Album Rating: 4.5

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Artuma, what's so average about that song for you? It's cool how music affects people differently

Album Rating: 3.5

I looked into what the lyrics of This Is No Rehearsal are about and it's fucked up beyond anything I've ever read



Seems kinda disrespectful, dont wanna sound like a dick but...

Album Rating: 4.5

"This song was directly inspired by a tragic UK event a few years ago. A child was taken from a shopping mall while his mother was momentarily distracted and was later found dead and tortured near a railway track. The most disturbing thing about the story was that the two abductors/murderers turned out to be children themselves."



I think it was in honor of that child honestly. You can't write a song like that and make it not sound fucked up. Wilson is a good guy and I don't think he meant for it to sound dick...

Album Rating: 3.5

No, Wilson is a good guy. It's just strange to write such a jaunty, jangly pop tune about a kid who was abducted, suffered 42 injuries, had his foreskin forcibly retracted...you get the idea. It's just nasty stuff in a nice song.



Anyway, need to get back on Porcupine Tree. Listening to Recordings now, some great outtakes from this album. Must have been a productive time.

Album Rating: 4.5

Well lots of dark songs are covered up by upbeat music. I see what you mean and it is fucked up if you put it that way haha. I never know the backstory behind the song. Lots of Porcupine Tree's lyrics are dark shit. Take Strip The Soul for example.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, he loved to write about his serial killers and stuff on In Absentia. Like Index and Raider II from his solo albums. Hell, those are all great songs though. I guess if you find a subject interesting, it shows when you write about it

Album Rating: 4.5

Well human psychology is interesting as fuck so I understand where he's coming from

In addition to that, Slave Called Shiver is one of the only songs on the record that one could call boring because it never really climaxes and it just doesn't contain anything memorable about it like the other songs on Stupid Dream.

Album Rating: 4.5

Oh thanks bro. Idk song just doesn't spark my interest.

Nice to see the best PT album hit 4.2

TSMS went up to 4.2? :D

nah thats still at a 4

Album Rating: 4.0

Its better than this hard.

Its not far off

Agreed, TSMS is better than this, but both are hard 4.5's for me.

Album Rating: 4.5

I feel like UTD is extremely underrated

Yeah, to be honest UTD is like joint best PT for me. I like it about as much as TSMS.

I like TSMS quite a bit more than UtD, but that album is still in my top 5

Album Rating: 4.0

Into the Void >

No comparison between UTD and this for me but you already know my opinion when it comes to post-Signify PT (well post-TSMS really, Signify was their transitional album).