Anyone heard Steven Wilson's latest solo album 'Insurgentes'? I'm listening now. It's certainly not bad but it still treads a similar path to PT a lot of the time. Can't work out whether I like it or not. Venemo Para Las Hadas is a great track though.

So apparently there will be a 55 min song on the new album. This could be either really good or really bad.

i'm not so knowledgable on Steve Wilson's solo work, but i have PT's entire studio discography, and i really like it, so i guess you could call me a fan

Likes this one

I got the albums

Signify
Stupid Dream
In Absentia
Deadwing
Fear Of A Blank Planet

I want to get Lightbulb Sun....but I keep forgetting to

every time i go to bestbuy....I have the intention of buying one cd in particular.....but I always find something I "can't live without"

They're great !

Fadeaway
Lips of ashes
Lazarus
....
:yeah:
yeah, and I adore their flute plain'

yeah, i got those, plus Lightbulb Sun, The Sky Moves Sideways, On the Sunday of Life, Signify and Up the Downstair. i also had Voyage 34, but i deleted it :D

You deleted voyage 34? I love their early Electronic trippy stuff just as much as some of the later stuff. Hopefully seeing them in October. Fuck yeah.

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Not enough good things can be said about this group! I first discovered these guys back in 2005 right after Deadwing was released. I was a huge Opeth fan and they raved about them so I decided to check them out. Heard a 20 second sample of 'The Sound of Muzak' and that's all it took! I've been hooked ever since. :D

One of the biggest problems with getting people to listen to Porcupine Tree is that it's so difficult to put them into a category. Now people always say they're a progressive rock band, but when I think prog-rock, bands like Yes, Genesis, The Flower Kings and Spock's Beard come to mind to name a few. Obviously, Porcupine Tree has an [I]extremely[I] different sound from these groups. But it's not wrong to say that these groups share the same ideology when it comes to making music, which is the idea of making records and albums instead of songs. So I'd like to coin a new phrase for bands like this saying they're "Nu Progressive" hahaha! And that's still a terrible categorization.

And yep, new album comin' due for a September release! VERY excited to say the least. I'd like to see if they drift away from the heavier stuff and try something different; I'm sure anything they do will be amazing.

And to chime in on the whole Gavin Harrison debate, I would like to think that there are better drummers out there, but honestly, I haven't heard anybody that's impressed me as much as Gavin. Virgil Donati (of Planet X, also toured with Steve Vai for a short time) is another drummer that's just ridiculously talented. And Chris Maitland, PT's ex-drummer who left after Lightbulb Sun is a monster. But Gavin's whole appeal to me is that he's just so incredibly tasteful and subtle. He doesn't always try to go for the most complex beat. I think he is definitely the most talented drummer around right now. Mike Portnoy can't touch Gavin IMO; why do you think O.S.I. replaced Portnoy with Harrison?;)

yeah, but it always kept coming up on shuffle and i got tired of hearing it so much. i like long songs, but idk most of it wasn't that interesting to me.

Haha that DVD that was mentioned makes me laugh a bit. Porcupine Tree always come across as a 1-Wilson-man-band where until you have 4 or 5 of their albums you really seem to know or care nothing about the other musicians. But so long as the music was a 9/10 or better I guess it doesn't matter what they were like to look at.

And whats Blank Planet like? I haven't heard it yet:(