Album Rating: 3.5

has anyone ever noticed how many of akerfeldt and wilsons lyrics are about murdering women/spouses

i can't remember who it was but an artist i used to be quite into wrote alot about murdering in general and then stopped because they used to get a ton of emails / messages from weirdos who would listen to those songs with a weird level of relating

Album Rating: 3.5

eminem?

i think it was okkervil river

Album Rating: 5.0

This is such a brilliant record

Album Rating: 4.0

the women in their lives are holding back the bromance and therefore they must die

Album Rating: 3.5

"has anyone ever noticed how many of akerfeldt and wilsons lyrics are about murdering women/spouses"



I think there was an interview where Steven was discussing that he was fascinated with the minds of murderers and other criminals; basically their psychology and how they got to that point to begin with. Given the lyrics of this album, I can certainly see what he was going for

Album Rating: 5.0

The music industry killed music so there's your connection.

Album Rating: 3.5

Now we know The Sound of Muzak’s connection to the rest of the album! 😃

Album Rating: 4.5

Holy shit this has grown on me a ton

Album Rating: 4.0

Sound of Muzak slaps but has the lyrics of a 14 y/o new Sput user in 2010

straight up lol. i literally did a class presentation in highschool using the sound of muzak lyrics as a source. big cringe

Album Rating: 4.0

it's just an average zakalwe rant

Album Rating: 4.5

Watched the doc the other day. Some interesting things I got out of it:



-Respect for Gavin has gone up even more



-I could believe Collpase the Light into Earth is about 9/11. The Sound of Muzak also being about 9/11 is strange; not sure how Wilson could connect the downfall of popular music with September 11 but by God he found a way in the doc. "People since September 11 have been consuming music differently than when I was growing up and I found that quite frustrating” foh



-Gavin Harrison calling Wilson an "arrogant cunt" is hilarious



-Interesting that Wilson's favorite song on the album would've been Drown With Me but he wasn't satisfied with how it was recorded. Instead his least favorite song Prodigal made it into the tracklisting because he was most satisfied with how that song turned out



-Half the band hating on Trains and Wilson calling it "overrated" is funny. Shortest portion of the doc and I don't even think Gavin gave his own opinion on the song



-Wilson knows he can write bad lyrics, but he rolls with it because it just fits the vibe sometimes

arrogant cunt indeed

Album Rating: 5.0

'not sure how Wilson could connect the downfall of popular music with September 11 but by God he found a way in the doc. "People since September 11 have been consuming music differently than when I was growing up and I found that quite frustrating”'



It's not all that much of a stretch tbh. The FCC banned a bunch of songs and artists in the aftermath of 9/11 which pressured radio stations into scrutinising "questionable" content in songs they played on air, which in turn influenced record companies to pressure artists into conforming to their guidelines. I'm sure Wilson faced record company pressure because of the lyrical content on this album which ultimately meant the album got zero airplay despite it being PT's first major label album and its most accessible.

Album Rating: 4.5

okkeril river rules

Album Rating: 4.5

@Sitar See, I’d get it if Wilson gave a similar reason for why he thought the album wasn’t initially successful. But he makes it clear in the doc that the band had full creative control over the album by the label and that it didn’t initially sell well because the label didn’t promote it properly, the wrong songs were chosen as singles, and Wilson himself was disinterested in performing on talk shows and doing interviews on radio shows in America. You could be right, but that just wasn’t my impression

Album Rating: 5.0

"the label didn’t promote it properly, the wrong songs were chosen as singles"



My suspicion is that this is part of the reality of the post-9/11 world. An album with proper pop songs about incest and rape and the music industry being stale and homogenous must've been pretty hard to promote.

Album Rating: 3.5

"-Wilson knows he can write bad lyrics, but he rolls with it because it just fits the vibe sometimes"



And in the case of Sound of Muzak, it's probably because he knows the boomer subset of his audience will eat it up