Porcupine Tree: where to start?

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DTMP13 Total Posts : 306 Joined: 8/31/2009 Location: Utah Status: offline	Reply to message Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 3:43 PM (permalink) I just got all the PT albums, which one should I start with? I don't believe in Santa Clause, John Myung, or the Tooth Fairy.. - Adam02 voice overing MP
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The Fish Total Posts : 3327 Joined: 3/31/2006 Location: Ft. Wayne Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 3:53 PM (permalink) giving steven willson a check. JIM FIRED!
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DTMP13 Total Posts : 306 Joined: 8/31/2009 Location: Utah Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 3:56 PM (permalink) The Fish giving steven willson a check. I already did. I don't believe in Santa Clause, John Myung, or the Tooth Fairy.. - Adam02 voice overing MP
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liquidrsr Total Posts : 993 Joined: 8/26/2008 Status: online	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:18 PM (permalink) A tough one since they have so many different periods. I began with In Absentia and Deadwing and was hooked, these days I love the whole discography.
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KDawg Total Posts : 2986 Joined: 4/27/2006 Location: Vancouver,BC Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:34 PM (permalink) In Absentia. Then go on in order from there, then jump back to the beginning. Put "On the Sunday of Life" in a dark, hidden corner where it can never ever be found. Too much?
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Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:38 PM (permalink)

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Morte Total Posts : 2167 Joined: 6/7/2003 Location: Toronto, Canada Status: online	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 5:00 PM (permalink) ViolinTheater snip Damn... I missed the opportunity to do an epic suave. To answer the OP's question, I think Deadwing is a great one to start with.
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Thedon7622 Total Posts : 6988 Joined: 2/28/2005 Location: STL - MO Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 5:05 PM (permalink) I have to go with deadwing as well... ...
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lunchbox Total Posts : 324 Joined: 4/12/2006 Location: Chandler, AZ Status: online	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 6:02 PM (permalink) I would (and did) start with In Absentia.
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skippy26 Total Posts : 273 Joined: 7/22/2003 Location: Hattiesburg, MS Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:17 PM (permalink) Personally: Deadwing (where I started) or In Absentia is a toss up Fear of a Blank Planet The Incident Then work backwards through the pre-Gavin era stuff
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Taffer Total Posts : 6224 Joined: 7/1/2007 Location: Scotland Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:56 PM (permalink) You just bought them all and you're asking us where to start?
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Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:18 PM (permalink)

I'd say In Absentia- It gives you some of their shorter song writing plus lots of there early psychedelic songs. Its a great time of transition for them. Then I'd say Deadwing, which gives a bit longer of songs (in general) and entering into their more current style. After that its a toss up. Continue forwards and listen to Fear of a Blank Planet and The Incident or work backwards. Lots of the older stuff has heavier electronic music involved too. It all really is what your more into. None of their stuff lets me down.

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Frunobulax Total Posts : 1379 Joined: 9/8/2009 Location: Boston, MA Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:54 PM (permalink) Either In Absentia or Stupid Dream. If you like the metal elements and like crazy drumming, In Absentia. If you like mellow spacey prog, Stupid Dream. "Whatever you're looking for, don't ever start looking behind."
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portnoy311 Total Posts : 6061 Joined: 5/18/2002 Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:04 PM (permalink) I started with Fear of a Blank Planet. I liked it. If I had to do it again I would start with In Absentia, and as someone mentioned go forward in time. (The Incident not necessary.)
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HFactor Total Posts : 401 Joined: 9/1/2008 Location: Toronto Status: online	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:47 AM (permalink) Voyage 34...yeah I went there.
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Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:59 AM (permalink)

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TheNurse Total Posts : 550 Joined: 4/14/2006 Location: Washington DC Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Wednesday, December 21, 2011 1:10 AM (permalink) What Kdawg said
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Nippett Total Posts : 179 Joined: 12/14/2011 Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Wednesday, December 21, 2011 1:12 AM (permalink) Welcome back Spaceman. Wow you wasted no time in dropping old threads on the peeps.
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A Change of Stevens Total Posts : 3147 Joined: 1/13/2004 Location: Suffolk County, NY Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:13 AM (permalink) DTMP13 I just got all the PT albums, which one should I start with? Taffer You just bought them all and you're asking us where to start? There's a big difference between "got" and "bought" "Death is but a door, time is but a window. I'll be back" -Vigo The Carpathian (1505-1610)
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Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:08 PM (permalink)

He said he just gave him a check. I know people who have bought a lot of albums by one artist for a low price and then started listening to them. Regardless, who cares, let him enjoy the music. I could use this thread too because I have In Absentia and Deadwing but only ever really listened to IA. Lazarus on Deadwing is the only one I remember but I love it. I see Lightbulb Sun at the store all the time and I've hesitated buying it for years simply because I don't know if I'd like it! That and I always put off listening to Deadwing again.

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HFactor Total Posts : 401 Joined: 9/1/2008 Location: Toronto Status: online	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:28 PM (permalink) Lightbulb is a solid album IMO. It doesn't have the same impact as IA or Deadwing but I do enjoy listening to it. There is something about Russia on Ice that keeps me coming back to it. H
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Taffer Total Posts : 6224 Joined: 7/1/2007 Location: Scotland Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Wednesday, December 21, 2011 3:55 PM (permalink) Haha, point is...I figured usually these threads were for someone who is not sure what to spend their money on first. Not "which CD should I put in my player first". Whatever, I was joking around anyway.
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UnaLaguna Total Posts : 233 Joined: 9/7/2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Wednesday, December 21, 2011 4:42 PM (permalink) First one I listened to was Fear of a Blank Planet, but PT didn't click with me until I tried In Absentia... which blew me away.
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Scherztastic Total Posts : 1266 Joined: 10/4/2005 Location: Ontario, Canada Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Wednesday, December 21, 2011 4:46 PM (permalink) Goooo in this precise order: In Abenstia Fear of a Blank Planet Deadwing Lightbulb Sun Stupid Dream (I don't know any of their other albums so I can't comment, but that's the order I went on what I've heard so far and it worked wonders for me). I was saying boo-urns.
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Morte Total Posts : 2167 Joined: 6/7/2003 Location: Toronto, Canada Status: online	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:17 AM (permalink) I think Fear of a Blank Planet is a great album, but it took me some listens before it clicked to the point where I was really enjoying it. However I was already a PT fan by the time it came out, so I'm not sure what it would be like to start with that one.
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The Fish Total Posts : 3327 Joined: 3/31/2006 Location: Ft. Wayne Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:26 AM (permalink) The best pre gavin stuff is summed up on Coma Divine.. that's probably the most underrated album in their catalog. JIM FIRED!
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liquidrsr Total Posts : 993 Joined: 8/26/2008 Status: online	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:35 AM (permalink) Stars Die is a great collection of their first 4 albums with some amazing rarities thrown in as bonuses (Rainy Taxi, Signify II, Fuse the Sky)
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Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Thursday, December 22, 2011 2:33 PM (permalink)

Definitely start with In Absentia and Deadwing. They are different but excellent in their own right. Lots of strong melodies on both albums. There's only 5 songs on Fear Of A Blank Planet, and IMO, 3 of them are average (for lack of a better term). The other two, the opening title track and the 17 minute epic "Anesthetize", are spectacular.

You'll read polarizing opinions on The Incident, an album I have grown to love. You must listen to that one as a whole for the first time. As for the pre-Absentia stuff, I like Lightbulb Sun a lot more than Stupid Dream, which is pretty much a sterile pop album. I'm not very familiar with the stuff before that.

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Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Thursday, December 22, 2011 2:40 PM (permalink)

Morte

I think Fear of a Blank Planet is a great album, but it took me some listens before it clicked to the point where I was really enjoying it. However I was already a PT fan by the time it came out, so I'm not sure what it would be like to start with that one.

That's the beauty of music, for it was my first PT album I gave a listen to and loved it, and it is still my favourite.

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Peeps999 Total Posts : 188 Joined: 4/5/2011 Location: Floyds Knobs, IN Status: online	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Thursday, December 22, 2011 3:58 PM (permalink) Play every album at the same time.
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mbag11 Total Posts : 1370 Joined: 8/27/2008 Location: Springfield, Ohio Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Thursday, December 22, 2011 4:16 PM (permalink) I hope you got all those PT albums legally....
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Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Thursday, December 22, 2011 4:29 PM (permalink)

Peeps999

Play every album at the same time.

I do look this idea as a Flaming Lips "Zaireeka" type thing, but I would join the others and say check out In Absentia. My first PT album and one of my first proggy in general albums. It's one of those albums you could listen to 40 times in a row and not get tired.

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Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Thursday, December 22, 2011 4:52 PM (permalink)

Peeps999

Play every album at the same time.

That works. Then just mute out the ones that sound the least appealing.

mbag11

I hope you got all those PT albums legally....

I bet Steven Wilson doesn't care about that so much, as long as he doesn't put PT songs with other artists' songs on shuffle through his iPod.

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DTMP13 Total Posts : 306 Joined: 8/31/2009 Location: Utah Status: offline	Reply to message Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:18 PM (permalink) Taffer You just bought them all and you're asking us where to start? Yeah, what about it? I don't believe in Santa Clause, John Myung, or the Tooth Fairy.. - Adam02 voice overing MP
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Re:Porcupine Tree: where to start? Sunday, December 25, 2011 2:53 PM (permalink)

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Taffer

You just bought them all and you're asking us where to start?

Yeah, what about it?

Taffer

Haha, point is...I figured usually these threads were for someone who is not sure what to spend their money on first. Not "which CD should I put in my player first".

Whatever, I was joking around anyway.

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