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Poll Question: which song is your fav one from recent SW album?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
2 [4.35%]
7 [15.22%]
3 [6.52%]
1 [2.17%]
8 [17.39%]
0 [0.00%]
6 [13.04%]
1 [2.17%]
14 [30.43%]
3 [6.52%]
1 [2.17%]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2015 at 18:32
Originally posted by ole-the-first ole-the-first wrote:

Voted for Routine. (...)
Clap The best track on the album. Imo.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2015 at 01:42
Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Deluxe edition?  Worth the extra cake? 

How's the documentary? 
 
feeling quite smug that I got the Blu Ray edition. Great sound , images ( a series of 'mocked up' photos that appear very real) and an excellent documentary that is 30 minutes long. You can also have an instrumental version of the album if you want. Wasn't that expensive either ( less than a tenner)Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2015 at 12:46
I voted Happy Returns. For me it's the most emotionally provocative. Its the least proggy track, and yet the most surprising one to me. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2015 at 12:53
Originally posted by Floydian42 Floydian42 wrote:

I voted Happy Returns. For me it's the most emotionally provocative. Its the least proggy track, and yet the most surprising one to me. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2015 at 17:07
Listened to it again via you tube......good solid songs - Wilson doesn't write bad music-,  but to me they all sound like re-workings or variations of earlier material with PT and things he's done before. That's not a bad thing nor a criticism per se but I have trouble getting excited about any of his solo albums ( I did like several tracks on Raven since I like that retro sound...)  and I like the melodies and tracks better on the older albums with PT. I simply don't see any major changes nor that he's writing better material than he did in the past.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2015 at 19:35
Originally posted by </span><span style=font-size: 11px; line-height: 15.3999996185303px; : rgb248, 248, 252;>dr wu23</span><span style=line-height: 18.2000007629395px; : rgb240, 241, 245;> dr wu23 wrote:

I simply don't see any major changes nor that he's writing better material than he did in the past.

That's one of the more frustrating things about Wilson, album to album there doesn't sound like there's much evolution, but go back five or six reeases it seems like he's progressed a bunch. He'd really benefit from slowing down his output, maybe put out material once every five years or so as opposed to something every single year.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2015 at 17:25
Ancestral.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2015 at 17:36
Ancestral but Regret #9 is right behind. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2015 at 17:39
1. Routine
2. Routine
3. Routine
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2015 at 17:44
^That's three more than I could pick. Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2015 at 18:14
3 Years Older, the chorus is just amazing, I really dig the acoustic guitar that gives it an almost folk vibe on some parts. But I'm really hooked with this album. Happy Returns/Ascendant Here On..., Perfect Life and Routine hit me really hard on an emotional level, Home Invasion/Regret #9 and Ancestral are simply mindblowing. The whole album is marvelous!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2015 at 22:42
At last I got this album... but I don't think I can pick a song yet. So far the one I have been coming back most is Perfect Life... but I guess that's mainly because it's the most recognizable, I really don't think it will be my favourite from the album. I guess it will end up being one of the songs that come after that one (Routine, Home Invasion, or Ancestral). There's one which has a keyboard part that really reminds me of ELP (bordering on rip-off)... I guess it's Ancestral... that one might just as well end up being the one.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2015 at 20:28
Regret #9 is easily the highlight of the album in my opinion. It blows me away every time I hear it.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2015 at 22:09
Adam Holzman's Moog solo followed by Guthrie Govan's guitar solo is just perfect. Regret#9 it is.
This is the only SW solo album that my wife enjoys & regularly talks about !
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2015 at 03:51
Ancestral, though I'm surprised at the lack of votes for Home Invasion. Very solid piece as well.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2015 at 04:40
Yeah man, from the very first listen - Ancestral. Not that I dislike any of the tracks on this album. Still, I prefer Raven overall.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2015 at 07:59
A half year after, I'd like to say that Hand.Cannot.Erease is a decent album with a few really great prog songs. 
I still do like to see Porcupine Tree reunited where Mr Wilson will get some new energy and then the band perhaps will release a really masterpiece of contemporary prog.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2015 at 09:45
Definitely.Over.Rated
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2015 at 09:58
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Definitely.Over.Rated

I actually laughed. Well played. 

I sampled this album a bit very soon after it got released. For some reason i just felt unmoved by what i heard. Musically it sounded pretty unadventurous, which has been the case with recent Swilson albums. 
I used to go out and buy blind any Swilson album, did it with the last 3 PT albums and his solo albums until Raven. Since then he has kind of lost me a bit. Raven was amazing in some parts, but the lengthier tracks just sounded formulaic. Somehow Swilson sounds a lot more progressive and unexpected when he sticks to his more alt-rock influences. Grace by Drowning and Insurgentes is some of the best things he has ever touched, but since then i've been disappointed with his sound. 

I'll be giving this a proper listen soon, because it still is Swilson - but it'll have to work hard to sway how i already feel. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2015 at 10:21
Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by Metalmarsh89 Metalmarsh89 wrote:

No one in my town sells this CD. Unhappy

Guess I'll have to order it on Amazon.

 
Correct.....prog anything is non-existent in the PNW. Screamo-thrash metal and pop-metal is big tho


Well, I guess I am lucky that there's usually at least a bit of prog on the store that I usually visit. They usually have at least the latest Steven Wilson/PT albums (right now they have cover versions and the Drive Home EP). Of course they have a bit of Pink Floyd, Yes, Dream Theater and Rush too, and from time to time they have some things from Genesis, King Crimson, ELP, Jethro Tull, and if they were to release something new, they would surely stock it. They also usually have the latest from Transatlantic, Riverside, Opeth, Marillion. However, they have been diminishing the amount they have. Before, they had some of the back discography from many of this bands, but lately they have gotten more wary about it. They used to have the whole discography of Pink Floyd, Yes, Dream Theater, PT, Rush, I think even Frank Zappa (whom I have not seen there anymore). They used to have some back discography from Rick Wakeman, Gentle Giant, Camel too, now I think they have nothing from them. I even got one or two RPI albums there.


The shops here have tons of the older prog material. I can find Amon Duul, anything by Zappa, Yes, Genesis, Can, Camel, younameit from the 70's, it's probably here. Unfortunately, they don't have much of the newer variety. They do have Tool, but no PT/Steven Wilson, no Spock's Beard, no Anglagard, no Beardfish. Some of this is to be expected I guess, but they didn't even have the new Muse album that came out.


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