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Perfect Life is good but my least favorite on here. I've always loved Transience, agreed with Rik there.

FOABP, The Incident, and this one are a trilogy of concept albums about isolation in my book

isolation/problems with communication in the modern world is definitely a recurring theme in wilson's art. in fact it already appears on (if not dominates) 1996's signify - the very first album with serious lyrics from him.

i also agree on "transience". a sweet little ballad with a beautiful melody, definitely an album highlight

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Man Transcience is so haunting. God this album is so good.



If you don't get a lump in your throat during "Happy Returns/Ascendant Here On..." then you're missing something.

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Yeah Wilson always nails those emotional album closers, except for FoaBP lol not that PT were going for balladry with that one.

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Yep, this one's got one of his best endings. The Raven and In Absentia end on a maginificent note as well.

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Happy Returns is awesome agreed

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Don't forget Deadwing. Glass Arm Shattering might be my favourite PT closing track. Feels like a feverish dream.

i never liked this one myself. if we're talking wilson/pt closing balladry it's

raven >
fadeaway > like dust > happy > i drive > collapse >
dark matter > stop swimming >
insurgentes > feel so low > glass arm

for me

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Hmm, let's see.



Raven=Fadeaway=Happy Returns=Glass Arm > Dark Matter > Feel so Low = I Drive... > Collapse... > Stop Swimming > Insurgentes > Like Dust...

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The Raven > Collapse Light into Earth > Happy Returns

after that, I don't know.

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Rik those are my 3 favorites as well but not necessarily in that order

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The Raven is up there, Dark Matter too. It'd be difficult to rank them all for me, especially when including his solo albums and side projects like Blackfield and No-Man.

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trueee. If we include Blackfield, I'd put End of the World, but that's written by Aviv Geffen, so...

Ljudet Innan, from Storm Corrosion is up there, too, although in many ways it's kind of a Talk Talk song.

But I think the reason he's so great at handling album-closing is that his closers just tend to be in logical and natural continuity with what was built during the rest of the album.

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Hey brother, I feel I'm living in parentheses



ole stevie boy

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''Hey brother, our dreams are scratched on these four walls

But they're foreign to me now, strangers once again

Well I am deep in debt to time, and every day's the same



I'm wasted, like rainfall on a thousand rooftops

Stretching on for miles, but a hand cannot erase

The traffic sings me back to sleep, and the world just slips away''





these are the original lyrics to Happy Returns, originally titled ''Last Regret''. I just listened to the demo.

"Hey brother, I feel I'm living in parentheses"

That's a great line, actually. The lyrics on this song are overall surprisingly good. And they definitely improved since the demo state as we can see.

In my opinion "Ljudet Innan" is not just the best closing ballad but probably the best song Wilson has ever had anything to do with (maybe together with "the number song" from Bass Communion). The Talk Talk influence is definitely there sonewhere, but calling it a Talk Talk song is more than an overstatement.

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Mikael's voice on Ljudet Innan, though....

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altertide bro i like the line too, but on the surface, it's a bit rough

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Yeah Ljudet Innan is amazing

altertide what song is that from Bass Communion? I just got most of their albums. The three Drugged songs are incredible.