (in reverse order), with no ties.  No having three songs at number 1 or anything like that. 75 songs, listed from 75 to 1. DO NOT list your songs with the points total. List them in your order (I will figure out the points on my end).  Any list submitted with the songs not numbered will be ignored.
-Anyone wanting to submit a list must do so by the end of day, Sunday, August 21st.  I will then begin the countdown the following week. This should give anyone and everyone time to listen to the band's songs.
-The list will be tallied numerically in a simple way. On each list, whatever song is at number 1 gets 75 points, number 2 gets 74 points, number 3 gets 73 points, etc.
-Like before, no more Mr. Nice Guy on my part.  PROOFREAD YOUR LISTS BEFORE SENDING THEM.  Any list with the same song mentioned twice will be not be counted.

Feel free to post in this thread as well that you have PM'd me, if for no other reason than to bump this back up for others who may want to participate who may not have seen the thread yet.

This ranking engine link below works great. You can input all of the songs, and then you pick your favorite of every 1 on 1 matchup and then it spits out your list.

https://rankingengine.pubmeeple.com/

Please use the below list of songs, no others.  Listing anything else will invalidate your list from being used. The songs from the new album are not being included (honeymoon phase is still too strong, IMO).

Special thanks to Puppies_On_Acid for compiling the below list which I slightly tweaked.

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4 Chords That Made a Million
Access Denied
Always Never
Ambulance Chasing
And the Swallows Dance Above the Sun
Anesthetize
Arriving Somewhere but Not Here
Baby Dream in Cellophane
Black Dahlia
Blackest Eyes
The Blind House
Bonnie the Cat
Burning Sky
Buying New Soul
Cheating the Polygraph
Chloroform
Circle of Manias
Cloud Zero
Collapse the Light into Earth
Colourflow in Mind
Colours Dance Angels Kiss
The Creator Has a Mastertape
Cryogenics
Cure for Optimism
Dark Matter
Dark Origins
Daughters in Excess
Deadwing
Disappear
Dislocated Day
Don't Hate Me
Door to the River
Drawing the Line
Drown With Me
An Empty Box
Even Less
Every Home is Wired
Execution of the Will of the Marquis de Sade
Fadeaway
Fear of a Blank Planet
Feel So Low
Flicker
Footprints
Fuse the Sky
Futile
Glass Arm Shattering
Gravity Eyelids
Great Expectations
Half-Light
Halo
Hatesong
Heartattack in a Layby
Hokey Cokey
How Is Your Life Today?
I Drive the Hearse
Idiot Prayer
In Formaldehyde
The Incident
Insignificance
Intermediate Jesus
It Will Rain for a Million Years
The Joke's On You
Jupiter Island
Kneel and Disconnect
Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled
Lazarus
Light Mass Prayers
Lightbulb Sun
Linton Samuel Dawson
Lips of Ashes
Meantime
Mellotron Scratch
Men of Wood
Mesmer I
Mesmer II
Mesmer III
Metanoia I
Metanoia II
The Moon Touches Your Shoulder
Moonloop
Mother and Child Divided
Mute
My Ashes
Navigator
Neural Rust
Nil Recurring
Nine Cats
No Reason to Live, No Reason to Die
Normal
The Nostalgia Factory
Not Beautiful Anymore
Novak
Oceans Have No Memory
Octane Twisted
Open Car
Out
Phantoms
Piano Lessons
Prodigal
Pure Narcotic
Queen Quotes Crowley
Radioactive Toy
Rainy Taxi
Remember Me Lover
The Rest Will Flow
Russia On Ice
The Seance
Sentimental
Sever
Sever Tomorrow
Shallow
Shesmovedon
Signify
The Sky Moves Sideways (both phases counted as one)
Slave Called Shiver
Sleep of No Dreaming
Sleep Together
Small Fish
A Smart Kid
Smiling Not Smiling
So Called Friend
The Sound of Muzak
The Sound of No-One Listening
Stars Die
The Start of Something Beautiful
Stop Swimming
Stranger by the Minute
Strip the Soul
Synesthesia
Third Eye Surfer
This Is No Rehearsal
This Long Silence
Time Flies
Tinto Brass
Towel
Trains
Untitled
Up the Downstair
Voyage 34 Phase I
Voyage 34 Phase II
Voyage 34 Phase III
Voyage 34 Phase IV
Waiting (both phases)
Wake as a Gun
Wake as a Gun 2
Way Out of Here
Wedding Nails
What Happens Now?
Where We Would Be
Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape
Your Unpleasant Family

[KevShmev]

To get it out of the way now:

-A vote for Waiting for means you are voting for either the two phases from Signify together or the slightly different version on Insignificance.  Not different enough to list them separate, IMO.
-The Sky Moves Sideways was featured as one song and as two different phases, so I combined them as well.
-A vote for Even Less can count the Stupid Dream version or the longer one on Recordings.  They both count as the same here, so no need to list which ones. Just list it as Even Less. 

[jammindude]

Isn’t “Is…Not” just a portion of The Sky Moves Sideways?

I get that it was played as its own thing in Coma Divine. But the title comes from the original US release of TSMS when they had the individual sections named and split up into separate tracks.

If I’m right, that would kinda be like listing “The Pills I’m Taking” as its own separate track instead of just being the second part of Anesthetize. But maybe I’m missing something. Please tell me if I’m wrong…I’m just asking a question.

Edit - see the track listing on the original release here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sky_Moves_Sideways?wprov=sfti1

[King Postwhore]

Fuuuudge. OK. Yes. I'll do this.

[TAC]

To get it out of the way now:

-A vote for Waiting for means you are voting for either the two phases from Signify together or the slightly different version on Insignificance.  Not different enough to list them separate, IMO.
-The Sky Moves Sideways was featured as one song and as two different phases, so I combined them as well.
-A vote for Even Less can count the Stupid Dream version or the longer one on Recordings.  They both count as the same here, so no need to list which ones. Just list it as Even Less.

Thanks for clearing that up, Kev. I didn't understand a word you said, but thank you!

[Lonk]

August 14th, cool, that gives me enough time to do a discography run since it's been a while for some albums.

[KevShmev]

Isn’t “Is…Not” just a portion of The Sky Moves Sideways?

I get that it was played as its own thing in Coma Divine. But the title comes from the original US release of TSMS when they had the individual sections named and split up into separate tracks.

If I’m right, that would kinda be like listing “The Pills I’m Taking” as its own separate track instead of just being the second part of Anesthetize. But maybe I’m missing something. Please tell me if I’m wrong…I’m just asking a question.

Edit - see the track listing on the original release here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sky_Moves_Sideways?wprov=sfti1

Correct.  I removed Is...Not from the list.

[wolfking]

Is this most of the bands discography?  Can anyone specify which albums this starts and ends with?

[KevShmev]

Is this most of the bands discography?  Can anyone specify which albums this starts and ends with?

Starts from the beginning through The Incident. Basically, everything except the new songs.

Even I am not overly familiar with quite a few of those early non-album tracks.

[wolfking]

Thanks.  August 14.  Gives me some time.  Although I'm not sure I want to listen to PT's discography.   

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Is this most of the bands discography?  Can anyone specify which albums this starts and ends with?

Starts from the beginning through The Incident. Basically, everything except the new songs.

Even I am not overly familiar with quite a few of those early non-album tracks.

A few of the early non album tracks were eventually reworked and made into several other songs. But those early versions are different enough from what came of them to be included, in my opinion.

Although I kind of put Hokey Cokey on the list as a bit of a joke....It is an original song, but it's horribly hilarious....mostly horrible 

[KevShmev]

I'd be shocked if most of the non-album tracks from the earlier years have a chance to make the top 75, so it is fine.  I mean, I really like all five songs from the Staircase Infinities EP, but not sure how many will find a way into my top 75.  I suspect at least one or two, but not sure if any more than that.  This will be a case where I will look at my own top 75 and marvel at how many good songs I will have to leave off.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

I'd be shocked if most of the non-album tracks from the earlier years have a chance to make the top 75, so it is fine.  I mean, I really like all five songs from the Staircase Infinities EP, but not sure how many will find a way into my top 75.  I suspect at least one or two, but not sure if any more than that.  This will be a case where I will look at my own top 75 and marvel at how many good songs I will have to leave off.

It's gonna be the Iron Maiden list all over again in that respect 

I can see a decent handful of b-sides/non-album tracks making my top 75. Maybe even top 50. But we'll see what the ranker spits out.

[425]

I thought about joining this one, but I'm going to sit it out and leave it to the more committed fans. I haven't listened to much PT in years, and I really never got into much pre-Lightbulb Sun, so at 75 I'd just be filling a list with every track from the 2000s albums, which isn't what anyone wants.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

I thought about joining this one, but I'm going to sit it out and leave it to the more committed fans. I haven't listened to much PT in years, and I really never got into much pre-Lightbulb Sun, so at 75 I'd just be filling a list with every track from the 2000s albums, which isn't what anyone wants.

Perhaps this would be a chance to familiarize yourself with the Pre-Lightbulb Sun era.

[425]

I'm familiar with everything as far back as The Sky Moves Sideways; I just never found it that interesting. And, if anything, my tastes have moved in the opposite direction over the 6-7 years since I checked out that stuff.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Fair enough.

[Revenge319]

I'm only familiar with about 64 Porcupine Tree songs (Stupid Dream through The Incident, pretty much) Since there's a month before submissions are due, I'll try to use this opportunity to get familiar with the first four albums and come up with a ranking.

[Elite]

Cool, I’ll join for sure.

And everyone who’s not familiar with the first four has to listen to those otherwise my favourites won’t stand a chance

[senecadawg2]

Cool, I’ll join for sure.

And everyone who’s not familiar with the first four has to listen to those otherwise my favourites won’t stand a chance

I'll definitely be voting some songs from the first 4 

[faizoff]

I regularly listen to stuff from Up the Downstairs onwards but man is On a Sunday of Life a difficult listen. I don't think I've heard that album for at least 15 years. I don't know if I have a favorite PT track, should be interesting to see how my list lands. Thanks for the list and doing this Kev and Puppies!

[Stadler]

Thanks.  August 14.  Gives me some time.  Although I'm not sure I want to listen to PT's discography.   

I'm with you; I'm on the fence about participating.  Let roll up on the sidewalk and take a look! 

[jammindude]

I regularly listen to stuff from Up the Downstairs onwards but man is On a Sunday of Life a difficult listen. I don't think I've heard that album for at least 15 years. I don't know if I have a favorite PT track, should be interesting to see how my list lands. Thanks for the list and doing this Kev and Puppies!

Same here. I might give it a cursory listen, but on a few times I’ve visited it I don’t recall that there was anything beyond a couple of tracks worth consideration. There’s more than enough from UTD forward to fill up 75 spots.

[HOF]

I think PT would be even harder than QR for me (at least a 75 song list). Probably passing on this one.

[Sacul]

I'm on vacations for the rest of the week so why not, I'll give this a go.

[Crow]

damn, i'd love to do this one but like, how  i don't have the time for this crap (and i haven't listened to every last PT album either lol)

[Elite]

A month to listen to everything and then make a list. Should be doable

[Crow]

not when you run a youtube channel that takes up all your music-listening free time

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

not when you run a youtube channel that takes up all your music-listening free time

Make it Porcupine Tree month on your channel 

[Crow]

i'm not going to do that, especially with how meh i found that new album 
also that's EVEN MORE WORK

[KevShmev]

i'm not going to do that, especially with how meh i found that new album 
also that's EVEN MORE WORK

Songs from the new album are not eligible in this countdown, so you don't need to listen to it for the purposes of this countdown if you aren't feeling it.

[senecadawg2]

It'd been a little while since I heard the early albums. I'm ashamed to say I sort of forgot how great they are. This top 75 is going to be harder for me than the Maiden one.

[The Realm]

Yeah, I am also in the 'haven't listened to the older albums in a long time' category. A top 75 is going to be very hard for me so I may not do this countdown but I'll see how I go.

[romdrums]

I fully intend to participate in this, it's just going to take me a while to put this together.

[DTA]

So far this is way easier than Maiden. My top PT songs haven’t really changed in the past 10 years so I can already tell what’s going to reach the top