Album Rating: 5.0
Of all the Porcupine Tree albums to accuse of having filler, people target this one? Nice try. A few of the songs on here are decent, but most of them are amazing.
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Album Rating: 4.5
No filler. Check the incident for that
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Album Rating: 3.5
Well yeah the incident is worse but c'mon have you heard anything pre-this? The spacy / psychy stuff is where it's fuzking at
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Well I've heard. The early stuff's great, especially the debut album, but you could listen to In Absentia once more as well. It may sound poppier and less ambitious at first but in fact it's one of the band's most forward-thinking and innovative pieces of music. Certainly more so than The Sky Moves Sideways and Up the Downstair.
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Album Rating: 3.5
"Especially the debut album"
kid what you smokin i want some wait no i don't cuz then i'd think the debut is especially great which it aint
" you could listen to In Absentia once more as well. It may sound poppier and less ambitious"
I own the album. Dear Lord, I don't hate it, but how in hell is this rated so highly and Up The Downstair so lowly? and I don't think this is poppier, I think it's miles more accessible, almost in an unnecessary way, but the poppier stuff is definitely the mid era with Stupid Dream
"one of the band's most forward-thinking and innovative pieces of music."
This is far from the band's most innovative work in my opinion. Trains and LoA maybe, but otherwise nah.
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You may read my sound-off if you like. And it's rated so highly compared to Up the Downstair for the exact same reason that Up the Downstair is rated higher than their debut - it's more melodic and accessible. Not necessarily better.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Hmm, I honestly think the debut is rated poorly because it's weak.
Also, if melody and accessibility are what has Up the Downstair rated higher than the debut, I don't think The Sky Moves Sideways would be rated even higher than both
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You think The Sky Moves Sideways is less accessible than Up the Downstair? Firstly, it has "Stars Die". Secondly TSMS with its toned down, cohesive, structured sound and dreamy atmospherics is like PF's "classic" era, and UtD with guitar freak-outs, psychedelic effects and samples is much more like PF's first two albums. And clearly you see how unpopular Floyd's beginnings are compared to their later works.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Some good points. Stars Die is a pretty straightfoward track, easily enjoyable. But the opener is unmelodic at points and super intense, not to mention split up into four parts making it disjointed (not making it any less FUCKING AMAZING than it is). Idk tsms hit me hard but I can easily understand why it wouldn't hit a number of people hard unless they're hard early prog fans lol
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Album Rating: 4.5
I used to think that IA is the Wilson interpretation of what the mainstream rock scene should have been at the time. Anyway I love this despite not being as good as the early material.
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Maybe, but if TSMS is for hard prog fans then UtD is for hard psychedelic fans, and something tells me that in PT's fanbase there are more of the first ones ;)
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Anyway it's just 0.3 difference in ratings so I don't think it matters so much :D
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Album Rating: 3.5
"if TSMS is for hard prog fans then UtD is for hard psychedelic fans"
Agreed hard, UtD and before are def more psych than anything else other than the rockz, and TSMS and Sig are all about da prog jamz
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Album Rating: 4.0
Should probably listen to another PT album already. Still only jammed this one.
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Album Rating: 3.5
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Album Rating: 3.5
Babe lets get u started https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbPLT68TL5o
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Album Rating: 4.5
This is way better than their psych stuff
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Album Rating: 4.0
Check Stupid Dream.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Yeah actually if you're gonna work backwards from here, def start with Stupid Dream. Good transition from psych to prog metal and also the reverse
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Album Rating: 4.0
Agreed.
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