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Poll Question: Choose one: Steven Wilson or Porcupine Tree?
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    Posted: August 07 2016 at 10:56
I enjoy SW's solo works. When I listen to them they blow me away. Yet for some reason I still prefer PT (at least through Deadwing).
What about you?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 11:07
Oooh... I can't choose! 

I love early PT (Signify, Sky Moves Sideways, Up The Downstair), but I also adore SW's Grace for Drowning and Insurgentes. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 13:13
Guess Im the first to vote Wilson's solo work. Some of PT is amazing, but not all. I think Wilson made enough subtle improvements to his later work to make it better than what he did with PT.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 13:18
Porcupine Tree's early psychedelic years seal the deal for me. I do enjoy his solo work immensely, but there is nothing there at the level of say Up the Downstair, Metanoia or The Sky Moves Sideways.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 13:24
Porcupine Tree easily, don't like his solo work apart from Insurgents. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 14:33
dont like ither.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 17:07
PT by a hair, even though Hand.Cannot.Erase is my fave of both.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 17:08
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 17:30
What Zargus said. I don't like them either, and second or third tier bands like Tool, Opeth, Mars Volta and the like are better in my book. Hell, I think DT's worst album is better than PT's best.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 17:51
personally I enjoy having red hot pokers shoved up my ass more than the albums of either... LOL

but PT if I had to choose...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 17:58
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 20:38
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

personally I enjoy having red hot pokers shoved up my ass more than the albums of either... LOL

but PT if I had to choose...


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2016 at 20:40
I don't know... I like solo SW better than what I know from the studio albums from PT... however I do love "Coma Divine"... and the "Warzawa" live album is not bad at all either. I guess in the end it comes to "The Raven" against "Coma Divine"... I will choose Steven Wilson, but not easily.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2016 at 03:11
Now that's a difficult choice! I prefer later PT to early PT and the last two SW albums are phenomenal. Just because PT have released more material I'll go with them, but Wilson can definitely catch up in the near future if he continues to release so often.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2016 at 05:43
I like both outputs, for very different reasons of course, so can't really choose.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2016 at 07:08
The early PT albums were stellar but the body of works SW has produced solo are overall much better than the PT output, imho.  Four absolutely superlative albums there (I'll skip over 4.5 Wink).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2016 at 08:24
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Porcupine Tree's early psychedelic years seal the deal for me. I do enjoy his solo work immensely, but there is nothing there at the level of say Up the Downstair, Metanoia or The Sky Moves Sideways.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2016 at 15:07
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2016 at 04:51
Ask me again in another 10 years. While the overall body of solo work is of a higher level than PT the latter has over twise the amount of material (and plently of it is enjoyable). I need at least another 2 solo albums for it to be somewhat comparable to PT and then I will make my desicion. Besides in interviews SW is planning on going in a more electronic direction again for album No5. If that becomes anything like Insurgentes was then I might revert to prefering PTagain. Ermm  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2016 at 07:40
I like the jazz feel of some of SW albums so I chose him---
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