May you live long and progsper. 

This EXACTLY.

No, thanks, I will look into.  As I have liked 90s PT more than 2000s PT, I do love so much music with psychedelic qualities, although I guess perhaps this is more space rock), that live would probably work well for me.  Actually, I liked music off Deadwing too which I heard when it came out; I already knew In absentia at the time, and heard earlier material later.  I've certainly never held disdain for PT, and while I did hold some disdain for SB at one time (it was so different from the kinds of music I listened to), I found music to like later on thanks to Epignosis.  I have liked to explore more music by bands that I haven't liked, or haven't been that into, since I like to gain a more positive perspective and expand my musical horizons and palette.  And I like to not come across as too readily dismissive in conversations about certain bands and types of music, which can be through ignorance because one hasn't heard enough or because one is just not well enough acquainted with the style to acclimate to and "get" the music.   I think a lot of our appreciation comes from what we can associate the music with, and the more journeys we take, the wider our appreciation can be (discovering one band or album leads to more and more music).  At the time when I heard In absentia, and was regretting the purchase, I was into very particular sorts of music.  

I'm streaming Coma Divine now, but so far the music is not resonating at all with me (too many hard rock in your face guitar moments a la arena rock type music, and is feeling too alt. rock for me).  I'm really more of a gentle folk music, psychedelic jazz, cosmic electronic and other cosmic avenues, exotica, types of experimental music and classical music admirer.  I see that it come out in 1997, and my favourite album of that year is Art Zoyd's Haxan, with Robert Wyatt's Shleep and Hoyry-Kone's Huono Partiri, as well as some others, being loved too.  The majority of music I love in the 1990s is RIO/Avant-Prog and Zeuhl, which I guess mot people here who have known me for a while here would know.

I just don't think PT is for me.

Since i'm a dog, i only P on the Tree!!! 

I like plenty of hard rock, especially classic psychedelic hard rock from the late 60s to early 70s ( music like Gun, Writing on the Wall, High Tide, Lucifer's Friend, Yesterday's Children, Black Widow, Sir Lord Baltimore, Coven, Black Sabbath etc.), and I used to love Led Zeppelin and various Rush, and I like modern music with hard rock/ metal elements such as Secret Chiefs 3, Hoyry-Kone, Taal,  and Alamaailman Vasarat, but with PT it was too reminiscent of kinds of arena rock to me.  I stuck with it past posting, and there were moments that I liked, and I wouldn't say that I disliked it on the whole.  The Sky Moves Sideways s one of the PT albums that I know quite well, and have listened to multiple times, although it's been about a  decade since I last listened to it.  I liked it, could appreciate it, but it never really spoke-to-me in the ways that a huge many other albums have (never felt sublime, really moved me, or really took me deep on a trip or resonated deeply with me, nor did I find particularly fun).  I rather like various PT, but I've never loved PT.  I guess right now I'm more in a folk, and electronic, Kosmische music phase, so that may be effecting my perception.  I do appreciate the recommendation, I am glad that I checked it out, and I am happy to try to gain a deeper appreciation of all sorts of music and discover new-to-me music.  I like to think that I can be quite adventurous when it comes to exploring music, although I haven't found PT particularly adventurous, not that I'm necessarily looking for adventurous music, but it has to excite me or resonate with me somehow, and for whatever reason PT hasn't done that much for me.

That's how I feel about Marillion, Supertramp, Oldfield, and most of the Krautrock bands.......

While your sentiments may be true, they were not on this particular list. 

The first SB albums are excellent, then it gets a tad generic and boring at times for me. Snow is such a cool story but it reminds me of a take off on The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, I want Snow to be different and on it's own and I can't see it that way. X did nothing for me, Brief Nocturnes started to come back to what I like......but in general I am very up and down with the SB catalog.

I can't say that about the Porcupine Tree catalog........This was an easy poll.

I'm also a bit up and down on their catalog, especially post Neal Morse-SB. Other than a few songs, the last couple discs haven't done much for me. More and more, I'm thinking that Ted Leonard is not the right guy for Spock's Beard. I found X to be excellent. It's my favorite since V. Brief Nocturne's was also very good. Snow never did much for me. I keep wanting to revisit it though.  

Anyway, I've been digging into PTs earlier stuff and I love it. Signify is mostly very good. The Sky Moves Sideways is FANTASTIC! Coma Divine is pretty amazing as well. Up The Downstair looks very promising as well. 

 

I'm just heading down to my local supermarket now to see if they have any Spock's bread.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: The mention of Spock's Beard (or Spock's Bread) has just reminded me that Frank Beard is ironically the only member of ZZ Top without a beard.

 

I wonder if he ironically chose not to grow it on purpose 

 

It has to be Porcupine Tree for me seeing as I'm listening to their Warszawa Live album right now.

Very easy, PT ! Spock's Beard has not the level to compete with Porcupine Tree.