STUPID DREAM

Porcupine Tree

Heavy Prog

4.00 | 1515 ratings

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What an essential Masterpiece! No real music lover could possibly go without Stupid Dream as part of their Collection!

This jewel begins with a Total Epic, Even Less. It is just simply mindblowing, masterful, and ever so deep in ways that words simply cannot describe. Besides, it's 7 minutes long, and we all know the longer the song is the better it is.

Next we have Piano Lessons, the profundity of this little gem is seen through the masterful portrayal of the piano lessons...we can almost SEE the piano lessons as we listen. Yes, it is that deep! It is deceptively simple in its engineering, absolutely breathtaking in its execution.

Stupid dream: noise track...why do they put these filler tracks in here just to make the album longer? Well, we all know that the longer an album is the proggier it is and therefore the better it is, but...they should achieve that length by composing True Prog

Pure Narcotic: Another stand out track! Upbeat and uplifting yet still interesting in its musicianship!

Slave Called Shiver: You gotta love the progginess of the bass line. And then when the keyboards come in...ohh it's So Prog!

Don't Hate Me: One word: EPIC!!!!!!!!!

This is No Rehearsal: Not a stand out track. Too unprog. That means it's bad.

Baby Dream in Cellophane: This standout gem draws its beauty from its lyrics masterfully engineered to persuade new parents not to wrap their babies in cellophane, a horrible and shockingly uncommon practise quite widespread throughout north america

Stranger By The Minute: Breath-taking, simply breath-taking.

A Smart Kid: An Epic disguised as a crappy pop song! We immediately notice on the track listing that it is only 5 minutes long and immediately assume that it will be utter trash, totally non-essential. But we are wrong! We soon see that this is a true Masterpiece of Epic Qualitiness that cannot be denied by even the greatest of Prog Masters!

Tinto Brass: So original! So unlike anything I have ever heard and therefore it is so amazing, so Godlike!

Stop Swimming: A let down compared with the Beauty and Epicness of the rest of this Album. Its redeeming quality is that it is almost 7 minutes long, thus making it better than many of the shorter, less Epic tracks on this album.

All in all...a complete Essential Masterpiece! You simply cannot live without it! Really, I tried and almost died!

MrsStevenWilson | 5/5 | 2006-12-2

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