HOW COME NO ONE HERE EVER TALKS ABOUT PORCUPINE TREE?
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 at 10:15am by Vince NeilsteinSeriously dudes… this band is fucking sick. They channel the spirit of Pink Floyd and Dream Theater, but are neither as trippy as Floyd or masturbatory as Dream Theater, yet somehow manage to rock harder than both. If Ty Tabor from King’s X went off and formed a band with Mike Portnoy it’d probably sound something like this. I was sitting around stoned with some friends last night, and this song came on accidentally on my iTunes; “Shallow” from the album Deadwing. It had been so long since I listened to the Tree that I had completely forgotten about their awesomeness. Enjoy this as you sip your morning coffee.
-VN
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Thanks for the tip. This song does kick ass. I’ll have to visit iTunes this evening. Also, the Spiralarm is hot as balls too. That CD is on the way. (See, I’m not always a sarcastic, asshole hater.)
Fuck yeah…I keep forgetting how cool these guys are. And I’m pretty sure their frontman is the new keyboard player for the almighty OPETH.
I know he’s produced and recorded a little bit for Opeth but I don’t think he was ever a member.
Yeah Steven Wilson (PT frontman) produced Blackwater Park, Deliverance, and Damnation and did some backing vocals. You can hear him quite clearly on “Bleak”.
I saw Porcupine Tree live a few months ago and it completely rocked. They played the entire Fear of a Blank Planet album as their first set, took a break, then played a full second set of classics.
Anyone check out their Nil Recurring EP that came out last month?
*snooore*
I’ll take 5 more minutes of sleep over PT any day…
here in Greece we’ve been talking about them for a decade! great band, great live gigs!