You can't really compare them to anything...

You are welcome and I hope it is what you needed :)

Hello, welcome! Nice to see fourth person in this thread :)

If you like prog (and you are probably fan of Dream Theater?) you may like Porcupine Tree and probably their newer stuff because they have in their music some metal riffs. For you as a start, I recommend albums In Absentia and Deadwing.
But mrguy is right - they are unique, they have their own sound. Although they have of course some influences - for example Pink Floyd and Opeth.
Their discography starts like art rock, psychedelic rock, than it continues and now they have completelly different sound than their first albums.
Sooo... something like my own definition... they are mixture of art rock, psychedelic rock, ambient, electronic, progressive rock with some pop elements that are later changed into metal elements :D I hope I am right at least little bit. It's really impossible, they don't fit to some cathegory.
First sentence on their web page about this band is "Porcupine Tree is unquestionably one of the most difficult-to-categorize and innovative bands working today." Hehe.
Here you can read more - Porcupine Tree - Official Website

It did :) I thinking about writing "an ultimate guide to sw". I'd probabaly never get around to it, but it's a nice idea.


I didn't think Opeth was before PT? I don't like Opeth...

Just got Stupid Dream. listening to it now.


Petula, do you have the LbS 5.1 DVD?


I may be getting an autograph from Gavin :D

Awesome! Thanks! I will check those albums out when I get a chance and try to report back. haha!
In my book, saying a band is incomparable is the best possible answer. I really hate categorization, which is why when I hear someone mention prog, i'm immediately interested, cuz ideally, it should be unlike anything I've ever heard.

I listened to it for the first time today - it didn't seem that much better, it sounder more "full" - but not vastly better. Am I doing something wrong? (I was playing it on surround sound, but I wasn't sure which mode to put it on...My DVD player is about 10 years old if that makes a difference.)

And when I went to play the bonus tracks, no sound came out... The play time was moving, but not sound... Anyone know why?

Unfortunatelly not. I have only some CDs from our czech CD shop and they still don't have this one... Maybe later (when I will have more money), I will order it from online shop.

Hehe, it's long story. S. Wilson was fan of Opeth and singer of Opeth was fan of Porcupine Tree :D Than somehow they got a contact to each other and they started to work together and probably they are friends.
I don't know exactly the date when these bands had start but first album of Porcupine Tree is from 1991 and first album of Opeth from 1995. But they knew about each other later, I guess around 1996.

So I am waiting for your report about these two albums :)
Which prog bands do you like?
Porcupine Tree doesn't have exactly progressive rock sound but if you hate categorization, you really should try them as soon as possible. But all picture who they are you won't have from two albums, for this you need all discography ;)
For me this band is very special - their music is big mixture of everything what I like. So to find them was for me like to find an eight wonder of the world :D

Ah.

I got it, and it didn't seem too much better tbh...

Well, for 5.1 DVD I would need to have bigger and better sound system which I don't have. But in the future, when I will live in my own flat, for sure I plan to buy it ;)

I'm lucky my dad has a good system.