Random Track of the Day
Thursday, August 4 2011
Another strange one today. Oh, how Lady Luck likes to toy with me! Yesterday we had a six-minute ambient instrumental by an obscure instrumentalist. Today we have a track that's not even two minutes long, but from an internationally-recognised and acclaimed band. “Bornlivedie” (spelt that way, I'm not having problems with my spacebar!) is the opening track to the fourth album by Porcupine Tree, “Signify”, released in 1996.
Now, I am still making up my mind about this band, but one thing is without question: they are more than just a progressive rock band. They're more an
experience, in much the same way Floyd are. Their music varies so much from album to album --- and even from track to track --- that I find it hard to get a handle on them. Some of their stuff I really like, some I don't and some just confuses me.
This is one of the latter.
Bornlivedie --- Porcupine Tree --- from “Signify” on Delerium
(Again, this video was not exactly available on YT so I had to knock together another of my own. I know it's not great, nor appropriate to the song, but hey, I don't have a whole lot of video footage lying around, so used the best I had.)
More an intro than a piece of music, it starts off with a radio announcer leading in a programme, then there's some ambient and feedback synth, with swirly sounds and then more voices at the end. I assume (though I haven't yet heard this album) that it then goes into the next track, but taken on its own it's really quite weird. Just shows that what I said above is indeed true: Porcupine Tree can be great, but then on other occasions they are downright strange! Ah well, I'm sure that taken in context it probably makes more sense.
Here's hoping Friday will allow us to select at least a recognisable song...